Shiori Ito – face of Japan's #MeToo movement, one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020, and author of award-winning memoir “Black Box” (2017) – assembled a documentary recording her rollercoaster of a lawsuit against her rapist, Noriyuki Yamagauchi. This marks her debut feature, “Black Box Diaries,” which premiered as a part of the World Cinema – Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival last month.
“Black Box Diaries” premiered at Sundance 2024 in the World Cinema – Documentary Competition. Its sales are managed by Dogwoof.
The documentary follows the heels of other stories that have been published that focus on the #MeToo movement, such as Chanel Miller's memoir, “Know My Name” (2019); Ursula Macfarlane's Weinstein investigation “Untouchable” (2019); and more recently, the prolonged court battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard (2022). While many of the previous examples are centered in the US, however, Ito's investigative journalistic take on her own rape case explores the legal murkiness of the Japanese court.
“Black Box Diaries” premiered at Sundance 2024 in the World Cinema – Documentary Competition. Its sales are managed by Dogwoof.
The documentary follows the heels of other stories that have been published that focus on the #MeToo movement, such as Chanel Miller's memoir, “Know My Name” (2019); Ursula Macfarlane's Weinstein investigation “Untouchable” (2019); and more recently, the prolonged court battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard (2022). While many of the previous examples are centered in the US, however, Ito's investigative journalistic take on her own rape case explores the legal murkiness of the Japanese court.
- 2/19/2024
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Cph:Forum, the financing and co-production event on the industry programme of Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, has selected new projects from the producers of Flee and Cow for its 2024 edition; and has refreshed its industry awards with six prizes.
Danish producer Signe Byrge Sorensen will participate with Freedom (working title), directed by Camilla Nielsson, who previously made Sundance 2021 title President about a challenger in Zimbabwe’s corrupt presidential elections.
Scroll down for the full list of Forum projects
Sorensen is CEO of Danish documentary production house Final Cut For Real, which has made films including The Killing Of A Journalist,...
Danish producer Signe Byrge Sorensen will participate with Freedom (working title), directed by Camilla Nielsson, who previously made Sundance 2021 title President about a challenger in Zimbabwe’s corrupt presidential elections.
Scroll down for the full list of Forum projects
Sorensen is CEO of Danish documentary production house Final Cut For Real, which has made films including The Killing Of A Journalist,...
- 2/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
“This may say a lot about our current culture of celebrity and media these days: all the major cable news networks switched over to non-stop live coverage this afternoon when word arrived that Anna Nicole Smith had died,” we hear an archival Brian Williams report in the opening segment of Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me. The tabloid sensation died at age 39 on Feb. 8, 2007. Williams’ implication persists 15 years later, evolving still as new players enter the scene. All the same, Anna Nicole Smith remains a modern icon. She weaved a life’s tapestry that became a blueprint for celebrity fame in the early 21st century. She was also one of the first superstar casualties of the 24-hour news cycle.
It was Anna Nicole’s job to be iconic. That’s why her Guess? Jeans image persists to this day. Smith captured the mood of the 1990s. That 1993 Miami photoshoot...
It was Anna Nicole’s job to be iconic. That’s why her Guess? Jeans image persists to this day. Smith captured the mood of the 1990s. That 1993 Miami photoshoot...
- 5/18/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
"Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me", directed by Ursula Macfarlane is a new documentary revealing the exploitation of performer Vickie Lynn Hogan, who became "Playboy" magazine and "Guess" Jeans model Anna Nicole Smith "...through the eyes of the people close to her,", streaming May 16, 2023 on Netflix:
"...from director Ursula Macfarlane ('Untouchable') and producer Alexandra Lacey comes an unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death and secrets of 'Vickie Lynn Hogan' - better known as model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
"From her first appearance in 'Playboy' in 1992, Anna Nicole's dizzying ascent was the very essence of the American dream, brought to a tragic halt with her untimely passing in 2007.
"With access to never-before-seen footage, home movies, and interviews with key figures who have not spoken out until now...
"...this film reveals new insights into the story of the blonde beauty that nobody really knew.
"...from director Ursula Macfarlane ('Untouchable') and producer Alexandra Lacey comes an unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death and secrets of 'Vickie Lynn Hogan' - better known as model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
"From her first appearance in 'Playboy' in 1992, Anna Nicole's dizzying ascent was the very essence of the American dream, brought to a tragic halt with her untimely passing in 2007.
"With access to never-before-seen footage, home movies, and interviews with key figures who have not spoken out until now...
"...this film reveals new insights into the story of the blonde beauty that nobody really knew.
- 5/18/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Now that Britney is free and Pamela Anderson did Broadway, it’s time for Anna Nicole Smith’s day in court — and not the bankruptcy kind.
Six years after MeToo dragged all the musty old skeletons out of every industry’s closet, we seem to have finally arrived at the end of respectability politics for women. Gone are the days when a media outlet can report what a victim was wearing or if they were drinking. In interviews surrounding her successful sexual abuse lawsuit against Donald Trump, the writer E. Jean Carroll felt perfectly comfortable saying she once thought Trump was handsome. And a victim’s sexual history is no longer fair game — certainly not since Stormy Daniels may be the key to a potential Trump felony conviction.
As a secondary consequence of MeToo, there has been a major shift in the way we speak, write, and think about women’s bodies,...
Six years after MeToo dragged all the musty old skeletons out of every industry’s closet, we seem to have finally arrived at the end of respectability politics for women. Gone are the days when a media outlet can report what a victim was wearing or if they were drinking. In interviews surrounding her successful sexual abuse lawsuit against Donald Trump, the writer E. Jean Carroll felt perfectly comfortable saying she once thought Trump was handsome. And a victim’s sexual history is no longer fair game — certainly not since Stormy Daniels may be the key to a potential Trump felony conviction.
As a secondary consequence of MeToo, there has been a major shift in the way we speak, write, and think about women’s bodies,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Over the last several years, the documentary space has increasingly explored a topic that director Ursula Macfarlane and producer Alexandra Lacey say it never would have even just 10 years ago: wronged women.
“This film wouldn’t have been made in this way even five years ago — certainly, not 10 years ago,” doc director Ursula Macfarlane tells The Hollywood Reporter.
But for the new Netflix documentary, Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, she and producer Alexandra Lacey weren’t necessarily aiming to redeem a woman who had been wronged by the media and society. “It was important for us to show that it wasn’t a redemption story. It’s much more complicated than that,” the director explains. “She had agency, but it wasn’t straightforward.”
Instead, the film — which dropped May 16 on the streamer — interrogates Smith and her journey from Houston to the arms of billionaire J. Howard Marshall...
“This film wouldn’t have been made in this way even five years ago — certainly, not 10 years ago,” doc director Ursula Macfarlane tells The Hollywood Reporter.
But for the new Netflix documentary, Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, she and producer Alexandra Lacey weren’t necessarily aiming to redeem a woman who had been wronged by the media and society. “It was important for us to show that it wasn’t a redemption story. It’s much more complicated than that,” the director explains. “She had agency, but it wasn’t straightforward.”
Instead, the film — which dropped May 16 on the streamer — interrogates Smith and her journey from Houston to the arms of billionaire J. Howard Marshall...
- 5/17/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
About forty-five minutes into Netflix’s Anna Nicole Smith documentary, I had the urge to throw my laptop away and break some things in rage. Normally, I do not let things on screen get to me, no matter how emotionally draining they are, especially when I am watching them for work. Sometimes, though, things have a way of getting out of hand. Anna Nicole Smith found her way back to her biological father when she was twenty-four. She was over the moon. The father tried to have sex with her.
Documentary filmmaking is a risky business. The director has to bear the responsibility of doing justice to the real events. But it also has to be engaging enough for the audience to hold on to their seats till the very end. You might disagree, but I don’t think it would be wrong of me to say that over the past decade,...
Documentary filmmaking is a risky business. The director has to bear the responsibility of doing justice to the real events. But it also has to be engaging enough for the audience to hold on to their seats till the very end. You might disagree, but I don’t think it would be wrong of me to say that over the past decade,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Anna Nicole Smith, a name that became such a sensation throughout her career as a model, is most infamous for marrying an elderly, rich businessman in America. It was easy to point fingers at her and call her the famous word “gold digger,” but there was more to her than the image that was projected to the world. The woman was known to like plenty of attention, and this was extensively covered in the almost two-hour Netflix documentary on this starlet. Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, directed by Ursula Macfarlane, was quick to let the audience know that the model-turned-actress had many things going her way and was on her way to becoming a vibrant celebrity. Like Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole passed away when the world was just on the cusp of discovering social media. With the craze that social media is right now, it would be hard...
- 5/16/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
If its subtitle is to be believed, Netflix's Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me ostensibly offers a window into the private life of the model and actress, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007. Director Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable) combines never-before-seen footage of Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan), archival clips from talk shows and her E! reality show, and interviews with friends and family to craft what the streamer describes as an "unflinching and humanizing examination" of a woman unfairly maligned by the media and largely unknown to the public.
"Many previous books and films about Anna Nicole twisted her narrative," Macfarlane tells Netflix's Tudum. "I really feel like she is telling her own story in her own words. And with the contributions of people in her life who genuinely knew her, I feel that we've been able to get closer to her truth."...
"Many previous books and films about Anna Nicole twisted her narrative," Macfarlane tells Netflix's Tudum. "I really feel like she is telling her own story in her own words. And with the contributions of people in her life who genuinely knew her, I feel that we've been able to get closer to her truth."...
- 5/16/2023
- by Claire Spellberg Lustig
- Primetimer
The actor and model lived a life of much-publicized excess but a new Netflix documentary provides a more rounded idea of who she really was
In the recent wave of documentaries demanding justice for the tragic blondes of the 1990s – Britney Spears, Princess Diana and Pamela Anderson among them – it’s unsurprising to find a new film about Anna Nicole Smith next in the queue.
Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me, a Netflix production directed by Ursula Macfarlane, revisits the life of the titular model and Playboy centerfold best known for marrying an octogenarian billionaire, then very publicly losing it all; in 2007, she was found dead in a Hollywood, Florida, Hard Rock hotel at the young age of 39, having taken a toxic mixture of methadone, Valium and a variety of sedatives. Diverging from the precedents set by the Britney and Diana films, however, this new documentary treats Smith less...
In the recent wave of documentaries demanding justice for the tragic blondes of the 1990s – Britney Spears, Princess Diana and Pamela Anderson among them – it’s unsurprising to find a new film about Anna Nicole Smith next in the queue.
Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me, a Netflix production directed by Ursula Macfarlane, revisits the life of the titular model and Playboy centerfold best known for marrying an octogenarian billionaire, then very publicly losing it all; in 2007, she was found dead in a Hollywood, Florida, Hard Rock hotel at the young age of 39, having taken a toxic mixture of methadone, Valium and a variety of sedatives. Diverging from the precedents set by the Britney and Diana films, however, this new documentary treats Smith less...
- 5/16/2023
- by Janelle Zara
- The Guardian - Film News
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me telegraphs its intentions loud and early. The documentary’s subject, the buxom blonde Guess and Playboy model who became a cultural caricature before dying from an accidental drug overdose in 2007 at age 39, was misunderstood. The forces that created her also destroyed her. Shame on us. You could program You Don’t Know Me in a double feature with Pamela: A Love Story, another recent Netflix documentary about a sex symbol laid low by the public that made her famous.
You Don’t Know Me largely adheres to its playbook.
You Don’t Know Me largely adheres to its playbook.
- 5/16/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me is a documentary directed by Ursula Macfarlane about the life of Anna Nicole Smith and her years in stardom until her tragic death.
Anna Nicole Smith was a Texan girl who became an icon of American culture in the 1980s. In the wake of Marilyn, her story is also that of a woman with overwhelming sexuality criticized by traditional America and exploited by the media. . This documentary takes us back to his origins and tells us about the path she undertook to become a brilliant star with a profoundly popular style that was able to dazzle the masses.
It was precisely her ability to connect with people and her image as a stunning blonde that points her out as an heir to the iconic style that, not only, but no one knew how to promote better than Marilyn.
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me...
Anna Nicole Smith was a Texan girl who became an icon of American culture in the 1980s. In the wake of Marilyn, her story is also that of a woman with overwhelming sexuality criticized by traditional America and exploited by the media. . This documentary takes us back to his origins and tells us about the path she undertook to become a brilliant star with a profoundly popular style that was able to dazzle the masses.
It was precisely her ability to connect with people and her image as a stunning blonde that points her out as an heir to the iconic style that, not only, but no one knew how to promote better than Marilyn.
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me...
- 5/16/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary recounts the sad story of the smalltown girl turned Playboy model who ended up a victim of the celeb industry and addiction
The strange, sad story of Anna Nicole Smith is retold in this Netflix documentary by Ursula Macfarlane, who made Untouchable, about Harvey Weinstein. Smith was the former Playboy centrefold and Guess Jeans model who wound up dead of a drug overdose in 2007 at the age of 39, soon after her 20-year-old son had tragically died the same way. There are eerie similarities with the life of Pamela Anderson, also a recent Netflix subject, though Anderson survives and thrives.
Smith was a smalltown Texas girl from a tough background – although she was accused by her mother of manufacturing abuse stories for publicity. She embraced Playboy superstardom, tabloid notoriety and media letching that so easily flipped over into misogynist hate. Like Anderson, Smith used the “blonde” image...
The strange, sad story of Anna Nicole Smith is retold in this Netflix documentary by Ursula Macfarlane, who made Untouchable, about Harvey Weinstein. Smith was the former Playboy centrefold and Guess Jeans model who wound up dead of a drug overdose in 2007 at the age of 39, soon after her 20-year-old son had tragically died the same way. There are eerie similarities with the life of Pamela Anderson, also a recent Netflix subject, though Anderson survives and thrives.
Smith was a smalltown Texas girl from a tough background – although she was accused by her mother of manufacturing abuse stories for publicity. She embraced Playboy superstardom, tabloid notoriety and media letching that so easily flipped over into misogynist hate. Like Anderson, Smith used the “blonde” image...
- 5/15/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Throughout her all-too-brief life, Anna Nicole Smith played a variety of roles on screen and off, identifying as someone different to everyone in her orbit. Even her name was part of a manufactured persona, carved from the same marble as Marilyn Monroe — an aspirational idol of hers. The buxom blonde bombshell represented the dynamic range a woman’s identity could span, from the saintly to the sinful. Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she swapped her small-town woes for a ticket to stardom as a Playboy Playmate, Guess Jeans pinup girl and glamorous movie star: a walking, talking billboard for fashion, sex and, later, severe misfortune.
Director Ursula Macfarlane’s “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” taps into the notion that, whether we loved or despised her, the infamous celebrity from the ’90s and early aughts was putting on an act, playing into a self-created character she thought she could control...
Director Ursula Macfarlane’s “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” taps into the notion that, whether we loved or despised her, the infamous celebrity from the ’90s and early aughts was putting on an act, playing into a self-created character she thought she could control...
- 5/15/2023
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix continues to lead the way with their documentaries reevaluating the cultural impact and personal lives of controversial blondes. Their latest is director Ursula Macfarlane’s “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me,” which seeks to tell the real story behind the voluptuous blonde bombshell who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007.
The documentary reveals that Smith was no angel, whose excesses ended up putting her on a path of destruction. In comparison to their previous documentaries, it’s easily one of the more negative and pessimistic explorations of femininity and fame. But for those looking for something new about Smith’s life it has its share of shocking new revelations. Below are five new discoveries revealed in “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.”
Anna Nicole Smith had a longtime lesbian lover.
A close friend of Smith, referred to only as Missy, lays out a friendship that started...
The documentary reveals that Smith was no angel, whose excesses ended up putting her on a path of destruction. In comparison to their previous documentaries, it’s easily one of the more negative and pessimistic explorations of femininity and fame. But for those looking for something new about Smith’s life it has its share of shocking new revelations. Below are five new discoveries revealed in “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.”
Anna Nicole Smith had a longtime lesbian lover.
A close friend of Smith, referred to only as Missy, lays out a friendship that started...
- 5/15/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
“The phrase ‘Rest in Peace’ means absolutely nothing, unfortunately, when it comes to Anna Nicole Smith.” So says a news anchor in a clip from not long after Anna Nicole Smith’s death by overdose at 39. And though Netflix’s Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me does not make clear which of the many rumors and legal battles the reporter might be commenting on, the existence of this very documentary would seem to prove her point.
Sixteen years after her passing, we still cannot look away from this model turned punchline. Her life and death have been the subject of an opera and a TV movie, with a feature film reportedly on the way. Her iconic Guess photoshoot was resurrected for a 2021 ad campaign (with the rather creepy slogan “Did you miss me?”). Not all the attention is nefarious. For its part, You Don’t Know Me aims to cut...
Sixteen years after her passing, we still cannot look away from this model turned punchline. Her life and death have been the subject of an opera and a TV movie, with a feature film reportedly on the way. Her iconic Guess photoshoot was resurrected for a 2021 ad campaign (with the rather creepy slogan “Did you miss me?”). Not all the attention is nefarious. For its part, You Don’t Know Me aims to cut...
- 5/15/2023
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first scripted TV series, the Jennifer Lopez-starring action film The Mother and documentaries featuring Anna Nicole Smith and Barack Obama are among the high-profile projects hitting Netflix this month.
At the end of May, the streamer is dropping the Schwarzenegger-starring spy comedy Fubar, in which the former California governor and Top Gun: Maverick’s Monica Barbaro play a father and daughter who discover they’ve each been secretly working as CIA operatives as they’re forced to team up and get to know each other’s true selves.
And earlier this month, in time for Mother’s Day, Lopez plays an assassin who emerges from hiding to protect a daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier in The Mother, streaming this Friday. The Niki Caro-directed action movie also stars Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael Garcia Bernal and was written by Andrea Berloff,...
At the end of May, the streamer is dropping the Schwarzenegger-starring spy comedy Fubar, in which the former California governor and Top Gun: Maverick’s Monica Barbaro play a father and daughter who discover they’ve each been secretly working as CIA operatives as they’re forced to team up and get to know each other’s true selves.
And earlier this month, in time for Mother’s Day, Lopez plays an assassin who emerges from hiding to protect a daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier in The Mother, streaming this Friday. The Niki Caro-directed action movie also stars Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael Garcia Bernal and was written by Andrea Berloff,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Officially, the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere is June 21st… but for the Netflix streaming service, the summer season is going to start this Friday, May 12th. And with that date just a couple days away, Netflix has gone ahead and unveiled their entire summer movie slate! They say that “whether you’ve got a hankering for a massive action blockbuster, a romantic comedy or an eye-opening documentary”, Netflix will be the place to turn to this summer. So let’s take a look at this line-up:
May 12
The Mother
Genre: Action
Logline: An assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal
Director: Niki Caro
May 16
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me
Genre: Documentary
Logline: From...
May 12
The Mother
Genre: Action
Logline: An assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal
Director: Niki Caro
May 16
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me
Genre: Documentary
Logline: From...
- 5/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A documentary about Anna Nicole Smith will debut on Netflix next month, and the streamer finally released a first look at the film on April 17. The revelatory feature-length documentary, titled "Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me," will serve as an "unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death, and secrets" of Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan, according to the synopsis - from the Playboy model and reality TV star's rise to stardom to her untimely death in 2007.
Per the trailer, the upcoming documentary features never-before-seen footage of Smith, home movies, and interviews with key figures closest to her who haven't spoken out about the model - until now. It'll also reveal "new insights into the story of the quintessential blonde bombshell hardly anyone really knew."
In January 2022, director Ursula Macfarlane teased what viewers can expect from the upcoming documentary in an interview with Variety. "I approached Anna Nicole's...
Per the trailer, the upcoming documentary features never-before-seen footage of Smith, home movies, and interviews with key figures closest to her who haven't spoken out about the model - until now. It'll also reveal "new insights into the story of the quintessential blonde bombshell hardly anyone really knew."
In January 2022, director Ursula Macfarlane teased what viewers can expect from the upcoming documentary in an interview with Variety. "I approached Anna Nicole's...
- 4/19/2023
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
"Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me", directed by Ursula Macfarlane is a new documentary revealing the exploitation of performer Vickie Lynn Hogan, who became "Playboy" magazine and "Guess" Jeans model Anna Nicole Smith "...through the eyes of the people close to her,", streaming May 16, 2023 on Netflix:
"...from director Ursula Macfarlane ('Untouchable') and producer Alexandra Lacey comes an unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death and secrets of 'Vickie Lynn Hogan' - better known as model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
"From her first appearance in 'Playboy' in 1992, Anna Nicole's dizzying ascent was the very essence of the American dream, brought to a tragic halt with her untimely passing in 2007.
"With access to never-before-seen footage, home movies, and interviews with key figures who have not spoken out until now...
"...this film reveals new insights into the story of the blonde beauty that nobody really knew.
"...from director Ursula Macfarlane ('Untouchable') and producer Alexandra Lacey comes an unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death and secrets of 'Vickie Lynn Hogan' - better known as model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
"From her first appearance in 'Playboy' in 1992, Anna Nicole's dizzying ascent was the very essence of the American dream, brought to a tragic halt with her untimely passing in 2007.
"With access to never-before-seen footage, home movies, and interviews with key figures who have not spoken out until now...
"...this film reveals new insights into the story of the blonde beauty that nobody really knew.
- 4/18/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
For the first time ever, fans will get a behind-the-scenes look of Anna Nicole Smith.
The official trailer for “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me”, which takes a look at the celebrated model, actress and TV personality beyond tabloid narratives, was released on Monday.
Smith, who made a career on her sex appeal, became one of the most talked about pop culture icons of the ’90s. Her household name not only made her a widely-adored star but a criticized controversial celeb. Aside from her fame, few people knew the real Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan; however, the upcoming documentary centres on her true story.
Read More: Betty Gilpin Tapped To Play Anna Nicole Smith In New Biopic On The Model’s Final Days
Anna Nicole Smith — Photo: Netflix Anna Nicole Smith — Photo: Netflix
“From director Ursula Macfarlane (“Untouchable”) and producer Alexandra Lacey comes an unflinching and humanizing examination of the life,...
The official trailer for “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me”, which takes a look at the celebrated model, actress and TV personality beyond tabloid narratives, was released on Monday.
Smith, who made a career on her sex appeal, became one of the most talked about pop culture icons of the ’90s. Her household name not only made her a widely-adored star but a criticized controversial celeb. Aside from her fame, few people knew the real Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan; however, the upcoming documentary centres on her true story.
Read More: Betty Gilpin Tapped To Play Anna Nicole Smith In New Biopic On The Model’s Final Days
Anna Nicole Smith — Photo: Netflix Anna Nicole Smith — Photo: Netflix
“From director Ursula Macfarlane (“Untouchable”) and producer Alexandra Lacey comes an unflinching and humanizing examination of the life,...
- 4/17/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
The Sonic the Hedgehog spinoff is taking off at Paramount+.
The live-action series Knuckles, based on the Sonic the Hedgehog films, will star Idris Elba (Luther) and Adam Pally (Happy Endings), who are reprising their movie roles as Knuckles and Wade Whipple, respectively.
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Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones...
The live-action series Knuckles, based on the Sonic the Hedgehog films, will star Idris Elba (Luther) and Adam Pally (Happy Endings), who are reprising their movie roles as Knuckles and Wade Whipple, respectively.
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- 4/17/2023
- by Erianne Lewis
- TVLine.com
"Being with her was like a roller coaster ride." Netflix has revealed their official trailer for a documentary titled Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me, from the doc director Ursula Macfarlane. A revelatory feature-length film about Anna Nicole Smith (real name: Vickie Lynn Hogan), featuring never before seen footage of the iconic Playboy and Guess jeans model, who blazed a trail through the 90s before her tragic death at the age of 39. From the heights of her modeling fame to her tragic death, this documentary reveals Anna through the eyes of the people closest to her. Director Ursula Macfarlane reveals: "I approached Anna Nicole's story as an epic mystery tale. How did someone with so much charisma and jaw-dropping beauty, with the world at her feet, fall so far, so quickly? Now feels like the right time to re-examine the life of yet another beautiful young woman whose...
- 4/17/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Anna Nicole Smith’s life is center stage in the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming documentary about the late star.
The streamer released its first spot Monday for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, set to debut May 16. Featuring never-before-seen footage, home videos and interviews, the film will document Smith’s life, from her Houston upbringing to her rise to fame that included the cover of Playboy, modeling for Guess and appearing in such Hollywood projects as the 1994 film Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and E! series The Anna Nicole Show. Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in February 2007 at age 39.
“I would just advise people just to follow their dreams,” Smith says in the footage. “They can come true. I’m living proof.”
Among the topics covered in the new project is her legal battle over the estate of husband J. Howard Marshall, an...
The streamer released its first spot Monday for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, set to debut May 16. Featuring never-before-seen footage, home videos and interviews, the film will document Smith’s life, from her Houston upbringing to her rise to fame that included the cover of Playboy, modeling for Guess and appearing in such Hollywood projects as the 1994 film Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and E! series The Anna Nicole Show. Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in February 2007 at age 39.
“I would just advise people just to follow their dreams,” Smith says in the footage. “They can come true. I’m living proof.”
Among the topics covered in the new project is her legal battle over the estate of husband J. Howard Marshall, an...
- 4/17/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has released the first trailer for its new documentary examining the complex, misunderstood life and career of the late Anna Nicole Smith, set to hit the streaming service on May 16.
The new trailer for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me offers a condensed version of the model/reality star’s rise to fame and tragic death — from her childhood in Texas, her first marriage at 17, the birth of her son, Daniel, and her decision to do whatever she could to leave her hometown and create a better life for herself and Daniel.
The new trailer for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me offers a condensed version of the model/reality star’s rise to fame and tragic death — from her childhood in Texas, her first marriage at 17, the birth of her son, Daniel, and her decision to do whatever she could to leave her hometown and create a better life for herself and Daniel.
- 4/17/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“Can I quote you?” As it did throughout Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey’s intrepid investigative journalism for the New York Times, that question reverberates in Maria Schrader’s She Said, an understated, polished procedural that chronicles the way two reporters exposed Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse and assault. Their unrelenting pursuit to convince accusers to go on-record comprises the majority of this movie, which builds to pressing publish on the bombshell, 3,300-word article that uncovered allegations made by actresses—most notably Ashley Judd—and current and former employees, along with previously undisclosed corporate records, documents, and settlements that kept numerous women from speaking out.
Since then more than 80 women have come forward with accusations against Weinstein, who was eventually convicted in 2018 as a rapist and is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence. In many ways the details of Weinstein’s sex crimes and aggressive behavior ignited the #MeToo movement,...
Since then more than 80 women have come forward with accusations against Weinstein, who was eventually convicted in 2018 as a rapist and is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence. In many ways the details of Weinstein’s sex crimes and aggressive behavior ignited the #MeToo movement,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
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Wildlife and nature programmer Love Nature has greenlit five-part natural history series “Evolution Earth” in co-production with PBS and Arte. The series, produced by Passion Planet and shot in extreme locations around the world, is an examination of adaptation stories that illustrate the rapid pace of change happening across Earth, while providing a look at nature’s ability to thrive.
The series includes five films, each showcasing a different extreme landscape including Earth, Islands, Ice, Heat and Grasslands. It will debut across Love Nature’s branded linear and streaming platforms around the world, PBS in the U.S., Arte in France and Germany and on Sky Nature in the U.K. and Italy. Blue Ant International oversees international licensing opportunities outside of commissioning territories.
David Allen is the director of Passion Planet and series producer alongside Oliver Twinch. James Manfull executive produces the series on behalf of Love Nature.
Wildlife and nature programmer Love Nature has greenlit five-part natural history series “Evolution Earth” in co-production with PBS and Arte. The series, produced by Passion Planet and shot in extreme locations around the world, is an examination of adaptation stories that illustrate the rapid pace of change happening across Earth, while providing a look at nature’s ability to thrive.
The series includes five films, each showcasing a different extreme landscape including Earth, Islands, Ice, Heat and Grasslands. It will debut across Love Nature’s branded linear and streaming platforms around the world, PBS in the U.S., Arte in France and Germany and on Sky Nature in the U.K. and Italy. Blue Ant International oversees international licensing opportunities outside of commissioning territories.
David Allen is the director of Passion Planet and series producer alongside Oliver Twinch. James Manfull executive produces the series on behalf of Love Nature.
- 6/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Some legends truly never die. Almost 15 years after her shocking passing, Anna Nicole Smith is being memorialized once again in an upcoming Netflix documentary. The streaming platform confirms that director Ursula Macfarlane is creating a yet-untitled feature-length documentary about the life and death of the beloved reality star. "I approached Anna Nicole's story as an epic mystery tale," Macfarlane said in a statement. "How did someone with so much charisma and jaw-dropping beauty, with the world at her feet, fall so far, so quickly? Now feels like the right time to re-examine the life of yet another beautiful young woman whose life has been picked over and...
- 1/6/2022
- E! Online
Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy model and reality television star who died suddenly in 2007 at the age of 39, will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary.
The film, which is still untitled, will include never-before-seen footage from an unreleased documentary about a young Smith balancing motherhood while on the verge of global stardom. The documentary is still in production, so it’s unclear when it will be released on Netflix.
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, Smith gained notoriety as a Playmate and Guess model, and she set off a media firestorm after marrying 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Once she ascended to the spotlight, Smith’s life provided ceaseless tabloid fodder, including the public battle for her late husband’s estate, drug addiction, paternity lawsuits and her first child’s untimely death. In the early 2000s, she headlined the E! series “The Anna Nicole Show,” which captured the...
The film, which is still untitled, will include never-before-seen footage from an unreleased documentary about a young Smith balancing motherhood while on the verge of global stardom. The documentary is still in production, so it’s unclear when it will be released on Netflix.
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, Smith gained notoriety as a Playmate and Guess model, and she set off a media firestorm after marrying 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Once she ascended to the spotlight, Smith’s life provided ceaseless tabloid fodder, including the public battle for her late husband’s estate, drug addiction, paternity lawsuits and her first child’s untimely death. In the early 2000s, she headlined the E! series “The Anna Nicole Show,” which captured the...
- 1/6/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max announced that Season 2 of “Love Life” will premiere Oct. 28 with its first three episodes.
Then, the second three episodes of the 10-episode season will stream on Nov. 4, with the final four concluding on Nov. 11.
The second season of the romantic dramedy centers on Marcus Watkins (William Jackson Harper), who comes out of a years-long relationship and is forced to once again look for the perfect love he thought he had already found.
The season also stars Jessica Williams, Punkie Johnson and Chris “Comedian Cp” Powell. Arian Moayed, Leslie Bibb and John Earl Jelks are recurring guest stars and Maya Kazan, Ego Nwodim, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Steven Boyer are guest stars. Keith David narrates. Season 1’s Anna Kendrick, who also executive produces, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compére and Nick Thune will appear.
In addition to Kendrick, “Love Life” is executive produced by showrunners Sam Boyd,...
Then, the second three episodes of the 10-episode season will stream on Nov. 4, with the final four concluding on Nov. 11.
The second season of the romantic dramedy centers on Marcus Watkins (William Jackson Harper), who comes out of a years-long relationship and is forced to once again look for the perfect love he thought he had already found.
The season also stars Jessica Williams, Punkie Johnson and Chris “Comedian Cp” Powell. Arian Moayed, Leslie Bibb and John Earl Jelks are recurring guest stars and Maya Kazan, Ego Nwodim, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Steven Boyer are guest stars. Keith David narrates. Season 1’s Anna Kendrick, who also executive produces, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compére and Nick Thune will appear.
In addition to Kendrick, “Love Life” is executive produced by showrunners Sam Boyd,...
- 9/14/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Uncovering a long-held family secret and its corresponding betrayal can ultimately set a person’s true identity free. That process of contending with the devastating and traumatic effects of such an enduring mystery ultimately revealed the accurate existence that Paul Fronczak, one the title subjects of the new movie, ‘The Lost Sons,’ so desperately searched for […]
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- 5/7/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The documentary as true-life suspense mystery came to the fore, and might have been invented, by Errol Morris, when he released “The Thin Blue Line” in 1988. It was the rare nonfiction film that had a demonstrable real-world impact. Beyond that, the movie forged a uniquely gripping experience by presenting itself as a kind of documentary film noir. You could say that Capote and Mailer, in “In Cold Blood” and “The Executioner’s Song,” got there first, but in the world of nonfiction film we hadn’t seen this sort of elevated tabloid page-turner before. This was still an age when documentaries were viewed, by too many, as medicine, and Morris’s techniques were revolutionary, as well as controversial. (His then-novel use of dramatic reenactments was thought to have contributed to the film’s failure to snag an Oscar nomination.)
You could feel the influence of “The Thin Blue Line” on a...
You could feel the influence of “The Thin Blue Line” on a...
- 3/20/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Fronczak’s story is true, but it is filled with the kind of wild twists and turns that you might expect from an overstuffed detective novel.
At age 10, Fronczak happened across a trove of newspaper clippings about his parents, Dora and Chester, who made international headlines when their baby was kidnapped from his hospital bed and found two years later. After confronting his mother, Fronczak discovered that he was the kidnapped toddler in the articles. But his story didn’t end there. In fact, as a new documentary “The Lost Sons” recounts, that was only the start of a decades-long quest. With the help of DNA testing and some intrepid sleuthing, Fronczak discovered that he was not Dora and Chester’s biological son and that the real Paul Fronczak was living in Manton, Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty. And, Fronczak found out that he was actually Jack Rosenthal...
At age 10, Fronczak happened across a trove of newspaper clippings about his parents, Dora and Chester, who made international headlines when their baby was kidnapped from his hospital bed and found two years later. After confronting his mother, Fronczak discovered that he was the kidnapped toddler in the articles. But his story didn’t end there. In fact, as a new documentary “The Lost Sons” recounts, that was only the start of a decades-long quest. With the help of DNA testing and some intrepid sleuthing, Fronczak discovered that he was not Dora and Chester’s biological son and that the real Paul Fronczak was living in Manton, Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty. And, Fronczak found out that he was actually Jack Rosenthal...
- 3/16/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A twisty true-crime story loses much of its appeal in Ursula Macfarlane’s The Lost Sons, a “who am I?” doc whose subject is more fascinated with that question than most viewers will be. Paul Fronczak was ten years old when he learned he had been the victim of a foiled newborn abduction; only decades later did he realize his story was even more convoluted. Though well shot, the CNN-coproduced film always feels TV-grade at best; its level of drama (not to mention its failure to find anything universal in the specifics of Fronczak’s tale) is out-of-place on a ...
- 3/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A twisty true-crime story loses much of its appeal in Ursula Macfarlane’s The Lost Sons, a “who am I?” doc whose subject is more fascinated with that question than most viewers will be. Paul Fronczak was ten years old when he learned he had been the victim of a foiled newborn abduction; only decades later did he realize his story was even more convoluted. Though well shot, the CNN-coproduced film always feels TV-grade at best; its level of drama (not to mention its failure to find anything universal in the specifics of Fronczak’s tale) is out-of-place on a ...
- 3/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following the success of their BAFTA and Emmy-nominated 2018 documentary Three Identical Strangers, CNN Films and Raw TV are collaborating again on a new film that will tell the extraordinary story of Paul Fronczak.
The Lost Sons follows Fronczak as he embarks on a quest for answers after he discovered an unnerving mystery about his parents when he was just 10 years old. While searching for Christmas presents, he found newspaper clippings about his parents: images of them grieving for a kidnapped baby and then celebrating two years later over a toddler found abandoned and returned to them.
Was Fronczak the missing baby? And if so, where was he for two years of his life? Directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable; Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris), Fronczak’s story is told through a blend of re-enactments, testimony of close family and first-hand witnesses, news footage, and family archive. Material has been...
The Lost Sons follows Fronczak as he embarks on a quest for answers after he discovered an unnerving mystery about his parents when he was just 10 years old. While searching for Christmas presents, he found newspaper clippings about his parents: images of them grieving for a kidnapped baby and then celebrating two years later over a toddler found abandoned and returned to them.
Was Fronczak the missing baby? And if so, where was he for two years of his life? Directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable; Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris), Fronczak’s story is told through a blend of re-enactments, testimony of close family and first-hand witnesses, news footage, and family archive. Material has been...
- 1/14/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
CNN Films is developing a documentary titled “The Lost Sons,” a stranger-than-fiction account of a baby who was kidnapped from his mother’s hospital room.
The non-fiction film centers on a Michigan man named Paul Fronczak. At age 10, he unintentionally discovered newspaper clippings about his parents, who made headlines for grieving their kidnapped baby and celebrating two years later when an abandoned toddler was found. Fronczak was unsure if he was the kidnapped baby mentioned in the articles — or where he may have been for those missing years. And so began a decade-spanning investigation to find answers about his true identity.
“Nothing excites me more than a real storytelling challenge, and this is a mystery tale like no other,” said director Ursula Macfarlane. “The Fronczak story has twists and turns you won’t believe and explores profound themes to which we can all relate: the importance and meaning of identity and family.
The non-fiction film centers on a Michigan man named Paul Fronczak. At age 10, he unintentionally discovered newspaper clippings about his parents, who made headlines for grieving their kidnapped baby and celebrating two years later when an abandoned toddler was found. Fronczak was unsure if he was the kidnapped baby mentioned in the articles — or where he may have been for those missing years. And so began a decade-spanning investigation to find answers about his true identity.
“Nothing excites me more than a real storytelling challenge, and this is a mystery tale like no other,” said director Ursula Macfarlane. “The Fronczak story has twists and turns you won’t believe and explores profound themes to which we can all relate: the importance and meaning of identity and family.
- 1/14/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
CNN Films and Raw are producing a new documentary titled “The Lost Sons,” directed by award-winning filmmaker Ursula Macfarlane (“Untouchable”).
Production began in 2019 for the documentary, which will be distributed by CNN Films. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent and content development for CNN Worldwide, and Courtney Sexton, senior vice president for CNN Films, will executive produce alongside Liesel Evans, creative director of U.K. Factual at Raw, and Ross Dinerstein, Campfire founder and CEO.
“The Lost Sons” will chronicle the story of Paul Fronczak, who at age 10 unearthed newspaper clippings about his parents grieving a kidnapped baby and then finding the baby two years later. Decades later, he goes hunting for answers as questions arise about whether he was the kidnapped child.
The story is told through reenactments, testimonies of close family and first-hand witnesses, news footage and family archives.
“I’m thrilled and proud to work with...
Production began in 2019 for the documentary, which will be distributed by CNN Films. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent and content development for CNN Worldwide, and Courtney Sexton, senior vice president for CNN Films, will executive produce alongside Liesel Evans, creative director of U.K. Factual at Raw, and Ross Dinerstein, Campfire founder and CEO.
“The Lost Sons” will chronicle the story of Paul Fronczak, who at age 10 unearthed newspaper clippings about his parents grieving a kidnapped baby and then finding the baby two years later. Decades later, he goes hunting for answers as questions arise about whether he was the kidnapped child.
The story is told through reenactments, testimonies of close family and first-hand witnesses, news footage and family archives.
“I’m thrilled and proud to work with...
- 1/14/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The Three Identical Strangers collaborators CNN Films and Raw are reteaming for the documentary feature The Lost Sons, produced in association with Campfire.
Directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable; Charlie Hebdo), the stranger-than-fiction film recounts the real-life story of Paul Fronczak, a reunited stolen baby who as an adult searches for the identity of his real parents. Production on The Lost Sons began in the summer of 2019, with CNN Films holding all distribution rights.
The executive producer credits are shared by Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton for CNN Films, Liesel Evans for Raw and Ross Dinerstein for Campfire.
“I’m thrilled and proud ...
Directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable; Charlie Hebdo), the stranger-than-fiction film recounts the real-life story of Paul Fronczak, a reunited stolen baby who as an adult searches for the identity of his real parents. Production on The Lost Sons began in the summer of 2019, with CNN Films holding all distribution rights.
The executive producer credits are shared by Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton for CNN Films, Liesel Evans for Raw and Ross Dinerstein for Campfire.
“I’m thrilled and proud ...
- 1/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Three Identical Strangers collaborators CNN Films and Raw are reteaming for the documentary feature The Lost Sons, produced in association with Campfire.
Directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable; Charlie Hebdo), the stranger-than-fiction film recounts the real-life story of Paul Fronczak, a reunited stolen baby who as an adult searches for the identity of his real parents. Production on The Lost Sons began in the summer of 2019, with CNN Films holding all distribution rights.
The executive producer credits are shared by Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton for CNN Films, Liesel Evans for Raw and Ross Dinerstein for Campfire.
“I’m thrilled and proud ...
Directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable; Charlie Hebdo), the stranger-than-fiction film recounts the real-life story of Paul Fronczak, a reunited stolen baby who as an adult searches for the identity of his real parents. Production on The Lost Sons began in the summer of 2019, with CNN Films holding all distribution rights.
The executive producer credits are shared by Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton for CNN Films, Liesel Evans for Raw and Ross Dinerstein for Campfire.
“I’m thrilled and proud ...
- 1/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
- 9/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Nominations for the 48th annual British Documentary Awards, known as the Griersons, include episode two of Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning “For Sama,” and a best presenter nod for David Olusoga for “The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files.”
The awards are given by The Grierson Trust. Of the 52 nominated films, 21 were broadcast on BBC channels. Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece while YouTube Originals, Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery have one each.
Lorraine Heggessey, chair of The Grierson Trust, said: “This has been a difficult year for the production community and particularly for freelancers, so it’s more important than ever to recognize and celebrate the excellence of so many talented filmmakers, whether they are newcomers or established global names. These nominations demonstrate the relevance and versatility of documentaries,...
The awards are given by The Grierson Trust. Of the 52 nominated films, 21 were broadcast on BBC channels. Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece while YouTube Originals, Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery have one each.
Lorraine Heggessey, chair of The Grierson Trust, said: “This has been a difficult year for the production community and particularly for freelancers, so it’s more important than ever to recognize and celebrate the excellence of so many talented filmmakers, whether they are newcomers or established global names. These nominations demonstrate the relevance and versatility of documentaries,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Vice TV has picked up I, Sniper, a documentary series that examines the infamous Washington, D.C. sniper case with rare access to one of the shooters. The network will launch the eight-part series, which is produced by British producer Arrow Pictures, on June 2 at 10 Pm.
It tells the story of how, in the fall of 2002, 17-year-old Lee Malvo and Gulf War veteran John Muhammad terrorized the D.C. region with a series of random shootings from inside the trunk of a blue Chevy Caprice, killing 10 people and injuring three.
Malvo, a juvenile at the time of the crimes, opens up in a series of phone calls from his supermax cell at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia.
I, Sniper also features never-before-heard interviews with survivors, victims’ families and investigators, including the lesser-known stories of those impacted by the killers prior to their arrival in Washington, D.C.
Produced by Arrow Pictures,...
It tells the story of how, in the fall of 2002, 17-year-old Lee Malvo and Gulf War veteran John Muhammad terrorized the D.C. region with a series of random shootings from inside the trunk of a blue Chevy Caprice, killing 10 people and injuring three.
Malvo, a juvenile at the time of the crimes, opens up in a series of phone calls from his supermax cell at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia.
I, Sniper also features never-before-heard interviews with survivors, victims’ families and investigators, including the lesser-known stories of those impacted by the killers prior to their arrival in Washington, D.C.
Produced by Arrow Pictures,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
When Ursula Macfarlane's Harvey Weinstein documentary, Untouchable, hit Hulu earlier this month, it was supposed to have just begun streaming as Weinstein's trial on charges of rape and sexual assault kicked off on Sept. 9.
But just days before Untouchable's streaming debut, Weinstein's trial was delayed until early next year.
Still, Macfarlane and two of her subjects, Weinstein accusers Hope D'Amore and Erika Rosenbaum, weren't certain that the disgraced former film mogul would go to trial when they spoke with The Hollywood Reporter after Untouchable's screening at the inaugural female-focused 51Fest in New York at the end ...
But just days before Untouchable's streaming debut, Weinstein's trial was delayed until early next year.
Still, Macfarlane and two of her subjects, Weinstein accusers Hope D'Amore and Erika Rosenbaum, weren't certain that the disgraced former film mogul would go to trial when they spoke with The Hollywood Reporter after Untouchable's screening at the inaugural female-focused 51Fest in New York at the end ...
When Ursula Macfarlane's Harvey Weinstein documentary, Untouchable, hit Hulu earlier this month, it was supposed to have just begun streaming as Weinstein's trial on charges of rape and sexual assault kicked off on Sept. 9.
But just days before Untouchable's streaming debut, Weinstein's trial was delayed until early next year.
Still, Macfarlane and two of her subjects, Weinstein accusers Hope D'Amore and Erika Rosenbaum, weren't certain that the disgraced former film mogul would go to trial when they spoke with The Hollywood Reporter after Untouchable's screening at the inaugural female-focused 51Fest in New York at the end ...
But just days before Untouchable's streaming debut, Weinstein's trial was delayed until early next year.
Still, Macfarlane and two of her subjects, Weinstein accusers Hope D'Amore and Erika Rosenbaum, weren't certain that the disgraced former film mogul would go to trial when they spoke with The Hollywood Reporter after Untouchable's screening at the inaugural female-focused 51Fest in New York at the end ...
Hulu Fall 2019 TV Schedule and Premiere Dates Hulu have released their 2019 schedule and premiere dates for their primetime television shows. Hulu Fall 2019 Schedule and New Series Synopses Press Release Hulu’S Fall/Winter 2019 Programming Slate Untouchable Documentary Premiere Date: Monday, September 2 Crew: Untouchable is directed by Ursula Macfarlane and executive produced by Lightbox’s Simon Chinn [...]
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- 9/3/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The stories are legion, and they are remarkably similar. Some begin in a Buffalo, New York, concert hall in 1978; others in a five-star hotel in Venice in 1998. But it usually starts with a seemingly benign offer of help, or a friendly chat, or a meeting about the next step in someone’s career. Then maybe, suddenly, there’s only one room on a business trip because of a booking “mistake.” Or a lunch meeting mysteriously gets moved to a penthouse suite. Or an insistence that this man, a modern-day movie...
- 9/2/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Ursula MacFarlane’s feature doc Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein was watched by 1M viewers on its British television debut. The 90-minute film, which was original commissioned by the British public broadcaster, scored the 1M peak between 9pm and 10:30pm on Sunday night on BBC Two in the UK.
Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...
Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...
- 9/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu is out with its list of new and expiring content for the month of September, and what better way to beat the back-to-school blues than with a whole bunch of binge-watching.
Among the new goodies coming next month is the 12th episode and season finale of horror anthology series “Into the Dark.” Out Sept. 6, the finale is called “Pure,” and is described as a female coming-of-age horror story in which a group of teenage girls perform a secret ritual at a “Purity Retreat.” When one of them begins to see a “supernatural entity,” a scary question is posed: “What is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers’ expectations?” Scary indeed!
The Hulu original documentary “Untouchable” will be released on Sept. 2, described as “the inside story of the meteoric rise and shocking fall of movie titan Harvey Weinstein.” Directed by Ursula Macfarlane,...
Among the new goodies coming next month is the 12th episode and season finale of horror anthology series “Into the Dark.” Out Sept. 6, the finale is called “Pure,” and is described as a female coming-of-age horror story in which a group of teenage girls perform a secret ritual at a “Purity Retreat.” When one of them begins to see a “supernatural entity,” a scary question is posed: “What is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers’ expectations?” Scary indeed!
The Hulu original documentary “Untouchable” will be released on Sept. 2, described as “the inside story of the meteoric rise and shocking fall of movie titan Harvey Weinstein.” Directed by Ursula Macfarlane,...
- 8/31/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
It’s Labor Day weekend, and you know what that means — summer is over. But instead of being sad, you can soften the blow honoring America’s labor movement. We know you’ll be so busy tipping every service person extra on Monday that you probably won’t have time to do anything else, but on the off chance that you Do find time for a little TV watching, we’ve got you covered. Here is TheWrap’s list of recommendations for everything to watch this holiday weekend, from Amazon’s “Carnival Row” — featuring steamy fairy encounters between Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom — to “Untouchable,” Hulu’s documentary on the Harvey Weinstein case, to the glorious, long-awaited puppetry-goodness of Jim Henson’s “Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.”
“Carnival Row” – Premieres Friday on Amazon Prime Video There are only two things you need to know about “Carnival Row.” The first is...
“Carnival Row” – Premieres Friday on Amazon Prime Video There are only two things you need to know about “Carnival Row.” The first is...
- 8/30/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
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