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Netflix has announced a new docuseries about Microsoft founder Bill Gates from Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, He Named Me Malala). The three-part series, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates explores the mind and motivations of the tech visionary, business leader and philanthropist. It’s set…

“It's time to fight like your world depends on it.” That’s the tagline for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up to Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim’s Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. And now, if you’ll boot up your PowerPoint, we have the first trailer. It starts with — who else? — Don…

Paramount and Participant Media celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Oscar-winning landmark documentary An Inconvenient Truth last night with a party at SmogShoppe that featured its star, former Vice President Al Gore. The several other notable guests including its director Davis Guggenheim, Norman Lear, Ed Begley…

Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting For 'Superman') gets personal with his latest award-winning documentary, He Named Me Malala, based on the book 'I Am Malala' by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb. The doc tells the story of Malala Yousafzai, a young girl in Pakistan's…

Among the documentaries emerging from the Telluride and Toronto film festivals with the most attention, Davis Guggenheim's He Named Me Malala follows its director's apparent pattern of seeking to shine a fresh light on topics that dominate the headlines. The 18-year-old Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai…

UPDATED, 2:25: Fox Searchlight said today that it will open Davis Guggenheim’s documentary He Named Me Malala on October 2 in select theaters. PREVIOUSLY, March 30: Fox’s specialty arm acquired worldwide rights minus France and other French-speaking territories to He Named Me Malala, according to a statement from Fox…

Just in time for back-to-school, the two-hour special Teach, which looks at the American education system through the eyes of teachers, will premiere at 8 PM September 6 on CBS. Directed by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), the documentary asks the question, “What does it take to be a teacher?&#8221…

The film that Tom Hanks and Davis Guggenheim made for Barack Obama's reelection campaign earlier this year was played at the DNC tonight. Actually it was an edited version of The Road We've Traveled that the delegates in Charlotte saw. Trimmed down from its original 17-minutes to 7-minutes, the wide ranging video that…

Hollywood and Washington come together in director Davis Guggenheim‘s The Road We’ve Traveled, a 17-minute video for President Obama narrated by Tom Hanks. The president’s campaign committee teased the production last week, and posted it on YouTube last night. The theme: Facing a collapsing economy and overseas wars:…

Those who claim Hollywood is an ant’s nest of Democratic and liberal activism are already riled up over Saturday’s debut of HBO’s Sarah Palin pic Game Change. Now they will have more reason to shake a fist at the entertainment community with today’s unveiling of the 2-minute trailer for The Road We’ve Traveled, a new…

Showtime has acquired Davis Guggenheim’s upcoming music documentary From The Sky Down, about the creation of U2’s acclaimed 1991 album Achtung Baby. The docu, which will premiere Thursday at the opening-night gala for the Toronto International Film Festival, will make its Showtime debut Oct. 29 to tie in with the 20th…

CAA has signed Davis Guggenheim, director of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Guggenheim, who is at work on a documentary about U2, last directed Waiting for Superman, winner of the Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Guggenheim, who’d been repped by WME, also previously directed and…