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Newen Studios’ upcoming John Galliano feature doc from  Oscar-winning One Day in September and Whitney director Kevin Macdonald will be launched to buyers at Cannes’ Marché du Film later this month. The project is one of the first to come as a result of financier Anton’s increased €50M ($56.6M) investment in the…

Kevin Macdonald (The Mauritanian, Whitney) has been set to helm The Iceman, which will star Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) as the larger-than-life extreme athlete Wim Hof. The pic reunites producer Debbie Gray, who is producing alongside Fiennes, with sales agent Cornerstone Films following their recent…

EXCLUSIVE: Whitney director Kevin Macdonald is to direct an ITV doc profiling the ferocious floods that have hit the UK in recent years. In It Takes A Flood, Academy Award-winning director Macdonald, who was also behind a recent ITV Coronavirus doc, will move from London, where historic levels of rain battered the…

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STX Entertainment’s The Mauritanian follows the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was unjustly jailed by the U.S. for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay for being a 9/11 plot suspect, and his attorney Nancy Hollander who crusaded against the legal system for his freedom. French actor Tahar Rahim plays Slahi and Jodie…

2020, a year for the books, takes center stage in Kevin Macdonald’s and Ridley Scott’s YouTube Originals film, Life In A Day 2020. YouTube dropped the trailer for the Sundance Film Festival official selection on Monday. Set to premiere on YouTube starting February 6, Life In A Day 2020 showcases what a single day in…

True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and…

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…