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Showtime is targeting a November release for its Phil Spector docuseries and has unveiled a trailer that highlights the guns and mayhem surrounding the legendary and controversial record producer.

Amy Winehouse film Amy, is to create a new docuseries about Camden’s musical history.The four-part series, titled Camden, is being created for Disney+, and its reveal comes as part of the announcement of a handful of new projects for the streaming service, including a Keanu Reeves-starring documentary about a Formula 1 team, a show on the recent ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial and another documenting fashion in the ’90s.A synopsis for the new show reads: “Camden is a four-part original documentary series, brought to life by Lightbox, the production company founded by Academy-Award-winning producer Simon Chinn (“Man on Wire”, “Searching for Sugar Man”) and Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn (“LA 92”, “Tina”) and Asif Kapadia, Academy-Award-winning director of Amy. Day One Pictures, the production company co-founded by Amy Winehouse’s original manager Nick Shymansky, with Jasper Waller-Bridge and Ben Friedman, also serve as executive producers.”It adds: “How has a small corner of North London changed music as we know it? This evocative series will reveal the extraordinary untold stories of how the lives and careers of many of today’s most iconic music acts were shaped by Camden, alongside some of the careers that were broken by it.

HBO has announced that its Princess Diana documentary The Princess will premiere on the premium cabler at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on August 13—the date which marks the 25th anniversary of the royal’s tragic death. The film directed by Academy Award nominee Ed Perkins (Black Sheep) will also be available to stream on HBO Max.

K.J. Yossman The first trailer from upcoming Princess Diana feature documentary “The Princess” has landed and gives audiences a glimpse into the media maelstrom that surrounded the tragic royal.Directed by Ed Perkins (“Tell Me Who I Am”), the film is produced (in association with HBO and Sky) by Lightbox, the producers behind the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”According to the logline, “‘The Princess’ tells the story of Princess Diana exclusively through contemporaneous archival footage creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death.

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Macaulay Culkin’s Midlife Crisis, will be created in partnership with Lightbox – the production company behind HBO’s Tina Turner documentary, Tina.According to Deadline, the series will see Culkin ponder questions like: How should we embrace getting older in a society obsessed with youthfulness? What is midlife success and how do we measure it? How do we ensure unbridled passion doesn’t become a relic of our youth?The show was inspired by Culkin’s viral tweet in August 2020 to mark his 40th birthday. “Hey guys, wanna feel old? I’m 40.

Macaulay Culkin’s midlife crisis is becoming the subject of a new docuseries.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla How should we embrace getting older in a society obsessed with eternal youthfulness? Millions of people turned to Macaulay Culkin last year when he tweeted that he had hit 40 and needed suggestions on how to handle going over the hill. The online conversation that ensued spawned “Macaulay Culkin’s Midlife Crisis,” a new premium documentary format with Lightbox, which will see the “Home Alone” and “Party Monster” star travel the world as he explores and celebrates what it means to be the big four-oh on an intrepid, international journey.Culkin will be asking the questions that anyone who is dealing with the process of aging, fatherhood and lifetime partnership needs to ask themselves in order to ensure that unbridled passion does not become a relic of our youth.

Discovery+ revealed Curse of the Chippendales, its four-part true-crime drama docuseries, is set to premiere on Sept. 24.

Naman Ramachandran Warner Music Entertainment, the film and television division of Warner Music Group (WMG), and London and Los Angeles based television and film production company Lightbox, have signed a partnership deal to co-produce, co-develop and co-finance non-fiction film and TV projects.The deal gives Lightbox, founded by double Oscar winner Simon Chinn (“Searching For Sugar Man,” “Man on Wire,” “Tina”) and double Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn (“LA 92,” “American High,” “Whitney”), access to WMG’s catalog, to create new content telling the stories of WMG’s current talent, songwriters and legacy acts.Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn said: “This deal with WMG will open up the vaults to an archive of amazing musical talent and rich history

Warner Music Entertainment, the film and television division of Warner Music Group, is partnering with Tina producers Lightbox to develop, produce and finance non-fiction film and TV projects.

Netflix’s three-part documentary on Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, the French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, in 1996, is to premiere on June 30.

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery+ has ordered Curse of the Chippendales, a new four-part true-crime series that revolves around the dark side of the 1980s all-male striptease dance troupe, from Lightbox, the production outfit run by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmakers Simon and Jonathan Chinn.

Tina reached a total audience of 1.1 million viewers across linear and streaming, WarnerMedia said, in the best showing yet by a documentary on HBO Max.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn celebration of Saturday’s premiere of the Tina Turner documentary “Tina,” HBO has teamed up with NTS radio for five hours of programming around the legendary singer’s career, featuring Arlo Parks, Dawn Richard and others. “Tina” is directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J.

Tina Turner feature documentary is here!On Wednesday, HBO released the first official trailer for, which will debut on March 27. «Look at what I've done in this lifetime, with this body,» Turner, who was born in Tennessee, says at the beginning of the clip.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFounded by Oscar-winning “Man on Wire” producer Simon Chinn and Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn, high-end documentary producer Lightbox is navigating the next phase of its evolution, and exiting one of the key initiatives that helped the transatlantic company set up shop.Variety can reveal that the London- and Los Angeles-based outfit is buying back its shares and leaving U.K. broadcaster Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund (IGF), which invests in British production companies by taking minority stakes to help them grow.

Naman Ramachandran National Geographic has commissioned event series “Return To The Moon” (working title), which will chronicle NASA’s historic Artemis program that will see a woman step on the lunar surface for the first time.Named after Greek mythology’s goddess of the moon, National Geographic will take a comprehensive look at the mission, using all of its print and digital storytelling platforms to invest in extensive, multi-year coverage of NASA’s journey.The series will be produced by Lightbox, the company co-founded by Simon Chinn, double Oscar winner for “Searching for Sugar Man” and “Man on Wire,” and Jonathan Chinn, double Primetime Emmy winner for “LA 92” and “American High.” The Chinns will serve as executive producers

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAltitude and Lightbox, the production outfit run by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmakers Simon and Jonathan Chinn, are combining for what they claim will be the first theatrical documentary on Princess Diana.Directed by Ed Perkins (Tell Me Who I Am), Diana will draw on thousands of hours news reports, previously unseen footage, and photographs to tell the story of the princess, who died in Paris in 1997.It will bow in summer 2022, marking the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s demise in a car accident following her split from Prince Charles, the heir to the throne. HBO Max and Sky Documentaries have taken the TV rights in the U.S.

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