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EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing Alex Gibney's cyberwarfare project Stuxnet (working title) as a miniseries with Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films. I hear the Time Warner-backed premium broadcaster is working up the project as a limited drama with Stephen Schiff (The Americans) writing, and Oscar-winning documentarian…

Oscar winner O.J.: Made In America, Ava DuVernay’s criminal justice docu 13th and Alex Gibney’s cyber warfare pic Zero Days are among the 12 winners of Peabody Awards for documentaries. PBS scored four of the 12 spots, with Frontline pieces on ISIS and the refugee crisis, Independent Lens: Trapped and POV: Hooligan Spa…

The Cinema Eye Honors recognizing the best in documentary filmmaking have unveiled nominations for its 10th edition. Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin docu I Am Not Your Negro and Ezra Edelman’s five-part OJ: Made In America lead the pack with five noms apiece. The awards, part of New York’s Cinema Eye Week, will be bestowed…

You might have seen a headline or 12 about cyberwarfare recently. Showtime certainly has, and today the premium cabler moved up its TV premiere date for the Alex Gibley-helmed documentary Zero Days by two weeks to November 5 — three days before the election. The film, which premiered at Berlin in February, tells the…

Alex Gibney’s latest documentary Zero Days, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, is getting a drama series treatment by Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films, part of NBCUniversal International Studios. The dramatic thriller, tentatively titled Stuxnet, will be written by Stephen Schiff (The America…

UPDATE with more details: Captain Fantastic burst out over the weekend in four New York and Los Angeles theaters grossing $98,451, placing it fifth among titles to open several locations in 2016. The pic ranked atop a fairly crowded pack of newcomers, when looking at per theater averages, though other titles showed…

After mostly taking a pause on Fourth of July weekend, specialty distributors appear to be kicking in with summer alternatives for the second weekend of the month. Bleecker Street is heading out with Sundance debut Captain Fantastic starring Viggo Mortensen. Following today's start in New York and Los Angeles, the…

Politics was again front and center in Berlin this morning as Alex Gibney discussed his documentary Zero Days, which unspools in competition later today. The Oscar-winner is here along with New York Times chief Washington correspondent David E Sanger and former Haaretz intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent…

Ahead of its premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival tomorrow, Alex Gibney’s cybercrime documentary, Zero Days, has been secured for the U.S. by Magnolia Pictures and Showtime. All U.S. distribution rights, save pay-TV, have gone to Magnolia. Showtime has taken pay-TV. FilmNation Entertainment boarded inter…

FilmNation will launch international sales at the EFM on Alex Gibney's documentary thriller, Zero Days which is world premiering in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The cybercrime investigation tells the story of Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key…