{"id":1341,"date":"2025-10-07T20:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensemanoff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:58:02","slug":"miscellaneous-news-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bensemanoff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous  |  News &#038; Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Miscellaneous  |  News &amp; Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-medium-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-medium-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023 . 03 . 23<\/strong>     |     Update     |     Semanoff Inks Deal to Direct &#8220;Smallball&#8221; <br><em>Semanoff has just inked a deal to direct a heartwarming film, currently titled \u201cSmallball,\u201d in conjunction with 5 More Minutes Productions &amp; Mario Lopez&#8217;s Menudo Productions. \u201cSmallball\u201d takes place just following the 2008 financial crisis when the Park View Bombers, a little league team from a small border-town called Chula Vista, managed to take on well-financed teams throughout California, and eventually the world, winning the 2009 Little League World Series. 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