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Taylor Swift, whose ultra-lucrative Eras Tour is still going, has officially become a billionaire. According to a new analysis by Bloomberg News, the 33-year-old pop superstar now has a net worth of $1.1 billion. The tour is a major component of her fortune, with about $700 million in ticket sales…

EXCLUSIVE: Megan Stalter (Hacks), Kanoa Goo (The Rookie), and Rainn Wilson (The Office) will topline ILY, BYE, a new short marking the narrative debut of veteran music video helmer Taylor James (Jason Mraz’s “I Feel Like Dancing”), which has wrapped production. The short written and directed by James…

PBS is delving into the question – how can we become the great ancestors the future needs us to be? The public broadcaster is set to air A Brief History Of The Future, a new six-part non-fiction documentary series that explores how re-thinking tomorrow can bring long-term change. Written and…

David Beckham’s production outfit has made an access-all-areas Amazon Prime Video feature doc about Ronnie O’Sullivan, the greatest snooker player alive today. Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything will drop on Prime Video on November 23 and in select cinemas the following day. O’Sullivan…

Kiefer Sutherland will narrate an Apple TV+ doc series about John Lennon’s murder. Murder Without a Trial from Jimmy Savile: A British Horrror Story producer 72 Films will feature exclusive eyewitness interviews for the first time along with previously unseen crime scene photos, shedding new light on…

EXCLUSIVE: Amidst a recent expansion into docs and scripted series, after just two years as a producer-financier of features, Closer Media has added accomplished producers Joey Marra and Nate Matteson to its leadership team. Former Jigsaw exec Marra will lead the company’s non-fiction division, with…

UPDATED with teaser trailer for Whitney Houston in Focus below. EXCLUSIVE: The estate of Whitney Houston has resolved its concerns about the documentary Whitney Houston in Focus and is now throwing full support behind the film. The 34-minute film directed by Benjamin Alfonsi is set to hold its world…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment is adding Who I Am Not to its roster of awards-contending documentaries.  The company has acquired U.S. rights to the film directed by Tünde Skovrán and executive produced by Oscar winner Patricia Arquette, which is shortlisted for the European Film Awards by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Boutique distributor Juno Films has acquired North American and UK rights to Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Traveled, a portrait of the iconic Norwegian actress and filmmaker from director Dheeraj Akolkar (Liv & Ingmar). World premiering in the Classics section of the 76th Festival de Cannes, the doc…

The International Documentary Association announced its shortlists of features and shorts in the running for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, a list as notable for what was left out as for what films made the cut. A total of 17 feature docs earned a place on the shortlist, including Sundance Grand…

EXCLUSIVE: Array Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning narrative change collective Array, has picked up rights to the PJ Raval doc Who We Become for the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. The film will debut exclusively on Netflix on Friday, December…

L.A. lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg is best known internationally for his work recovering art stolen by the Nazi during the Holocaust, with his most famous case being that of 'Maria Altmann versus Austria' in 2004, involving five Gustav Klimt paintings. Ryan Reynolds played his character in the 2015…