Peacock has set a release date and trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Londongrad,” its 6-part documentary about Russian oligarchs and the reaches of Vladimir Putin beyond Russia.
The series, from Buzzfeed Studios and Rise Films, is set to premiere on Nov. 15 on the streaming platform.
“Once Upon a Time in Londongrad” is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jed Rothstein (“WeWork”).
It follows BuzzFeed News investigative reporter Heidi Blake as she follows a tip about the death of a multi-millionaire property tycoon, which leads her to dig into a tangled web that ensnares Russian oligarchs, the U.K. government and Washington D.C and takes in the shocking poisoning of Russian defector and Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, the suspicious death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who was found dead at his ex-wife’s house in Ascot, and the attempted assignation of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
“Set across Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power,...
The series, from Buzzfeed Studios and Rise Films, is set to premiere on Nov. 15 on the streaming platform.
“Once Upon a Time in Londongrad” is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jed Rothstein (“WeWork”).
It follows BuzzFeed News investigative reporter Heidi Blake as she follows a tip about the death of a multi-millionaire property tycoon, which leads her to dig into a tangled web that ensnares Russian oligarchs, the U.K. government and Washington D.C and takes in the shocking poisoning of Russian defector and Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, the suspicious death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who was found dead at his ex-wife’s house in Ascot, and the attempted assignation of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
“Set across Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power,...
- 10/17/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
“A priest in a pinstripe suit.” That’s how Andrew Kirtzman characterizes Rudy Giuliani early in Jed Rothstein’s “Rudy! A Documusical,” his chronicling of how America’s erstwhile mayor became America’s most embarrassing punchline. Kirtzman, Giuliani’s biographer, makes a reasonable simile. Giuliani did ponder priesthood in his 20s; after all, if you can imagine for a minute that he was ever 20 years old. He looks like Bat Boy’s frazzled mascara-smeared grandpa. Youth, much like scruples, integrity, and the capacity for going 5 minutes without making an ass of himself, passed the man like a ship avoiding an iceberg.
Continue reading ‘Rudy! A Documusical’ Review: Cut The “Musical,” Keep The “Rudy!” [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
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- 6/16/2022
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
As complex and conflicted as the man himself, Rudy! A Documusical––which premiered on the same evening as the first primetime January 6 hearing––never quite knows to make of the man. There’s an old joke from Saturday Night Live‘s 9/11 era about making a TV movie featuring Rudy Giuliani and, true to the man himself, no one will like him until the last five minutes.
Directed by Jed Rothstein (WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a 47 Billion Unicorn and The China Hustle), this look at “America’s Mayor”-turned-Trump-personal-lawyer views Giuliani’s life through the lens of those who knew him well, with a musical performance that seems to enforce an uneasy operatic structure onto his rise and continual fall. The man of the hour himself only appears in found footage and through a theatrical interpretation that walks a fine line between sincere portrait of a now deeply troubled contrarian and political satire.
Directed by Jed Rothstein (WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a 47 Billion Unicorn and The China Hustle), this look at “America’s Mayor”-turned-Trump-personal-lawyer views Giuliani’s life through the lens of those who knew him well, with a musical performance that seems to enforce an uneasy operatic structure onto his rise and continual fall. The man of the hour himself only appears in found footage and through a theatrical interpretation that walks a fine line between sincere portrait of a now deeply troubled contrarian and political satire.
- 6/15/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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You can understand why filmmaker Jed Rothstein didn’t want to make a traditional documentary about Rudy Giuliani, whose life and career haven’t exactly been starved for attention. Rothstein’s conceit was to supplement the traditional mixture of archival footage and interviews with scenes from an imagined Broadway-style musical about Giuliani. That may have been a mistake, since the results play more like a standard cable television doc inexplicably accompanied by excerpts from a fringe festival theatrical production.
Nonetheless, Rudy! A Documusical, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, proves fascinating. How could it not, considering the utterly bizarre downward trajectory of its subject’s reputation? Although in Giuliani’s case, a Broadway musical seems less appropriate than Greek tragedy. Or maybe a horror film, since the older he gets the more he bears a striking resemblance to Nosferatu.
The...
You can understand why filmmaker Jed Rothstein didn’t want to make a traditional documentary about Rudy Giuliani, whose life and career haven’t exactly been starved for attention. Rothstein’s conceit was to supplement the traditional mixture of archival footage and interviews with scenes from an imagined Broadway-style musical about Giuliani. That may have been a mistake, since the results play more like a standard cable television doc inexplicably accompanied by excerpts from a fringe festival theatrical production.
Nonetheless, Rudy! A Documusical, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, proves fascinating. How could it not, considering the utterly bizarre downward trajectory of its subject’s reputation? Although in Giuliani’s case, a Broadway musical seems less appropriate than Greek tragedy. Or maybe a horror film, since the older he gets the more he bears a striking resemblance to Nosferatu.
The...
- 6/10/2022
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
No mere documentary can capture the turbulent life story of “America’s mayor.”
In order to do justice to the rise and fall of Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani, director Jed Rothstein had to invent a new genre. The result, “Rudy! A Documusical,” weaves in musical performances by Broadway actors with archival footage from Giuliani’s metamorphosis from top prosecutor to New York City mayor and hero of 9/11 to his sad final act as Donald Trump’s cable news henchman and chief purveyor of election lies.
“Rudy is this very unique and mercurial character,” says Rothstein. “He’s very operatic. His personal story is like an opera with these cartoonishly extravagant highs and lows.”
But staging a full-on opera would have been too costly and time consuming for the filmmakers, so Rothstein turned to another Big Apple staple — musical theater. The numbers themselves were written and performed to delineate key turning points...
In order to do justice to the rise and fall of Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani, director Jed Rothstein had to invent a new genre. The result, “Rudy! A Documusical,” weaves in musical performances by Broadway actors with archival footage from Giuliani’s metamorphosis from top prosecutor to New York City mayor and hero of 9/11 to his sad final act as Donald Trump’s cable news henchman and chief purveyor of election lies.
“Rudy is this very unique and mercurial character,” says Rothstein. “He’s very operatic. His personal story is like an opera with these cartoonishly extravagant highs and lows.”
But staging a full-on opera would have been too costly and time consuming for the filmmakers, so Rothstein turned to another Big Apple staple — musical theater. The numbers themselves were written and performed to delineate key turning points...
- 6/9/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Producer and entrepreneur Alex Lieberman has launched Bright West Entertainment, a new film finance and production company with a special focus on backing documentary content.
The company is making a big splash this month. Three of its next feature documentaries — “On the Line: The Richard Williams Story,” “Subject” and “Rudy! A Documusical” — are set to world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday.
“I’m focused on financing interesting stories and trying to serve as a catalyst to help projects get made,” Lieberman tells Variety. “I don’t have a brand filter or a set type of story that I’m interested in making. It’s not original to say this, but I love human stories.”
Filmmakers who have worked with Lieberman say he’s committed to giving them the resources they need to get their projects finished and praise him for understanding the difficult road...
The company is making a big splash this month. Three of its next feature documentaries — “On the Line: The Richard Williams Story,” “Subject” and “Rudy! A Documusical” — are set to world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday.
“I’m focused on financing interesting stories and trying to serve as a catalyst to help projects get made,” Lieberman tells Variety. “I don’t have a brand filter or a set type of story that I’m interested in making. It’s not original to say this, but I love human stories.”
Filmmakers who have worked with Lieberman say he’s committed to giving them the resources they need to get their projects finished and praise him for understanding the difficult road...
- 6/7/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Tribeca Festival, the event that wants to offer something for everyone, returns Wednesday with its sprawling collection of features and shorts, live music, TV, podcasts, games, and Ar/VR. The annual New York City-set fest has moved mostly back indoors this year, but will feature nods to 2021 like free outdoor screenings and an online edition, Tribeca At Home. A rich documentary slate tackles abortion, press freedom and the rise of social media. There’s a first-time award for environmental impact and a series of talks with Blackhouse Foundation centered on Poc storytelling.
“We’re an activist festival,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder with Robert De Niro and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises. “When you think back to how we founded the festival, we’ve always been political,” she added, a nod to the duo launching Tribeca after the September 11 terrorist attacks to buck up a physically and emotionally devastated neighborhood.
This year,...
“We’re an activist festival,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder with Robert De Niro and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises. “When you think back to how we founded the festival, we’ve always been political,” she added, a nod to the duo launching Tribeca after the September 11 terrorist attacks to buck up a physically and emotionally devastated neighborhood.
This year,...
- 6/7/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Rise Films is nearing the end of what has been a monumental month for the London-based production outfit. Last week, HBO Max launched the company’s two-part documentary George Carlin’s American Dream, which chronicles the life and five-decade career of the comedian with Judd Apatow in the director’s seat.
The Oscar and Emmy-winning company also saw its documentary, All That Breathes, from Shaunak Sen, sell to HBO Documentary films earlier this week before it was shown in the Cannes Special Screening section last night. Last week, Deadline revealed that the company would be producing landmark Sky documentary Once Upon A Time In Londongrad with Hulu’s WeWork helmer Jed Rothstein. The NBCUniversal project explores 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over the last two decades.
It marks the culmination of the company’s 15-year climb to forge itself as one of the key indie...
The Oscar and Emmy-winning company also saw its documentary, All That Breathes, from Shaunak Sen, sell to HBO Documentary films earlier this week before it was shown in the Cannes Special Screening section last night. Last week, Deadline revealed that the company would be producing landmark Sky documentary Once Upon A Time In Londongrad with Hulu’s WeWork helmer Jed Rothstein. The NBCUniversal project explores 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over the last two decades.
It marks the culmination of the company’s 15-year climb to forge itself as one of the key indie...
- 5/24/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hulu’s WeWork director Jed Rothstein is forging landmark Sky documentary Once Upon a Time in Londongrad, exploring 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over two decades. Scroll down for the trailer.
Oscar-winning production outfit Rise Films is behind the show in association with in association with Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, BuzzFeed Studios and Concordia Studio.
Helmed by investigative reporter Heidi Blake, the doc series is incredibly timely and will examine how Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power have made the UK reliant on Russian money and thereby led to missed opportunities to contain the Kremlin.
The deaths, which include high-profiles such as Alexander Litvinenko, will be explored in connection with the hidden underworld of Russian exiles in London, coming as high-profile Russians living in the UK such as former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich face sanctions. The issue has...
Oscar-winning production outfit Rise Films is behind the show in association with in association with Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, BuzzFeed Studios and Concordia Studio.
Helmed by investigative reporter Heidi Blake, the doc series is incredibly timely and will examine how Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power have made the UK reliant on Russian money and thereby led to missed opportunities to contain the Kremlin.
The deaths, which include high-profiles such as Alexander Litvinenko, will be explored in connection with the hidden underworld of Russian exiles in London, coming as high-profile Russians living in the UK such as former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich face sanctions. The issue has...
- 5/16/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
SXSW can’t get enough of Adam Neumann. Just last year, during the festival’s virtual edition, Jed Rothstein’s documentary feature, “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” centered on the co-working company’s co-founder. Now, for SXSW’s in-person return, he’s back — albeit being played by Jared Leto in the Apple TV+ scripted series, “WeCrashed.”
Expanding the runtime from 104 minutes to eight hours and adding a love story to the office drama, Drew Crevello and Lee Eisenberg’s low-key satire of WeWork’s rise and fall doesn’t suffer all the same flaws as its unscripted predecessor. Leto ably captures Neumann’s magnetism, which was oft-discussed yet never realized in the doc. The series’ structure is sound, doing just enough to support yet another in media res opening. The dark comedy clicks, the design is polished, and pacing smooth, but like the documentary (now...
Expanding the runtime from 104 minutes to eight hours and adding a love story to the office drama, Drew Crevello and Lee Eisenberg’s low-key satire of WeWork’s rise and fall doesn’t suffer all the same flaws as its unscripted predecessor. Leto ably captures Neumann’s magnetism, which was oft-discussed yet never realized in the doc. The series’ structure is sound, doing just enough to support yet another in media res opening. The dark comedy clicks, the design is polished, and pacing smooth, but like the documentary (now...
- 3/12/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Adam Neumann’s vision of a communal, creative, snack hub-filled future comes crashing down in a fake-it-till-you-make-it fable
Jed Rothstein’s very entertaining documentary is another horror story from the tulip-feverish world of tech startups: its subject is WeWork, co-founded in 2010 by the (allegedly) charismatic entrepreneur Adam Neumann – part CEO, part cult leader. His business model was basically really simple: renting out cubicle-style office space to creatives and freelancers in buildings in which he’d bought short leases on borrowed money. But these tenants got shared facilities such as groovy hangout areas, table football, coffee and snack hubs and the feeling that they were part of a vital experiment in communal creativity, a vision of a new interrelated future.
Neumann waffled on like this endlessly, like Steve Jobs without an iPhone in his hand. The business took off, and the hype and the business journalism adoration took off, too. There...
Jed Rothstein’s very entertaining documentary is another horror story from the tulip-feverish world of tech startups: its subject is WeWork, co-founded in 2010 by the (allegedly) charismatic entrepreneur Adam Neumann – part CEO, part cult leader. His business model was basically really simple: renting out cubicle-style office space to creatives and freelancers in buildings in which he’d bought short leases on borrowed money. But these tenants got shared facilities such as groovy hangout areas, table football, coffee and snack hubs and the feeling that they were part of a vital experiment in communal creativity, a vision of a new interrelated future.
Neumann waffled on like this endlessly, like Steve Jobs without an iPhone in his hand. The business took off, and the hype and the business journalism adoration took off, too. There...
- 8/11/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Where have you gone, Rudy Giuliani?
A new documentary from MRC Non-Fiction and Rolling Stone poses precisely that question, delving into the former New York City mayor’s move from being a beloved 9/11 leader to consigliere and conspiracy-theorist-in-chief to one Donald J. Trump.
The film will be based on Seth Hettena’s 2020 article for Rolling Stone, “What Happened to America’s Mayor?” It’s being directed by Zach Heinzerling, an Oscar nominee for “Cutie & The Boxer,” and Gabrielle Schonder, a two-time Emmy winner whose credits include “The NRA: Under Fire.”
The film follows Giuliani’s downward trajectory, taking viewers from the universal adulation that greeted his response to the attacks of September 11th, to his move into the more fringe parts of the political spectrum. That includes his role trying to get dirt on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which led to the Ukraine scandal and Trump’s first impeachment,...
A new documentary from MRC Non-Fiction and Rolling Stone poses precisely that question, delving into the former New York City mayor’s move from being a beloved 9/11 leader to consigliere and conspiracy-theorist-in-chief to one Donald J. Trump.
The film will be based on Seth Hettena’s 2020 article for Rolling Stone, “What Happened to America’s Mayor?” It’s being directed by Zach Heinzerling, an Oscar nominee for “Cutie & The Boxer,” and Gabrielle Schonder, a two-time Emmy winner whose credits include “The NRA: Under Fire.”
The film follows Giuliani’s downward trajectory, taking viewers from the universal adulation that greeted his response to the attacks of September 11th, to his move into the more fringe parts of the political spectrum. That includes his role trying to get dirt on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which led to the Ukraine scandal and Trump’s first impeachment,...
- 5/10/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A new documentary about the public life of Rudy Giuliani is now in production, and it’s based on the 2020 Rolling Stone article “What Happened to America’s Mayor?” by Seth Hettena. The film will be directed by Academy Award-nominated “Cutie and the Boxer” filmmaker Zach Heinzerling, and two-time News and Documentary Emmy Award winner Gabrielle Schonder, known for her contributions to “Frontline” and “60 Minutes.”
The film is being produced and financed MRC Non-Fiction, a division of MRC, which is currently engaged with IndieWire parent company Pmc in a joint venture partnership.
Per the official synopsis: “The film reflects on what Rudy Giuliani once represented to most Americans: a man whose steady response to the attacks of September 11th, 2001 transcended partisan politics and transformed him into a national hero, and explores how the man christened ‘America’s Mayor’ fell from grace and into a downward spiral that’s marred his once venerable reputation.
The film is being produced and financed MRC Non-Fiction, a division of MRC, which is currently engaged with IndieWire parent company Pmc in a joint venture partnership.
Per the official synopsis: “The film reflects on what Rudy Giuliani once represented to most Americans: a man whose steady response to the attacks of September 11th, 2001 transcended partisan politics and transformed him into a national hero, and explores how the man christened ‘America’s Mayor’ fell from grace and into a downward spiral that’s marred his once venerable reputation.
- 5/10/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The controversial life and career of Rudy Giuliani is to be the subject of a feature documentary from the team behind Hulu’s recent WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn doc.
Campfire Studios, the recently rebranded doc producer behind FX’s The Most Dangerous Animal of All and Netflix’s The Innocent Man, is producing the film with Jed Rothstein attached to direct. Rothstein helmed the WeWork doc as well as projects such as The China Hustle and Killing in the Name.
Olive Hill Media is fully financing the project, which is also being produced by Forbes Entertainment. It is the production arm of the business magazine’s latest film project and the project is based on its reporting of the former Mayor of New York and Donald Trump advisor over the last five decades.
Giuliani is a fascinating and divisive figure and has added...
Campfire Studios, the recently rebranded doc producer behind FX’s The Most Dangerous Animal of All and Netflix’s The Innocent Man, is producing the film with Jed Rothstein attached to direct. Rothstein helmed the WeWork doc as well as projects such as The China Hustle and Killing in the Name.
Olive Hill Media is fully financing the project, which is also being produced by Forbes Entertainment. It is the production arm of the business magazine’s latest film project and the project is based on its reporting of the former Mayor of New York and Donald Trump advisor over the last five decades.
Giuliani is a fascinating and divisive figure and has added...
- 5/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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“WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” the Jed Rothstein-directed documentary about the rise and fall of former billionaire business tycoon, Adam Neumann, premiered exclusively on Hulu on Friday.
If documentaries are a big part of your streaming routine, Hulu is a great destination to find an array of films to binge. From addictive true crime documentaries to fashion films, and behind-the-scenes looks at your favorite musicians and bands, Hulu has something for every kind of viewer.
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“WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” the Jed Rothstein-directed documentary about the rise and fall of former billionaire business tycoon, Adam Neumann, premiered exclusively on Hulu on Friday.
If documentaries are a big part of your streaming routine, Hulu is a great destination to find an array of films to binge. From addictive true crime documentaries to fashion films, and behind-the-scenes looks at your favorite musicians and bands, Hulu has something for every kind of viewer.
Not subscribed to Hulu? No problem. Monthly plans start at $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year for ad-supported streaming. The subscription gives you access to thousands of shows and movies. HBO Max, Cinemax,...
- 4/2/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Adam Neumann had a vision.
The WeWork co-founder wasn’t just renting temporary office space. He was reconstructing the sense of community that had been lost by remote working and email and the other technological advances that had left people feeling more disconnected from their neighbors and colleagues. Initially, financiers bought what Neumann was selling, with the likes of SoftBank bankrolling the company’s global expansion and sending WeWork’s valuation into the stratosphere.
But as a new documentary, “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” illustrates, Neumann was undone by the punishing reality of a bottom line. At some point, companies need to have a viable way to make a profit. After WeWork’s planned initial public offering imploded in 2019 under the withering scrutiny of investors who were unimpressed with the company’s financial disclosures and its creative accounting, Neumann was pushed out. However, he...
The WeWork co-founder wasn’t just renting temporary office space. He was reconstructing the sense of community that had been lost by remote working and email and the other technological advances that had left people feeling more disconnected from their neighbors and colleagues. Initially, financiers bought what Neumann was selling, with the likes of SoftBank bankrolling the company’s global expansion and sending WeWork’s valuation into the stratosphere.
But as a new documentary, “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” illustrates, Neumann was undone by the punishing reality of a bottom line. At some point, companies need to have a viable way to make a profit. After WeWork’s planned initial public offering imploded in 2019 under the withering scrutiny of investors who were unimpressed with the company’s financial disclosures and its creative accounting, Neumann was pushed out. However, he...
- 3/30/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Many companies these days throw around terms like “innovation,” “digital transformation,” and “entrepreneurial culture” without actually doing anything unique, a core critique lobbied by NYU professor Scott Galloway when assessing the value of real-estate start-up WeWork, who was valued like a tech company rather than a real estate company. Jed Rothstein’s energetic business documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn explores the toxic side of the real estate company later known as The We Company and its flamboyant founder Adam Neumann.
Raised on an Israeli kibbutz, Neumann arrives in New York to live with his model sister and creates the co-working space WeWork with Miguel McKelvey, who also grew up on a commune, though in Oregon. They envision not just shared office space like those run by Regus––which looked more like doctors’ offices than the hip Instagram-friendly spaces they designed––but a “capitalist...
Raised on an Israeli kibbutz, Neumann arrives in New York to live with his model sister and creates the co-working space WeWork with Miguel McKelvey, who also grew up on a commune, though in Oregon. They envision not just shared office space like those run by Regus––which looked more like doctors’ offices than the hip Instagram-friendly spaces they designed––but a “capitalist...
- 3/24/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Hulu has released a new trailer for its upcoming documentary chronicling the boom and bust of WeWork. The film is set to arrive on the streaming platform April 2nd.
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn was directed by Jed Rothstein and will examine how the office-sharing startup became one of the most overvalued companies in an era defined by overvalued companies. The film will also delve into how WeWork’s founder, Adam Neumann, cultivated a messianic aura that masked the obvious shortcomings of his company. Or,...
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn was directed by Jed Rothstein and will examine how the office-sharing startup became one of the most overvalued companies in an era defined by overvalued companies. The film will also delve into how WeWork’s founder, Adam Neumann, cultivated a messianic aura that masked the obvious shortcomings of his company. Or,...
- 3/17/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
These days, eccentric, enigmatic tech founders are a dime a dozen. Heck, they have been for a decade now. “The Social Network” set a high bar for probing the callow mindsets driving so many new money decision-makers, and “Silicon Valley” parodied start-ups and their so-called geniuses for six seasons. That film came out in 2010, and that show has been over for two years. Yet our cultural fascination with the concept of an overnight success remains. It may never fade. The American dream is built on believing anyone with the right idea can become rich from it, and fast.
“WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” tells one of these stories. Following the path laid out by its subtitle, Hulu’s documentary tracks the meteoric rise of a modest co-working venture as it morphed into the behemoth We Company — housing a half-dozen lifestyle brands like WeLive, WeGrow, and,...
“WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” tells one of these stories. Following the path laid out by its subtitle, Hulu’s documentary tracks the meteoric rise of a modest co-working venture as it morphed into the behemoth We Company — housing a half-dozen lifestyle brands like WeLive, WeGrow, and,...
- 3/17/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Was Adam Neumann’s WeWork, one of the biggest and most exciting companies to completely flame out in recent years, just some sort of giant cult?
That’s one of the questions posed in the new Hulu documentary “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn.” The documentary film is one of several projects coming soon about WeWork, which provided shared, flexible work spaces for tech startups and became wildly overvalued before failing to go public, leading to founder and CEO Neumann to step down.
The documentary shows how Neumann was seen as a guru of sorts; an influential, hippie-messianic leader who convinced employees they were changing the world. That mentality, as the doc shows, led to overspending and lavish parties and lifestyles that ultimately led to the company’s disastrous crash.
“I believed every word that came out of Adam’s mouth,” one subject in the trailer says.
That’s one of the questions posed in the new Hulu documentary “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn.” The documentary film is one of several projects coming soon about WeWork, which provided shared, flexible work spaces for tech startups and became wildly overvalued before failing to go public, leading to founder and CEO Neumann to step down.
The documentary shows how Neumann was seen as a guru of sorts; an influential, hippie-messianic leader who convinced employees they were changing the world. That mentality, as the doc shows, led to overspending and lavish parties and lifestyles that ultimately led to the company’s disastrous crash.
“I believed every word that came out of Adam’s mouth,” one subject in the trailer says.
- 3/17/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Hulu on Wednesday unveiled premiere dates for its spring slate of original documentaries, including a film on the “cautionary tale” of WeWork and its charismatic co-founder Adam Neumann.
Weighing in with an 11-word title, WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn debuts on the streaming platform April 2. Jed Rothstein directed the documentary exploring the office space-sharing startup that attracted massive investment and then nearly collapsed in a twisted pile of Herman Miller chairs. Neumann, described as a “hippie-messianic leader,” was bought out to the tune of a billion dollars.
As Deadline reported last month, Apple TV+ has separately ordered WeCrashed, a limited series based on the WeWork debacle, to star Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto.
Hulu says its documentary benefits from interviews with “journalists, experts and high-ranking former employees” to tell “one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years.” Campfire, Forbes and...
Weighing in with an 11-word title, WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn debuts on the streaming platform April 2. Jed Rothstein directed the documentary exploring the office space-sharing startup that attracted massive investment and then nearly collapsed in a twisted pile of Herman Miller chairs. Neumann, described as a “hippie-messianic leader,” was bought out to the tune of a billion dollars.
As Deadline reported last month, Apple TV+ has separately ordered WeCrashed, a limited series based on the WeWork debacle, to star Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto.
Hulu says its documentary benefits from interviews with “journalists, experts and high-ranking former employees” to tell “one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years.” Campfire, Forbes and...
- 2/10/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu has three documentaries — “WeWork,” “Kid 90” and “Sasquatch” — slated to release on the streaming service this spring.
“Kid 90,” an intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, will be available to stream on March 12. Directed by Soleil Moon Frye, the film uses hundreds of hours of footage captured by the child actress after she became known to the world as Punky Brewster. “Kid 90” is described as a “deeply personal coming-of-age story” that explores how “sometimes we need to look back to find our way forward.” It includes interviews with fellow child actors David Arquette, Stephen Dorff, Balthazar Getty, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, Tori Leonard and Heather McComb. STX and Appian Way executive produced.
“WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” will premiere on April 2. Incorporating interviews with journalists, experts, high-ranking former employees and prior WeWork members, the feature documentary explores the rise and...
“Kid 90,” an intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, will be available to stream on March 12. Directed by Soleil Moon Frye, the film uses hundreds of hours of footage captured by the child actress after she became known to the world as Punky Brewster. “Kid 90” is described as a “deeply personal coming-of-age story” that explores how “sometimes we need to look back to find our way forward.” It includes interviews with fellow child actors David Arquette, Stephen Dorff, Balthazar Getty, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, Tori Leonard and Heather McComb. STX and Appian Way executive produced.
“WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” will premiere on April 2. Incorporating interviews with journalists, experts, high-ranking former employees and prior WeWork members, the feature documentary explores the rise and...
- 2/10/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
28th edition of Texas festival will run online-only from March 16-20.
SXSW Online 2021 has unveiled its full film line-up of 75 features as well as shorts, episodics and special events, and announced Charli Xcx documentary Alone Together from Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler as the closing film.
The Headliners selection about quarantined pop star Charli Xcx making an album that unifies a community appears in that section alongside Mary Wharton’s documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, and previously announced SXSW opener Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil.
The 28th edition of SXSW will run from March 16-20. Seven films...
SXSW Online 2021 has unveiled its full film line-up of 75 features as well as shorts, episodics and special events, and announced Charli Xcx documentary Alone Together from Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler as the closing film.
The Headliners selection about quarantined pop star Charli Xcx making an album that unifies a community appears in that section alongside Mary Wharton’s documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, and previously announced SXSW opener Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil.
The 28th edition of SXSW will run from March 16-20. Seven films...
- 2/10/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The WeWork documentary from Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire, Forbes Entertainment and Olive Hill Media has landed at Hulu.
The feature-length film, directed by Jed Rothstein, becomes the latest doc project for the streamer, which is building up its library of original non-fiction titles including Fyre Fraud and Hillary.
Production on the untitled documentary, which started remotely in April, is close to being complete and it is set to air in 2021. It is being directed by Rothstein, who directed The China Hustle and Killing in the Name.
The doc will follow the rise and fall of the shared workspace company under its hard partying founder. It will look at how over the last ten years founder Adam Neumann was able to raise more than $12B from the likes of JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and command a $47B valuation. However, while the company was looking for a $100B IPO,...
The feature-length film, directed by Jed Rothstein, becomes the latest doc project for the streamer, which is building up its library of original non-fiction titles including Fyre Fraud and Hillary.
Production on the untitled documentary, which started remotely in April, is close to being complete and it is set to air in 2021. It is being directed by Rothstein, who directed The China Hustle and Killing in the Name.
The doc will follow the rise and fall of the shared workspace company under its hard partying founder. It will look at how over the last ten years founder Adam Neumann was able to raise more than $12B from the likes of JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and command a $47B valuation. However, while the company was looking for a $100B IPO,...
- 10/6/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Executive produced and directed by Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney and Roger Ross Williams, with episodes also helmed by Jed Rothstein, Andy Grieve and Sarah Dowland, The Innocence Files is a riveting, nine-part docuseries that dives deep into eight wrongful convictions that The Innocence Project and its affiliated Innocence Network fought tooth and nail to overturn. The Netflix series gets off to a binge-worthy start with its first three installments — “The Evidence: Indeed and Without Doubt,” “The Evidence: The Truth Will Defend Me,” and “The Evidence: The Duty to Correct” — all directed by Academy Award-winner Roger Ross Williams. (And if your time […]...
- 4/24/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Executive produced and directed by Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney and Roger Ross Williams, with episodes also helmed by Jed Rothstein, Andy Grieve and Sarah Dowland, The Innocence Files is a riveting, nine-part docuseries that dives deep into eight wrongful convictions that The Innocence Project and its affiliated Innocence Network fought tooth and nail to overturn. The Netflix series gets off to a binge-worthy start with its first three installments — “The Evidence: Indeed and Without Doubt,” “The Evidence: The Truth Will Defend Me,” and “The Evidence: The Duty to Correct” — all directed by Academy Award-winner Roger Ross Williams. (And if your time […]...
- 4/24/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Exclusive: The story of WeWork and its controversial founder and former CEO Adam Neumann is to be the subject of a feature documentary from Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire, Forbes Entertainment and Olive Hill Media.
Jed Rothstein, who directed the Oscar-nominated short Killing In The Name, as well as an episode of Netflix’s recent true crime docuseries The Innocence Files, will helm.
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The doc will follow the rise and fall of the shared workspace company under its hard partying founder. It will look at how over the last ten years Neumann was able to raise more than $12B from the likes of JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon...
Jed Rothstein, who directed the Oscar-nominated short Killing In The Name, as well as an episode of Netflix’s recent true crime docuseries The Innocence Files, will helm.
More from DeadlineWondery Podcast 'WeCrashed' In Works As Limited Series At AppleStephen Falk Tapped As Showrunner Of WeWork Limited Series Starring Nicholas Braun For Chernin/Endeavor Content'The Innocent Man': Campfire's Ross Dinerstein Reveals How Netflix True-Crime Series Helped Get Karl Fontenot Out Of Jail
The doc will follow the rise and fall of the shared workspace company under its hard partying founder. It will look at how over the last ten years Neumann was able to raise more than $12B from the likes of JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon...
- 4/23/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Thirty years ago, Levon Brooks was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year old girl in Mississippi. Despite having an alibi, he was sentenced to life in prison based on bite mark analysis. A few months, later a second young girl was raped and murdered and Kennedy Brewer, the boyfriend of the victim’s mother was arrested and sentenced death for the crime, based on similar bite mark analysis.
Brewer subsequently wrote to The Innocence Project, which was able to get the pair exonerated and freed after having DNA evidence at the crime scene tested.
These cases form the first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files and were directed by American Jail director Roger Ross Williams,...
Brewer subsequently wrote to The Innocence Project, which was able to get the pair exonerated and freed after having DNA evidence at the crime scene tested.
These cases form the first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files and were directed by American Jail director Roger Ross Williams,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Quibi released the official trailer for “Nikki Fre$h” and Leslie Jordan has been cast as a series regular on “Call Me Kat.”
Casting
Leslie Jordan has joined the cast of “Call Me Kat” as a series regular. Jordan will play Phil, who works for Kat (Mayim Bialik) and bakes all the pastries at the Cat Cafe. Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life after his recent breakup with his longtime partner. The role brings Jordan back to Fox, as he previously starred in the multi-cam comedy “The Cool Kids” for the network. The half hour series is executive produced by Darlene Hunt, Bialik, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Angie Stephenson and Miranda Hart.
Dates
AMC has announced Season 2 of “NOS4A2” will premiere on Monday, June 1 at 10 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Pt. The second season picks up eight years after the...
Casting
Leslie Jordan has joined the cast of “Call Me Kat” as a series regular. Jordan will play Phil, who works for Kat (Mayim Bialik) and bakes all the pastries at the Cat Cafe. Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life after his recent breakup with his longtime partner. The role brings Jordan back to Fox, as he previously starred in the multi-cam comedy “The Cool Kids” for the network. The half hour series is executive produced by Darlene Hunt, Bialik, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Angie Stephenson and Miranda Hart.
Dates
AMC has announced Season 2 of “NOS4A2” will premiere on Monday, June 1 at 10 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Pt. The second season picks up eight years after the...
- 4/2/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
As everyone finishes binge-watching “Tiger King,” Netflix is preparing to release their next true crime documentary, “The Innocence Files.” The nine episode series looks at the attorneys and clients brought together as part of the Innocence Project, a non-profit organization committed to criminal justice reform and changing wrongful convictions. Episodes will be directed by Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams, Jed Rothstein, Andy Grieve, and Sarah Dowland.
The trailer for the series situates this as a show where the verdicts have already been decided — and the inherent knowledge that said verdict is wrong. Nine different cases are laid out, involving predominately men of color, who are serving long-term sentences for crimes they didn’t commit. One attorney says about one case that there is no physical evidence connecting the client to the crime. Are these convictions frame-up jobs to secure a conviction? That’s up for the viewer to...
The trailer for the series situates this as a show where the verdicts have already been decided — and the inherent knowledge that said verdict is wrong. Nine different cases are laid out, involving predominately men of color, who are serving long-term sentences for crimes they didn’t commit. One attorney says about one case that there is no physical evidence connecting the client to the crime. Are these convictions frame-up jobs to secure a conviction? That’s up for the viewer to...
- 4/2/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
“I think the best thing that a lawyer can do with their license is get an innocent guy out of prison,” lawyer Ellen Eggers says in the trailer for Netflix’s The Innocence Files, a new docuseries focused on just that: the exoneration of the wrongfully imprisoned.
Executive-produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?), Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence) — with episodes also directed by Academy Award nominee Jed Rothstein...
Executive-produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?), Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence) — with episodes also directed by Academy Award nominee Jed Rothstein...
- 4/2/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix has ordered a docuseries titled “The Innocence Files,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The hour-long episodes detail the personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn. The series is broken down into three parts — The Evidence, The Witness, and The Prosecution. The subjects of the series will be Chester Hollman III, Kenneth Wyniemko, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Thomas Haynesworth, Franky Carrillo, Levon Brooks, Kennedy Brewer, and Keith Harward.
The entire nine-episode season will debut on Netflix on April 15.
“We are thrilled to be part of the groundbreaking Netflix series, ‘The Innocence Files,'” said Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, Innocence Project co-founders and special counsel of the Innocence Project. “This is truly important television. Each episode reveals–step by step–how the American criminal justice system gets it wrong. These stories feature people whose freedom...
The hour-long episodes detail the personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn. The series is broken down into three parts — The Evidence, The Witness, and The Prosecution. The subjects of the series will be Chester Hollman III, Kenneth Wyniemko, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Thomas Haynesworth, Franky Carrillo, Levon Brooks, Kennedy Brewer, and Keith Harward.
The entire nine-episode season will debut on Netflix on April 15.
“We are thrilled to be part of the groundbreaking Netflix series, ‘The Innocence Files,'” said Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, Innocence Project co-founders and special counsel of the Innocence Project. “This is truly important television. Each episode reveals–step by step–how the American criminal justice system gets it wrong. These stories feature people whose freedom...
- 3/9/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Cinema’s Legacy programme highlights films directed by women.
The Favourite, Vox Lux, and the first episode of Patty Jenkins’s limited series I Am The Night are among the selection to play in Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy and Midnight at AFI Fest 2018 presented by Audi.
The Special Screenings selections are: Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski), Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Gotham Awards nominee The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos), Roma (Alfonso Cuarón), the North American Premiere of Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird), Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) and Vox Lux (Brady Corbet).
Documentaries inckude The Cold Blue (Erik Nelson) and...
The Favourite, Vox Lux, and the first episode of Patty Jenkins’s limited series I Am The Night are among the selection to play in Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy and Midnight at AFI Fest 2018 presented by Audi.
The Special Screenings selections are: Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski), Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Gotham Awards nominee The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos), Roma (Alfonso Cuarón), the North American Premiere of Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird), Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) and Vox Lux (Brady Corbet).
Documentaries inckude The Cold Blue (Erik Nelson) and...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest has added another world premiere to its slate: “I Am the Night,” the upcoming limited series from “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins. Following the true-life story of a woman named Fauna Hodel who was given away at birth and began looking into her own past as a teenager, it joins Chuck Lorre’s “The Kominsky Method” as the Hollywood festival’s only TV programming. Chris Pine and India Eisley star in the limited series from TNT.
AFI Fest has also announced its Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy, and Midnight lineups; among the most buzzed-about selections are Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” “Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux,” David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake,” and Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War.”
This year’s festival runs from November 8–15. Here are all the newly announced titles, with official synopses straight from the festival:
Special Screenings
The Cold...
AFI Fest has also announced its Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy, and Midnight lineups; among the most buzzed-about selections are Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” “Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux,” David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake,” and Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War.”
This year’s festival runs from November 8–15. Here are all the newly announced titles, with official synopses straight from the festival:
Special Screenings
The Cold...
- 10/18/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
As the ongoing clashes between the Donald Trump administration, the Justice Department and FBI continue to make daily headlines, Showtime has ordered the timely Enemies: The President, Justice & The FBI (working title) a new documentary series from Oscar and Emmy-winning director Alex Gibney, inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner’s book, Enemies: A History of the FBI. The four-part docuseries, which provides an in-depth look into the long history of conflict between American presidents and the FBI, will premiere its first installment Sunday, November 18 at 8 Pm Et/Pt. The docuseries was announced today by David Nevins, President and CEO of Showtime Networks at the Television Critics Association’s Summer Press Tour.
Enemies the series tells the long, complex history of presidents testing the rule of law and the FBI’s job to enforce it, as well as an abuse of power from with the bureau. According to Showtime, From...
Enemies the series tells the long, complex history of presidents testing the rule of law and the FBI’s job to enforce it, as well as an abuse of power from with the bureau. According to Showtime, From...
- 8/6/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime has ordered a three-part documentary series on the changing role of athletes in the current political environment that boasts LeBron James among its executive producers.
Showtime president and CEO David Nevins made the announcement at the TCA summer press tour on Monday.
The series is titled “Shut Up and Dribble,” taken from conservative pundit Laura Ingraham’s remarks to James in February when players from the Golden State Warriors declined an invitation to the White House after the 2018 NBA Finals. The controversy serves as a prologue to the series as it chronicles the modern history of the NBA and its players, starting with the 1976 merger of the freewheeling Aba and the more conventional NBA of today.
The league soon became an incubator for many of its top athletes to grow their brands beyond the court, becoming powerful players in commerce and fashion, and transcending the game to become cultural icons.
Showtime president and CEO David Nevins made the announcement at the TCA summer press tour on Monday.
The series is titled “Shut Up and Dribble,” taken from conservative pundit Laura Ingraham’s remarks to James in February when players from the Golden State Warriors declined an invitation to the White House after the 2018 NBA Finals. The controversy serves as a prologue to the series as it chronicles the modern history of the NBA and its players, starting with the 1976 merger of the freewheeling Aba and the more conventional NBA of today.
The league soon became an incubator for many of its top athletes to grow their brands beyond the court, becoming powerful players in commerce and fashion, and transcending the game to become cultural icons.
- 8/6/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Unmuddied Waters: Rothstein Exposes How Financial Loopholes Conned The World
The stock market’s vitality affects almost every aspect of everyday life, potentially changing national economies seemingly overnight. After the 2008 housing market crash, investment of China-based firms through American stock exchanges skyrocketed into a multibillion dollar industry, altering the contemporary financial landscape. However, while prominent voices from all sides debate free market ideals against regulatory oversight, business executive and entrepreneur Dan David plainly states, “there are no heroes in this story”. Jed Rothstein (Killing in the Name) documents David and his team exposing the massive international fraud of Chinese companies… Read the rest
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The stock market’s vitality affects almost every aspect of everyday life, potentially changing national economies seemingly overnight. After the 2008 housing market crash, investment of China-based firms through American stock exchanges skyrocketed into a multibillion dollar industry, altering the contemporary financial landscape. However, while prominent voices from all sides debate free market ideals against regulatory oversight, business executive and entrepreneur Dan David plainly states, “there are no heroes in this story”. Jed Rothstein (Killing in the Name) documents David and his team exposing the massive international fraud of Chinese companies… Read the rest
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- 3/28/2018
- by Matthew Roe
- IONCINEMA.com
The China Hustle Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Jed Rothstein Screenwriter: Jed Rothstein Cast: Dan David, Matthew Wiechert, Carson Block, James Chanos, Soren Aandahl, Maj Soueidnn Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 1/23/18 Opens: March 30, 2018 History has judged capitalism to be the winner. With the exception of a handful of countries—Venezuela, North […]
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- 3/27/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Musicians The xx presents a curated programme; festival hosts world premieres of new films by Andreas Dalsgaard and Iris Zaki.
Cph:Dox will offer more than 200 films during its 15th event, which runs March 15-25.
In its five competitions (full list below), world premieres include Woman In Sink director Iris Zaki’s new film Unsettling, about Jewish setllers in the West Bank; The War Show director Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Great Game, about a man trying to find out if his grandfather was a spy; Emma Davie & Peter Mettler’s Becoming Animal, about how our relationship with nature has evolved; and Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei’s Laila at the Bridge, about an Afghan woman trying to save heroin addicts in Kabul.
Highlights also include a specially curated programme by The xx; a focus on justice (films will include Pre-Crime, Recruiting for Jihad and The Congo Tribunal); and a film programme and art exhibition dedicated to social experiments (with films...
Cph:Dox will offer more than 200 films during its 15th event, which runs March 15-25.
In its five competitions (full list below), world premieres include Woman In Sink director Iris Zaki’s new film Unsettling, about Jewish setllers in the West Bank; The War Show director Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Great Game, about a man trying to find out if his grandfather was a spy; Emma Davie & Peter Mettler’s Becoming Animal, about how our relationship with nature has evolved; and Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei’s Laila at the Bridge, about an Afghan woman trying to save heroin addicts in Kabul.
Highlights also include a specially curated programme by The xx; a focus on justice (films will include Pre-Crime, Recruiting for Jihad and The Congo Tribunal); and a film programme and art exhibition dedicated to social experiments (with films...
- 2/16/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
"This was simply too good to be true." Magnolia Pictures has debuted the official trailer for Jed Rothstein's documentary The China Hustle, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and the Palm Springs Film Festival. The film investigates a "massive web of fraud" on Wall Street involving high-return investments in China. Even though you think you've heard of all the financial scams, there's apparently another one and this doc looks into that. "An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of." And once you've seen this, you will definitely have heard of it and now the big question becomes - what do we do about it? How do we stop it? I'm curious to see this doc, but afraid it's going to make me upset. Take a look. Here's the official...
- 12/22/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Here's a trailer for a documentary called The China Hustle that tells the true story about “the biggest heist you’ve never heard of." The doc comes from the same guys who brought us Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and it dives into the details of the fraud being committed by businesses in China as they lie to investors who are throwing tons of money into companies who are falsifying their records.
This is actually pretty insane, and the fact that it's still currently happening is scary! These business practices and events could seriously cripple our financial system. This synopsis and trailer can fill you in a little better on what exactly is happening.
From the producers of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a Wall Street heist story about a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets.
This is actually pretty insane, and the fact that it's still currently happening is scary! These business practices and events could seriously cripple our financial system. This synopsis and trailer can fill you in a little better on what exactly is happening.
From the producers of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a Wall Street heist story about a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets.
- 12/22/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
If you thought the real estate collapse and the ensuing financial crisis got Wall Street to wise up, guess again. Bankers are still rolling the dice on high risk investments, looking for a big pay day and yet another scandal is exposed in the documentary, “The China Hustle.”
Directed by Jed Rothstein, and produced by Stacey Offman, Alex Gibney and Frank Marshall, the film dives into yet another tale of a too-good-to-be-true investment that turns out to be hollow inside.
Continue reading ‘The China Hustle’ Trailer: Hold Onto Your Wallet, Capitalism Comes Crashing Down at The Playlist.
Directed by Jed Rothstein, and produced by Stacey Offman, Alex Gibney and Frank Marshall, the film dives into yet another tale of a too-good-to-be-true investment that turns out to be hollow inside.
Continue reading ‘The China Hustle’ Trailer: Hold Onto Your Wallet, Capitalism Comes Crashing Down at The Playlist.
- 12/22/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Magnolia Pictures has picked up the worldwide distribution rights to Jed Rothstein's documentary The China Hustle, which has its world premiere at this years Toronto Film Festival. The company is aiming at an early 2018 release. The doc centers on the 2008 financial crisis, when investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly sought new alternatives for high-return investments in the global markets. With Chinese indexes demonstrating explosive growth, the…...
- 10/10/2017
- Deadline
Not that America's ever likely to have a government willing to do it, but remind me again why we can't just seize the assets of the entire banker/broker/speculator class and sentence them all to lifetimes teaching math in public schools? Docs like Jed Rothstein's excellent The China Hustle present us with such frequent occasions for outrage that, in the interest of fairness, it's time for a few top documentarians to assemble a five-minute disclaimer to run in front of each new exposé. Call it Bankers: Why the World Needs Some of Them, Only Not Nearly So Many, and Not Nearly...
- 9/14/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Thom Powers
“Resistance is a key theme in this year’s documentaries,” said Tiff Docs Programmer Thom Powers. “We pay witness to rebels challenging the status quo in art, politics, sexuality, religion, fashion, sports and entertainment. They speak powerfully to our times as audiences seek inspirations for battling powerful and corrupt systems.”
Tiff’s 2017 documentary lineup goes deep into the lives of boundary-pushing characters — Grace Jones, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, and Eric Clapton, to name only a few of the most famous. But the celebrity factor isn’t enough to make a great film. What sets these docs apart is their directors’ ability to a bring fresh perspective.
Azmaish: A Journey through the SubcontinentBoom For Real The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Then there are figures whose names you may not recognize, but they become unforgettable after you see them on screen. They include Scotty Bowers, who was...
“Resistance is a key theme in this year’s documentaries,” said Tiff Docs Programmer Thom Powers. “We pay witness to rebels challenging the status quo in art, politics, sexuality, religion, fashion, sports and entertainment. They speak powerfully to our times as audiences seek inspirations for battling powerful and corrupt systems.”
Tiff’s 2017 documentary lineup goes deep into the lives of boundary-pushing characters — Grace Jones, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, and Eric Clapton, to name only a few of the most famous. But the celebrity factor isn’t enough to make a great film. What sets these docs apart is their directors’ ability to a bring fresh perspective.
Azmaish: A Journey through the SubcontinentBoom For Real The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Then there are figures whose names you may not recognize, but they become unforgettable after you see them on screen. They include Scotty Bowers, who was...
- 8/3/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
ThelmaA selection of films from the 2017 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with new films by Sebastián Lelio, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Darren Aronofsky, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo Del Toro, Joachim Trier, Wim Wenders, and many more.Special PRESENTATIONSOpening Night: Ladybird (Greta Gerwig)Closing Night: Sheikh Jackson (Amr Salama)Battle of the Sexes (Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton)Bpm (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)The Brawler (Anurag Kashyap)The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey)Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)Catch the Wind (Gaël Morel)The Children Act (Richard Eyre)The Current War (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio)Downsizing (Alexander Payne)A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie)The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois)Hostiles (Scott Cooper)The Hungry (Bornila Chatterjee)I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)Novitiate (Maggie Betts)Omerta (Hansal Mehta)Plonger (Mélanie Laurent)The Price of Success (Teddy Lussi-Modeste)Professor Marston & the Wonder Women...
- 8/3/2017
- MUBI
Following an initial round of premieres and the announcement that Borg vs. McEnroe will open Toronto International Film Festival 2017, they’ve now announced their lineup for Midnight Madness and Documentaries. Leading the pack of our most-anticipated among midnight tiles is Brawl in Cell Block 99, which is S. Craig Zahler’s follow-up to Bone Tomahawk and will premiere at Venice beforehand. There’s also the latest film from Joseph Kahn, Bodied, which will open the sidebar, and the first trailer has landed.
On the documentary side, there is Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – The New York Public Library, as well as new films from Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck), and more. Check out the new additions below, along with images and trailers where available.
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness Opening Film
Bodied Joseph Kahn, USA
World Premiere
Our #TIFF17 Midnight Madness Opening Night Film is @JosephKahn’s Bodied,...
On the documentary side, there is Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – The New York Public Library, as well as new films from Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck), and more. Check out the new additions below, along with images and trailers where available.
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness Opening Film
Bodied Joseph Kahn, USA
World Premiere
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- 8/2/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The race always begins at Sundance, but the Toronto International Film Festival documentary lineup will impact the list of Oscar contenders — and this year, without clear frontrunners, Tiff’s influence will be greater than ever.
Every year, Thom Powers leads the Tiff documentary programmers through an enormous number of submissions to cull 22 selections. “It never gets any easier to make those decisions,” said Powers, who also programs influential November festival Doc NYC. “This year we’re going to see a greater range of different documentaries spread across the fall festivals, instead of a cluster of films that moves from festival to festival. More films will get more opportunities at the festivals this fall.”
Here’s a list of 10 must-sees for Tiff 2017 with potential to shake up the awards race.
1. “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”: Morgan Spurlock’s under-the-radar sequel to his 2005 Oscar nominee focuses on the new craze...
Every year, Thom Powers leads the Tiff documentary programmers through an enormous number of submissions to cull 22 selections. “It never gets any easier to make those decisions,” said Powers, who also programs influential November festival Doc NYC. “This year we’re going to see a greater range of different documentaries spread across the fall festivals, instead of a cluster of films that moves from festival to festival. More films will get more opportunities at the festivals this fall.”
Here’s a list of 10 must-sees for Tiff 2017 with potential to shake up the awards race.
1. “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”: Morgan Spurlock’s under-the-radar sequel to his 2005 Oscar nominee focuses on the new craze...
- 8/1/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The race always begins at Sundance, but the Toronto International Film Festival documentary lineup will impact the list of Oscar contenders — and this year, without clear frontrunners, Tiff’s influence will be greater than ever.
Every year, Thom Powers leads the Tiff documentary programmers through an enormous number of submissions to cull 22 selections. “It never gets any easier to make those decisions,” said Powers, who also programs influential November festival Doc NYC. “This year we’re going to see a greater range of different documentaries spread across the fall festivals, instead of a cluster of films that moves from festival to festival. More films will get more opportunities at the festivals this fall.”
Here’s a list of 10 must-sees for Tiff 2017 with potential to shake up the awards race.
1. “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”: Morgan Spurlock’s under-the-radar sequel to his 2005 Oscar nominee focuses on the new craze...
Every year, Thom Powers leads the Tiff documentary programmers through an enormous number of submissions to cull 22 selections. “It never gets any easier to make those decisions,” said Powers, who also programs influential November festival Doc NYC. “This year we’re going to see a greater range of different documentaries spread across the fall festivals, instead of a cluster of films that moves from festival to festival. More films will get more opportunities at the festivals this fall.”
Here’s a list of 10 must-sees for Tiff 2017 with potential to shake up the awards race.
1. “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”: Morgan Spurlock’s under-the-radar sequel to his 2005 Oscar nominee focuses on the new craze...
- 8/1/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Morgan Spurlock re-engages with the food industry, James Franco digs into the ‘worst film ever made’.
Top brass at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) unveiled on Tuesday selections in the Tiff Docs, Midnight Madness, and Short Cuts programmes.
The Canadian titles that are part of this year’s programme will be announced on August 9. The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from September 7-17 and will open with Borg/McEnroe.
Tiff Docs
The world premiere of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! joins a marquee Tiff Docs roster from renowned filmmakers that opens with Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami.
Selections include Brett Morgen’s profile of primatologist Jane Goodall in Jane; the story of three Hasidic Jews who attempt to join the secular world in One Of Us by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; Violeta Ayala’s Bolivian drug trade film Cocaine Prison; and Emmanuel Gras’ closing film Makala...
Top brass at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) unveiled on Tuesday selections in the Tiff Docs, Midnight Madness, and Short Cuts programmes.
The Canadian titles that are part of this year’s programme will be announced on August 9. The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from September 7-17 and will open with Borg/McEnroe.
Tiff Docs
The world premiere of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! joins a marquee Tiff Docs roster from renowned filmmakers that opens with Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami.
Selections include Brett Morgen’s profile of primatologist Jane Goodall in Jane; the story of three Hasidic Jews who attempt to join the secular world in One Of Us by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; Violeta Ayala’s Bolivian drug trade film Cocaine Prison; and Emmanuel Gras’ closing film Makala...
- 8/1/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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