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Elon Musk's successful takeover bid for Twitter has raised concerns about his plans for the social media platform, because of his political views. Historically those views have teetered left and right, but tend to gravitate towards libertarian. His anti-union stance as CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla has…

Netflix today unveiled a trailer for Return to Space, a new documentary from Oscar winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that is debuting on the streamer on April 7. Vasarhelyi and Chin have previously summited El Capitan with Alex Honnold for Free Solo and chronicled a similarly harrowing journey into…

EXCLUSIVE: Rhys Ifans (Spider-Man: No Way Home) has signed on to star alongside Annette Bening and Jodie Foster in the Netflix film Nyad, which marks the narrative directorial debut of Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue, Free Solo). Pic is based on Diana Nyad’s…

Help wanted: seeking anesthesiologist with world-class cave diving skills and experience in underwater rescues. Volunteer position. If a job listing like that went out, it's hard to imagine anyone with the necessary background to apply. Fortunately, one person ticks off all those boxes and more – his name, Dr. Richard…

The Rescue, an arresting truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of a Thai youth soccer team trapped in a remote flooded cave system, opens on five screens in NY/LA/Chicago this weekend in a specialty market waiting "for audiences to wake up and see that they're missing out,” according to Ed Arentz, co-president of the…

Free Solo filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin dealt with a mountain of challenges as they worked on their latest white knuckle documentary, The Rescue. The National Geographic release tells the gripping story of the attempt to rescue 12 young members of a Thai soccer club and their assistant coach who…

In the summer of 2018, a story out of Thailand seized the world’s attention: 12 boys who were members of a soccer club and their coach became trapped in a flooded cave, and there was very little hope of rescuing them. British amateur cave divers, a team of American military personnel and Thai Navy SEALS joined forces…

It was always going to be very difficult for documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin to equal their sweaty palms masterpiece Free Solo, but they come close enough with The Rescue. Unlike their 2018 Oscar-winner, which focused on one dare-devil climber's attempt to scale something close to a…

Oscar-winning Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have joined the commercial roster of Stept Studios for U.S. representation. This follows a project for Panerai, with Chin serving as the luxury watch’s brand ambassador. Stept director and founder Nick Martini directed an intimate short film…

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…