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UPDATE: Showtime indeed closed the world rights deal on the Sinéad O'Connor docu Nothing Compares that premiered at Virtual Sundance. Read the release below Deadline’s scoop. EXCLUSIVE: Numerous broadcasters and streamers vied for it, but Deadline hears that Showtime is in exclusive negotiations for the worldwide…

Following the death of Sinéad O'Connor's teenage son earlier this month, the debut of the documentary Nothing Compares about the lionhearted singer at the Sundance Film Festival today has a distinctly lugubrious element hanging over it. However, premiering in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section of the…

EXCLUSIVE: “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer Sineád O'Connor is the latest pop star to get the feature doc treatment. Irish producer ShinAwiL has teamed up with Orian Williams, the film producer behind Joy Division biopic Control, and DJ Dave Fanning to tell the story of the controversial artist. Sineád (w/t) is an…

UPDATE: The media made Sinéad O’Connor announce her retirement last week, she has stated in a Twitter update proclaiming her return. The mercurial O’Connor said her prior retirement announcement was a "knee-jerk reaction" to U.K. and Canada media reports. These "pigs in lipstick" triggered her, she wrote. "All…

Rock documentaries about the likes of Sinead O'Connor, The Happy Mondays and The Towers of London as well as films about boxer Frank Bruno and Murakami Haruki make up the line-up of the Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitch scheme MeetMarket. The event runs in the northern British city from 6-11 June with execs from broadcasters…