BBC’s ‘Storyville’ Picks Up National Enquirer Doc from AGC International

When it comes to festival documentary sales, Submarine’s success is unrivaled. Led by co-president Josh Braun, the company represented the last six doc Grand Jury winners at Sundance, including this year’sBoys State, a film that sold to Apple for a record-breaking $12 million.

New Yorker Documentary” series. The festival features renowned filmmakers will open with Crystal Kayiza’s “See You Next Time,” which examines the relationships between nail artists and their clients.Here are the other artists’ works to be featured weekly through the summer:Klayman’s ‘Flower Punk’ explores the process behind Japanese artist Azuma Makoto’s works, which use flowers and plants to make emotional arrangements.

NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: “I’ve got a feeling,” goes The Pogues’ classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ song, “this year’s for me and you.”It might well be a good year indeed for the former frontman of the Celtic punk band as Magnolia Pictures have picked up the North American rights to the Johnny Depp produced documentary Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan.First put out to market at EFM earlier this year, the Julien Temple directed look at the hard-living

I live a few blocks from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. It’s the epicenter of the epicenter of the pandemic in America. Refrigerator trucks are outside. Testing lines snake around the block. Ambulance sirens persistently fill the air. My home sits directly under the biggest bubble in The New York Times info-map of infection rates. The news reported that when Trump saw pictures of Elmhurst Hospital’s emergency room, he changed his tune and thought, “Maybe there is a public health problem.”

Showtime Documentary Films on Monday unveiled plans for the feature documentary Attica, about the 1971 prison rebellion in upstate New York, by director Stanley Nelson (The Murder of Emmett Till). The movie will debut on Showtime in 2021, the 50th anniversary of the five-day confrontation between prisoners and guards called a riot by some and a rebellion by others.

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NEW YORK -- Just two days before it was to begin streaming, “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme," a documentary about the hip-hop improv group with Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends, has postponed its release out of solidarity with protesters.

Fox News host Sean Hannity and his wife of more than 20 years, Jill Rhodes, have split, according to a new report. 

Jay-Z has taken out a full page ad dedicated to memory that—per —will be featured in newspapers across the country including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Enquirer.

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NEW YORK -- A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her when she was 17 is among four plaintiffs in a new lawsuit against the imprisoned movie mogul, the latest court action accusing him of decades of vile sexual behavior.

MTV is currently working with numerous government and health agencies in hopes of mounting its annual Video Music Awards live from New York this August, Variety can report exclusively.

Spike Lee is on the verge of releasing his latest feature, the highly-anticipated Netflix film, “Da 5 Bloods.” But just because Netflix is footing the bill for his new feature, which takes place both in the modern-day and five decades in the past, don’t go thinking that Lee got the same budget that other awards-worthy films from the streaming company have received over the years.

There’s an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.