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Exclusive: Eight-time NBA All-Star Paul George is launching film and TV outfit The Pack Productions.

First up, George is joining basketball-themed documentary Amongst the Trees as an executive producer. The film will get its world premiere at the upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival.

George is launching The Pack Productions with his sister Teiosha George, who is also an executive producer on the film, which follows an upstart men’s basketball program at Copper Mountain College – a tiny community college in the middle of the Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree, California – during the final week of their season. In just its second year of the team’s existence, the film drops viewers into the action as the Fighting Cacti make one last push for the playoffs.

The film is co-directed and co-produced by Trent Ubben and Jack Jensen of The Rec League in their feature documentary debut, and produced by...

With Justice League opening in theaters just hours from now, the film has been part of a mild controversy this week, with Rotten Tomatoes withholding its TomatoMeter score. The score already leaked, standing at 46% rotten. While that is certainly not the score Warner Bros. was hoping for, another controversy has surfaced. Filmmaker Joss Whedon, who reworked the script and directed the reshoots after Zack Snyder backed away from the project due to a family tragedy, liked a tweet that bashes the movie's villain, Steppenwolf. This has not gone unnoticed by DC fans, who have taken the director to task on Twitter, not only for liking a tweet that disses the villain, but for not publicly offering any support for the movie whatsoever.

The tweet in question that Joss Whedon liked came from Vanity Fair critic Joanna Robinson, who stated on the social media platform that, "Steppenwolf is the worst comic...