citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message mandt bros. productions type privately held industry television film founded 2001 headquarters hollywood california united states key people neil mandt michael mandt number of employees 30 website mandtbros.com mandt bros. productions is a los angeles based production company founded by brothers neil and michael mandt . the company is primarily known for producing the television programs jim rome is burning on espn espn2 . the company has since moved along with jim rome to the cbs sports network to produce his new show rome . mandt bros also created and produced destination truth on syfy . 1 it has also produced original content for the internet particularly tim s dates which earned a broadband emmy nomination 2 and a webby award . in 2009 neil and his brother michael created sports jobs with junior seau for the versus network . 10 episodes of season one were produced and aired in 2009 and 2010 each following nfl great seau performing a variety of behind the scenes sports jobs . in 2010 mandt bros produced the scripted comedy series next stop for charlie based on their independent film last stop for paul . the series was sold to showtime and now is in production on a second season . in addition to television the company also produces feature films including the successful 2007 independent film last stop for paul . 3 in january 2012 neil and his brother sent shock waves through the sports and entertainment world when they entered into a partnership agreement with ruff china the organization in who holds a permit to put on mma events as a legal sport in the country of china . together with his brother neil is working with ruff to establish the world s biggest mma league in the world based in china . 4 in the spring of 2012 the mandt brothers became co producers of million dollar arm in 2008 multi emmy award winning television sports producers neil & michael mandt began documenting the training and try outs that singh and patel were undergoing at the usc campus . once the boys were signed by the pirates neil mandt a feature film director in his own right viewed the project as a feature film and he and his brother used their production team and the original footage they had shot to create a 9 minute trailer for a movie that had yet to be made . in december 2008 the mandt brothers joined forces with seasoned movie producers mark ciardi gordon gray and joe roth to shop the project . in early 2009 the screen rights to singh and patel s life story were purchased by sony pictures entertainment for development at columbia pictures . sony hired mitch glazer to write the screenplay . the film was released on may 16 2014 . productions edit television espn reel classics uncut ice brigade speed dating beg borrow & deal my crazy life jim rome is burning next stop for charlie sports jobs with junior seau destination truth film the million dollar kid arthur s quest hijacking hollywood last stop for paul references edit loren coleman . destination truth gets green light . retrieved 2008 08 27 . nominees for the emmy award for broadband announced . retrieved 2008 04 15 . f.x. feeney . last stop for paul . retrieved 2008 08 27 . marc graser 2012 01 19 . mandts ranik ramp up mma in china . variety . retrieved 2012 01 19 . external links edit official website webby awards website daily variety article on mandt bros. mandt bros. productions at the internet movie database this article about an american film distributor or production company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mandt bros. productions & oldid 743512637 categories film production companies of the united statescompanies based in los angelesamerican film company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from january 2009all articles needing additional referencespages using columns with the default column widthall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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