Battle of the Year: The Dream Team also known as “Planet B Boy”

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Teens Adults

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Music Dance Drama 3D

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Year of Release:

2013

USA Release:

September 13, 2013

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self-control / self-discipline

break dancing / b-boy crew

dancing in the Bible

music in the Bible

Battle of the Year (BOTY) International Championships

Featuring:	Josh Peck Josh Holloway … Derrek Chris Brown Laz Alonso … Dante Terrence Jenkins Caity Lotz … Stacy Luis Rosado … Bambino Weronika Rosati … Jolene Ivan ’Flipz’ Velez … Flipz Jesse Erwin … James Steve Terada … Sight David Kim … Dante’s Bodyguard Giovanni V. Giusti … Art Director Alex Martin … Punk Natalya Oliver … Hip Hop Executive Sawandi Wilson Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm … Dante’s Bodyguard Jérôme Gaspard … Punk
Director:	Benson Lee
Producer:	Contrafilm Beau Flynn … producer Glenn S. Gainor … executive producer Amy Lo … producer Tripp Vinson … producer
Distributor:	Screen Gems, Sony Pictures

Producer’s synopsis: “‘Battle of the Year’ is the Olympics of break dancing, a tournament held every year that attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven’t won in fifteen years. Los Angeles Hip Hop mogul and former B-Boy Dante (Alonso) wants to put the country that started the Sport back on top. He enlists his hard-luck friend Blake (Holloway), who was a championship basketball coach, to coach his team. Armed with the theory that the right coach can make any team champions, they assemble a Dream Team of all the best b-boys across the country. With only three months until Battle of the Year, Blake has to use every tactic he knows to get twelve talented individuals to come together as a team if they’re going to bring the Trophy back to America where it started. Inspired by the actual World championship held yearly in France.

Inspired by the award-winning documentary, ‘Planet B Boy,’ the film is about an all-star American b-boy crew training to compete in France at the Battle of the Year (BOTY) International Championships. After a decade of defeat, the crew and their coach must go up against the best and greatest b-boys in the world: the Koreans, the Russians and the French who have dominated the original American dance form for the last 10 years.”

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