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Zentropa Announces New Documentary Division Headed By Former Viaplay Exec
Danish film and TV company Zentropa, the more recent credits of which include Nikolaj Arcel’s historical drama The Promised Land and Lars Von Trier’s drama The Kingdom, is moving into documentary.
The company has unveiled the launch of Zentropa Documentary, which will be headed by award-winning…
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Fremantle To Distribute BBC Doc Series About Aid Worker Who Died In Ukraine
EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has picked up global distribution rights to Hell Jumper, the BBC’s upcoming doc series about a British aid worker who died in Ukraine.
Produced by Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation and revealed by Deadline last year, Hell Jumper uses first-person footage to follow a group of…
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Limonero Films Acquires Environmental Documentary ‘Blue Carbon,’ Launching Sales At La Rochelle’s Sunny Side Of The Doc
EXCLUSIVE: Limonero Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Blue Carbon, an innovative environmental-themed documentary produced by MAKE Waves Media that features the participation of Grammy-nominated music producer and DJ Jayda Guy, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge…
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Steve Martin Goes To ‘Pieces’ In Morgan Neville’s Emmy-Contending Doc About Comedy Great
Steve Martin is a man of many dimensions, and two pieces – at least to judge from director Morgan Neville's documentary about the comedy icon.
Steve! (Martin) a Documentary in 2 Pieces, streaming on Apple TV+, splits the story in half, with piece 1 exploring Martin's youth in Orange County, Calif.…
Director Michael John Warren On Capturing The Rise, Fall And Rebirth Of The Cultural Revolution In ‘Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza’
Some ideas are outlandish enough to change everything. This is especially the case for one of the world's most famous and culturally impactful musical festivals, Lollapalooza, birthed in 1991 as a farewell for Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. The festival quickly became a traveling showcase of…
‘I Am: Celine Dion’ Review: A Raw And Gut-Wrenching Documentary Reveals A Music Superstar Through Her Most Challenging Physical Trauma
When veteran documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor met Celine Dion via Zoom in winter 2021 about the prospect of doing a documentary chronicling Dion’s life and career, she had no idea where this would ultimately take both the subject and the director. In fact…
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By Pete Hammond
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David E. Kelley Finds ‘Hope In The Water’ In His First Documentary Project, Pairing Him With Shailene Woodley, Martha Stewart & More
As a screenwriter, David E. Kelley is used to injecting social commentary into his material — not unlike the way the ancient Greeks entered the city of Troy. But when the creator of shows like The Practice, Big Little Lies and Ally McBeal made his foray into documentary filmmaking – with the ocean…
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By Carita Rizzo
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Catastrophe At 4 A.M.: Director Waad Al-Kateab’s ‘Death Without Mercy’ Recounts Horror Of 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake
The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023 produced catastrophic damage and loss of life – killing more than 55,000 thousand people and leveling huge swaths of cities.
Perhaps most devastating of all was the knowledge that the destruction didn't need to be so extreme. Poor…
Celia Aniskovich & Her Dial Tone Films Partnering With The New Yorker Studios On Docuseries About Arizona Teen Preston Lord’s 2023 Murder
EXCLUSIVE: Dial Tone Films, the production company of director-producer Celia Aniskovich, is joining forces with The New Yorker Studios on a documentary series that will explore the still-unraveling events surrounding the death of teenager Preston Lord near the wealthy community of Gilbert, Arizona in…
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By Matt Grobar
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2024-25 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Guilds & More
UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise.
Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…
Greenwich Entertainment Takes U.S. Rights To Doc ‘Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field’ On Emmy-Winning Costume Designer
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, an award-winning documentary from Michael Selditch about the famed costume designer of the same name.
On the heels of its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, the film will open at…
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Doc Talk Podcast: Alex Gibney On His Emmy-Contending Paul Simon Doc, Plus Elon Musk’s Angry Response To Hearing He’s Focus Of Gibney’s Next Film
Alex Gibney has Frank Sinatra to thank for his most recent documentary – the two-part Emmy-contending film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.
Simon, one of America's greatest singer-songwriters, saw Gibney's 2015 documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, and liked it so much he…
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