So was its star, West Orange native Michael Pitt. Pitt (”Boardwalk Empire,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) — also known as Michael C. Pitt — leads the movie as fallen fighter Mike Flannigan.

PLOT: A washed-up boxer (Michael Pitt) prepares for the biggest match of his career – his first in ten years – while trying to patch up the various frayed relationships in his life.

In a hearing this morning downtown in Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Wendy Chang issued what she called a “soft tentative” ...

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Michael Pitt, 19, was found dead at a petrol station in Charnham Street, Hungerford, Berkshire, in July. The inquest at Reading Town Hall heard he had been on a night out with friends and drinking ...

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The estate of Michael Crichton, the late novelist who created ER in the 1990s, is suing the TV studio claiming the new series was ...