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…

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…

Darren Aronofsky signed on to the docu-series One Strange Rock to give viewers a glimpse of planet Earth like they've never seen before. The 10-part National Geographic series, which is produced by Aronofsky and hosted by Will Smith, explores the fragility of Earth and how everyone on the planet has something in…

Director Darren Aronofsky talked about the “very extreme” reactions to his latest film, Mother!, which the New Yorker described as the cinematic version of an equine root canal. After delivering the 10 Commandments of Independent Filmmaking at a capacity-crowd at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Aronofsky was asked to address…

EXCLUSIVE: The deepest darkest corners of the universe are unveiled in the new trailer for Eliza McNitt’s Spheres: Songs of Spacetime, the first installment of three in an episodic series will be released on the Oculus Rift in 2018. Making its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier category, Songs o…

National Geographic Channel’s new ten-part docuseries One Strange Rock not only has the backing of a group of the world’s most notable astronauts, but also the star power of Darren Aronofsky behind it as one of its EPs . “It is a very different show than you’ve seen before,” Aronofsky said at TCA on Saturday. “What…

When Jennifer Lawrence came onto the DGA Theater stage as part of Paramount’s presentation at last month’s 7th annual Deadline’s The Contenders event she described her film mother! as simply “an assault, but a necessary one.” In front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild voters, the Oscar-winning star explained…

While Sundance has always been known for edgy films, that adjective becomes an understatement with the film festival’s 12th annual New Frontier program, a mindblowing crossroads between art and technology that continues to redefine the parameters of storytelling. Last year’s projects, such as Melting Ice with former…

Oscar-nominated actor Will Smith said today that he will host the upcoming National Geographic series One Strange Rock from mother! filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and award-winning producer Jane Root. Smith took to Facebook to make the announcement with a teaser video (watch it below). In the 10-part global event series, …