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UPDATED, 8:22 a.m.: Neon and Universal Pictures Content Group today announced that Brett Morgen’s David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream will hit theaters globally on September 16 outside of Japan, where it unspools in March of 2023. Neon will distribute the film in the U.S., with UPCG handling international. The first…

David Bowie unquestionably became a great rock star—the greatest ever, according to a tribute published by Rolling Stone after his death in 2016. Yet, it comes closer to the truth to call Bowie a "rock star," the quotation marks suggesting that what Bowie created was a persona of the rock god, in much the same way…

Neon and Universal Pictures Content Group today unveiled the first teaser trailer for Oscar nominee Brett Morgen’s film Moonage Daydream—the first-ever David Bowie doc sanctioned by his estate, which premieres in the Midnight Screenings section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival today. The film made over the course of…

In an interview at Deadline’s Cannes Studio on Monday, filmmaker Brett Morgen revealed he not only had a heart attack during the making of his Bowie biopic Moonage Daydream, but flatlined for two minutes and went into a coma. “I was my own editor on this film, I was my own producer on this film, I felt very alone and…

Neon rocked CinemaCon with lots of David Bowie in never before seen clips from Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream. The pic, debuting next month at Cannes in the Midnight Screening series, follows the iconic musician with concert footage and 48 of his musical tracks, mixed from their original stems. The movie took five…

Refresh for updates The late Robert Evans, one of Hollywood’s most important producers and studio executives of the last half century, who shepherded to the screen such cinematic treasures of the 1960s and ’70 as Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Godfather, and The Godfather II, among many others, was remembered today…

Of the seven Emmy nominations for Brett Morgen's National Geographic documentary Jane—depicting the life and work of pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall—one makes the director particularly proud. Competing for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and Nonfiction Directing, with well-deserved nominations in…

National Geographic’s extraordinary Jane has one of the most popular documentaries released in the past year, though inexplicably after cleaning up on the movie-awards season circuit it did not make Oscar’s cut for Best Documentary —  a real head-scratcher. Now, however, the Television Academy has made up for that…

Brett Morgen qualifies as one of the most successful directors in documentary film, with credits that range from Cobain: Montage of Heck to The Kid Stays in the Picture, and a raft of awards to his name. But, surprisingly, his long list of honors doesn't include a Primetime Emmy. "I have a terrible track record at the…

Taking on Jane, an archival documentary on the life and scientific contributions of Jane Goodall, Brett Morgen's aim was to recreate the primatologist' formative experiences as she had lived them. Presented with 150 hours of digitized footage—shot in 1960s Gombe by wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick, who at one…

Brett Morgen's award-winning body of work includes documentaries on The Rolling Stones, Kurt Cobain and dashing movie producer Robert Evans. It may come as a surprise, then, to see him focus his latest film on Jane Goodall, a woman not identified with Hollywood glamour or ear-blasting rock n' roll. In fact her…

EXCLUSIVE:  One of the highlights of the recent Toronto Film Festival (and sure to be at the upcoming New York Film Festival) was the premiere of the extraordinary National Geographic documentary Jane which is based on 100 hours of recently discovered 16MM film footage of Jane Goodall’s first foray into the world of…