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Jack Roland Murphy just about had it all: Kennedy-esque good looks, charm to burn, athletic talent and even a musical gift. Still, he wanted more. The man who became a legendary jewel thief – he bagged the priceless Star of India from a New York museum – before graduating to murder is the focus of…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed filmmaker R.J. Cutler and his production company This Machine, fresh off the announcement of Cutler's upcoming documentary on Elton John. "The agency will work with the award-winning filmmaker – who has made some of the most significant documentaries and television series of the past quarter…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ have won the rights to a big feature documentary package, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances And the Years That Made His Legend. No one would comment, but we hear the docu, from Academy Award-nominee R.J. Cutler as well as filmmaker (and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry follows the young singer-songwriter's rise from unknown to worldwide fame. But in a deleted scene from the R.J. Cutler film, Eilish rises to even greater heights – about five stories up inside Radio City Music Hall. The scene finds…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary editor Lindsay Utz is turning her attention to directing. Utz, who edited 2020 Academy Award winner American Factory and this year's Oscar contender Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, has signed a first-look deal with This Machine to direct her own documentary films. This…

The bracingly intimate feel of the documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry emerged because the pop singer at its center grew to trust the filmmakers enough to reveal her private pain on her own terms, the film's director revealed. "We achieved the intimacy because Billie and her family were open and…

There's an emotional realness to singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, a disinclination to disguise experience behind euphemism or pretense. It manifests in her music and in Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, the Oscar-contending documentary that follows her on her journey to global stardom. In the film directed…

Emmy-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler will be presented with the Pennebaker Award at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, honoring lifetime achievement, the Critics Choice Association announced Thursday. The presentation will take place Sunday, November 14, as part of the sixth annual edition of the documentary awards…

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…