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Trailer for 'I Am Bruce Lee' Documentary Is Out

There are countless documentaries out there about the late Bruce Lee's career and life. If you haven't seen any yet, Pete McCormack might be a good place to start. The new doc, “I Am Bruce Lee,” sees limited release on February 9 and, to promote it, a trailer has just been released. By the looks...

19 January 2012
08:45 GMT

'The Invisible War' Trailer Tackles the Most Painful Secret in the US Military

If the name Kirby Dick doesn't ring a bell, then you should probably know that he's the mastermind behind the critically acclaimed 2006 documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated.” He's back with another one. “The Invisible War” will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in early ...

2 December 2011
08:52 GMT

NBC in Hot Water for Decision to Air Conrad Murray Documentary

Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter just days ago, but he's this close to becoming a celebrity thanks to NBC. The network plans to air a documentary shot right after the singer's death in 2009. The other day, word got out that Murray had...

10 November 2011
08:48 GMT

Michael Jackson, Behind the Myth – Video

As we were also saying a while back in one of our editorials, the world has wronged Michael Jackson, the late King of Pop, in ways some of us can't even begin to fathom. The video above will make it easier to understand how that came to happen. Sent our way by one of Michael's millions of fans and truth-see...

3 November 2011
11:01 GMT

Trailer for 'Into the Abyss: A Tale of Life, A Tale of Death'

Award-winning filmmaker Werner Herzog is getting ready to release another film. Called “Into the Abyss: A Tale of Life, A Tale of Death,” it promises to be a real eye-opener, if one is to judge by the first trailer. “Into the Abyss” tackles the ever-burning question of the morality of the deat...

27 October 2011
09:58 GMT

Steve Jobs Documentary Airs This Sunday on Discovery Channel

A documentary about the late Steve Jobs is going to be aired this Sunday, October 18 by Discovery Channel, starring Mythbusters’ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman as hosts. Entertainment Weekly reveals that the cable specialty channel has ordered a documentary of Steve Jobs featuring Adam Savage and Jamie Hynema...

11 October 2011
07:10 GMT

Revenge of the Electric Car: U.S. Cinema Tour Begins This October

Electric cars are gaining momentum after years in which they were shadowed by gas-guzzling automobiles. This resurgence of interest in electric vehicles is exactly what the ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ brings to focus, a documentary that is set to air at cinemas across the United States starting from nex...

20 September 2011
05:39 GMT

Sarah Palin Says Celebrities Hate Her, Wants to See Her Children Dead

While still keeping mum on whether she has any plans to run in the upcoming Presidential elections, Sarah Palin is staying busy these days with a new documentary about her life, “The Undefeated,” and statements about how Hollywood hates her and wants to see her and her children dead. The first ten minutes...

30 June 2011
10:19 GMT

Fans Struggle to Keep Michael Jackson Slanderous Documentary Off German TV

The documentary BBC journalist Martin Bashir made in 2002, “Living with Michael Jackson,” and that eventually led to his prosecution in 2005 on 10 different counts, is still being aired on German network N24. Fans are again trying to block it from getting airtime. This is the second attempt from Michael J...

17 May 2011
10:09 GMT

‘Unlawful Killing’ Documentary to Show Princess Diana Death Photo at Cannes

A new documentary awaiting release at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival has already caused quite a stir in the UK because it will include – and show for the first time onscreen – a paparazzi photo taken as Princess Diana was dying in the 1997 crash in Paris. The photo is available online – and h...

11 May 2011
03:23 GMT

‘The Kennedys’ Docu-Series Fails to Attract Major Advertisers

ReelzChannel picked up History Channel’s 8-part docu-series “The Kennedys” and has plans of airing it very soon. Despite overcoming this obstacle, it would seem that the series still can’t quite get off the ground, as major advertisers would not touch it. With only 3 weeks to go until the prem...

14 March 2011
12:15 GMT

TLC Orders Charlie Sheen Documentary: ‘On the Brink’

It was only a matter of time: those of you who haven’t had enough of Charlie Sheen or are looking for more insight into what has been going on in his life in recent weeks, should know there’s a documentary in the making. TLC is the network to have rushed to secure the rights for the documentary, though wh...

14 March 2011
06:06 GMT

Justin Bieber’s ‘Never Say Never’ Is Getting Lots of Oscar Buzz

Some may have never imagined saying Justin Bieber and Oscar contender in the same sentence, but it seems stranger things have happened. The pop star’s film “Never Say Never” is getting a lot of Oscar buzz for next year’s edition. Just recently, The Biebs added moviemaking to his long list of a...

5 March 2011
06:39 GMT

Guerrilla Artist Banksy Is in LA for Oscars 2011

British guerrilla artist Banksy, whose identity has yet to be established with accuracy, is in Los Angeles, just in time for the Academy Awards 2011, where he’s in the running for Best Documentary with his “Exit Through the Gift Shop.”For several days, graffiti pieces that look like something Banksy...

18 February 2011
03:43 GMT

Michael Moore Sues Weinstein Brothers over ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Documentary

“Fahrenheit 9/11” remains the highest grossing documentary of all times, making over $220 million worldwide. Controversial upon release in 2007, it continues to be so, as director Michael Moore has just sued its distributors, the Weistein brothers.Moore is taking the Weinsteins to court over claims that t...

9 February 2011
04:13 GMT

Katie Holmes’ ‘Kennedys’ Saved, Picked Up by ReelzChannel

History Channel’s much debated miniseries “The Kennedys” has found a new home after being flung from network to network in search of a buyer. It will premiere on April 3 on ReelzChannel, People magazine reports. As we also noted a short while ago, “The Kennedys” caused a lot of drama eve...

2 February 2011
06:31 GMT

Real-Life Kennedys Killed Katie Holmes’ ‘The Kennedys’ Series

Over the weekend, History Channel announced that it wouldn’t be airing the much-hyped 8-part mini-series / documentary “The Kennedys” in spring as scheduled, because it wasn’t historically accurate enough for the network. THR says the real Kennedys played a part in the cancelation. Since the o...

12 January 2011
03:15 GMT

History Channel Cancels ‘The Kennedys’ Mini-Series

Just the other day, Katie Holmes was talking with obvious pride about her work on the 8-part mini-series “The Kennedys,” which was supposed to debut in the US this spring. History Channel has just canceled it, saying it wasn’t historically accurate enough.The docu-series has been surrounded in contr...

8 January 2011
05:54 GMT

Discovery Teams Up with the Vatican for New Exorcist Series

In what is clearly an unprecedented move, the Vatican has agreed to allow access to some of its files in order for Discovery to be able to produce a new series based on actual cases of exorcism and hauntings, called “The Exorcist Files.”Entertainment Weekly has learned that the series will be based on rea...

6 January 2011
10:58 GMT

Discovery Cancels Michael Jackson Autopsy Documentary

Following intense protests from fans and a scathing letter from the Estate, Discovery has canceled a documentary reenacting Michael Jackson’s autopsy, initially scheduled to air in mid-January.As we also reported at the beginning of December, Discovery announced it would air the documentary in the UK, made poss...

3 January 2011
03:10 GMT

Michael Jackson Estate Blasts Discovery for Autopsy Documentary

A while back, word got out the Discovery was preparing to air a documentary on Michael Jackson’s autopsy, using a synthetic cadaver. Fans have been campaigning against it since then – and now the Estate is also joining in the fight. Co-executors John Branca and John McClain have fired off a scathing lette...

30 December 2010
08:36 GMT

Oprah to Duchess Sarah Ferguson: Don’t Spend If You Don’t Have Money

Earlier this year, the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, was publicly shamed as a video of her accepting bribe for access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew emerged in the media. Friend Oprah Winfrey has a piece of advice for her now stop spending like crazy. As we also informed you at the time, Ferguson defended her act...

29 December 2010
11:09 GMT

Ricky Martin Documentary Incites Church Protest

In March this year, singer Ricky Martin came out as gay after years and years of speculation. Since then, he’s been increasingly more open about his orientation, even doing a documentary for an Eurovision affiliate detailing some aspects of his personal life – it is now subject of a church protest.The Adv...

20 December 2010
04:03 GMT

Discovery Will Air Michael Jackson Autopsy, Fans Are Outraged

Discovery Channel has announced it will air a special documentary in January 2011 called “Michael Jackson’s Autopsy: What Really Killed Michael Jackson,” in which they will re-enact the singer’s autopsy based on court documents and witnesses.According to the network, which, apparently, is behi...

11 December 2010
07:19 GMT

‘Catfish’ Review: One of the Most Terrifying Films Ever

Earlier this year, at the Sundance Film Festival, one of the releases that got audiences the most hyped and divided was “Catfish,” a little gem of a film that seems real, claims to be so, yet it’s absolutely terrifying. The film was picked up for distribution in the US and has Brett Ratner as execut...

2 September 2010
05:46 GMT

Pirate Bay Documentary Raises $35,000 in Five Days

An upcoming documentary about the Pirate Bay managed to get the funding it needed for a professional editing studio in just three days, with the help of the Pirate Bay and its users.The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard is a documentary which aims to depict the story of the people behind the site, its three founders. F...

2 September 2010
05:32 GMT

MTV to Air Documentary on Heidi Montag’s Surgeries

Heidi Montag may have chosen to be done with the world of reality television, at least until she gets over the breakup from husband Spencer Pratt, but the world of reality television is not yet done with her. MTV has announced that it will premiere a new documentary meant to highlight the transformations the star has...

9 August 2010
06:35 GMT

Tom Cruise Wants Reality Show About His Life with Katie Holmes

Ever since they first started dating, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, or TomKat as the media chose to dub them after the Brangelina model, have managed to keep their romance off the first pages of the tabloids, despite ever-increasing interest in them. For some reason or another, the actor seems to have had a change of ...

22 July 2010
10:34 GMT

YouTube Teams Up with Ridley Scott for Experimental Documentary

YouTube leveled the playing field for videos. Anyone with a webcam can create a YouTube video, one that can become much more popular than professional content available on the same platform. Of course, just because you can doesn’t mean you should, the site doesn’t exactly suffer a shortage of meaningless,...

7 July 2010
05:49 GMT

Distributors Uncertain About Stomach-Turning Joaquin Phoenix Documentary

For more than a year now, reports about Joaquin Phoenix’s mental health have been making the rounds non-stop. The actor announced in January 2009 that he’d be quitting acting to pursue a career in rap instead, presumably inspired by the wonderful critical reception he got for his singing on “Walk th...

10 May 2010
11:52 GMT

Katie Holmes Is Jacqueline Kennedy in New Mini-Series

Even before Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise, word in the industry had it that he wanted her to be less of an actress and more of a housewife. Whether that was true or not no one knows, but soon enough, Katie became a mother and she went on an official break. As of late, she’s been slowly making her way back on ...

29 April 2010
05:08 GMT

Shock as Reality Show Invites Contestants to Kill

The other night, a French network aired something called “Le Jeu de la Mort” or “Game of Death,” a documentary on how far some people would go if invested with absolute power and in order to achieve fame. Under the pretense of shooting a pilot for a new reality show, producers wanted to see ho...

18 March 2010
10:10 GMT

Final Cut on the Oscar’s Red Carpet

Two important brands, the  Oscar Academy  Awards and Steve Jobs company - Apple. This year the link between these two names is defined by the Final Cut-created documentaries. Nine of ten documentaries nominated for this year’s Oscars, in both selected categories, respectively “Documentary Featur...

8 March 2010
11:08 GMT

Joss Whedon Making Geek Documentary, Wants You

Now that, more or less officially, Joss Whedon, creator of the “Buffy” televised series, has been pushed out of the long feature remake, he’s looking for something new. That new endeavor seems do be, from what E! Online is saying, a documentary on Comic-Con fanatics, the kind that still attend conve...

19 February 2010
03:06 GMT

Lindsay Lohan Travels to India to Help Children

Lindsay Lohan is a good actress, movie critics often say, but her biggest misfortune to date is that she’s letting her public persona, her party-girl image in particular, do away with the best career options that might come her way. Marking a new phase in her life, as well as to show her commitment to breaking ...

9 December 2009
11:10 GMT

Oscars Snub Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary

Michael Moore is, by now, a director that has probably become well accustomed to the idea that whatever project he comes out with, and especially if it’s a documentary, will be regarded as “uncomfortable” (to say the least) by many. However, even he hoped that the same would not apply for the Academ...

21 November 2009
02:33 GMT

Paranormal Activity – Movie Review

“Paranormal Activity: Evidence of a Haunting,” as it was initially named, starts off just like a video either one of us could make and then upload on YouTube. However, as it becomes clear just minutes within the film, there is nothing that could make our own videos even closely similar to this faux-docume...

27 October 2009
13:27 GMT

First Trailer for ‘Robsessed’ Documentary

In a clear bid to capitalize as much as possible on the hype around “New Moon,” the second installment in “The Twilight Saga,” Revolver announced the other day it would release a Robert Pattinson documentary in November. Now, the first trailer for “Robsessed,” the production in que...

9 October 2009
09:23 GMT

‘Robsessed,’ Robert Pattinson Documentary, Is Out Next Month

Robert Pattinson fans have more surprises waiting for them in November than just the release of the second “Twilight” film, “New Moon.” Customers in the US and the UK will also get, roughly on the same date with the vampire flick, a brand-new documentary on the whole Pattinson phenomenon, aptl...

7 October 2009
10:23 GMT

First Poster, Details on MJ’s ‘This Is It’ Film Are Out

Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” docu-film, made up of footage shot during rehearsals for the London series of concerts that was supposed to kick off just shortly after the day he passed away, drops in theaters at the end of October. It will be, as it’s already known, a very big release that wil...

8 September 2009
10:48 GMT

'Welcome to Macintosh' Documentary Now Downloadable

"Welcome to Macintosh" is an independent documentary highlighting Apple's history that can now be downloaded on the iTunes movie store, as well as on DVD through major media retailers. The documentary explains how Apple Inc. has changed the world featuring notable personalities such as Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator...

1 September 2009
08:46 GMT

Nadya Suleman Lashes Out at Kate Gosselin

Nadya Suleman wanted to redeem herself in the eyes of the public with the “Incredible Unseen Footage” two-hour special that aired on Fox the other day. Instead of that and aside from the fact that the special failed to get the kind of ratings she and the network might have hoped for, she only managed to m...

21 August 2009
09:29 GMT

‘Incredible Unseen Footage’ of OctoMom Airs on Fox This Monday

As Nadya Suleman is still working on ironing out all the details before starting to shoot for her own reality show, it seems curious audiences and supporters will get to have a look at what her life as a mother of 14 is before that: this Monday, actually. Fox has just bought a 2-hour special with Suleman and her chil...

11 August 2009
07:41 GMT

Nadya Suleman Filming Reality Show Without Children

Nadya Suleman has long struck a deal with a production company to start work on her own reality show, a series that would border more on documentary and would ultimately serve as some sort of diary for OctoMom than for purely entertainment purposes, as it was said. Eager to get to work, Suleman has applied for work p...

31 July 2009
03:02 GMT

Nadya Suleman’s Children Get $250 for a Day on Her Reality Show

After becoming a happy mother to surviving octuplets at the beginning of the year, Nadya Suleman instantly turned into a persona non-grata in the media, and especially for Californian taxpayers, when word got out she already had another six minor children at home. In April, rumor had it Suleman was thinking about doi...

27 July 2009
10:09 GMT

Details on Nadya Suleman’s Reality Show Are Out

The deal to give Nadya Suleman a much-debated reality show has finally been put on paper, as her attorney confirms for Us Magazine. Chances are high that the show also air in the US and not exclusively in Great Britain, as earlier speculation had it. Yet, the public should not expect a reality series from OctoMom, Je...

1 June 2009
09:03 GMT

Starbucks' Twitter Campaign Hijacked

Social media is firing back at major businesses again and this time its Stabucks' turn to take the heat. The coffee shop giant wanted to use the power of twitter in a new multi-million dollar campaign. Filmmaker and liberal activist Robert Greenwald however saw this as an opportunity to promote his latest docume...

25 May 2009
05:30 GMT

Casey Affleck Wants Fans’ Help with Joaquin Phoenix Documentary

Following a string of disastrous public appearances, live performances and plenty of ridicule both from the public and industry watchers, Joaquin Phoenix seems to have gone into hiding. Nevertheless, director Casey Affleck is still busy working on a yet untitled documentary on his transition from acting to music &nda...

22 May 2009
11:34 GMT

Second Farrah Fawcett Cancer Film in the Works

“Farrah’s Story,” the 2-hour-long NBC documentary detailing the former “Charlie’s Angels” star’s long battle with cancer, aired on May 15, with no less than 9 million viewers tuning in to the program to see her inspirational story. They were not the only ones to be inspired, ...

19 May 2009
10:20 GMT

Producer Sues for Upcoming Farrah Fawcett Cancer Documentary

Yesterday, NBC aired a preview of the upcoming two-hour documentary “Farrah’s Story,” detailing the actress’ long battle with anal cancer, along with segments from an interview with partner Ryan O’Neal. Hours after the footage was aired, one of Farrah’s longtime friends, producer C...

15 May 2009
06:45 GMT


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