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Taking a break from his latest world tour, Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds came to Deadline’s Sundance Studio yesterday with director Don Argott to discuss their powerful and personal documentary project, Believer.  In the film, to be released by HBO, the Mormon Reynolds takes on a new mission to explore how the…

EXCLUSIVE: In the first deal for a film premiering at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. TV rights to Believer, a Don Argott-directed documentary that follows Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds as he investigates how the Mormon Church treats its LGBTQ members and how policies…

Reza Aslan was in the midst of packing to shoot Season 2 of his hit show Believer, when suddenly, CNN pulled the plug on the whole thing. The show was over and Aslan was fired. The reason? Aslan had tweeted that President Trump was "a piece of s**t". The tweet came after Trump had reiterated his desire for a Muslim…

UPDATED with Aslan statement: Cable news network CNN says it will not move forward on another season of the Believer docu-series, days after host Reza Aslan’s incendiary tweet about President Donald Trump. “CNN has decided to not move forward with production on the acquired series Believer with Reza Aslan. We wish…