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EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films won a very competitive weekend auction among streamers to land the Tom Hanks-starrer Finch, an Amblin Entertainment sci-fi film that previously carried the title Bios and was originally intended to be released by Universal. It will now be released on Apple TV+ later this year, likely in…

The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol underscored the precarious state of American democracy in a time of deep political polarization. But the Emmy-contending Apple Original Film Boys State offers some hope that bridging ideological differences remains a possibility. The documentary directed and produced by Je…

Apple Original Films continues its expansion of its award-winning documentary slate with Number One on the Call Sheet, two documentary features from Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan that will celebrate Black achievement in the film industry, and explore what it takes for Black actors to find success…

Siân Heder’s CODA, which Apple Original Films scooped up at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival in a record $25M global deal, will debut August 13 in theaters and the streaming service. The movie, which Heder wrote and directed, was the first in Sundance history to win all the top prizes including the Special…

The first image from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation’s Blush, has been released. The short film is the first, as part of an expansive multi-year partnership between the two studios. The film follows a stranded horticulturist-astronaut's struggle for survival after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf planet…

Apple Original Films has green lit its Louis Armstrong documentary feature, Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong with Imagine Documentaries producing the documentary. The documentary, which is produced under Apple's first-look agreement with Imagine Documentaries, will be directed by Emmy-nominated…