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PBS’ Frontline has acquired a 9/11 documentary from Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed after the film was originally commissioned by UK broadcaster Channel 4. In the Shadow of 9/11 tells the story of the so-called ‘Liberty City Seven’ — a group of young Black men accused of assisting Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up…

EXCLUSIVE: Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed is embroiled in a legal wrangle with Michael Jackson’s legacy companies as he attempts to shoot a sequel to his explosive, Emmy-winning Channel 4/HBO documentary. Deadline can reveal that Reed has been filming in the Los Angeles Superior Court as Wade Robson and James…

EXCLUSIVE: Two of the UK’s best-known documentary makers, Dan Reed and Nick Broomfield, are locked in an increasingly ugly dispute with the collapsed Kew Media Group over the international rights to their biggest films. Kew Media Group’s sales house, Kew Media Distribution, represented Reed’s Leaving Neverland — HBO…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed is to explore Silicon Valley in a four-part series for HBO and the BBC. The WarnerMedia-owned premium network and the British public broadcaster have commissioned The Tech Transformers (w/t) from Reed. It will look at the key, pivotal moments for the tech sector including the likes…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed has teamed up again with HBO and the BBC on his latest documentary – antibiotic film Superbug. This comes as the controversy surrounding his Michael Jackson doc rumbles on with a federal judge shifting a legal case back to arbitration earlier this month. Superbug, which is produced…

Acclaimed HBO documentary Leaving Neverland took home the gold for best documentary or nonfiction special at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, and director and producer Dan Reed was quick to give credit to the brave young men who came forward and spoke out so candidly about the sexual abuses they had…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed had some choice words for Dave Chappelle this evening on the red carpet at the Creative Arts Emmys. Reed was responding to Chappelle’s scathing comments about the film in his latest Netflix special, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones. "I don't think Dave Chappelle was very funny or…

Three French Michael Jackson fan clubs are suing the two men featured in HBO/Channel 4 doc Leaving Neverland. The Michael Jackson Community, the MJ Street and On The Line have filed a lawsuit accusing Wade Robson and James Safechuck of "sullying" the reputation of the Bad singer. A court hearing was held in Orleans…

Death threats from Michael Jackson fans and litigation by Jackson's estate have not convinced director Dan Reed to back down from his controversial HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which depicts the late entertainer as a serial pedophile. "It certainly hasn't cowed either me or HBO," Reed declares. "I stand by every…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed had a straightforward answer today when the CBS This Morning anchors challenged him for not including Michael Jackson’s family in the controversial documentary: The family wasn’t in the room when Jackson’s alleged sexual abuse of two boys took place. “No one else was in the room, I…

The cold-battling protesters were few, but the police were out in force at the Sundance Film Festival's debut of the controversial Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland today. More than a dozen kitted-out members of the Park City Police were stationed in front of the Egyptian Theatre on the ski town's Main…