EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Yen has joined This Machine as Senior Vice President of Music.
At the production company founded by Emmy-winning documentarian R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry), she'll work alongside senior execs Trevor Smith and Elise Pearlstein, overseeing and growing Cutler's slate of…
EXCLUSIVE: The Emmy-contending documentary Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry creates a remarkably intimate portrait of the young recording artist, following her on tour, at home, revisiting dark moments in her life, negotiating fame and the ups and downs of romantic love.
"We see her, the way she turns her…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has ordered a documentary series based on Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul, the new Henry Holt book by Time Magazine correspondent Jamie Ducharme. Series will be directed and executive produced by R.J. Cutler, who’s coming off the Showtime docu Belushi and Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blu…
Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is not even out of her teens and she has already won awards in the Grammys' top four categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.
She's achieved something else rare for someone her age—having a documentary made about her by a major filmmaker…
EXCLUSIVE: Epix has landed Murf the Surf, the four-part docuseries from Imagine Documentaries and R.J. Cutler’s This Machine, about the famed jewel thief Jack Roland Murphy. Cutler, the two-time Emmy winner who’s coming off the docus Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry and Belushi, wrote and directed the…
Paul McCartney once told a Liverpool High School class that when it comes to songwriting, “‘I don’t know how to do this.”
Of course, that’s only because songwriting comes so natural to him.
While deconstructing songwriting might be a challenge to the great Beatle, sometimes there’s a lot to learn simply by watching…
EXCLUSIVE: R.J. Cutler will direct and produce the documentary seriesBig Vape, an adaptation of Jamie Ducharme’s upcoming nonfiction book about the rise of the controversial e-cigarette company Juul. Cutler just directed the Showtime docu Belushi and has upcoming Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry which will…
Bluto, the volcanic Samurai Futaba, "Joliet" Jake Blues, the Cheeseburger Man, a spasmodic Joe Cocker—the list of characters John Belushi brought to life in his all-too-brief but remarkable career only hints at his outsized role in American comedy.
"This guy was pure visionary," marvels R.J. Cutler, director of the Sho…
UPDATED with video: Director R.J. Cutler was in the early stages of working on his Showtime documentary Belushi, about the late comedian John Belushi, when he experienced a breakthrough. It came courtesy of Judy Belushi-Pisano, John's widow, who kept an archive of material at her home on Martha's Vineyard.
"It was…
Apple Original Films has released the first trailer for the R.J. Cutler-directed documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry which takes a look at the meteoric rise of the singer to global stardom. The feature docu will be released in theaters by Neon and globally on Apple TV+ February 26, 2021.
Billie Eilis…
R.J. Cutler has had his hand in a number of fascinating documentaries such as War Room, The World According to Dick Cheney and his current Apple series Dear…, among many others. For me the most eye-opening of his works was the 2015 docu Listen to Me Marlon, which was composed entirely from lost audio tapes of Marlon…
Showtime has taken the wraps off the the trailer for Belushi, R.J. Cutler's long-in-the-works feature documentary about the comic actor and Saturday Night Live icon John Belushi. It comes before SNL launches its 46th season October 3 and ahead of the doc’s November 22 premiere date.
The film, from Listen to Me…
