Showtime, MTV Documentary Films Partner on Alexandra Pelosi’s ‘American Selfie’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi says that the purpose of her latest film was to "take the temperature of how people feel about America today." Judging by the alarming footage on display in American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself —premiering Friday on Showtime — the country is suffering from a high-grade fever.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Synchronicity Films, producer of Jenna Coleman-fronted BBC drama The Cry, is developing a TV adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s 2020 novel Mayflies.Synchronicity has attached Andrea Gibb to pen the limited series after she recently worked on BAFTA-winning BBC drama Elizabeth Is Missing, starring Glenda Jackson.Mayflies is a heart-breaking story about an extraordinary lifelong friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEXCLUSIVE: Michael Smerconish – Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking, a feature-length filmed version of the radio and TV host’s stage performance, has been acquired by Virgil Films.The film will hit VOD on October 30 and on digital HD and DVD on December 8.Smerconish, who has worked for 30 years in talk radio, hosts a daily show on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel.  He is also hosts a Saturday morning program on CNN.The one-man performance captured in the film is both

Disney+ is ready to introduce a new generation of horse girls to. The timeless tale of one horse's unbreakable bond with a special young person gets an update courtesy of director Ashley Avis, who first read 19th century author Anna Sewell's novel when she was a child.«Like so many people, it really impacted me.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films has acquired North American rights to 76 Days, a raw and emotional look at the struggles of the people of Wuhan, China, in the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak. Directed by New York filmmaker Hao Wu (People’s Republic of Desire) and China-based journalists, Weixi Chen and “Anonymous,” 76 DAYS made its world premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.

Ed Meza @edmezavarPortuguese film distributor Midas Filmes has picked up a slew of new acquisitions, including Nanni Moretti’s upcoming “Three Floors,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” and Daniele Luchetti’s “The Ties,” which opened this year’s Venice Film Festival.The Lisbon-based company, which is taking part in this year’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) focus on Portugal in Lyon, France, has also recently picked up Belgian helmer Lucas Belvaux’s “Home Front,” starring Gérard

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsThe celebration of Columbus day has become highly-debated as more people have started to understand the Italian explorer’s unintentional discovery of America as one that exploited and led to the killings of large Native American populations.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The Nicole Kidman horror classic is getting a makeover. Sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures and Sentient Entertainment have partnered on the remake of Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others and are in development on a film.In a competitive situation, Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the film from Sentient.

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Christopher Vourlias Chile’s Oscar-winning Fabula Films (“A Fantastic Woman”), the company co-founded by producer Juan de Dios Larraín and director-producer Pablo Larraín (“Jackie,” “No”), is producing “The Sorcerers,” which will be presented this week during the Rome-set film and TV market Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA).

The Doc N Roll music documentary festival will return for its seventh edition next month, with screenings taking place in cinemas and online.The festival will officially open on 4 Nov at the BFI Southbank in London, with a screening of ‘Don’t Let The Devil Take Another Day’, looking at the career of Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones.

While it may seem a bit crazy to already have a film that documents the craziness of 2020, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi has crafted it, and “American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself” not only aims to show just how batshit bonkers this year has been for the United States but frames it around the use of our smartphones.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSid Gentle Films, the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning producers behind “Killing Eve” and “The Durrells,” headed by Sally Woodward Gentle (pictured below), has acquired the rights to develop Cash Carraway’s “Skint Estate” for TV, and has lined up a lead writer for previously announced “Taking Up Space.” Both projects are in formal development with British broadcasters.“Skint Estate” is a darkly funny, searingly political, debut memoir from Carraway,

'My daughter's traumatised': Mum speaks out as danger driver sentencedIn response to last week’s changes, Jodie drew up an emergency timetable to make sure parents get the classes they paid up for.The Rhu mum says it has been “an incredible year” after losing two-year-old daughter Eliza to sepsis in December and having to cling on to her business while Covid hit the country. Jodie told the Lennox Herald : “We were closed for six months trying to keep things ticking over.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Julio Vincent Gambuto’s coming-of-age comedy Team Marco.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsEXCLUSIVE: Quibi announced new series Thursday that seeks to shine a light on influential Black women who have impacted American style, beauty and culture. Black Equals Beauty is the video platform’s latest title and comes from producers Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Holly Carter and Cassian Elwes.

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.