EXCLUSIVE: Kylie Minogue may have found fame when she was extremely young but the double Oscar-winning producer behind her Netflix doc feels her enduring appeal belongs with how “everyone and anyone can relate to her story.”
Speaking to Deadline as Kylie became the latest high-profile personal…
From Hollywood's earliest era up to today, brothers have produced an outsized impact on the movie industry: Jack Warner and his siblings, Joel and Ethan Coen, the Duffer brothers, Russo brothers, Farrelly brothers, Duplass brothers, and the Ways (Chapman and Maclain), among others.
Hamza and…
Actor Bruce Dern turns 90 years old on June 4. He's celebrating early — with a trip to France for the Cannes Film Festival. The double Oscar nominee will be on the Croisette for the world premiere of Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern, directed by Mike Mendez. It bows Wednesday in the…
EXCLUSIVE:Secret Garden, the David Attenborough-fronted natural history series that recently rated big on the BBC, is being pitched into the U.S. as a format.
Plimsoll Productions is taking the unusual step of shopping a natural history program to networks and streamers as a format after Secret…
Avedon. The syllables roll fluidly, as elegant as the man. Photographer Richard Avedon possessed movie-star good looks, but he would spend his career not posing for the camera but working behind it, capturing the beauty and often the subtle vulnerability of some of the most glamorous and celebrated…
EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic is taking the plunge on Freefall, a documentary project on Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen, the pair known as "the most celebrated aerial daredevils the world has ever seen."
Passion Pictures, Red Bull Studios and 1Community have tapped Cinetic to handle worldwide sales of the…
UPDATED to clarify that the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary goes to filmmakers Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell in recognition for their body of work including Groundswell. Filmmakers Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell have won the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary recognizing…
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Men's Gymnastics Team has only won gold once at the Olympics – in 1984. That moment of glory, coming after the U.S. boycott of the 1980 games in Moscow, is recaptured in the documentary '84: The Summer of Gold.
The film directed by 24-time Emmy-winner Nick Nanton is being…
EXCLUSIVE: A supergroup by any other name: Natasha Lyonne, Evan Ross and Sean Lennon have banded together to form indie studio Ariadne. Hitting the ground and the Croisette running, the first project from the new endeavor is transhumanism docuseries Vitruvian Scumbag, which started filming last…
EXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Paradise, Divergent) will narrate Ocean Dreams, an IMAX and Giant Screen documentary highlighting the importance of the world's oceans from SK Films and Deep Sea Productions.
The film will open in select IMAX and Giant Screen theaters June 8, World Ocean Day.A…
The International Documentary Association has named Rachel Denny deputy executive director of the nonprofit organization, reporting directly to IDA executive director Dominic Asmall Willsdon.
Denny, who has served in leadership roles at the Sundance Institute, Film at Lincoln Center, and United…
EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired North American rights to Boorman and the Devil, a documentary about the troubled production of John Boorman's Exorcist II: The Heretic."
The 1977 follow up to the original Exorcist was a commercial and critical failure but has gone on to earn cult…