‘Point Break’ & ‘Varsity Blues’ Scribe To Pen Movie About Cheerleading & Football As Part Of Varsity Spirit Slate Led By Foundation Media; Morgan Simianer Film Also In The Works

EXCLUSIVE: Brand management company Foundation Media Partners is leading development, packaging, and production on a new slate of projects for cheerleading and dance team company Varsity Spirit.

Among the projects is a new movie from Point Break and Varsity Blues scribe Peter Iliff, an animation featuring Morgan Simianer, the breakout star of Netflix docuseries Cheer, and a college football documentary narrated by Bill Courtney, the subject of Oscar-winning documentary Undefeated.

The brand expansion for Varsity Spirit will cover film, TV, music, live events, publishing, podcasts, documentaries, and hybrid content.

The feature film is a sports drama written by Iliff (Point Break, Varsity Blues, Patriot Games) and is targeted toward young women. Set under the lights of a major university, the film “lives at the intersection of football and cheer, ushering audiences into the spirit world from a new perspective”. 

The feature documentary, which is getting underway, centers around Memphis-based PURE Academy, a private, non-profit school. The film spotlights coach Melvin Cole as he teaches underprivileged youth the game of football and the game of life. Pic is narrated by Bill Courtney, the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Undefeated.

The animated feature will be starring Netflix docuseries Cheer breakout star Morgan Simianer.  Foundation Media and Varsity Spirit initially began working on entertainment properties together in 2023 when they teamed with Guru (Paw Patrol) for an animated project titled Spirits of Ridgeway High featuring Simianer. Now reimagined as an animated feature, the movie is a story about optimist cheerleader Melissa Mayfield (Simianer), who while on a mission to lead her last-place cheer team