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EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is developing music-infused adult animated comedy Storytown, from Kevin Hart’s HartBeat and Michael D. Ratner’s OBB Pictures. In Storytown, which is doing an animatic presentation as part of the development process, when a grandson starts causing trouble in the streets, his grandfather begins to…

The latest 007 adventure, No Time to Die, opens today, but the Bond film is not the only tentpole-scaled entertainment happening of the weekend. The Amazon Prime Video release of the concert documentary Justin Bieber: Our World also qualifies, from the perspective of director Michael D. Ratner. "We’re living in a time…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Michael D. Ratner, the director of hit documentary features Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which opened this year’s SXSW, and the upcoming Justin Bieber: Our World. The agency has also inked Ratner’s OBB Media. CAA will rep producer-director-entrepreneur Ratner and his company across…

Demi Lovato has forged a powerful bond with millions of fans not only through her music and acting roles, but also her willingness to be open and vulnerable about personal struggles. She takes her truth-telling to a stunning level of intimacy in the YouTube Original documentary series Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devi…

EXCLUSIVE: French artist Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash, who gained prominence after appearing in Banksy’s 2010 film Exit Through the Gift Shop, is getting his own documentary. The feature-length pic hails from OBB Pictures and will be directed by Michael D. Ratner, who helmed and executive produced Justin Bieber: Se…

Quibi has given a straight-to-series order to new documentary music series titled &Music that hails from Michael D. Ratner's OBB Pictures and Scooter Braun and JD Roth's GoodStory Entertainment. The series will focus on the unsung artists — choreographers, video directors, stage designers — behind the world’s biggest…