Latest in Kevin Macdonald

EXCLUSIVE: Oprah Winfrey is getting the biographical documentary treatment after Apple TV+ ordered a two-parter focusing on the billionaire multi-hyphenate. Academy Award-winner Kevin MacDonald is re-teaming with Emmy-nominated producer Lisa Erspamer and her banner Happy Street Entertainment on the project. The pair…

The Mauritanian asks a lot of its audience. Its central figure, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, spent years locked up at Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. government, accused but never directly convicted or charged of being a terrorist in league with and aiding those who attacked the United States on 9/11, and even confessing to that…

Nearly 20 years after the September 11 attacks, Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian takes a deeper look into the legal aftermaths following the years-long trial of the once-accused Mohamedou Ould Slahi. In the trailer for STXfilms title that dropped today, Jodie Foster’s Nancy Hollander attempts to do the difficult…

STXfilms has won the U.S. rights to director Kevin Macdonald’s untitled legal thriller formerly known as Prisoner 760. The project stars Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA winner Jodie Foster, BAFTA nominee Tahar Rahim, Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley, Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and Shazam! and The M…

The gripping human drama that played out in front the world last summer is getting the feature docu treatment. National Geographic Documentary Films has greenlighted an untitled film about the rescue of a Thai boys soccer team trapped deep inside a flooding cave from Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald. It was on a…

Audiences are filing out of the world premiere screening of Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney at the Cannes Film Festival tonight, a new documentary that sheds fresh light on iconic singer Whitney Houston’s tragic and puzzling rise-and-fall story. Interviewing Houston’s closest family and friends, Macdonald made two…

Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney is having its world premiere tonight out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and Miramax and Roadside Attractions are priming the pump by unveiling the official trailer for the documentary that digs deep into the life of Whitney Houston. The movie hits U.S. theaters on July 6. Houston…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland) is on board to direct the politically-charged Guantanamo Diary for Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Ackland and their company SunnyMarch and ZeroGravity's Mark Holder and Christine Holder. Michael Bronner is scripting the…

Kevin Macdonald's Whitney, the documentary about the life and career Whitney Houston, will hit theaters in the U.S. on July 6. The date comes after Miramax back in June 2016 acquired rights to the film — the only one officially supported by the late singer's estate — and partnered with Roadside Attractions to release…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in advanced talks to come onboard Strange New Things, an event sci-fi TV series that Kevin MacDonald is directing, Matt Charman is writing and Left Bank Pictures is producing. The project is an adaptation of Michel Faber’s The Book Of Strange New Things, which was critically praised upon its…

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and producer Simon Chinn and his Lightbox Media partner Jonathan Chinn are partnering with producer Lisa Erspamer on a feature documentary about late singer Whitney Houston. Billed as the official documentary, the film will take a revealing look at the life and genius of the…

EXCLUSIVE: In his new documentary Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang, Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald aims to bring the Sundance Film Festival  a very up-close and international look at the explosive work of the superstar Chinese artist. Check out the exclusive clip we have of the Fisher Stevens, Wendi Murdoch and Hugo…