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David Beckham’s life is to officially be profiled in a definitive multi-part series by Netflix, with Academy Award-winning duo Fisher Stevens and John Battsek attached. The show, which is as-yet-unnamed, will feature archive and never-before-seen footage from the past four decades of Beckham’s life, along with…

Alex Gibney's upcoming Boris Becker documentary is heading to Cannes, with Lorton Entertainment set to launch sales on the title on the Croisette next week. The project, which is nearing completion, has exclusive behind-the scenes access to the former-Grand Slam champion. Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind Taxi…

EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed documentary producer John Battsek, whose credits include Oscar-winner One Day In September and Emmy-winner Manhunt: The Inside Story Of The Hunt for Bin Laden, is making his first foray into podcasts with Audible series Deepcut. The investigative six part non-fiction series will see Battsek and…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning producer John Battsek (One Day In September) is exiting Passion Pictures after a stellar 20-year run to launch LA and London-based company Ventureland with Kerstin Emhoff, Ali Brown, and director Paul Hunter of U.S. production and commercials firm Prettybird. Ventureland will produce a range…

EXCLUSIVE: John Battsek’s Oscar-winning Passion Pictures (One Day In September), James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis are teaming up to make a defining documentary about the Paralympic Games. Provisionally titled Harder Than You Think, the film will chart the history…

Feature documentaries from stars including Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming as well as producers such as Searching For Sugar Man's John Battsek and Shooting Bigfoot's Morgan Matthews are some of the high-profile projects searching for funding at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest. Major broadcasters including HBO and the…

Lili Fini Zanuck hasn't made a feature since 1991’s Rush, a '70s-set thriller in which Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric play undercover cops getting in over their heads in the Texas drug scene. That film features original music by British blues veteran Eric Clapton, whose call to Zanuck kickstarted the Toronto…

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary filmmaker Stevan Riley (Blue Blood, Fire In Babylon) got the chance of a lifetime when he was granted access to more than 200 hours of audio tapes Marlon Brando made during the course of his life, a personal archive of never-before-heard musings, acting studies, self-hypnosis and insights the…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning producer John Battsek (Searching For Sugarman, The Imposter) is ramping up for a new feature documentary on glam rock/hair metal band X Japan. Megastars in its native Asia who sell out arenas overseas, X Japan has yet to break stateside with as much success. Formed in 1982, X Japan’s evolution…