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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich) has partnered with RadicalMedia and The Atlantic on a new conspiracy theory docuseries Shadowland. Shadowland is a recurring timely docuseries based on…

Indican Pictures has picked up director Haynze Whitmore's horror film, Crepitus, for domestic theatrical, digital, and DVD distribution. Starring Eve Mauro and horror vet Bill Moseley, the film follows seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and her younger sister Sam who are thrust into terrifying circumstances when they are…

EXCLUSIVE: Oakhurst Entertainment has come aboard to finance Slay The Dreamer, the film based on the life of civil rights activist and advisor to Martin Luther King Rev. James Lawson from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger. Berlinger is directing from a screenplay by Donald Freed and Mark Lane with a rewrite from…

Serial killer Ted Bundy continues to fascinate the American public even decades after his execution. The latest demonstration of that comes with the popular success of the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger. The four-part series from…

The title of the latest film about notorious serial killer Ted Bundy is Extremely Wicked Shockingly Evil and Vile, but they probably could have made it even longer by adding the words: And Dull. Documentarian Joe Berlinger has made a well-meaning and thankfully non-exploitative version of Bundy’s dark and repulsive…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has signed on to direct the feature film Slay the Dreamer, and he will also direct and produce a feature documentary on the same subject. Pic is based on the life of Rev. James Lawson, friend and advisor to Martin Luther King. A civil rights icon in…

Netflix has released the trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the Joe Berlinger-directed pic about Ted Bundy that stars Zac Efron as the serial killer. The film, penned by Michael Werwie, takes on the Bundy story from the perspective of his girlfriend Liz Kendall (Lily Collins), who refused to…

On January 24, Netflix released Conversations with a Killer, Joe Berlinger's riveting four-part docuseries on Ted Bundy; two days later, Berlinger was at Sundance with a narrative feature, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, also to do with Bundy, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history…

A two-time Oscar nominee, Marco Beltrami never shies from a challenge. Between an Oscar-nominated doc (Free Solo) and a box office smash, which became a bona fide cultural phenomenon (A Quiet Place), he scored two of the most exciting and audacious works of the past year. Late last month, the composer got on to the…

Grace Victoria Cox has joined Zac Efron, Lily Collins, John Malkovich, and Angela Sarafyan in the Ted Bundy film, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile, from director Joe Berlinger. The film is told from the point of view of Ted Bundy’s girlfriend Elizabeth (Collins) during the multi-year period that Bundy hid…

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger doesn’t mind taking on some powerful forces. He squared off with oil giant Chevron in Crude. In the Paradise Lost trilogy, he went up against prosecutors in the notorious case of the West Memphis Three. With his latest film, Intent to Destroy, he's running afoul of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama and Gathr Films have acquired North American theatrical rights to the Joe Berlinger documentary Intent to Destroy, a film-within-a film that centers on the Armenian genocide of 1915 and was a critical favorite at this year’s Tribeca and Hot Docs film festivals. Abramorama will release the film…