Protagonist Pictures’ new specialist label Protagonist Picks has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding North America, to the hybrid documentary Modern Whore, which is set to make its world ...

American filmmaker Ken Burns is set to receive the Critics Choice Impact Award at this year’s Critics Choice Documentary Awards in New York City. The award recognizes documentarians whose work has ...

L.A.-based prodco A. Smith & Co. Productions has promoted Tim Dix to VP of development. Dix (pictured) has served as director of development and programming at A. Smith & Co. since ...

Korean format specialist producer/distributor Something Special has brought on a new global head of sales. Courtney Boyett (pictured) joins the team as senior manager of global sales, having most ...

An upcoming wave of layoffs at the new-look Paramount is expected to impact between 2,000-3,000 jobs starting in November, according to media reports. According to industry trade Variety, which cites ...

Radial Entertainment, which recently formed when Shout! Studios parent Oaktree Capital Management acquired FilmRise, has revealed its top leadership appointments, including Brian Blum being promoted ...

American pubcaster PBS will premiere the four-part documentary series Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan, about how climate change is reshaping sacred spaces and traditions around the world, on September ...

Marlon Wayans’ Ugly Baby, Smart Doc Media to adapt horror-comedy format Marlon Wayans and his producing partner Rick Alvarez are teaming up with Smart Dog Media’s Craig and Clara Plestis to ...

Netflix teams with YouTuber Mark Rober for family-friendly science series Netflix is partnering with YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober on a new science-based competition series. The ...

In response to the U.S. federal government removing US$1.8 million from its annual budget, Harlem-based nonprofit Black Public Media (BPM) has launched the Black Stories Production Fund, which is ...

Disney+ is getting back into the Beatles business, with a revamped version of the Beatles Anthology miniseries heading to the streamer in November. Thirty years after the original Anthology aired in ...