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EXCLUSIVE: I hear that Oscar-winning Free Solo filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi have become attached to direct Universal and Cavalry Media’s feature film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand.  Wes Tooke, the Midway screenwriter and scribe of USA Network’s Colony, is currently writing the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Spanish- and English-language film and TV studio Exile has launched a creative advisory board, with Originals author Adam Grant serving as the chair. The board members include Diego Luna (Narcos, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle, Coco), Oscar-winning Free Solo…

Free Solo's path to likely Emmy nominations has been paved with gold—the Oscar kind. The film about mountain climber Alex Honnold's breathtaking ascent of Yosemite's El Capitan—without ropes—won the Academy Award in February for Best Documentary Feature. It's now on Emmy nomination ballots in multiple nonfiction…

As part of the Nat Geo presentation at Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders Emmys, the filmmakers from the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning documentary Free Solo joined me to discuss the remarkable human feat of free solo mountain climber Alex Honnold, and how they managed to capture it all on film. Joining me in front of…

Anyone who followed free climber (that is, no ropes) Alex Honnold’s historic scaling of El Capitan in Nat Geo’s movie Free Solo breathed a huge sigh of relief when he finally made it to the top. While celebrating Honnold’s triumph, the team that captured the event on camera admitted at today’s Deadline’s The …

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from directing the hair-raising Free Solo and winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin are in early talks with Netflix to helm an untitled movie based on the Jonas Bonnier book The Helicopter Heist, a drama that will star Jake Gyllenhaal. He’ll produce it…

Climber Alex Honnold's feat—ascending the 3,000-foot rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes—is one of those spectacular human achievements that almost defy belief. But photographic evidence exists proving it really happened, in the form of the documentary Free Solo, one of the biggest nonfiction hits of this…

A singer-songwriter from Louisiana who has won three Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 CMA awards and 10 American Music Awards, Tim McGraw is one of country music's guiding lights—a multifaceted talent that is making a bid for Oscar this year with his original song, "Gravity." Co-written with Lori…

A photographer and professional climber of some of the most challenging peaks in the world, Jimmy Chin decided to share one of his passion projects with the world with Meru. The documentary began picking up awards traction at last January’s Sundance Film Festival and to date counts a Film Independent Spirit nomination…