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XTR has launched production on Role Players, which is billed as the definitive documentary on the seminal fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons. Boasting never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with high-profile celebrity D&D fanatics, Role Players will tell the all-encompassing story of Dungeons & Dragons, from…

Documentary+, the free streaming service launched by non-fiction studio XTR, is getting into original programming and has ordered its first project. The company will launch Fireworks, a feature doc directed by Nathan Truesdell, who recently produced Oscar-nominated film Ascension. Fireworks will delve into a botched…

EXCLUSIVE: XTR, the non-fiction studio behind projects such as Oscar nominated doc Ascension and Apple's They Call Me Magic, has hired its first Chief Operating Officer. The company has hired Jonathan Stern in the new position. He comes from Media Advisory Group, the boutique IP rights, branding and consulting firm…

We can confidently predict a documentary is forthcoming on '90s TV psychic Miss Cleo. Nonfiction entertainment studio XTR and production company Majority announced they are in production on a film about the famed tarot card reader, who became the centerpiece of a billion-dollar fraud investigation. Award-winning…

EXCLUSIVE: XTR, the non-fiction studio behind projects such as Darren Aronofsky co-produced doc The Territory and Apple's They Call Me Magic, is bolstering its C-suite. The company has hired Abazar Khayami as its Head of Studio, where he will build out its production services and oversee the current and upcoming slate…

EXCLUSIVE: There's a boom in collectible sports trading cards – from the $4.6M paid for a Luka Doncic rookie card or the $5.2M for a 1952 Mickey Mantle card as well as a recent deal that valued card brand Topps at $1.3B. This is the impetus for a new feature documentary that This Is What Love In Action Looks Like…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first clip from Sirens, the first feature from Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph’s Animal Pictures which will make its world premiere at Sundance in World Cinema Documentary competition on January 23. The film directed by Rita Baghdadi follows members of the Middle East’s first all-female…

On a sunny afternoon in L.A., Bryn Mooser, CEO of XTR, folds his long frame into a patio chair perched above the headquarters of his growing documentary company. His green eyes scan the hilly enclaves of Silver Lake and Los Feliz, spotting landmarks: the Griffith Observatory in the distance, Hyperion Avenue below. He…

EXCLUSIVE: In 1968 up-and-coming journalist Ben Fong-Torres held a full-time job with a prestigious publication known as Pacific Telephone's employee magazine. His side gig wasn't bad either—freelancing for Rolling Stone. As fate would have it, Fong-Torres' eventual notoriety would come not for his profiles of Pac…

EXCLUSIVE: Toto and His Sisters, a film by Oscar-nominated documentarian Alexander Nanau, has started streaming today for the first time in the U.S. on emerging service Documentary+. The streaming outlet was launched by XTR. Founded in 2019, XTR is a backer of notable documentary projects such as a multi-part look at…

Apple TV+ has scored rights to a four-part docuseries about NBA legend Magic Johnson. The streamer beat out a number of rivals to secure the series, which comes from non-fiction studio XTR and A New Slate Ventures, the fund behind Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday. The project, which first emerged last…

Marvel star Mark Ruffalo is to exec produce a feature-length documentary about Lakota Indians' quest to reclaim the Black Hills, sacred land that was stolen in violation of treaty agreements. The I Know This Much Is True actor has teamed up with directors Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli and producer Benjamin…