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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…

National Geographic has struck a first-look deal with Free Solo directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and their company Little Monster Films. The deal will see the pair develop unscripted series and specials for the Disney-owned factual network as well as feature documentaries. It marks the first time the pair, who…

"From the beginning I committed to the whole process pretty wholeheartedly," Free Solo's Alex Honnold says of his well-documented successful attempt to be the only person to scale Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes or any other equipment. "So we all saw it through to the end," the acclaimed climber added Monday at an…

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…

Cinematographer Jimmy Chin was one of three directors of photography on Nat Geo’s Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, which breathtakingly and painstakingly charted Alex Honnold’s record-setting 2017 free climb of Yosemite’s El Capitan — the first person to ever accomplish the feat. Honnold of course wasn’t the only…

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…

For NatGeo’s Free Solo, co-directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, it was all about chronicling the first-ever free solo climb of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park and they did it in a way that was both breathtaking and suspenseful. But to get the cameras next to rock climber Alex Honnold without…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: If you’re afraid of heights, you might want to brace yourself for the new trailer for the National Geographic documentary Free Solo, which was just tipped for a slot at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The pic depicts climber Alex Honnold’s attempt to scale the world’s most famous vertical rock face…

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…