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Men are three times more likely to direct UK documentaries than women, according to damning research from the We Are Doc Women collective who urged quotas to address the situation. Today’s Factual Television Survey Report, which surveyed 700 people last November, found almost three-quarters (73%) of directors/series…

A Tiger King sequel is coming to Netflix this year as part of a new true-crime lineup of documentaries to be released. It's not exactly clear what the focus will be for the new season of Tiger King, but Deadline understands that the filmmakers met with and spoke to Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage né…

There are multiple ceremonies planned for Saturday, September 11, to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But before then, all the major networks and streamers are rolling out programming to commemorate the lives lost and provide perspective on one of the darkest days in U.S. history. For an…

For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville's flip response to The New Yorker's query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain's lines in the film Roadrunner. "If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably…

Just because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been quiet about its inner workings—a museum fund-raising announcement here, an Oscar press release there—doesn't mean it's been quiet inside. Every once in a while, rumblings from the Wilshire Blvd. headquarters are loud enough to be heard out…

While an all-male list of director contenders and a mostly white actors roster caught the eye of the diversity-conscious on Oscar nominations day, another blip signaled deep change within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That is, four out of five documentary feature nominees—The Cave, The Edge Of Democr…

At first blush, I thought that John Ford moment in Roland Emmerich's Midway was surely over-the-top, a parody, like the semi-silly Bruce Lee bit in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But why interrupt a deadly serious war film with what seemed to be a comic walk-on by a famous movie director, shouting…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly isn't short on documentarians. Atop its existing 400 or so documentary branch members, the Academy in July invited almost 100 additional doc-makers to join. Despite some internal concern that a few invitees might need help with the dues, now $450 a year, it…

EXCLUSIVE: The singular career and the sprawling pursuits of Todd McFarlane are the subject of McFarlane: A Documentary, a new Syfy Wire production that will air on Syfy channel and via online platforms by year’s end. The trailer (above) is available today here exclusively at Deadline. McFarlane, one of the special…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to the Sundance documentary Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins, an ode to the firebrand journalist whose blistering political wit made her an outsized legend in the Lone Star State. Magnolia is eyeing a theatrical release by year’s end for the…

Armstrong, an evocative new documentary that features previously unseen home-movie footage Neil Armstrong’s family, Is set to launch in theaters and through on-demand platforms on July 12th, eight days before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. When Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong stepped off…

Emmy-winning documentary specialists Alex Gibney and Blair Foster say their A&E series The Clinton Affair delved into a political scandal that seems just as timely and topical on ts 20-year anniversary as it did in real time in 1998. Moreover, the #metoo movement is an essential context for revisiting the scandal and…