By Todd Spangler
30.04.2020 - 21:27 / variety.com
By Matt Donnelly
Senior Film Writer
Netflix has acquired a new documentary about the Boeing 737-Max air disasters from noted filmmaker Rory Kennedy.
First developed as a series, the streaming giant will air the project as a feature documentary at a to-be-determined date. The film comes from the prolific Imagine Documentaries, an arm of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, run by Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein.
Kennedy and her producing partner Mark Bailey, an Emmy nominated
By Todd Spangler
Last week, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma set Twitter alight when she responded to Max Hurrell’s hit parody ‘Zol’ which sampled her now-infamous speech where she details why the government has continued with their ban on cigarettes as the country remains in level four lockdown. In the tweet, she posted: “Who is this Max Hurrel fellow? We just need to talk.” The two eventually connected and Zuma’s response may surprise you.
By John Hopewell
Amy Schumer’s whirlwind pregnancy is the focus of an upcoming docuseries for HBO Max.
By Amanda N'Duka
John Stankey, the current leader of WarnerMedia and set to be come CEO of telcom giant AT&T on July 1, on Wednesday laid out a road map for how the telecom and media conglomerate will weather the economic storm caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. "The big question incumbent on all of us is what this climb out of this hole looks like and what kind of dynamics occur in the second half of this year," Stankey told the J.P.
Not all movie stars get along, as was the case for Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy while filming "Mad Max: Fury Road." The two actors were famously embroiled in a feud while on set, with Theron, 44, even speaking about it publicly in 2015, telling Esquire at the time that they "f--kin' went at it" while on set. The film opened in 2015 and centered on Hardy's Max Rockatansky on a mission to rescue a group of female prisoners that included Theron, Zoë Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
By Dave McNary
HBO Max has picked up the 2020 Sundance award winner Charm City Kings from Sony Pictures. The new digital streaming service from WarnerMedia will release the drama under its Warner Max label sometime this year.
MGM has acquired the rights to the Ron Howard-directed Thai cave rescue movie Thirteen Lives. The film tells the true story of the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded, impenetrable cave system in Thailand, which gained international attention.
Va-va-voom! Demi Lovato showed off her figure in a sexy swimsuit in a fun DIY photoshoot and her boyfriend, Max Ehrich, approves.
Rory Cowan has always had a close relationship with his mother, and it was never so clear than in Keys To My Life.
Here's why WarnerMedia wants to capture direct-billed customers for the super-size streaming service
By Mike Fleming Jr
Seth Rogen's An American Pickle is moving across town and across media. HBO Max, the new digital streaming service from WarnerMedia, has acquired worldwide rights to the Rogen-starring comedy from Sony Pictures and will release the movie this summer under its Warner Max label.