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EXCLUSIVE: Billy McFarland, the founder of the notorious Fyre Festival, is out of prison and starting his latest venture – returning to the Bahamas for a treasure hunt. This time, it's all being captured up front for a feature documentary from The Invisible Pilot producer Ample Entertainment and…

UPDATE: The promoter behind the crash-and-burn Fyre Festival has been released from prison after serving less than four years for his role in the 2017 Caribbean concert disaster. Billy McFarand, 30, was released on March 30 and transferred to community confinement. He is  expected to remain there through August, TMZ r…

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A pair of documentaries in the Emmy race reveal how the notorious Fyre Festival went from a "you don't want to miss it" music event to a "get me out of here" catastrophe in the Caribbean. Hulu's Fyre Fraud earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program. The Netflix documentary Fyre: The Grea…

EXCLUSIVE: Beau Flynn's New Line/Warner Bros-based FlynnPictureCo. has optioned the Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair article “Fyre Festival: Anatomy of a Millennial Marketing Disaster Waiting to Happen.” It will be used as the basis for a narrative feature film that Emily Jerome (penned the Black List script Panopticon)…

"We have a lot of different customers with a lot of different needs, so we're looking to service all of those needs," says Hulu's SVP, Originals Craig Erwich of what the Oscar-nominated streamer is looking for at the Sundance Film Festival this year. In a week that saw Hulu garner its first ever nom from the Academy…

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In a digital-age twist on the Hollywood phenomenon of competing movie projects (think Armageddon vs. Deep Impact or, more recently, Jungle Book vs. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle), Hulu has leapfrogged Netflix with its take on the infamous Fyre Festival. Hulu announced its project about the music fest’s epic 2017…

Netflix said Monday it has acquired Chris Smith’s Fyre, a documentary about the uber-fail 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas that spawned lawsuits over its poor organization and false claims. Smith, who directed Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, connected with the organizers to tell a behind the scenes tale. Netflix will…

The 2017 luxury music festival that seemed too good to be true and ultimately became a disaster is the subject of a new Hulu docuseries. It will stream the untitled project about the Fyre Festival and produce along with the Cinemart, Billboard and Mic.  Set for a 2019 premiere, the series recounts the events leading…