Former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis Goes Behind the Camera
By David Watkins ••
Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Ellis is hoping to win over fans with his upcoming project a movie called “Cowboys Where Are They Now.”
Greg Ellis spent his career tackling quarterbacks in the NFL, but now he's the quarterback of his own media production company in Addison.
The former Cowboys defensive end is the founder and CEO of Play Now Enterprises - a full service studio.
Ellis' company produces photography, audio, and film.
"The one stop shop, that's what we classify ourselves as, the one stop shop," Ellis said. "We're a good size studio, we're not the little small one. But we're not the huge, great big one that costs a whole lot of money to go in there to do anything, neither."
"We find a good little niche for us, that people come in and they get served. They appreciate what we do," he said.
He's making a film featuring the great Dallas Carter High School football team, a squad famous for what they did on and off the field.
Ellis says she was drawn to the project after researching the team and seeing video of one of the high school players wearing gold jewelry and signing a letter in a hot tub.
"I thought this kid was in college getting ready to go to the pros and they said 'no, that was one of the high school kids.' I'm like that's an extreme lifestyle for a high schooler to be in the hot tub signing his letter of intent to go to college, that's an NFL kind of move, if you will. And then you've got the bad decisions that they made."
Veteran actors Charles Dutton and Vivica A. Fox headline the cast of "Carter High."
The film is in post-production and Ellis is hoping for a 2015 release date.
The former football player believes this is only the beginning for Play Now Enterprises and he's proud that his hard work is paying off.
"It's been, so far, a dream come true and I would encourage people, pursue your dreams. It's not always about how much money you can throw at something, but do you have the passion and the drive to do it? And if you have that, that's an excellent start and you just have to roll up your sleeves and drive in there."
Stephanie Savidge
Massive Homecoming Mum Keller Central Senior Mum Exchange - Homecoming 10/10/14
Debbie Sissom
Royse City Homecoming My granddaughter Abby wearing the mum that I made for her
Stephanie Boyd
Homecoming Mum -real flowers Homecoming mum by Jenna Boyd and Baylor McCallister. Made from real flowers at 5:30 this morning. Have to be made the day of!
Stephanie Boyd
Homecoming Mum -real flowers Homecoming mum for Lewisville High school senior Jenna Boyd . Jenna and Baylor MacCallister made her mum from real flowers. Going back to how mums originally began!! Half the cost!!
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Massive mum and garter Emily Hrinkevich & Drew Davis Southlake Sent from my iPhone
Jennifer Henderson
Texas-sized Senior Mum Faith Henderson from Flower Mound Marcus HS with her larger than life homecoming mum.
Christi Pilgreen
Homecoming Another picture of Justin & Makenize's mum & garter for Lewisville High School
Christi Pilgreen
Homecoming Here is a picture of my son Justin who is a Sophomore at Lewisville High School and his date Makenize.
Haas, Elizabeth
Marcus High School Circle of Friends Homecoming Marcus High School Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE), Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFJROTC) and junior varsity volleyball team presented mums, garters and gifts to the MHS Circle of Friends students �� an inclusion program for all special needs students ��to wear to the MHS Homecoming Volleyball Game! "I just love seeing the students faces and the joy in their hearts when the received a mum or garter of their own," MHS TAFE student Emily Manning said. ��I am so happy to expand the project to present the mums to students before a homecoming game." This is the second year MHS TAFE students have created mums and garters - made from recycled mums and garters that were donated for the project - for all 27 MHS Circle of Friends students. However, this year is the first year the project expanded to include a homecoming court presentation at the beginning of the MHS Junior Varsity Volleyball game. During the presentation, each Circle of Friends student walked through a AFJROTC sword saber to receive their mums and garters and then each volleyball player gave them a personalize Nerf volleyball, as a keep sake from the special ceremony. 0 0 1 2 14 LISD 1 1 15 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE
Haas, Elizabeth
Marcus High School Circle of Friends Homecoming Marcus High School Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE), Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFJROTC) and junior varsity volleyball team presented mums, garters and gifts to the MHS Circle of Friends students �� an inclusion program for all special needs students ��to wear to the MHS Homecoming Volleyball Game! "I just love seeing the students faces and the joy in their hearts when the received a mum or garter of their own," MHS TAFE student Emily Manning said. ��I am so happy to expand the project to present the mums to students before a homecoming game." This is the second year MHS TAFE students have created mums and garters - made from recycled mums and garters that were donated for the project - for all 27 MHS Circle of Friends students. However, this year is the first year the project expanded to include a homecoming court presentation at the beginning of the MHS Junior Varsity Volleyball game. During the presentation, each Circle of Friends student walked through a AFJROTC sword saber to receive their mums and garters and then each volleyball player gave them a personalize Nerf volleyball, as a keep sake from the special ceremony. 0 0 1 2 14 LISD 1 1 15 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE
Haas, Elizabeth
Marcus High School Circle of Friends Homecoming Marcus High School Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE), Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFJROTC) and junior varsity volleyball team presented mums, garters and gifts to the MHS Circle of Friends students �� an inclusion program for all special needs students ��to wear to the MHS Homecoming Volleyball Game! "I just love seeing the students faces and the joy in their hearts when the received a mum or garter of their own," MHS TAFE student Emily Manning said. ��I am so happy to expand the project to present the mums to students before a homecoming game." This is the second year MHS TAFE students have created mums and garters - made from recycled mums and garters that were donated for the project - for all 27 MHS Circle of Friends students. However, this year is the first year the project expanded to include a homecoming court presentation at the beginning of the MHS Junior Varsity Volleyball game. During the presentation, each Circle of Friends student walked through a AFJROTC sword saber to receive their mums and garters and then each volleyball player gave them a personalize Nerf volleyball, as a keep sake from the special ceremony. 0 0 1 2 14 LISD 1 1 15 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE
Haas, Elizabeth
Marcus High School Circle of Friends Homecoming Marcus High School Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE), Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFJROTC) and junior varsity volleyball team presented mums, garters and gifts to the MHS Circle of Friends students �� an inclusion program for all special needs students ��to wear to the MHS Homecoming Volleyball Game! "I just love seeing the students faces and the joy in their hearts when the received a mum or garter of their own," MHS TAFE student Emily Manning said. ��I am so happy to expand the project to present the mums to students before a homecoming game." This is the second year MHS TAFE students have created mums and garters - made from recycled mums and garters that were donated for the project - for all 27 MHS Circle of Friends students. However, this year is the first year the project expanded to include a homecoming court presentation at the beginning of the MHS Junior Varsity Volleyball game. During the presentation, each Circle of Friends student walked through a AFJROTC sword saber to receive their mums and garters and then each volleyball player gave them a personalize Nerf volleyball, as a keep sake from the special ceremony. 0 0 1 2 14 LISD 1 1 15 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE
Madison Slagle
Massive Mums Go big or go home! Happy Homecoming Season!Name: Madison SlaglePhone:
Crystal Charbonnet
Jerrod & Morgan Mum:)
Destiny
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Damon
The Colony High School Homecoming Mum This is my son Jacob's Senior Homecoming Mum, made for him by his mother Janett.
Damon
The Colony High School Homecoming Mum Today is Homecoming @ The Colony High School. This is my son Ian's Senior Mum given to him by his girlfriend Halie.
Rannie Everett
Fwd: Huge mum from The colony High School Addison Everett. Senior at The Colony High School Thanks so much, Rannie Everett
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Jeri Liedl
MASSIVE MUMS Emily and Hunter from Midlothian High School Homecoming Sept 19th which also was her 18th Birthday- which is why her mum has lighted birthday candles!!
Jeri Liedl
MASSIVE MUMS Emily and Hunter from Midlothian High School Homecoming Sept 19th which also was her 18th Birthday- which is why her mum has lighted birthday candles!!
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IMG_0400.JPG Katie Edwards, Senior at Grapevine High School.
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Massive mum Lily Garza Mesquite High School
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Homecoming picture- Aledo Homecoming 2014 Blake and Kandle (4th graders) at Aledo High school Homecoming game
Crystal Gilson
Homecoming greatness Ms Mercedes Silva and her follower from seagoville high school
Martha Olivarez
massive mums Armando & Nadia TCHS Homecoming
Hayden
Homecoming Pictures Hello Channel 5 Team!! I wasn't sure if you guys were still doing homecoming pictures or not, but it would mean a lot to me if you guys could show this picture on the air of my date and I. I'm wanting to surprise my girlfriend with our picture on the air. My name is Hayden Wright, i am on the left, and my girlfriend and date is Sydney Gloor. It would mean the world to me if you guys would put this on the air! Thanks for your time!
David Hernandez
Homecoming mums Justin and Gaby. Weatherford high 2014
Deborah
Tanya Irwin
Mums in Burleson Erin & Gabe - Burleson Centennial 2014 HoCo
Tricia Thompson
Hailey Rushing and Zach Thompson from Red Oak High School.
Meg Baker
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Tara Griffith
Senior Homecoming Mum Taelor Griffith Senior at Fossil Ridge High School.
Homecoming mum Good morning! This is my son, Matthew and his girlfriend, Reagan. Reagan goes to Richland HS, they won their HC game last Friday night and Matthew goes to Euless-Trinity. Trinity's HC is this Friday. They are both Seniors, Senior mums are silver and white and, of course, everything's bigger in Texas!!
Stacie Gray
Maddie Busch and Perry Hicks Boyd High School Boyd Tx
Deborah
Dawson Homecoming Best friends Mum☺️
KT Baudendistel
Massive mum Celina cheerleaders show off their massive mums in the Celina Homecoming Parade! Pictured above are (left to right): Tori, Hannah, Payton, and Cambry.
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Massive mums Celina cheerleaders line up to show off their massive mums at Homecoming! Pictured are, left to right: Mackenzie, Bailee, Hannah, Maddie, Payton, Tori, Cambry, and Kailee. Kristi Baudendistel
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Texas size mum Here is a pic of my daughter's homecoming mum.
Debra Wilson
Massive Homecoming Mums 2014 My son Tyler Wilson and his date Brittany Bordelone mum-exchanging before Flower Mound High School's homecoming last week.
Brenda
Massive mum Senior sash!!
Brenda
Massive mum Senior sash!!
Monica Seastrunk
Homecoming mum Twins, David and Breanna Seastrunk, Seniors at Mansfield Legacy High School
Maida Denham
Massive Mums 2014 Senior Mum - Taylor Denham
Erica Lewis
Mum Time!! Put me on TV please My beautiful step-daughter Danikah Lewis showing off her homecoming Mum! It was handmade lovingly by her Nanny Susan Lewis. Danikah is a sophomore at Summit high school in Arlington:-)
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Mums Senior Jessica G. from Mansfield HS enjoying her creation
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Homecoming 2015 senior, Valerie Castaneda crowned Homecoming Queen at Gordon ISD.
Shannon Davidson
Homecoming Mum! Tate and Tori! Prosper High School and Wakeland High School
Gayle Dealva
Homecoming mum
Chandler Nauta
Massive Mum picture
Chandler Nauta
Massive Mum picture
Elechia France
Mum-Homecoming 2014 Our daughter Brianna France Senior at Chisholm Trail High & a Freshman in College NHS Member Vice President of her Saginaw 4-H club We are proud parents
Jennifer Wellman
Giant mum
Christine Grubbs
Homecoming Mums Elizabeth
Christine Grubbs
Homecoming Garters and Mums Alex and Elizabeth
Monica Low
This is my son Colby Low and his Girlfriend Alisha Sherman going to Springtown Homecoming. The mum also lights up! I'm surprised she could even walk with that thing on.
Gena Burrows
Homecoming Mum
Gena Burrows
Homecoming Mums
Lucy Adame
Tonya Paris
Mums from Wills Point, Tx
Susan Greenwood
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SGP Homecoming 9th grade representativenMakira Ellis, her dad Otis Ellis is also graduate of SG
Kate wardlow
My high school mum My freshmen year mum that my sister made me in 9th grade at South Grand Prairie high school
Candice Hale
Mums Samantha and Madelyn. Midlothian homecoming 2014
Patty
Homecoming My daughter first homecoming. She is s freshman and he is a junior. Alexis Talbot and Chuck Babendreir from Richland Hills High School.
Lisa Saldivar
High School senior Mum homecoming is tonight Richland Rebels! North Richland Hills High School. Mercedes Saldivar class of 2015
