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In ESPN's hit documentary series The Last Dance, NBA legend Michael Jordan is described as "the ultimate sports alpha male." True, perhaps. But he faces some competition for that title from the subject of another ESPN documentary, Lance Armstrong. "To me, Lance was very alpha," observes director Marina Zenovich, who…

Turns out, The Last Dance is not the end, but the beginning. After ESPN found a ratings bonanza with the Michael Jordan/Bulls doc "The Last Dance" on Sunday nights, ESPN Films' 30 for 30 series will pick up the Sunday night baton when Dance ends. Just as The Last Dance was moved up to give sports-hungry fans…

UPDATED, 12:10 PM: Momentum Pictures and DirecTV said Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic The Program will bow February 18 on the satellite service ahead of its March 18 theatrical release. It’s the first such deal for Momentum and DirecTV, which has been building its DirecTV Cinema Exclusives Premiere program that…

Stephen Frears‘ untitled Lance Armstrong film is currently shooting on location in Europe with Dustin Hoffman set to come along for the ride once production moves to the U.S. for the final stages. Lee Pace (The Hobbit trilogy) has also boarded the movie. Hoffman and Pace are joining Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount and JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk’s Bad Robot are gearing up on their film about disgraced bike racer Lance Armstrong. I’m told that they are setting D.V. DeVincentis to write the script for a movie centering around the book Cycle Of Lies: The Fall Of Lance Armstrong by Juliet Macur. She’s the reporter…

Deadline told you exclusively in July that Stephen Frears would be directing Ben Foster in a movie about disgraced Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong for Working Title. Now, they’ve finally confirmed all this and that Studio Canal will fully fund the untitled project for an October 18 start date. Foster will be…

Sony Classics has unveiled a trailer for Oscar-winner Alex Gibney‘s The Armstrong Lie, about cyclist Lance Armstrong’s comeback from cancer and subsequent doping scandal. Gibney inserts his own unusual perspective into the docu by chronicling the fibs Armstrong told him as he interviewed the athlete pre-scandal, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros, Atlas Entertainment and director Jay Roach are making their move in the race to mount a feature on Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France champion who was defrocked and disgraced when he finally admitted he was doping. Bradley Cooper is in talks to come aboard as a producer, and he’s also…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Stephen Frears‘ Lance Armstrong movie is further along than I thought. I’m told that Ben Foster is already in final talks to play Armstrong in the film, which was scripted by Trainspotting’s John Hodge and covers Armstrong’s career from his cancer ordeal to the scandal that brought him down. Always a…

EXCLUSIVE: The doping scandal that enveloped the Tour de France and led to the downfall of 7-time champion Lance Armstrong is now the focus of movies being developed by two major studios. Warner Bros has just acquired an untitled project from Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Alex Gartner that will be scripted…

Best Actor Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is in talks with J.J. Abrams about playing Lance Armstrong in the producer-director’s planned movie project about the disgraced cyclist, according to Entertainment Tonight. Shortly after Deadline broke the news about Abrams and partner Bryan Burk’s Bad Robot and Paramount…

But in Saturday Night Live‘s alternate universe it was Piers Morgan interviewing the not-particularly-contrite athlete plus talking to Manti Te’o concerning his girlfriend issues and to Jodie Foster about her Golden Globes speech.