SportsCine is a full service production house dedicated to creating accurate and intriguing sports scenes in film & television. Through casting, location scouting, networking and on-scene production and directing, SportsCine thinks outside the box to produce stories that embrace and transport our viewers.


John Meindl on the filming of “Failure to Launch”

“We filmed the paintball scenes during late June of 2005 – on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain, in between the Lake and the levee. We were literally 200 yards from the Lake – in an area that would be devastated by Katrina. During principle photography the temperature was 103 degrees every day. To make matters worse, the actors wore black jumpsuits.

The basketball scenes were shot ¼ mile down Lake Shore Drive. The conditions were tough – but became much tougher for many of the good people we worked with who lost everything at the hands of Katrina.”

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Failure to Launch on set collage