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 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…