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More than 10,000 satellites are currently spinning around the globe – and there would be even more had a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket not failed in its upper stage last week, preventing the proper deployment of a batch of Starlink satellites. That anomalous incident notwithstanding, the number of…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-producer Matthew Modine and Adam Rackoff's Cinco Dedos Peliculas production company have signed on as executive producers of I Hope This Helps!, a documentary that explores the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Writer-director Daniel Freed enlisted Google's AI chatbot…

Major League Baseball icon Pete Rose, focus of a new HBO documentary series, says the gambling scandal that got him banned from the game cost him dearly. "You have to understand one thing, ladies and gentlemen," Rose said at a Q&A after the premiere of episode 1 of Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete…

EXCLUSIVE: Already under probation with the Department of Justice, scandal riddled and safety plagued Boeing is about to be grounded by one of America's leading documentarians, again. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing director Rory Kennedy has re-teamed with Imagine Documentaries with Netflix back on…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Sam Neave (The Jinx: Part Two) and Academy Award-winning producer Charles B. Wessler (Green Book) commenced production in May on a feature-length doc surrounding the Scottish football club, Partick Thistle. Neave’s documentary will follow Partick Thistle FC and its fans during…

As we head into the latter half of 2024, some frontrunners are emerging among documentaries in the race for Oscar recognition. On the latest edition of Deadline's Doc Talk podcast, hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey assess the state of play at this (admittedly) early stage in awards season, with…

EXCLUSIVE: PBS Documentaries has launched a Prime Video channel in Canada. Echoing its U.S. counterpart, the channel will kick off with a wealth of docs from pioneering filmmaker Ken Burns’ collection. These will include The Vietnam War, Baseball, The American Buffalo, The U.S. and the Holocaust and…

One fish, two films. The massive 1975 hit Jaws will get a pair of documentaries to mark the 50th anniversary of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster. One of them, Jaws: Making a Splash in Hollywood, tossed chum in the water at Sunny Side of the Doc last week – looking for a bite from potential buyers at…

EXCLUSIVE: As it preps for the release of notable titles like Nickel Boys, production company Louverture Films has added a handful of key execs and collaborators, including two principal partners and a chief financial officer. As those new arrivals come aboard, co-founder Danny Glover has announced…

Several documentaries in production are leaving Sunny Side of the Doc – the world's biggest nonfiction film marketplace – with renewed momentum and exposure. Sunny Side wrapped Thursday with an awards ceremony announcing winners of the Pitch Sessions in multiple categories. Winning Best History Pitch…

An unseen interview that captures comedian Richard Lewis holding court at Greenblatt’s Delicatessen in Hollywood is set for release on Saturday, June 29. Filmmaker/Documentarian Gregg Barson conducted the Lewis interview for his 2011 documentary, Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis. Barson…