Documentary on New Yorker Magazine to Premiere on Netflix This Year
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor As the New Yorker magazine has its centennial year celebration in 2025, a new Netflix documentary will look at the inner workings of the prestigious and venerable publication.
Marshall Curry, director of documentaries including “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” and “Street Fight,” is directing, also serving as producer with Xan Parker.
Executive producers are Judd Apatow, Josh Church, Helen Estabrook, Sarah Amos and Michael Bonfiglio. The publication, considered one of the most culturally significant magazines of the past century, is granting unprecedented access to its workings, contributors and archives.
The documentary, which will stream this year, follows the editors, writers and creatives behind the scenes of “one of the last print magazines of our time,” producers said in a statement. “I’ve been a reader of the magazine for most of my life, and it’s been thrilling to get to peek behind the curtain and witness the precision, thought and almost fanatical obsession that goes into crafting their stories, cartoons,and covers,” said Curry.
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