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As Mariska Hargitay reflects on the past year in her life – a momentous one for the actress and filmmaker – a word comes to her mind to describe it: "cathartic." She completed her 27th season starring as Capt. Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU and in May made her Broadway debut in the drama Every…

Having secured rights to Marília Mendonça’s music and life story, Prime Video is preparing its own ‘Marília-verse’ of projects about the late Brazilian superstar singer, who tragically died in a 2021 plane crash at 26. The streamer has found its leading lady for the biopic, plucking an unknown…

UPDATED with latest: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences setting its dates for the 2027 and 2028 Oscars (the latter the ceremony’s 100th anniversary), the rest of the awards docket for those two years is falling into place. After the Oscars announcement, SAG-AFTRA’s Actor…

UPDATED with film trailer. EXCLUSIVE: International sales and distribution agency Lightdox has acquired Giuseppe Schillaci's documentary Auber 89 ahead of its world premiere at the Giornate degli Autori’s Notti Veneziane (Venetian Nights), a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival. The nonfiction…

Nigel Farage defeated an ‘independent space warrior’ with a bin for a head in a bizarre British by-election this morning, and now Paramount’s 5 is asking more questions about the under-fire Reform UK politician. Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From? is a classic quick turnaround 5 doc…

EXCLUSIVE: Traces of Home, the award-winning documentary debut of filmmaker Colette Ghunim, has set its U.S. theatrical release. The film from Watermelon Pictures, executive produced by Melissa Barrera and John Leguizamo, will open September 18 at Angelika Film Center in New York City (a special…

EXCLUSIVE: Fourth Act Films has set the theatrical release for First They Came For My College, a documentary about a right-wing "coup" at a Florida liberal arts school orchestrated by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The film directed and produced by Patrick Bresnan will open Sept. 17 at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way, the production company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio, is signing on to executive produce Freeing Flipper, a documentary about Ric O’Barry, who went from dolphin trainer to becoming a fierce advocate for freeing all captive dolphins. Appian Way joins Dogwoof, Copper Island…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlit a new feature documentary about Keiko, the orca who became world famous after appearing in the 1993 movie Free Willy. The timing is on point, with Warner Bros. working on a reimagining of Free Willy with the Russo brothers' AGBO banner. The film memorably told the…

Actor Martin Short is hotter than ever – literally. He has been sweltering in London this summer where the temperatures have soared to extraordinary levels: Thursday's forecast calls for a high of 97°F (36°C), the latest furnace blast in a succession of UK heat waves. "What’s amazing is that…

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary+ has acquired WrestleHer, a major nonfiction series on the rise of girls' high school wrestling, one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S. The 11-part series, produced by Substance, will premiere on Documentary+ and Allez! Sports on September 10, just as highschoolers…

For over 75 years, Mel Brooks has been making people laugh. Hard. He's brought to the screen Mongo, Lili Von Shtüpp, the grandson of a certain mad scientist (aka Young Frankenstein), Frau Blücher ("A little Ovaltine, perhaps?), Louis XVI ("It's good to be the king"), Max Bialystock, Leo Bloom…