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Janet Jackson is reportedly not trying to be part of the New York Times documentary about her 2004 Super Bowl halftime show performance.

New York Times documentary, , viewers were given a clear picture of Jackson's historic career leading up to one of the biggest controversies in music history—and the absolute devastation that followed the artist afterward.

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's infamous Super Bowl Halftime Show scandal that took place in 2004 has been reexamined once again in a new docuseries that proves there are still many questions brewing about what went wrong.

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The 2004 Super Bowl halftime show has become infamous for the moment that Justin Timberlake ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson’s costume to expose her bare breast for a fraction of a second, an incident that coined the term “wardrobe malfunction” and set back Jackson’s career for years.

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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Ilinca Calugareanu’s documentary A Cops and Robbers Story, with plans for a day-and-date release January 14.

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Paul Riccio’s dramedy Give or Take, toplined by Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline), Joanne Tucker (American Rust, The Report) and Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live), with plans to release it in theaters in multiple markets in February.

Richard Lewis’ Southpaw Entertainment has acquired the rights to Instagram personality and podcast creator Jedidiah Jenkins’s New York Times best-selling memoir To Shake The Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia. The book will get a feature film adaptation with the script written by Lewis and Steph Lady. Southpaw’s Gabrielle Jerou-Tabak will co-produce and oversee development and production.

Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson, a documentary looking into Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl, will be available to stream later this month. The FX and Hulu doc is the latest in the New York Times Presents...

Following the success of “Framing Britney Spears,” the team behind The New York Times Presents series is taking on Janet Jackson’s story.

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Janet Jackson’s infamous incident at the 2004 Super Bowl (Super Bowl XXXVIII), when Justin Timberlake exposed her breast during their halftime performance, has been set for release in a couple of weeks.Titled Malfunction: The Dressing Down Of Janet Jackson, the new film will air on FX at 10pm EST on Friday November 19, streaming on Hulu concurrently.It marks the latest in a series of documentaries produced by The New York Times, following last month’s Controlling Britney Spears.

In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman’s breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued.