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The 39th edition of IDFA – the world’s biggest nonfiction film festival – is underway in Amsterdam, gathering the documentary field’s top talents, Oscar seekers and emerging filmmakers with dynamic work. “It’s hectic, all the last-minute things,” artistic director Isabel Arrate Fernandez told Deadline just before the kickoff. “From the lineup competitions to

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Goldblum will provide the mood music for a doc series about the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The actor is on board to narrate the five-part Exit Stage Right, a doc series from The Cliburn and Framework Productions, with the latter’s founder, Steven Pierce, directing. Filming is complete and distribution is being sought. […]

Paramount+ is going inside one of the U.S. military’s toughest tests in a new docuseries. Sterling K. Brown is narrating The Elite: Army Rangers, a four-part series that comes from Skydance Sports Entertainment, NFL Films, and PanCam Pictures. It takes a look inside U.S. Army Ranger School, one of the world’s most “demanding” leadership courses. […]

The deal includes three books from 'Dear Dumb Diary' author Jim Benton, a three-book series expanding digital creators Rock Squad's Bloodsuckers universe and YA graphic novel 'Dead F'ing Cheerleaders From Calabasas' from comedians Kylie Brakeman and Patrick McDonald.

The story won a fan-fiction contest launched by the app and film ahead of the latter's theatrical release.

Christian women say mobs vandalised prayers meetings in their homes and physically assaulted them, accusing them of religious conversion; most perpetrators not arrested, police attitude has changed under BJP rule, survivors say

Barker, the film’s writer and director, explains how lingering shots heighten the tension and awkwardness in a party scene.

It's a fitting gig for a local talent, born and raised in Newport Beach, who had a front-row seat to the sport's defining era: "It was a magical time as the tour was coming of age along with the rest of us."