Articles Tagged ‘HBO’
HBO acquires Toback doc on Cannes film fest
FILM / TVHBO has picked up Tyson director James Toback’s latest documentary, a “cinematic exploration” of the Cannes Film Festival called Seduced and Abandoned (pictured).
HBO lines up “Pussy Riot,” “Gasland II” for summer schedule
FILM / TVJosh Fox’s follow-up to Gasland and Lucy Walker’s latest join a slate of documentaries on HBO’s summer schedule, which also includes festival hits Casting By and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (pictured).
Alex Gibney to direct Sinatra doc for HBO
TVTaxi to the Dark Side director Alex Gibney will helm a four-part documentary miniseries about the life and career of late entertainer Frank Sinatra (pictured) for HBO.
Tribeca ’13: Goldberg eyes 10-part black history series
FILM / PEOPLE NEWS / TVOscar-winning actor Whoopi Goldberg (pictured) told an audience in New York she is aiming to produce a 10-part doc series about the history of black entertainment from the 1800s to present day for her next non-fiction project.
Tribeca ’13: HBO acquires Whoopi Goldberg-directed doc
FILM / TVU.S. premium cable network HBO has picked up the American broadcast and home video rights for Moms Mabley: I Got Something To Tell You, Whoopi Goldberg’s documentary about the pioneering African-American comic (pictured).
Exclusive: Junger on Hetherington, heartbreak and HBO
FILM / TVAhead of its premiere on HBO tonight (April 18), author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger (pictured, right) discusses his film on fallen colleague Tim Hetherington (left) and shares an exclusive clip from the doc.
Sundance ’13: “Pussy Riot,” “Dirty Wars” find buyers
FILMCapping a frenetic weekend of Park City doc deals, HBO Documentary Films acquired U.S. TV rights to Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer (pictured), while Sundance Selects nabbed North American rights to Dirty Wars.
Sundance ’13: Brains and Braun
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSSubmarine Entertainment founders Josh and Dan Braun (pictured, left and right) have been behind some of the biggest theatrical doc deals of the past year, repping the directors of hits such as Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter. With Sundance kicking off tomorrow, the duo tell realscreen the ins and outs of executing a festival deal.
HBO slates Gibney, Junger docs
FILM / TVU.S. net HBO has unveiled its slate of documentaries for the first half of 2013, which includes Mea Maxima Culpa (pictured), 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus and Tales from the Organ Trade.
Rogers Fund invests $5.1m in latest round of doc grants
TVThe Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund disbursed coin to 14 TV projects, including a fifth season of Ice Pilots (pictured), and HBO’s Tales from the Organ Trade.
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Realscreen Summit 2013 - Jigsaw Productions\' Alex Gibney