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Documentary group Cinema Eye on Thursday unveiled nominations for the 2020 Cinema Eye Honors, with Netflix’s American Factory and Neon’s Apollo 11 leading the way with five nominations each. Netflix tops all distributors with 17 noms, the most ever in a single year. Winners will be revealed at a ceremony January 6 at…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed has teamed up again with HBO and the BBC on his latest documentary – antibiotic film Superbug. This comes as the controversy surrounding his Michael Jackson doc rumbles on with a federal judge shifting a legal case back to arbitration earlier this month. Superbug, which is produced…

The dance-off over Leaving Neverland is far far from over. Less than a month after HBO lost an attempt to get the multimillion-dollar lawsuit from the estate of Michael Jackson against the Emmy-winning documentary tossed out, and saw a federal judge shift the whole matter towards arbitration, the AT&T-owned premium…

UPDATE, SEPTEMBER 23, 8:30 AM: The federal judge in the battle between HBO and the estate of Micheal Jackson over the Emmy winning documentary Leaving Neverland has made his tentative ruling now final. In a decision filed late on September 20 (read it here), Judge George Wu reaffirms his inclination of September 19 to…

Acclaimed HBO documentary Leaving Neverland took home the gold for best documentary or nonfiction special at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, and director and producer Dan Reed was quick to give credit to the brave young men who came forward and spoke out so candidly about the sexual abuses they had…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed had some choice words for Dave Chappelle this evening on the red carpet at the Creative Arts Emmys. Reed was responding to Chappelle’s scathing comments about the film in his latest Netflix special, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones. "I don't think Dave Chappelle was very funny or…

Dave Chappelle is stirring up controversy, mincing no words in a critique of Michael Jackson’s accusers featured in HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary, in his new Netflix comedy special. “I don’t believe those motherf***ers,” Chappelle said in his Sticks & Stones special referring to Wade Robson and James Safechuck…

(UPDATED with Jackson estate statement) With five nominations going into next month's Emmy Awards, Leaving Neverland is hoping to score a final win in court too. Under legal fire from the extremely litigious estate of Michael Jackson, the HBO documentary examining allegations that the Thriller star sexually abused…

Three French Michael Jackson fan clubs are suing the two men featured in HBO/Channel 4 doc Leaving Neverland. The Michael Jackson Community, the MJ Street and On The Line have filed a lawsuit accusing Wade Robson and James Safechuck of "sullying" the reputation of the Bad singer. A court hearing was held in Orleans…

UPDATED, 9:55 AM: A federal judge in the lawsuit against HBO over its documentary Leaving Neverland has denied the Michael Jackson estate’s motion for immediate arbitration. The family had been trying to have the case be decided by the American Arbitration Association and to have it sent back to state court, but U.S…

Death threats from Michael Jackson fans and litigation by Jackson's estate have not convinced director Dan Reed to back down from his controversial HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which depicts the late entertainer as a serial pedophile. "It certainly hasn't cowed either me or HBO," Reed declares. "I stand by every…

Oprah Winfrey told Trevor Noah she was subjected to a level of “hateration,” for speaking to Michael Jackson’s accusers on HBO, that she had not encountered since the late 90’s when she participated Ellen DeGeneres’ coming-out “puppy episode” of her ABC sitcom. Guesting on The Daily Show to talk about her new book The…