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Werner Herzog turned 80 on September 5—the last day of the Telluride Film Festival, his abiding favorite film event, which he's been attending for decades—and, of course, he has a new film to mark the occasion; you'd expect nothing less. It's a documentary—he's made many—and it shows the filmmaker as youthfully…

German movie icon Werner Herzog came to the Deadline's TIFF studio in great shape, having turned 80 just a few days before the festival started. Herzog was in town for the world premiere of his new documentary Theatre of Thought, an exploration of the human mind — a very difficult subject, which he conducts with his…

EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog's documentary explorations have ranged from the cosmic (Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds) to the fiery depths (Into the Inferno). His latest nonfiction film takes him on a journey inside the human brain, a subject as complex as any the director has ever tackled. A trailer for Theater of Th…

Discovery Italy To Adapt BBC Studios Formats ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ And This Is MY House’ Discovery in Italy has commissioned local-language versions of The Great British Sewing Bee and This is MY House after striking deals with distributor BBC Studios. Reality competition show The Great British Sewing Bee…

After all the excitement and explosion of new talent in the 1960s and 1970s, the cinema in general and Hollywood in particular hit a dry spell in the 1980s, without question the dullest decade for movies on record. Hollywood studio fare became more standardized, most movies were too long, bloated and unambitious, and…

Discovery+ is embarking on an out-of-this-world adventure with filmmakers Werner Herzog and his son Rudolph Herzog. The streaming platform announced today it has acquired Last Exit: Space, a documentary about "mankind's push to colonize space," directed by the younger Herzog and executive produced and narrated by his…

By my reckoning, Werner Herzog became the first feature director to have shot films on all seven continents when he made it to Antarctica in 2009 for Encounters at the End of the World. He's back there again, and to nearly every other continent as well, for his latest documentary, Fireball: Visitors from Darker…

Apple has acquired rights to Fireball, Werner Herzog’s latest documentary feature, which is now part of the Apple Original film slate and will have its global premiere on Apple TV+. A date has not yet been set. Fireball reunites Herzog with Professor Clive Oppenheimer for their third pic together following the 2007’s…

The American Society of Cinematographers said Thursday that it will give this year’s Board of Governors Award to Werner Herzog. The prolific writer-director and occasional actor (Disney+’s The Mandalorian) will be honored January 25 at the 34th annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement at Hollywood & Highland's…

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to Werner Herzog's Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, the filmmaker’s latest documentary the bowed earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival and later played Telluride. A spring 2020 theatrical release is planned. When famed In Patagonia writer and adventurer Bruce…

Given that he’s known for his work in documentary film, it perhaps comes as little surprise that Werner Herzog’s latest narrative feature has been fooling critics in Cannes into thinking it’s observed truth. Certainly, Family Romance, LLC, which is set in Japan, blurs the lines: it tells the story of the principal of…

Film Bridge International has entered into a two-picture production deal with Dublin-based Merlin Films headed by Kieran Corrigan and Deliverance director, John Boorman. Film Bridge founder and CEO Ellen Wander will partner with Corrigan and Boorman to produce two features, heist thriller Underground and gritty action…