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EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Jessica Kingdon, who recently earned her first Oscar nomination for Ascension, has signed with Anonymous Content for management. Kingdon directed and produced the Best Documentary contender, which plunges into universal paradoxes of economic progress, as it explores the aspiration that drives…

It's happening. The expected Oscar showdown between Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) and Flee became a reality today with the announcement of the nominees for Best Documentary Feature. Between them, Summer of Soul and Flee have claimed most of the pre-Oscar documentary awards and at…

In just a few days the Winter Olympic Games begin in Beijing, a massive event China will use to present an idealized image of itself to the world. For a truer picture of China, in all its complexities and contradictions, ignore the Olympic pageantry and check out the documentary Ascension. The Oscar-shortlisted film…

EXCLUSIVE: Ascension keeps rising as awards season advances. The documentary directed by Jessica Kingdon earned a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination today as Best Documentary, after snaring a Producers Guild Award nomination last week. Ascension competes in five categories at next month's Cinema Eye Honors…

Notably leading the pack of nominees revealed Monday for the sixth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards are a pair of films from directors making their debut as documentarians. Ascension’s Jessica Kingdon and Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)’s Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson pulled off…

Murina, the Croatian drama directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović that world premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, was named the Best Narrative Feature at the Hamptons Film Festival, which handed out awards Monday for its 2021 edition. Other winners include Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension, which took…

UPDATED with audience award winners. The Tribeca Festival has announced its Audience Award winners: Catch the Fair One for Best Narrative Feature, Blind Ambition for Best Documentary Feature and Ferguson Rises for Best Online Feature. The winners of the narrative and documentary categories will receive a cash prize of…

David Blaine’s live stunt Ascension, in which he flew over the Arizona desert using helium balloons, has shattered a YouTube record. Today’s stunt was the most-watched YouTube Original Live Event to date, according to the video streaming platform, with over 770,000 peak concurrent viewers, besting Dear Class of 2020…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has acquired for mid-six against seven figures Ascension, a Shannon Triplett spec script that is taking shape as a potential film for Matthew Vaughn to direct and produce. It’s a big sci-fi action disaster tentpole that follows a scientist who must save the world after gravity is erased…

When last year Syfy ordered Ascension as its first event series/miniseries in six years, it was with an eye towards continuing the mini as a regular series the way the network did with Battlestar Galactica awhile back. That won’t be the case this time. “We were very happy with Ascension as an event series, but with so…

Launching tonight for the first of a three-night run, Syfy's Ascension projects a world where the Moon landing was just a Sixties sideshow to a secret mission to deep space. Unfortunately, even with high intergalactic stakes, this limited-run event series from showrunner Philip Levens (Smallville) never, as my video…

Tom Lipinski (Suits) has been promoted from a recurring character to series regular for the recently announced second season of Cinemax's period drama The Knick. Lipinski plays Phillip Showalter, a charming and aristocratic young man whose father is a millionaire rubber king, and who is Cornelia’s suitor. Steven…