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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off success with the acclaimed docs Sly and Willie Nelson & Family, respectively chronicling the lives and careers of Sylvester Stallone and the iconic same-name country artist, Thom Zimny has signed with Artists First. The production and management company will look for opportunities to…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Maher, an honorary director of PETA, has teamed up with the animal rights organization to produce a documentary about America's multibillion-dollar experimentation industry. The host of HBO's Real Time is exec producing The Failed Experiment, which will launch on Amazon's Prime Video…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a January 29 streaming premiere date for The Greatest Night in Pop, a feature doc just announced as world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on the 19th of this month. Directed by award winner Bao Nguyen (Be Water), the film takes viewers back to January 25, 1985…

Darts fever has gripped the UK with the rise and rise of last night’s defeated 16-year-old finalist Luke Litter, and Sky has boarded the bandwagon with a three-part documentary series on the sport from the producer of Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story. Sky’s Darts [working title], which comes in…

The BBC has come under fire from the scientific community after a David Attenborough documentary about a recently discovered underwater creature only briefly mentioned the fossil finder who found it. More than 2,000 signatures have been recorded on a change.org petition to have the pliosaur named…

UPDATED with latest: Hollywood’s strikes are over, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation starts to pick up again. The Primetime Emmys planned for September have been moved to January, and the…

The list of feature documentaries still in contention for the Oscars has been cut to 15 finalists, a brutal culling from a contingent of 167 qualifiers. The annual shortlist announcement leaves a handful of filmmakers celebrating, many more disappointed, and documentary watchers with much to…

UPDATED with full trailer: Jack Harlow is becoming a virtual reality. The rapper and White Men Can’t Jump actor will take canter stage for Jack Harlow No Place Like Home: A VR Concert, a concert and documentary special coming to at Meta Horizon Worlds' Music Valley next month. Produced by Harlow…

By one measure, 2023 was a very tough year in documentary. The first indications of what lay ahead came in January at Sundance, where the usual panoply of films entered the arena in hopes of earning awards and the ultimate prize – distribution. But streamers and other major distributors showed no…

Filmmaker Sam Pollard, one of the most prolific and important forces in contemporary documentary, will be honored by Black Public Media at its upcoming PitchBlack Awards in New York. Pollard — who directed or co-directed four films and docuseries this year alone, including The League and Bill Russell…

Prime Video India has unveiled Wedding.con, a true-crime docu-series about women who are deceived and betrayed in pursuit of love. Scroll down for a trailer for the show that launches next week. The haunting series intimately follows the stories of five women as they embark on the journey to fulfil…

UPDATED 12/22/2023 with details on shortlisted A Still Small Voice. UPDATED with quotes, 1:37 PM: American Symphony, the Obamas-executive produced documentary about Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste, scored a remarkable hat trick today as the Oscar shortlists were revealed, but a couple of documentary…