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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed filmmaker R.J. Cutler and his production company This Machine, fresh off the announcement of Cutler’s upcoming documentary on Elton John.

Addie Morfoot Contributor If you expect the Netflix docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” to be the ultimate takedown of controversial e-cigarettes, think again.The four-part series, directed by R.J. Cutler and based on Time reporter Jamie Ducharme’s book “Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul,” examines all the mistakes Juul executives made, including marketing the e-cigarette to millennials.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has entered a significant content deal with Major League Baseball, Variety can report exclusively. The partnership will yield multiple scripted and unscripted projects, the first of which is a documentary feature from noted filmmaker R.J. Cutler (“The September Issue,” “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”) following baseball’s 2023 world series. “I’ve always been drawn to the drama, high stakes, and emotion of baseball ever since I was kid in the bleachers of Dodger Stadium,” Oscar winner Howard told Variety. “These also happen to be the very same elements that make for a great movie or television show, which is why Brian, Imagine, and I are so excited to be teaming up with Major League Baseball to bring more of their stories to life.”

Jack Roland Murphy just about had it all: Kennedy-esque good looks, charm to burn, athletic talent and even a musical gift. Still, he wanted more.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ have won the rights to a big feature documentary package, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances And the Years That Made His Legend. No one would comment, but we hear the docu, from Academy Award-nominee R.J. Cutler as well as filmmaker (and longtime Elton John partner) David Furnish, sold for about $30 million.

Addie Morfoot ContributorThis Machine, the production company founded by veteran documentary director and producer R.J. Cutler, has bolstered its development and production team with four new hires.Cutler, the Emmy Award-winning director behind docus including “The September Issue,” “Belushi” and most recently with “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” launched This Machine in 2020 with an investment from Los Angeles-based Industrial Media.Cutler has named Sally Rosen Phillips as vice president, creative; Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen as director, creative; Jim Czarnecki, senior vice president, production, and Ian Egos, vice president.

Apple TV Plus has revealed the first look for it’s upcoming spy thriller series “Slow Horses,” premiering on the platform April 1.Based on the popular CWA Gold-Dagger award-winning novels by Mick Herron, “Slow Horses” stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, a British intelligence officer who leads “Slough House,” an MI5 team composed of agents who made career-ending mistakes. The ensemble cast is rounded out by Jonathan Pryce, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden and Olivia Cooke.“Slow Horses” is adapted for television by “Veep” writer Will Smith, who executive produces alongside Graham Yost, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gail Mutrux, Douglas Urbanski and James Hawes.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary editor Lindsay Utz is turning her attention to directing.

Christopher Vourlias Before Netflix had grown into a world-conquering streaming giant, “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” director R.J. Cutler would routinely bump into the company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos on the film festival circuit.

Emmy-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler will be presented with the Pennebaker Award at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, honoring lifetime achievement, the Critics Choice Association announced Thursday.

Unless you’ve been living under a proverbial rock, you’re probably well aware of the name Billie Eilish. The young singer has become one of the biggest names in the music industry and has a legion of devoted fans around the world.

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is not even out of her teens and she has already won awards in the Grammys’ top four categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.

The life and career of Martha Stewart is coming to Netflix.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNetflix has emerged the winner of a bake-off for a documentary about the life and times of media mogul Martha Stewart.Oscar-nominated director R.J. Cutler had been shopping a sizzle reel of the all-access look at the history of America’s preeminent hostess in recent weeks.

Viola Davis, Selena Gomez and Jane Fonda are among the stars set to be profiled in season two of Apple TV+’s Dear… after the docuseries was renewed.

 gives fans an inside look at a year in the life of the young pop star, as she ascended from viral sensation to bona fide global superstar.«It's quite a ride, that year,» director R.J. Cutler told ET's Katie Krause, sharing how he and a minimalist crew embedded themselves with Eilish and her family for over 140 days over the course of about one year — and ended up tracking her through the release of her massively successful debut album, , all the way to GRAMMY night, where the album netted

Billie Eilish‘s new movie Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry is now streaming on Apple TV+ and she hosted a premiere event to celebrate the release.

 gives fans an inside look at a year in the life of the young pop star, as she ascended from viral sensation to bona fide global superstar.«It's quite a ride, that year,» director R.J. Cutler told ET, sharing how he and a minimalist crew embedded themselves with Eilish and her family for over 140 days over the course of about one year — and ended up tracking her through the release of her massively successful debut album, , all the way to GRAMMY night, where the album netted Eilish a sweep of

Fans of Billie Eilish will get to know the “Bad Guy” singer like never before when the new Apple TV+ documentary “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry” debuts on Friday.

gives fans an inside look at a year in the life of the young pop star, as she ascended from viral sensation to bona fide global superstar.«It's quite a ride, that year,» director R.J. Cutler shared with ET, explaining how he and a minimalist crew embedded themselves with Billie and her family for over 140 days over the course of about one year — and ended up tracking her through the release of her massively successful debut album,, all the way to GRAMMY night, where the album netted Eilish a

If you're coming to “ Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry ” hoping for a primer on the music sensation, you’ve come to the wrong place. Filmmaker R.J.

Billie Eilish is taking fans inside her home and family life in an emotional new documentary, The Apple TV+ documentary drops on Friday, Feb. 26, chronicling the young GRAMMY winner's meteoric rise to fame and the unique connection she has with her devoted legion of fans.From recording her debut album,  in her childhood bedroom with her producer and older brother, Finneas, to her struggles with the whirlwind of superstardom, director R.

Billie Eilish‘s documentary, The World’s A Little Blurry, is nearly here!

Bluto, the volcanic Samurai Futaba, “Joliet” Jake Blues, the Cheeseburger Man, a spasmodic Joe Cocker—the list of characters John Belushi brought to life in his all-too-brief but remarkable career only hints at his outsized role in American comedy.

Director R.J. Cutler was in the early stages of working on his Showtime documentary Belushi, about the late comedian John Belushi, when he experienced a breakthrough. It came courtesy of Judy Belushi-Pisano, John’s widow, who kept an archive of material at her home on Martha’s Vineyard.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA new trailer has dropped for “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry,” a new documentary about the “Bad Guy” singer and songwriter, which will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV Plus in February 2021.The film is directed by award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler, who previously turned his camera on the worlds of high fashion (“The September Issue”) and politics (“The War Room”).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaR.J. Cutler’s “Belushi” charts the rise and fall of “Animal House” star John Belushi without dwelling on the particulars of his tragic death of a drug overdose at 33.“Drugs and his overdose have become the thing that many people focus on in John’s story, but that’s not what I was interested in,” said Cutler.

Billie Eilish has been given the documentary treatment for a new feature-length film set to hit theaters in February (2021).Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry was directed by The September Issue filmmaker R.J. Cutler and chronicles the 18-year-old’s meteoric rise to fame and the huge success of her Grammy-winning debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.The singer shared a 30-second teaser for the project, which will also be streamed online, on social media on Monday

many aspects of her private life, announced the premiere date for her forthcoming AppleTV+ documentary feature film, “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.”Directed by R.J.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry,” a new documentary about the “Bad Guy” singer and songwriter, will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV Plus in February 2021.The film is directed by award-winning filmmaker R.J.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorApple and Billie Eilish today announced that the highly anticipated documentary feature film, “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry,” directed by award-winning filmmaker R.J.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Imagine Documentaries and Emmy-winning director/producer R.J. Cutler have teamed up on a new true crime four-part docu series that pulls back the curtain on New York’s most infamous jewel thief, Jack Roland Murphy.Cutler is writing it and will direct.

The trailer has arrived for the upcoming Apple TV+ series Dear.. which will arrive on their screens from the beginning of June. The docu-series consists of 30-minute episodes profiling game-changing icons and the people whose lives they’ve inspired.

By Denise Petski

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Apple TV Plus and Emmy and Peabody Award-winner R.J. Cutler (“Untitled Billie Eilish Documentary”) have partnered on a docuseries entitled “Dear…”