joined forces with seasoned movie producers Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray and Joe Roth to shop the project. In early 2009, the screen rights to Singh and Patel's life story were purchased by Sony Pictures Entertainment for development at Columbia Pictures.[9] Sony hired Mitch Glazer to write the screenplay.[10] The film is scheduled for release in May 2014. In the summer of 2013 the brother's second reality series with the Food Network went into production. The Shed followed the Orrison BBQ family in Mississippi, as they brought their fun brand of family hijinks to TV. Based on the huge success of the movie Frozen, Neil and his brother were contracted by Disney, in December 2014, to produce the Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration, which aired on Christmas Day on ABC. The two-hour special featured music performances from Train, Gavin DeGraw, Ariana Grande, Lucy Hale, Sabrina Carpenter, Laura Marano and Tricia Yearwood and was the highest rated Christmas special on ABC since 2008. In February 2015 Neil and his brother Michael joined with the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce The Black Women in Hollywood Awards Show. The event was the eighth annual presented by Essence Magazine and was an important stop for celebrities during the pre-Oscar week. John Legend and Common performed the Oscar Award Winning song Glory the last time before they won their statue at 87th Academy Awards. At the top of 2016 Neil sold a pilot to the Esquire Network and was contracted by Verizon to be responsible for creating all of the content for Boston baseball legend, Big Papi's brand new mobile channel. Production began in April and the content is now available on the Verizon Go90 mobile app. Mandt and his team are set to develop more channels for the network throughout the year. In Spring 2016, Neil had added another feature film to his credits, when his movie Dog Years, starring Burt Reynolds and Ariel Winter and directed by Adam Rifkin, was greenlit. The movie centered around an aging movie star coming to terms with the choices he made in life, when he connects with a young girl who is just entering into adulthood and is making all of the wrong decisions. The film's world premiere was at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. In late 2015, Mandt became the CEO and founder of MANDT VR, a Los Angeles-based virtual reality and 360-degree video production company. MANDT