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EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures have acquired worldwide rights excluding Canada to the Sundance breakout Some Kind of Heaven. The documentary marks the documentary feature debut of Lance Oppenheim and puts a Floridian sun-kissed spotlight on the surreal world of The Villages, the nation's largest retirement community. Som…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with 10 bidders, Searchlight Television, along with Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures, have won the television rights to David Gauvey Herbert’s New York Magazine article “Boss of The Beach” for series development. Search is underway for a writer to pen the adaptation…

Stephen King’s latest bestselling four novella collection If It Bleeds has quickly garnered three option deals, with a fourth in the offing because it involves a preexisting character who just starred in an HBO series adaptation. For those who know that King extends options for $1, that's an extra $4 in the prolific…

EXCLUSIVE: This month marks two years since the sudden tragic death of Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, a two-time Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner noted for his work on Sicario, The Theory Of Everything and Arrival. To mark it, I invited some of his closest collaborators to share memories of the man and his…

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Aronofsky-produced Brazilian drama Pacified tonight won the Golden Shell top prize at Spain’s prestigious San Sebastian Film Festival. We spoke to the Black Swan and mother! director about how he came to the project, which is his company Protozoa Pictures’ first foreign-language film, and what’s next…

Darren Aronofsky-produced Brazilian drama Pacified (Pacificado) has won the Golden Shell top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The movie also won best actor for Bukassa Kabengele and best DoP for Laura Merians. Crowned this evening at the Spanish festival, Portuguese-language pic Pacified charts the…

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has added Darren Aronofsky, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dee Rees, and Martin Scorsese as guest speakers for the 50th Anniversary Gala on Monday, April 29, 2019 in Alice Tully Hall. They will join previously announced Pedro Almodóvar, Marielle Heller, Tilda Swinton, and John Waters, who will…

Darren Aronofsky’s three-part virtual reality series Spheres will make its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, which also will mark the debut of the final chapter of the series, narrated by actress Millie Bobby Brown. Brown, who received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role as Eleven on the…

National Geographic has ordered a second season of One Strange Rock, the ambitious docuseries from Darren Aronofsky and Jane Root that launched worldwide earlier this year. Principal photography on Season 2 will begin in February. Nat Geo Networks CEO Courteney Monroe confirmed the news today during the network’s…

Darren Aronofsky, best known as the director of films such as Mother! and Requiem For a Dream, said Nat Geo's One Strange Rock docuseries gave him a chance to put together a portrait of the world. The 10-part series, narrated by Will Smith and produced by Jane Root's Nutopia, is the story of Earth and our…

One Strange Rock may qualify as one of the most ambitious documentary series ever brought to television. Its purpose, after all, is to tell nothing less than "the story of Earth." "It's not a show just about animals. It's not a show just about people," executive producer Darren Aronofsky tells Deadline. "It's a show…

American singer/songwriter Patti Smith narrated an episode of Darren Aronofsky’s virtual reality experience Spheres. The three-part series, which is directed by Eliza McNitt, made headlines earlier this year when the VR financing and distribution venture CityLights announced it would acquire Spheres in a seven-figure…