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Oscar- and Emmy-nominated documentarian Morgan Spurlock has agreed to pay more than $1.17 million to Turner Entertainment Networks to settle a lawsuit over a female-focused docuseries he ended up not making. The project was shelved after he posted a confessional essay as the #MeToo movement was gaining strength. The…

EXCLUSIVE:  AGC Studios has hired Warrior Poets vet Rachel Traub as VP, Non-Fiction Content to oversee the company's theatrical-television development and production of non-fiction content. AGC Studios Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford made the announcement today. Traub will work closely with AGC Studio's Head of Film Greg…

Warrior Poets is no longer attached to The Trade, Showtime's upcoming five-episode docuseries, which will have its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, a source tells Deadline. Warrior Poets, the New York-based production company founded by Morgan Spurlock and Jeremy Chilnick, was co-producing the docu…

A&E Network  has ordered Cultureshock, an eight-hour original pop culture-focused docuseries, from Morgan Spurlock and his Warrior Poets and Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly, for premiere in 2018. Cultureshock looks at the untold stories behind watershed moments in pop culture according to producers. Each episode will…

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Spurlock’s Warrior Poets has acquired rights to Brian Kellow’s bestselling biography Can I Go Now: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s Superagent. Spurlock will direct a feature on Mengers, writing a script and producing with Warrior Poets COO Jeremy Chilnick, with Richard Arlook also producing. In…

Morgan Spurlock’s production outfit Warrior Poets has upped Stacey Kleiger to VP Production and Rachel Traub to Creative Executive of Film and Scripted Television. Kleiger, who now will oversee physical production on all TV, film and digital projects, began at the company as Production Secretary in 2011, worked as an…

Morgan Spurlock, through his Warrior Poets banner, has entered into a strategic partnership with Authentic Brands Group, LLC that will see the Supersize Me director and Inside Man producer-host’s company create original content around ABG’s library of brands and properties. The agreement will see Warrior Poets develop…

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Spurlock’s Gotham-based production label Warrior Poets has promoted Jeremy Chilnick to Chief Operating Officer. Chilnick has been with Warrior Poets since its creation in 2004, working his way up from assistant. He has produced numerous award-winning films, digital series and television programs. He…

Three years after joining Morgan Spurlock’s production company, Ethan Goldman has been promoted to partner and Head of Development. He joins the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated producer as partner of the NYC-based company along with Jeremy Chilnick and Matthew Galkin. Since joining Warrior Poets in 2012, Goldman has worked…

Dakota Group, Ltd. & Submarine are partnering with Morgan Spurlock and his doc label Warrior Poets to produce the feature length doc Rats NYC, based on The New York Times best-selling book by author Robert Sullivan Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants. Doc will go before…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Morgan Spurlock’s Warrior Poets banner have sealed separate deals for Fight Church, the feature documentary tracking a group of Mixed Martial Arts-fighting pastors whose violent practices have sparked controversy within the Christian community. Co-directed by Oscar-winner Daniel Junge (Saving F…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has struck a landmark development deal with The Associated Press, which will grant the Super Size Me documentarian and his NY-based Warrior Poets production banner unlimited access to adapt the AP’s library of broadcast, digital, and mobile content. The deal makes…