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Ponch vs. Production Company
Former CHiPs cop Erik Estrada has a big chip on his shoulder over a scuttled movie deal.
The erstwhile Ponch wants a piece of movie production company White Tiger Films after it allegedly bailed on making a flick starring the onetime pinup.
Estrada, 54, says he's owed $75,000 for committing to star in White Tiger's would-be opus Four Corners of the Mafia.
The mobster-themed flick had been scheduled to begin its two-month shoot June 30 in Sacramento. According to Estrada's suit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the company told him on July 25 that the plug had been pulled on the project.
But, Estrada claims, he had a pay-or-play deal, meaning he was to get the cash--25 grand a day for three days of work--whether or not the project ever got made.
White Tiger, which had offices in L.A. and Sacramento, couldn't be reached for comment--its listed phone number has been disconnected and its Website is no longer online.
On its now-defunct site, White Tiger bills itself as a "Christian company that is built on honesty, integrity and respect and works through the body of Christ." Aside from Four Corners of the Mafia, White Tiger was doing the Lord's work with such projects as Lucifer6 (a psychological thriller about a filmmaker "who goes into the mind of a serial killer) and the Women of White Tiger poster and calendar to showcase "some of the hottest women in the film industry." Amen.
Estrada is still best known for his stint as motorcycle-riding crimefighter Frank "Ponch" Poncherello in the 1977-83 NBC series chronicling the California Highway Patrol. CHiPs not only launched his career, but also a seemingly endless run of teen magazine covers and posters. Four years ago, he and partner Larry Wilcox reteamed for the TNT movie CHiPs '99.
Although his beefcake days are behind him, Estrada has kept busy in several made-for-TV and straight-to-video movies, guest gigs on series (Lizzie McGuire, V.I.P., Son of the Beach, King of the Hill, music videos (Bad Religion's "Infected," Butthole Surfers' "Pepper") and appearances on soap operas (The Bold and the Beautiful and the Spanish-languge Dos Mujeres, Un Camino). His most recent major role was a self-deprecating stint in last year's Van Wilder.
And while Four Corners of the Mafia has shut down, Estrada won't be out of work for long. He's slated to begin work soon on Code Black, an action-adventure film costarring former pro wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and directed by William Shatner.
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