CM Punk and AJ Lee set to appear in movie, TNA exec comments on live event attendance reports

All set for tinseltown!

- CM Punk and AJ Lee are known fans of nerd culture and have common interests in comic books, pro-wrestling and such. Latest reports confirm that now they both will also be starring in a new movie together. According to a popular website, the former WWE Superstar couple are set to appear in Hellstorm, an action-horror flick.

The plotline for the movie goes like below:

“After the collapse of the world’s financial system and a devastating world war, a group of mismatched survivors are forced to band together and battle a variety of unexplainable and horrific beasts that descend on their tiny makeshift community.”

The film also stars Mat Fraser (American Horror Story), Colleen Camp (American Hustle), Selene Luna (My Bloody Valentine), Kate Hodge (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III) and Brian Goff (BorderCross). Shooting begins in mid-November in Ohio.”

- We had reported on the TNA live event tour for the upcoming annual PPV ‘Bound for Glory’ opening to disappointing low numbers. the pictures taken at the event too showed mostly empty seats to watch the proceedings.

This past weekend, TNA executive Bob Ryder took to social media and while talking about the low attendance reports, denied the reported low attendance figures. Ryder wrote the below:

“Just dropping by for a quick hello. No questions, been a long weekend of house shows and I have an early flight. We had three good shows. Everybody worked hard and fans were entertained.

First night we had 850, 500 in Morgantown, and 750 in Belle Vernon. For our return to the road after several months we were happy with the turnout and hope to build on those numbers with shows in Beckley, Salem, Thibodaux, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Biloxi.

Been reading some of the comments and some of you guys need to turn those frowns upside down! We may not be announcing things on a time line you want us to, but we have some good things coming and will make announcements once we have finalized the things we are working on.

We are working on everything from how and where we promote house shows, to how we handle merchandise and photo opportunities at the shows, to looking at new talent, etc etc.

Don’t join the doom & gloomers who find joy in constantly predicting our demise. We’re not going anywhere anytime soon, and we are still a strong number 2 in the United States – nobody else is close. If you will be in the Charlotte area please join us for BFG. If not, please watch the PPV. Thanks for your continued passionate support of TNA. Good things are going to happen soon.”