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Tiger Woods is an athlete on the level of Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Babe Ruth, or Kobe Bryant. These are names that just about everyone on the planet knows, even if they’re not fans of sports.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development The Brand, a drama from Kirk Rudell (Human Discoveries), Alex Gibney and his Jigsaw Productions and CBS Studios.

Marta Balaga In his latest documentary “Crazy, Not Insane”—screening at documentary film festival IDFA—Alex Gibney gives the floor to Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a renowned American psychiatrist who has examined numerous serial killers.

“Crazy, Not Insane,” directed by Alex Gibney, which premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m.Based in New Haven, Conn., the 83-year-old has spent her life uncovering what makes a person become a killer. She’s interviewed and studied more than 100 adult and juvenile capital defendants and serial killers on death row, including Ted Bundy.“It’s not a choice.

Near the start of Alex Gibney’s documentary “Crazy, Not Insane,” his subject asks the kind of essential question that feels so unanswerable that it is brought up not nearly as often as it should be. Thinking about the nature of evil and recalling her childhood interest in the Nuremberg Trials, she asks very plainly, “How come I don’t kill?” Everyone gets angry.

"I was running a fever of rage over how badly the [COVID-19] response was being handled by the federal government," says the Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney onThe Hollywood Reporter'sAwards Chatter podcast as we discuss what inspired his latest documentary, Totally Under Control, which he directed with his Jigsaw Productions colleagues Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith only three weeks before a particularly consequential Election Day, political movies — both documentaries and docudramas — are flooding the market in an effort to keep voters engaged and enraged.Most prominent are Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Alex Gibney’s pandemic response expose “Totally Under Control” and Liz Garbus-Lisa Cortés’ “All In: The Fight for Democracy.”But that’s just the tip of the political iceberg of movies taking

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDonald Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis brought all the chaos and contradictions of the pandemic into sharp focus.

There's no doubting why Totally Under Control, a doc about a pandemic whose end is nowhere in sight, would be released —first in drive-ins, then VOD, then on Hulu —in the weeks leading up to the presidential election: Directors Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan believe, as all fact-valuing people do, that the current administration has fared so badly in 2020 that a new one must be brought in to clean up the mess.

Given that it lays out in unsparing terms the extent of a staggering American failure that ranks up there with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, “Totally Under Control” is a surprisingly calm piece of work. A damning account of how the greatest technological, scientific, and military power on the planet laid down and allowed a pandemic to march right over it, the documentary is filled with eyewitnesses to the clown show who still don’t appear able to process what they saw.

As the world continues to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, the first look at a new documentary aimed to examine the government's response to the virus and "uncover the truth" has been released. The first trailer for Alex Gibney's doc, Totally Under Control— a title quoting President's Donald Trump affirmation that everything is "totally under control" with COVID-19 — was released Friday.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger teamed up to film a secret documentary titled, “Totally Under Control”.

A brand new documentary is being released this month and it will take a look at how President Trump handled the coronavirus pandemic.

Absolutely no in the world of documentaries moves as fast as Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. Known for award-winning docs like “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” (his CV is outrageously long) Gibney already unveiled “Agents Of Chaos” this fall, on September 23 on HBO, a timely and revealing look at Russia’s interference into the 2016 election.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticConnecting the seemingly infinite threads of online trolling, Russian subterfuge and the astonishing evolution of American politics has become a favorite past-time of impassioned intellectuals raging against the Trump administration. In trying to pinpoint all the significant factors that led to Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory, some have identified Russia’s interest in American affairs as the key to understanding how we got to where we are today.

Russia's influence over American politics is the subject of a new podcast from Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, Leon Neyfakh's Prologue Projects and Cadence13. Whirlwind, which will look at the 75-year tensions between the U.S.

Alexis Bloom is set to direct animated documentary The Klarsfelds, with Bleecker Street acquiring theU.S. rights.

The day before Ted Bundy's execution, at his request he spoke with psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, an expert witness for his defense, for more than four hours. Of all the professionals he'd dealt with in the three and a half years since his arrest, he felt that she was the one who was interested in the why rather than the how of his murderous deeds.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorOscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney had some choice words about the Trump administration today as he Zoom-ed into the Venice Film Festival to discuss Crazy Not Insane, his out of competition title that’s playing here. It focuses on Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who assesses the sanity of people on death row before they are to be executed and examines what makes someone a serial killer.

Neon has picked up Alex Gibney’s latest documentary, Totally Under Control, about U.S. president Donald Trump's failed response to the global Coronavirus pandemic, for an October theatrical release.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorAs film and TV try their best to get back into production amidst the constraints of a global pandemic, Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has been quietly filming a documentary for the past four months with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger. The project, titled Totally Under Control puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented.

Alex Gibney has a new documentary film called “Totally Under Control” aimed at President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Neon will release the movie this October ahead of the general election, the distributor announced Thursday.Gibney, an Oscar winner for “Taxi to the Dark Side,” has been quietly filming the documentary alongside co-directors Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger for the past four months.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticShowtime will premiere its original documentary Kingdom of Silence about the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2 – the two-year anniversary of Khashoggi’s death.Directed by Emmy-winning Documenting Hate filmmaker Rick Rowley and exec-produced by Alex Gibney in collaboration with Lawrence Wright, Kingdom of Silence examines the relationship between the U.S.

“Let’s put the word ‘collusion’ aside for a moment… and let’s instead use the word ‘seduction.’” – Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University; Author, “The Road to Unfreedom.” This sentiment of seduction is key to “Agents of Chaos” a new two-part documentary from Academy Award winner Alex Gibney. The doc is immediately timely and features revelations confirmed by the recently-released Senate Intelligence Report.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled a rich roster of films by prominent auteurs spanning the globe, such as Mexico’s Michel Franco, France’s Nicole Garcia, Japan’s Kurosawa Kiyoshi, and from the U.S., Oscar-winning veteran Fredrick Wiseman, all set to grace the lineup of the Lido’s watershed 77th edition. The fest is on track with plans to hold a physical event in September, the first major international fest to do so after the coronavirus

HBO documentary series has provoked a backlash in the doc community due to a lack of above-the-line diversity on the project.The “Tiger” series is being co-helmed by Oscar-nominated “City Of Ghosts” and “A Private War” filmmaker Matthew Heineman and the Emmy-nominated Matthew Hamachek.

Bruce Haring, Erik Pedersen Global golfing icon Tiger Wood’s journey through success, scandal, injuries and one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history will be detailed in a two-part documentary series from HBO Sports and executive producer Alex Gibney.Tiger is now in production and anticipated to bow on Dec. 13 and Dec.

Bruce Haring, Erik Pedersen Global golfing icon Tiger Wood’s journey through success, scandal, injuries and one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history will be detailed in a two-part documentary series from HBO Sports and executive producer Alex Gibney.Tiger is now in production and anticipated to bow on Dec. 13 and Dec.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have made a substantial investment and take an ownership stake in Oscar-winning documentary director Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.

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The real estate empire of President Trump's son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner is set to go under the microscope in the second season of Netflix's documentary series Dirty Money.Coming from Oscar-winner Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and due to launch March 11, season 2 of the investigative show will continue to peer into what the streamer describes as the "untold stories of scandal, financial malfeasance and corruption" in the world of business.Among the six episodes, "Slumlord

Julia Reichert, 2020 winner of the Oscar for best documentary (American Factory), Alex Gibney, Lauren Greenfield, Asif Kapadia, Todd Douglas Miller and Nanfu Wang sound off on their transformed business, how to secure skeptical subjects and their attempt to counter the encroaching threat of propaganda.Beginning Sunday, Jan.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Moscow, Monday — Photo: AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Moscow, Monday — Photo: AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev