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EXCLUSIVE: As Bono premieres his Andrew Dominik-directed Apple docu Bono: Stories of Surrender on Friday, Deadline can reveal he's not the only rock icon making noise at the Cannes Film Festival. Also present on the Croisette in an underground capacity is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. A documentary on…

"Special military operation." "Department of Government Efficiency." "Enhanced interrogation techniques." "Alternative facts." We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate public opinion – the very thing author George Orwell captured so cogently in his dystopian…

Imax is embarking on its first-ever foreign-language documentary, partnering with Federation Studios and Imago Production on Patrouille de France. The film will chronicle a year in the life of the aerobatics team of the French Air and Space Force, from the selection process and intense training to…

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) docs SVP Howard Swartz is heading to the UK to lead Pioneer Productions. Swartz joins Pioneer immediately from Banijay-backed American Playboy producer Stephen David Entertainment. He will take on a CEO role that has been vacant for more than a year at…

Bono laid bare his transformation from Dublin lad Paul Hewson into a global rock star and human rights crusader in his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Now, premiering at Cannes, comes the Andrew Dominik-directed documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender. Culled from the U2 frontman's 2023 one-man…

EXCLUSIVE: Documentaries like Blackfish, The Hunting Ground, RBG, Three Identical Strangers and Oscar-winner Navalny put CNN Films on the map. It was a map that Amy Entelis, EVP, Talent, CNN Originals and Creative Development had started in 2012 with the launch of the division. However, a…

UPDATED with latest: The 97th Oscars is in the rearview — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead as we move into Emmy season and look ahead to the Tonys, music awards and more. Check back often for updates. May 15…

Stanley Tucci has an appetite. Not just for food but for culture, conversation, travel, exploration – all the things that make life enriching. The actor gets to indulge those passions, and take us along with him, in the new National Geographic documentary series Tucci in Italy, now in…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going to bring “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” into the homes of Selena Quintanilla fans all over the world as the streamer acquires the rights to the documentary feature Selena y Los Dinos, directed by Isabel Castro. The film will be released globally on Netflix later this winter. The…

EXCLUSIVE: On a Tuesday morning in August 2023, a group of kids set off for school, climbing into a makeshift cable car for the journey across a mountain pass in northwest Pakistan. What happened next would make headlines around the world. Suddenly, 900 feet above the ground, two cables snapped…

Prime Video has ordered two new sports documentaries from Skydance Sports and NFL Films, a six-part series about the New York Jets and a feature-length documentary about Hall of Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens, along with a six-part docuseries about female CEOs, featuring and exec produced by Serena…

Utopia has acquired North American rights to Megadoc, a new documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis, which premiered a year ago at Cannes before going on to a nationwide theatrical release via Lionsgate. The doc, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis (Leaving Las…