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EXCLUSIVE: Acquisitive French media giant Newen Studios has expanded its UK footprint with the purchase of a majority stake in Rise Films, the Oscar-winning producer of Netflix’s Icarus and All That Breathes, Deadline can reveal. The deal closed very recently but Rise had been on Newen’s radar for a while, according…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is the network behind Rise Films’ drama on the phone hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The Salisbury Poisonings writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and director Saul Dibb are attached and U.S. buyers are understood to be circling. Deadline revealed Thank You & Goodbye was…

For Icarus director Bryan Fogel, winning the Oscar for Best Documentary in March by no means marked the end of his awards season run. Six months after he earned the statuette for his film that exposed Russia's vast athletics doping program, he finds himself in the running for multiple Emmy Awards. To borrow a sports…

EXCLUSIVE: The producers of Oscar winners Moonlight and Icarus, Oscar nominee Carol and Showtime series Billions, are among those bringing new projects to the IFP Project Forum, which runs during the 40th IFP Week (September 15 – 20, 2018) in New York. This year’s particularly buzzy Project Forum slate will comprise…

Icarus filmmakers have called for the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach to resign for his role in what they have previously called “a backroom deal” for allowing Russian athletes to compete in South Korea. The film Icarus, which was the Oscar-winning Best Feature Documentary, played a decisive…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit And you thought Washington D.C. was bad! It is nothing compared to the Oscars when every vote is on the line. With voting going on in force, it seems it is prime time for political controversy and headline-grabbing attempts at making a last-minute…

In a year of firsts for the Academy Awards, more history is being made in the ranks of Best Documentary Feature than perhaps any other category. Take Agnès Varda, for starters—co-director of Faces Places with artist-photographer JR. At age 89 she may well qualify as the oldest nominee in a competitive category in…

For sheer newsworthiness, Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus must qualify as perhaps the most impactful documentary of the year. The film played a key role in exposing the vast athletics doping program orchestrated by the Russian government, which recently prompted the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed the field for the Documentary Feature Oscar to 15 vying for five nomination slots. Among them are a sequel to a previous Oscar winner, a bracing look back at the 1992 Los Angeles riots and a topical look at Russia’s Olympic doping scandal. Here is the…

The International Olympic Committee said today that it is banning Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea following its investigations of a doping scheme. The news was met with applause by Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan, filmmakers behind the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary, Icarus, an exposé…

“Were you the mastermind that cheated the Olympics?” filmmaker Bryan Fogel asks at the start of this new trailer for Netflix’s Icarus. And with the one-word answer from Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov — “Yes” — the doping exposé is off to the races. Icarus nabbed the Sundance Film Festival’s inaugural Orwell…

Bryan Fogel’s Icarus, the Netflix film about sports doping, will open AFI Docs, the American Film Institute’s annual documentary festival, June 14 at Washington D.C.’s Newseum. Year of the Scab, the ESPN Films doc about the 1987 NFL strike, directed by John Dorsey, will close the fest June 18 at the same…