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Gold Rush producer Raw Television has secured its first commission from Netflix — a three-part documentary on a man who went viral for killing kittens and was later convicted of murdering a Chinese student in 2012. The All3Media-owned indie, which made Emmy-nominated Three Identical Strangers last year, is producing Do…

For Tim Wardle, director of the documentary Three Identical Strangers, the last 18 months have been head-spinning. "To be honest," he tells Deadline, "from Sundance onwards, life has been a bit of a blur." That's what happens when you make one of the most acclaimed nonfiction films of recent years—a hit not only with…

Three Identical Strangers’ Sunday launch on CNN is now the most watched CNN Films premiere ever on the network. The film also ranked No. 1 in cable news Sunday night in both the key news demographic and total viewers. The film is about identical triplets adopted out to three families who reunited through coincidence…

Three Identical Strangers director Tim Wardle knew that in order to gain the trust of his two primary subjects, David Kellman and Robert Shafran, he would have to be patient. He just didn’t know how patient. “I got engaged, married and had one child in the time it took to convince these guys,” Wardle joked during…

Four of the most successful documentaries of recent years remain in contention for a prize beyond box office glory—the kind that comes with an Oscar trophy.  Won't You Be My Neighbor?, RBG, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo all made the Oscar documentary shortlist as the Academy culled the list of 166 eligible…

Tim Wardle, the director of Neon’s documentary Three Identical Strangers, knew immediately that he had to make this movie about the true tale of three brothers who didn’t know one another existed. “This was the single best documentary story I’d ever heard,” said Wardle recently at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Los…

There may not be an obvious connection between musical drama Vox Lux from writer-director Brady Corbet and documentary Three Identical Strangers by Tim Wardle. But the two share one similar quality — they defy their genre. Both titles, released by New York-based distributor, Neon, were spotlighted back-to-back this…

RBG, Three Identical Strangers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hal, Into the Okavango and twin climber titles The Dawn Wall and Free Solo have been nominated for the Producer Guild’s 2019 Documentary Motion Picture award. The winner will be announced January 19 at the PGA Awards at the Beverly Hilton, among the cappers to…

In Vox Lux, Natalie Portman plays Celeste, a mega pop star who, at a young age, survived a tragic school shooting. For writer-director Brady Corbet, he said that the Neon movie is also about the loss of innocence. “[Celeste] acts as an avatar to define cultural moments of the era,” Corbet told Deadline’s Anthony…

Three Identical Strangers starts off by doing exactly what it says on the tin: reuniting three brothers separated at birth. However, the documentary, from UK producer Raw, soon moves into a darker realm, revealing a much more sinister side to the story. Director Tim Wardle, who works at Raw — the company has produced…

The perilous attempt by climber Alex Honnold to become the first person ever to scale and solo climb Yosemite’s 3000 foot high El Capitan Mountain with no ropes or safety gear is chronicled in the documentary Free Solo, a film that has climbed the list of nominees with six nods (and one honor) for the 2018 Critics Choi…

After buying North American rights to Three Identical Strangers, Tim Wardle's Jury Prize-winning Sundance doc, Neon reunited the director with producer Becky Read and executive producer Dimitri Doganis for a panel explaining how this amazing story – of how three total strangers found out in the '80s, at the age of 19…