Over 30 years after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses," the author traveled to Chautauqua, N.Y., in 2022, for a speaking engag…
Marina Zenovich's "I'm Chevy Chase, and You're Not" is not your average celebrity documentary. From the film's outset, it is clear that the 82-year-old comedian had zero editorial control ov…
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, Chad A. Verdi's Verdi Productions and Danny Strong have partnered to make "Oz," a documentary about the making of "The Wizard of Oz." Tom Donahue ("Mafia Spie…
In December 2019, one of Britain's most successful television hosts, Caroline Flack, became the target of relentless media scrutiny after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, tennis player Le…
After Oscar-nominated director Rory Kennedy heard about the 2021 accidental on-set shooting death of "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and the subsequent involuntary manslaughter charge…
In the documentary "Holding Liat," director Brandon Kramer follows elderly American Israeli couple, Yehuda and Chaya Beinin, as they fight for the release of their 49-year-old daughter, Liat…
Oscar-winning couple Frances McDormand and Joel Coen have signed on to executive produce "The Bend in the River," a feature-length documentary that will debut at the Telluride Film Festival.…
Aura Entertainment has acquired "Satisfied," a documentary that follows "Hamilton" star Renée Elise Goldsberry. In the film, which draws its title from the hit "Hamilton" song of the same n…
Robert Kessel has joined Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions as executive vice president of scripted content. Kessel will be responsible for expanding Jigsaw's film and TV scripted projects. He…
After watching Alexander Hammer's "Expecting Amy," a 2020 docuseries about Amy Schumer's difficult pregnancy, Jenn Freeman's life changed. In the series, Schumer's husband, Chris Fischer, is…
In 2019, Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman began filming "We Are Guardians," a documentary about Indigenous forest guardians fighting to protect their ancestral lands from re…
Broadway in the Boros series is part of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment's 50th anniversary celebrations
A downtown New York playwright for the past 10 years, Callaghan was embraced by Hollywood after an article in the New York Times appeared about her Off Broadway play, "That Pretty Pretty; or…