Freeform is adding three unscripted series to its slate, including two that originated at Hulu.
12.09.2023 - 16:27 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment is maintaining a brisk pace of acquisitions. A day after picking up North American rights to the TIFF premiere documentary Sorry/Not Sorry, the independent distributor announced it has partnered with Kanopy to acquire U.S. and Canadian rights to the feature doc Subject.
Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall produced and directed the film, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Greenwich plans to open the film in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 3, while Kanopy will host a pre-theatrical screening and Q&A with the filmmakers online through public and college libraries. TVOD/DVD, college and public library streaming kicks off December on 5.
“Subject goes behind the scenes of such famous nonfiction stories as Hoop Dreams, Capturing the Friedmans, The Wolfpack, The Square and The Staircase to explore the often murky ethical dilemmas and complex relationships that can exist between documentary filmmakers and their real-life participants,” notes a release about the film. “In addition to the ‘stars’ of their own stories [like Arthur Agee of Hoop Dreams and Jesse Friedman of Capturing the Friedmans], Subject brings together prominent doc world directors, producers and festival programmers to speak to the fine line between documentation and exploitation.”
The Wolfpack, one of the films explored in Subject, won the top prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It examined the lives of Susanne Reisenbichler and her seven children, who had been kept virtually prisoner for years in a New York apartment by Susanne’s husband, Oscar Angulo, father of the kids.
“We had been through a horrific, horrific abusive situation for years and years and years,”
Freeform is adding three unscripted series to its slate, including two that originated at Hulu.
Ariana Madix, with fellow cast member Raquel Leviss. The ensuing scandal launched endless headlines, and boosted the show’s ratings. Rapaport is also apparently a fan of many of the “Real Housewives” who have found themselves on the other side of the law – since Shannon Beador and Teresa Giudice have both gotten arrested (and Giudice even went to prison).
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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — In a first big deal to be announced during this year’s San Sebastian Festival, Madrid-based The Mediapro Studio, one of Europe’s biggest independent and international creation-production-distribution powerhouses, has acquired Cimarrón, the Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico-based production house and services company. Of “highly significant value,” TMS said Friday, the deal looks set to consolidate TMS’ presence in Latin America and beyond.
Take That have shared their first new single in five years, ‘Windows’, and announced details of their ninth album and a huge UK and Ireland tour. See all the details below.The group – comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen – premiered the song on BBC Radio 2 this morning (September 22) where they told host Zoe Ball about their next chapter.“New music, it is exciting,” Barlow said.
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EXCLUSIVE: André Holland (Passing), Kate Mara (Black Mirror), Zazie Beetz (The Harder They Fall) and Stephen McKinley Henderson (Beau Is Afraid) are set to star in The Dutchman, a psychological thriller based on the Obie Award-winning play by Amiri Baraka that has landed a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement.
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control. In late July, it was quite the opposite when the 30-year-old world-renowned singer went through a life-changing experience that left her very much out of control.
EXCLUSIVE: In one of the first acquisition deals at Toronto, Greenwich Entertainment today announced it has picked up Sorry/Not Sorry, the documentary about the Louis C.K. sexual misconduct scandal and its aftermath, hours after the film’s TIFF world premiere.
Love Island fans across the world were left baffled earlier this year when it was announced that 2019 contestant Chris Taylor had bagged a role in this year's global blockbuster hit, Barbie, alongside A-list stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. And in yet another unexpected plot twist, rumours are already swirling that ex-islander Maura Higgins has herself managed to land a major movie role of her own! Love Island 2019 star - who also happens to be the ex-girlfriend of Hollywood newcomer Chris - is understood to have already started work in Belfast on a brand new movie titled, The Spin.
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