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Channel 4 has promoted factual commissioners Alisa Pomeroy and Shaminder Nahal to take over the running of its documentaries and specialist factual teams, replacing Danny Horan. Former Head of Documentaries and Specialist Factual Horan’s role has been split into two, with Pomeroy taking on documentaries and Nahal…

(UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM FIRM) Attorney Howard Weitzman, who had a client list including Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, Marlon Brando, Morgan Freeman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ron Meyer and CAA, has died at the age of 81. The Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump LLP founding partner passed away Wednesday in his hometown of…

(HBO comment added) UPDATE, 12:23 UPDATE: Over a year after HBO lost out in its attempt to have the $100 million Leaving Neverland lawsuit by the estate of Michael Jackson dismissed and not sent to arbitration, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals added their voice to the chorus. "An arbitration clause can still bind…

EXCLUSIVE: Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed is embroiled in a legal wrangle with Michael Jackson’s legacy companies as he attempts to shoot a sequel to his explosive, Emmy-winning Channel 4/HBO documentary. Deadline can reveal that Reed has been filming in the Los Angeles Superior Court as Wade Robson and James…

EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Entertainment, an offshoot of eOne executive Berry Meyerowitz and onetime Lionsgate Films president Jeff Sackman’s Quiver Distribution, has acquired the rights to Kew Media Distribution’s library of 1,000 titles. Kew Media Distribution went bust in February and administrator FTI Consulting has…

EXCLUSIVE: Two of the UK’s best-known documentary makers, Dan Reed and Nick Broomfield, are locked in an increasingly ugly dispute with the collapsed Kew Media Group over the international rights to their biggest films. Kew Media Group’s sales house, Kew Media Distribution, represented Reed’s Leaving Neverland — HBO…

EXCLUSIVE: After nearly three months navigating perilously choppy waters, with some of its best talent abandoning ship and a steady drip of damaging press, Canada’s Kew Media Group finally sunk last Friday. The global producer-distributor’s eight directors resigned, scores of others lost their jobs, and the company…

EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine Group and ViacomCBS network Channel 5 have become the latest companies to sever ties with Kew Media Distribution (KMD) as the embattled TV sales house edges closer to collapse. KMD was responsible for selling Agatha And The Curse Of Ishtar and Agatha And The Death of X (working title), a pair…

EXCLUSIVE: Kew Media Distribution, the British sales arm of the beleaguered Canadian TV group Kew Media, is on the precipice of closure as it stares down the barrel of a winding-up order. Kew Media Distribution represents high-profile shows including HBO’s Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland, made by Amos Pic…

American Factory took top honors at the 13th annual Cinema Eye Honors recognizing the best in documentary filmmaking, tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. A portrait of a once-closed Ohio factory bought by a Chinese billionaire, the Netflix release picked up awards for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature…

The California 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal has revived lawsuits filed by James Safechuck and Wade Robson, the two men at the center of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, who claimed they were sexually assaulted by Michael Jackson when they were minors. The court was looking at whether the plaintiffs had waited too…

For Sama, Waad al-Kateab’s striking documentary about the start of the protests against the Assad regime in Syria, won the Best Feature prize at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. Al-Kateab shot hundreds of hours of footage over a course of the five-year siege that offered an unflinching view of…