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Film and documentary production company White Horse Pictures said Tuesday it is moving forward with a strategic reorganization to service growth at the company whose recent titles include Lucy and Desi and the Ron Howard pics The Beatles: Eight Days a Week and Pavarotti. As part of the changes…

For the third year in a row—and fourth in the last five—White Horse Pictures finds itself in the middle of the Emmy horse race. In 2020, the White Horse production The Apollo, about the legendary performing arts venue in Harlem, earned Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Last year, White Horse's The Bee Gees…

EXCLUSIVE: White Horse Pictures and Homegrown Pictures have teamed on an untitled documentary feature about the legendary musician and genius keyboardist Billy Preston. He was called the Fifth Beatle, because he the only non-member ever to be credited on a Beatles recording. He had plenty of his own hits and co-wrote…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired North American rights to The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. The feature documentary, which was an official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival before it was scratched by the pandemic, tells the story of an iconic band that is way more than a symbol of…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Poehler will make her documentary feature directing debut for Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures on Lucy & Desi, the working title for a definitive film about the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz. This will be the biggest…

EXCLUSIVE: White Horse Pictures chairman Nigel Sinclair and president Nicholas Ferrall have made a multi-picture partnership with Reelin’ In The Years Productions president David Peck to create more documentaries in the film and TV space. The companies have worked piecemeal on films since 2006. Those collaborations…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films is in final talks to acquire North American rights to Pavarotti, the Ron Howard-directed feature documentary on the iconic tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The plan is for a theatrical release later this year, sources said. The film was scripted by Mark Monroe, who recently worked with Howard in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures have entered into a multi-year, non-exclusive partnership. The arrangement was brokered by Imagine Entertainment Co-Chairman Michael Rosenberg, Imagine Documentaries President Justin Wilkes and White Horse Pictures Chairman Nigel Sinclair and President Nicholas…

EXCLUSIVE: Following their successful collaboration on the The Beatles: Eight Days A Week, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment and Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's White Horse Pictures will follow with a feature documentary on famed tenor and opera icon Luciano Pavarotti. Howard will direct. Much the way…

EXCLUSIVE: 12 Years A Slave helmer Steve McQueen will direct a full length feature documentary on the life of iconic hip hop star Tupac Shakur. A deal has come together between Estate trustee Tom Whalley and Amaru Entertainment, the company created by Afeni Shakur to release her son's posthumous projects. They are…

Taking the Best Music Documentary award at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards this month, Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years could be on its way toward Oscar if it follows the path of recent years for films like Amy and Searching for Sugar Man. Featuring a powerful combination of found…

If there’s a genre that’s resonated recently with Oscar voters, it’s the music feature documentary, which counts such titles as 20 Feet From Stardom, Searching for Sugarman, and Amy as near back-to-back annual winners in the category. Ron Howard, who already counts two Oscars as a producer and director of 2001’s A Beau…