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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…

Apple TV+ has set spring premiere dates for its docuseries Home and Dear…, and unveiled two first-look images for Home. Home, from MediaWeaver, Four M Studios and Altimeter Films, will premiere April 17, and Dear…, executive produced by Emmy and Peabody Award winner R.J. Cutler, will debut on June 5. The dates were…

Apple has given a green light to Dear…., a new biographical docuseries inspired by its “Dear Apple” spots, from Emmy and Peabody Award-winner R.J. Cutler (The September Issue, Untitled Billie Eilish Documentary) and Matador Content. The series will premiere globally this spring on Apple TV+. Dear… takes an inventive…

EXCLUSIVE: History has given the green light to The Breach: Inside The Impeachment of Bill Clinton, a six-part scripted drama series from R.J. Cutler based on Peter Baker’s bestseller The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton. FremantleMedia North America will produce in association…

The CW and CBS TV Studios are taking another stab at developing a drama with an electronic dance music theme. The network has put in development The Drop, from Nashville executive producer R.J. Cutler, DJ Steve Angello, CBS TV Studios and studio-based Kennedy/Marshall Company. Set in the sexy, nonstop world of Miami’s…

EXCLUSIVE: RJ Cutler, the maker of documentaries The September Issue and The World According to Dick Cheney who stepped into narrative film with If I Stay, has signed on to direct and co-write My Dark Places. That’s the memoir by L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy that focuses on the 1958 murder of his mother and…

Police and race has been a hot topic in light of the civil unrest in Ferguson over the killing of a black teenager by a white policeman. Award-winning documetarian R.J. Cutler (The War Room, American High) is touching on the subject from a different angle with a police drama at CBS. Cutler will direct and executive…

EXCLUSIVE: The Following alumna Natalie Zea is set to topline ABC‘s upcoming series Members Only, an upstairs/downstairs drama set at an exclusive Connecticut country club, centered on the club’s leisure-class members and the working-class employees who make the place tick. Zea will play the beautiful, pedigreed…

EXCLUSIVE: Director-producer R. J. Cutler has signed a first-look development deal with CBS Television Studios for scripted projects. The deal formalizes Cutler’s relationship with the studio where he has worked on several projects, including directing last season’s drama pilot The Ordained. “We’ve had such a great…

Now that it has secured rights to If I Stay, MGM is moving forward with the pic, which Chloe Moretz has committed to topline and R.J. Cutler is set to direct. Based on Gayle Forman’s 2009 young-adult novel, the thriller centers on a teenager (Moretz) who is in a coma after a car wreck that decimates her family. She…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of the premiere of R.J. Cutler‘s well-received documentary The World According To Dick Cheney on Showtime, the pay cable network has signed a two-year, first-look deal with the Emmy-winning filmmaker for him to produce and direct new documentaries. The first film under the pact will be a…