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UPDATED Amy Berg, the documentarian behind such acclaimed films as Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis and Janis: Little Girl Blue, has absolutely nothing against Chris Pratt, and wants Twitter to know she is not the Amy Berg who inadvertently launched the whole Cancel/Don’t Cancel Chris twitstorm that got so out of…

Dogs has fetched a second season on Netflix. The verite documentary series, developed by Glen Zipper, celebrates the deep emotional bonds between people and their beloved four-legged best friends. The first season premiered November 16 on Netflix. "We are so excited that our pack is back for Season 2 of Dogs! From the…

The Serial podcast that triggered public fascination with the murder case of Adnan Syed—the Baltimore teen convicted in the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee—has been downloaded well over 100 million times. One of those listeners was filmmaker Amy Berg. "I came to the podcast late. I listened to it in the…

The Rideback TV Incubator, the new inclusion-focused writers program launched in February by Dan Lin’s Rideback and MRC, has selected its writers and mentors for the inaugural 2019 session. The incubator, whose core mission is to creatively and financially support writers from different backgrounds as they create…

“The day she went missing was just a normal day to me.” The many years that followed certainly were not. Here is the first full trailer for The Case Against Adnan Syed, HBO’s documentary series that expands on the murder case that captivated millions who heard the 2014 podcast Serial. The four-part program promises…

The Baltimore murder case that launched the true-crime podcast craze will be under scrutiny again, starting March 10, when HBO launches its four-part documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed. The pay cabler is revisiting and updating the nearly two decades old case "get closer to the truth,"  director Amy Berg told TV…

A pair of panels highlighting some of Hollywood’s top female TV showrunners is getting underway soon at Twitter headquarters in Santa Monica, presented and moderated by The Post co-screenwriter Liz Hannah. Deadline will be following along with the live stream of the event, which is scheduled to include the likes of Amy…

Starz’s upcoming drama series Counterpart is making a change in the executive ranks between the first and second 10-episode seasons of its two-season straight-to-series order. Amy Berg (DaVinci’s Demons), who served as an executive producer on Season 1, has departed the series, which just wrapped shooting its first…

Oscar winners Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper launch their awards contender The Danish Girl this holiday weekend, coming on the heels of what has turned into a pretty good November following a slow fall start in September and October. Last weekend's launch of TWC's Carol as well as the successful expansions of Open…

Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue, the Janis Joplin documentary that just screened at the Toronto Film Festival, has landed a rights deal at FilmRise. Berg wrote and directed the docu, which was produced by fellow docu-meister Alex Gibney, that digs into the iconic but troubled rock 'n' roll icon. The pic will now…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip from Amy Berg’s documentary about the tortured and groundbreaking rock singer who died at 27. Janis: Little Girl Blue, screening Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, follows Janis Joplin’s humble beginnings in conservative East Texas through her rise to fame with Big Brother and the Holding…

In a rare move, the producers of An Open Secret, the documentary about child molesters in Hollywood that bombed recently at the box office, are blasting the film's director Amy Berg for not supporting it, saying she turned down "dozens" of requests for press interviews. Berg, who gave interviews to many media outlets…