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Starz has released the trailer for its limited event series, “The Bmf Documentary: Blowing Money Fast,” chronicling the notorious drug syndicate, the Black Mafia Family. This documentary series will feature exclusive audio excerpts from founding member, Demetrius Flenory, in addition to interviews with members of his family, former Bmf members and celebrity insiders including Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, T.I., 2 Chainz, and White Boy Rick. As previously announced, “The Bmf Documentary: Blowing Money Fast” premieres Sunday, October 23 at midnight on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms and internationally on the premium streaming platform, Lionsgate+, in Europe and Latin America. On linear, it will debut on Starz at 10:00 Et/Pt in the U.S. and Canada. “The Bmf Documentary: Blowing Money Fast” is a limited event, half-hour episodic documentary series about infamous Black Mafia Family founders, Demetrius “Big Meech” and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory. The series offers...

“Power Book III: Raising Kanan” has been renewed for its third season at Starz. Announced at the Television Critics Association 2022 summer press tour, the news comes ahead of the Aug. 14 debut of Season 2.

“Raising Kanan,” the third series in the “Power” universe, it set in the early ‘90s and tells the origin story of Kanan Stark (MeKai Curtis) and his entry into the criminal world through his mother, Raquel (Patina Miller) who ruthlessly runs the family’s drug empire. Omar Epps, London Brown, Malcolm Mays, Joey Badass, Hailey Kilgore, Shanley Caswell and Antonio Ortiz also star.

“Our passionate and loyal fans have been eagerly awaiting the Season 2 return of ‘Raising Kanan’ to see the continued transformation of a young and naïve teenage Kanan Stark into the ruthless, no-nonsense character they know and love,” said Kathryn Busby, president of original programming at Starz. “And we’re thrilled to be doubling down...

Discovery+ will take viewers inside the dissolution of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s relationship in the two-part documentary Johnny vs. Amber, our sister site Deadline reports.

The first installment will present the pair’s court case from Depp’s point of view, while the second episode will take a look at events from Heard’s perspective. The doc will include interviews with lawyers on both sides, as well as people close to Depp and Heard.

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Starz has greenlighted a Bmf documentary series from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, executive producer and creative force behind the network’s breakout hit drama series Bmf.

The eight-episode docu series, produced by G-Unit Film and Television and Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, will be executive produced by Jackson and Shan Nicholson (Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury), who also will serve as showrunner. The series will be directed by Nicholson and Chris Frierson (The King).

Bmf (aka Black Mafia Family), the scripted series inspired by the true story of brothers Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory (Da’Vinchi), currently averages 6.5 million multiplatform views per episode. The Season 1 finale of Bmf, which already has been renewed for a second season, premieres this Sunday, Nov. 21, across all Starz platforms.

“The docuseries will offer an inside look at different perspectives from all of those involved, Bmf — Blowing Money Fast,...

Beyonce’s “Homecoming” has landed three nominations to lead all films in the first round of noms for the Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based awards ceremony established in 2007 to honor all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking.

In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.

It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”

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Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.

The history and aftermath of the Jonestown commune is still difficult to comprehend, whether you’re talking about it or trying to show the kind of devotion that would drive so many followers to lose their lives. Yet the new docuseries “Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle” will look to dissect as much of the tragic saga as possible in four parts, airing next month on SundanceTV.

The series follows eventual Jonestown leader Jim Jones from his origins as a civil rights-oriented preacher to the creation of Peoples Temple and through the group’s move to Guyana. It was there that over 900 of Jones’ followers died. Through archival footage and recently declassified federal intel, “Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle” outlines the deaths that happened both voluntarily and by force.

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Nothing fits the music documentary format quite so compellingly as a life cut tragically short. In addition to the ready-made dramatic arc, a subject who leaves this mortal coil before their time usually also leaves a certain amount of mystery in their wake, providing ample grist for filmmakers (and the folks they interview) to chew on.

Even when the hows and whys of an artist's tragic exit are a matter of uncontroversial record, questions of "What might have been?" inevitably linger over their prematurely truncated discography — in itself a far...

Killer Mike and El-p commanded Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s outdoor stage on Thursday, performing the frenzied signature cut, "Run the Jewels," from their 2013 debut LP. The duo brought their usual explosive energy, trading off verses and offering a brief scratching showcase for DJ Trackstar.

The group explored a more intimate, atmospheric mood with Run the Jewels 2 highlight "Crown." Backed by swirling organ, psychedelic wah-wah and a trio of soulful backing singers, the rappers reflect on rising above the evil forces around them.

Earlier this month, Run the Jewels debuted the...

★★★☆☆ Director Sacha Jenkins' Fresh Dressed (2015) harks back to the early 1990s, the nascent days of hip-hop and the change in fashion engendered by an entirely new musical form. Beneath the bold, multi-coloured graffiti-inspired designs, baggy pants and bling there's more to this stylish documentary than initially meets the eye. There is some crossover early on with Shan Nicholson's 2010 documentary Rubble Kings - which ploughs through the devastating violence and arson of the South Bronx in the 1970s.

Exclusive: Asian film specialist Terracotta Distribution expands with new label to focus on titles outside the continent.

Terracotta Distribution, part of the Terracotta Entertainment Group that promotes Asian films in the UK, has launched a new outfit - Sharp Teeth Films.

The label will handle non-Asian films for Terracotta in the UK across theatrical, DVD and VOD.

The first title will be Jim Carey-produced documentary Rubble Kings, highlighting the true story of gangs in 1970s New York that inspired cult classic The Warriors.

Directed by Shan Nicholson, the film will receive a limited theatrical release in September. First shown at the Austin Film Festival in 2010, Rubble Kings was executive produced by Goldcrest-owned Saboteur.

In October, Sharp Teeth Films will release Shopping Tour on DVD and VOD, a “George Romero-inspired horror satire that playfully takes aim at topical issues including consumerism, xenophobia and immigration panic”.

Directed by Mikhail Brashinsky, Shopping Tour was...

Rubble Kings

Directed by Shan Nicholson

USA, 2010

Draped in graffiti, a rickety old subway train makes its way across a rugged slice of New York that looks more like Mad Max than Mad Men. Only seconds into director Shan Nicholson’s documentary Rubble Kings, the audience understands that the residents on display in the film’s South Bronx ghettos live in a place that barely qualifies as America. The Bronx in the early seventies was a ruthless kingdom, where the only laws that mattered were those imposed by the hoodlums that claimed your block. Rubble Kings takes a look at the rise of New York City’s gang life in the early seventies while also making the case that the emergence of hip-hop played a large role in New York gang culture’s decline.

Narrated by John Leguizamo, Rubble Kings examines the rise of New York City gang life in...

Hip-Hop is always ready to champion the next. Though the foundation of sampling old records and shout-outs to forefathers forever keeps one eye towards the past, young fans of the genre crave originality and the cutting-edge. But for the generations that grew up with hip-hop back in two fertile periods of the genre — the late Seventies and the early-to-mid Nineties — there's something to be gained by revisiting its heydays. Graphic novels, television, feature films and documentaries are resurrecting the culture's past in what appears to be a mini-renaissance of hip-hop nostalgia.

You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...

By the end of the Summer of Love in 1967, the Bronx was a warzone overrun by gangs and violence like a real-life scene from The Warriors. The recently released documentary Rubble Kings explains how the warring sets made peace in the Seventies and paved the way for the birth of hip-hop. The first five minutes of the film, which is now available as part of the BitTorrent Bundle below, are streaming above.

The story begins with Carlos "Karate Charlie" Suarez and "Yellow" Benji Melendez, who came together to form a...

You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...

While there are those who yearn for New York City's more rough and tumble past, that lens of nostalgia often forgets that for all of the city's colorful quirks of the time, it was also violent, decaying, and on the brink of total collapse. In the 1970s, the city veered towards bankruptcy, some boroughs resembled war zones, and this climate allowed gangs to take root. Shan Nicholson's "Rubble Kings" ambitiously tries to act as a document of that particular milieu, one that will span not just the history of the gangs as told by people who were there, but also tie in the birth of hip hop, and the changing face of a city. It's certainly an admirable goal, but the film leaves much wanting. From almost every angle, "Rubble Kings" has the ingredients to be something definitive. The list of participants is lengthy, there's a healthy amount of archival footage,...

You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...

At the moment, Baz Luhrmann is working on his take of New York City in the 1970s in the upcoming Netflix series "The Get Down," but the story of what really went down, told by the people who were there, is on the way with "Rubble Kings." And today we have the exclusive trailer and poster for the documentary. Directed by Shan Nicholson, narrated by John Leguizamo, and produced by folks including Dito Montiel and Jim Carrey, the movie tracks the dangerous years of 1968 to 1975, in which the city's gang war reached devastating and bloody heights. But from within that scene also came peace, and the flourishing of hip-hop culture that would define a generation. Featuring Yellow” Benji Melendez, Afrika Bambaataa, Blackie, Carlos “Karate Charlie”Suarez, D.S.R, Ed Koch, Felipe Luciano, Harlem Cody, Jazzy Jay, Jee Sanchez, Joe Conzo, Kool Herc, Lorine, Marshall Berman, Nono, Red Alert, Rolando Ruiz,...

Exclusive: Saboteur will rep two films at the European Film Market.

Goldcrest’s New York-based doc distributor Saboteur Media is entering the international sales arena and will launch two films at the Efm.

Sales will be handled by Pierre Weisbein, formerly of Goldcrest, Canal+ and StudioCanal.

Screening in Berlin’s Panorama is Afghan war documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, told from the Afghan perspective bydirectors Saeed Taji Farouky and Mike McEvoy.

Also on the slate is Shan Nicholson’s Rubble Kings about gangs and hip hop culture in new York between 1968 and 1975 . Saboteur will release day-and-date in the U.S. later this year.

Set up 18 months ago, Saboteur has handled the Us release of ten films including Sebastian Junger’s Korengal.

Nick Quested, executive director of Goldcrest Films, explained: “We aim to put our films in front of audiences wherever they are. Now with a broader reach, Pierre coming...

You’re more than likely familiar with the 1979 film, "The Warriors," the cult classic about an all out battle royale amongst colorfully costumed (but brutal) street gangs in New York City. Vividly over-the-top, the film’s depiction of gang culture pales in comparison to the real-life gangs who inspired it, the titular "Rubble Kings" of director Shan Nicholson’s latest documentary. The doc takes a look back at a time when black and Puerto Rican gangs populated literally every corner of the South Bronx - gangs with names like The Savage Nomads and The Skulls, The Homicides and The Dirty Ones - who wore distinct colors, had complex hierarchies, and ...

Trailer for a documentary currently playing the film festival circuit titled Rubble Kings, directed by Shan Nicholson.

Synopsis: From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted the world over.

El Monstro Del Mar, the Australian underground monster movie directed by Stuart Simpson that’s been making waves on the festival circuit this year, has won the Best of Fest award at NYC’s Royal Flush Festival, which was held at the world-famous Knitting Factory on Oct. 11-18.

The film, which was recently reviewed on Bad Lit, is a modern-ized throwback to the classic grindhouse cinema of Russ Meyer and Roger Corman. Three female hired killers hide out in a sleepy seaside village, only to awaken a monstrous creature that rises from the ocean’s depths to feast on human blood.

The Royal Flush Festival is a nine-day music and film event held in Brooklyn at the Knitting Factory. The fest was originally conceived as the E. Vill City Film Festival in 2005, but joined forces with the magazine Royal Flush and rechristened itself just this year.

In addition to Best of Fest,...

From out of the ashes of Evil City (2005-07) rises the Royal Flush Festival, presented in conjunction with Royal Flush magazine. This is a week-long celebration of music, film, art and good times that runs Oct. 11-18 at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan.

Films run Oct. 13-17, beginning with the NYC No Wave documentary Downtown Calling by Shan Nicholson and ends with the raucous Australian underground hit El Monstro Del Mar! by Stuart Simpson, which was recently reviewed on Bad Lit.

In between, they’re also screening the nunsploitation short flick Thy Kill Be Done by Greg Hanson and Casey Regan, also recently reviewed on this site. Plus, there’s more feature films, including The Vinyl Frontier documentary on killer toys, the Prayer to a Vengeful God revenge flick, and newspaper reporter Robert Patton-Spruill desperate attempt to get the Kinks to reunite in the film Do It Again.

If music’s your thing,...

The awards luncheon for Austin Film Festival was held today, with the following winners announced for the film, screenplay and teleplay competitions:

Film Competitions

Documentary Feature Jury Award: Grown in Detroit - Directors: Manfred Poppenk, Mascha Poppenk Documentary Feature Special Jury Mention: Downtown Calling - Director: Shan Nicholson Animated Short Jury Award: Lost and Found - Director: Philip Hunt Narrative Student Short Jury Award: Welgunzer - Writer: Bradford Schmidt Narrative Student Special Jury Mention: Adelaide - Writer: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders Narrative Short Jury Award: Nice Shootin' Cowboy - Writer: Ben Phelps Narrative Short Special Jury Mention: The Taxidermist - Writers: Bert & Bertie; Washdays - Writer: Graham Lester George Narrative Feature Jury Award: Tobruk - Writer: Vaclav Marhoul Narrative Feature Special Jury Recognition for Acting: Myna Se Va Narrative Feature Special Jury Recognition for Independent Filmmaking: Thor at the Bus Stop

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Director: Shan Nicholson In the late 1970s, New York City was devastated by economic problems. The city crumbled and burned, literally, as the plethora of vacant buildings caught fire or otherwise fell to the ground. Up from the rubble came one of the most creative (and self-sufficient) movements in the history of the United States (if not the world). Concurrently, the music scene introduced the world to punk rock, no wave, new wave, post-punk, avant-garde, and hip hop; while from the art scene arose Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and a plethora of graffiti artists; and the club culture brought us new forms of expression through dance. Most importantly, racism was all but erased during this time – as black, brown and white artists were able to interact with and learn from each other with no tension. Produced, directed and edited by Shan Nicholson, Downtown Calling brilliantly intertwines film footage and still...