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"We are worth more when we are addicted, polarized, and misinformed... than we are if we are living, breathing, free citizens." Neon revealed a second trailer for 2073, a frightening doc about climate change and the destructive future we're headed towards. Now set for a release in December in the US. It's the latest documentary film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, known for Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona, and others. 2073 is a hybrid doc - featuring a live-action sci-fi segment starring Samantha Morton living in a dystopian future ruined by climate change & authoritarianism (the year 2073); along with doc segments showing how we could get there, giving clear-eyed facts about the rise of right-wing authoritarianism and libertarianism worldwide – which won't stop climate change. "Through a genre-busting mix of archive and drama Ghost witnesses the terrifying threats facing us: a Democratic recession, the rise of neo-fascism, the Climate Disaster and the intrusion of surveillance technology.

Asif Kapadia is known for his critically acclaimed documentary films profiling famous figures like athletes Ayrton Senna and Diego Maradona. In 2073, Kapadia takes a bold step into speculative fiction with his vision of what might lie in store for our warming planet if current crises continue unabated.

The film flits between a gloomy portrayal of life on Earth in the year 2073 and sobering glimpses at our present-day world, linking real-life challenges to the director’s imagined societal collapse.

In the future sequences, we find Samantha Morton’s character eking out an uneasy existence in the ruins of San Francisco. Now known as New San Francisco, the city is an arid, heavily-policed wasteland where the privileged elite float above it all in sky-high towers.

Morton’s Ghost is haunted by past trauma and the deteriorating state of a world battered by climate change, shrinking freedoms, and unbridled corporate control. Through her eyes and voiceovers,...

Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso” is and will always be cherished by cinephiles. After all, it beautifully captures their deep love for cinema and the art of filmmaking in the most heartfelt way. It shows a child from a small Italian town falling in love with cinema, because of his friendship with a local film projectionist. He gets to watch all kinds of movies and experiences the madness and chaos it entails. “Cinema Paradiso” opens in an era when people exclusively used film reels to make movies. The child protagonist sees the film’s material change from flammable to fire-resistant as the art advances into different eras.

The kid, Toto, grows up witnessing the changes in censorship in cinema and builds a personal connection with both sublime and obscene. Back then, films were integral to the social fabric of a community. So, he learns cinema’s importance as a medium...

Senna and Amy filmmaker Asif Kapadia turns to dystopian filmmaking with 2073, starring Samantha Morton. Here’s our review:

Best known for his award-winning documentaries Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona, director Asif Kapadia has made something quite different with 2073 – a feature that blends dystopian fiction with archive footage to deliver a stark warning about humanity’s present course.

Samantha Morton provides a haunted-looking focal point as Ghost, a denizen of the dystopian New San Francisco in the titular year 2073. Although remaining silent in the film itself, Morton provides a soulful voiceover as Kapadia cuts from footage of her scrambling around the remains of a department store – her refuge from the militarised state patrolling the rest of the city – and sequences that show what led to our planet’s collapse.

Kapadia has previously said he was inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 short film La Jetee when he made 2073, though in practice its...

An overlong, overly lightweight tale of Poland’s two-time Olympic champion Jerzy Kulej is saved by a rallying last half hour

This is a glossily shot but overlong biopic of two-time Olympic gold-winning boxer Jerzy Kulej that tries to position him as a kind of errant bad boy folk hero; a kind of Polish George Best or Diego Maradona. But as it takes place in the late 60s, when Poland wasn’t exactly swinging but very much wanted to, Xawery Żuławski’s film mostly treats him with a weird indulgent levity that over-cranks the performances and neuters the stakes.

Returning from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kulej (Tomasz Włosok) is a national hero. Under pressure from his wife Helena (Michalina Olszańska) to better their lot, he cuts a deal with his police superior Col Sikorski (Cold War’s Tomasz Kot) for a new apartment in return for becoming a poster boy for the People’s Republic.

UK filmmaker Asif Kapadia has “unequivocally” apologised for social media reposts about the Israel-Gaza conflict that caused documentary charity The Grierson Trust to withdraw his patronage.

In a statement, Kapadia said, “I’m mortified by the hurt and offence that some of my retweets have caused. I now understand that they will be seen by many as antisemitic, or in the case of one even justifying violence. That was not my intention.

“Like many, I feel passionate about the fate of the Palestinian & Lebanese people and the suffering they have endured over the years, but I am equally passionate about...

Senna and Diego Maradona filmmaker Asif Kapadia has had his appointment as a patron of UK documentary charity The Grierson Trust revoked following criticism of his posts on social media.

In a statement, a Trust spokesperson said: “Since the Grierson Trust announced that Asif Kapadia had been appointed as one of our patrons, some social media posts shared by him have been drawn to our attention which are anti-Semitic.

“As a result, at an 8am board meeting this morning, we took the decision to rescind his role as patron of the Trust. When we made the decision to appoint Mr Kapadia,...

Noémie Merlant found she had a lot in common with her character in Emmanuelle.

Her involvement in Audrey Diwan‘s new film, in the titular role, was so influential that she says it helped her re-examine her own relationship with female pleasure. “Like Emmanuelle, I was completely disconnected with my body,” the French actress tells The Hollywood Reporter.

With its world premiere opening the San Sebastian Film Festival Friday night, Emmanuelle has received buzz for its graphic content. Diwan’s movie, starring Naomi Watts (Mullholland Drive, Birdman), Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), is inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel — and this eroticism certainly helms the project.

Emmanuelle focuses on a woman on a business trip to Hong Kong working with a luxury hotel group. Searching for a lost pleasure, she seeks her arousal in experiences with some of the hotel’s guests. One of them,...

In “Amy,” Asif Kapadia’s Oscar-winning gut-punch about pop icon Amy Winehouse (and to a lesser extent in biographical docs “Senna” and “Diego Maradona” too), the British director employs an emotional rhythm by which his subject’s tragic end seems foredestined right from the start. Perhaps “2073,” his new hybrid docufiction is a natural expansion of that impulse — a blend of archival footage, CG enhancement and speculative fiction that applies similar retroactive dismay to a cautionary tale about a near-future dystopia, and the current rising tide of everything-is-terrible that may bring it about.

Unfortunately, what is highly effective as a biographical rise-and-fall tactic is far less so as a means to make a grand statement about imminent societal collapse. It’s not clear quite who is going to be galvanized into action to avert catastrophe when according to “2073,” almost everything that will lead to civilization’s demise — from AI to climate...

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The documentary-maker loses some nuance but he is tackling big issues, as Samantha Morton picks through post-apocalyptic ruins in a sombre futurist reverie

Asif Kapadia takes on big subjects in a vehement drama-doc fantasy of just 85 minutes: climate change, corporate fascism, the global erosion of democracy. And if the result feels occasionally strident, or redundant, or choir-preaching, then maybe that is just a function of the vast and implacable importance of what he’s talking about.

This is the elephant in the room, the insidious gradual diminution of our freedoms, and addressing it head-on like this (which is probably the only way to address it) is arguably to sacrifice subtlety and nuance and the more calibrated filmic language that has made Kapadia’s films, about pop-culture icons such as Diego Maradona and Amy Winehouse, more approachable. And yes, those films worked better on their own terms, but...

Despite having a wealth of experience directing narrative film and television with the likes of Mindhunter and The Warrior, Asif Kapadia is almost definitely best known for his work as a documentarian on films such as Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona, and, most recently, tennis close-up Federer: Twelve Final Days. With his latest directorial effort however, sci-fi thriller 2073, Kapadia is looking to cross the streams, blurring the boundaries between narrative and non-fiction filmmaking to paint a sobering portrait of the dystopia that awaits us if we continue on our current post-Brexit, present Putin and Trump and Milei spearheaded course. Led by Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie, and Hector Hewie, 2073 — if the fascinating first trailer is anything to go by — looks quite unlike anything else we've seen this year. Check it out below:

Wildfires, surveillance drones, riots, and an Elon Musk jump scare set the scene for Kapadia's newest movie, which boldly asserts...

"If you don't have facts, you can't have truth." Neon has revealed a trailer for 2073, a compelling new doc about climate change and the destructive future we're headed towards. The film is the latest documentary creation from Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, known for his docs Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona, and others. 2073 is a hybrid doc - featuring a live-action sci-fi segment starring Samantha Morton living in a dystopian future ruined by climate change & authoritarianism (the year 2073); along with doc segments showing how we could get there, giving clear-eyed facts about the rise of right-wing authoritarianism and libertarianism worldwide – which won't stop climate change. "Through a genre-busting mix of archive and drama Ghost witnesses the terrifying threats facing us: a Democratic recession, the rise of neo-fascism, the Climate Disaster and the intrusion of surveillance technology. This is not science fiction. This is happening now." The film is premiering at...

Neon has revealed the trailer and poster for 2073, from Academy Award-winning director Asif Kapadia and starring Samantha Morton. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies, and militarized police roam the wrecked streets while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.

In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change.

Neon, Double Agent,...

By now, you must know Academy Award, BAFTA, and Grammy-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, known for “Senna,” “Diego Maradona,” and “Amy” about the late singer Amy Winehouse that won the Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. And his latest film, “2073,” sounds like it will test some boundaries.

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L to R: Linda Yaccarino, Timbaland, Elon Musk and Swizz Beatz at Cannes Lions 2024

Musk enters Lions’ den: While we at Deadline know the Côte d’Azur best for the annual film and TV festivals, every year we have boots on the ground at the grand advertising confab Cannes Lions to get the latest from the wider world of entertainment. This year, the big, unexpected headliner was X and Tesla owner and free speech proponent Elon Musk, who zoomed into town for a talk on everything from the potential for global AI disaster to an explanation for why he told advertisers to “go fuck themselves” last year. Caroline Frost navigated one of the longest queues I’ve ever seen...

A Roger Federer documentary directed by Asif Kapadia seems like something that can’t go wrong in any way. Federer: Twelve Final Days centers upon the climax of the tennis legend’s career. Kapadia co-directs it, along with video producer Joe Sabia. In this very personal documentary, the camera follows Federer right from the moment when he’s about to officially call it a day, to his final professional match in the Laver Cup. Kapadia is a master when it comes to sports documentaries, but this one doesn’t quite pack the punch of “Sena” or “Diego Maradona.” But it’s still very much watchable, thanks to the man himself. Let’s take a closer look at it.

What Happens in the Documentary?

Is there a name bigger than Roger Federer in the game of tennis? Probably not. Inarguably the greatest player of our time (maybe ever), Federer is a...

In his classic 1994 essay “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” David Foster Wallace pondered why so many athlete memoirs — and tennis player memoirs in particular — fail to provide sports fans with what they really want to know. What does it feel like to fail in front of millions of people? How does a human being handle such intense pressure? What actually goes through one’s mind in those do-or-die moments where the difference between eternal glory and lifelong disappointment is one tiny miscalculation or half-second’s hesitation? Maybe, Wallace eventually concludes, the answer to that last question is “nothing much at all,” and “the real secret behind top athletes’ genius may be as esoteric and obvious and dull and profound as silence itself.”

In his two previous sports documentaries, “Senna” and “Diego Maradona,” filmmaker Asif Kapadia has gone a great distance toward disproving Wallace’s thesis, using ingeniously edited archival...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia has revealed that he uses the skillset he previously perfected making commercials to get his feature-length projects across the line.

Kapadia, who made his name in the film world with a trilogy of biography documentaries Senna (2010), the Oscar-winning Amy (2015), and Diego Maradona (2019), was speaking at Cannes Lions, when he explained his commercial mindset:

“The work I’ve done in commercials has helped me make the films I make. Traditionally with a movie or drama, you write a script, spend years developing it, but because of the number of pitches you have to do when you meet people [making commercials], or you have a script and you have to visualize it, cut a really interesting deck or a sizzle reel, all of those tricks I learned while doing the odd commercial, I bring into movies.

“Whenever I make a film now, I always cut a really interesting short film,...

In men’s tennis, as in other sports, there is constant debate over which player qualifies as the Greatest of All Time. Djokovic with his unprecedented 24 Grand Slam wins? Nadal with his astonishing 14 French Open victories? Federer, the first man to win 20 Grand Slams? Or perhaps a player from an earlier era – Rod Laver – who swept all four Grand Slam titles in a calendar year, not once but twice?

The Goat debate in tennis will never be resolved. But there is broad consensus on one thing: no one has ever played the game with as much grace, as much beauty, with such effortless shot making and economy of form as the man from Basel, Switzerland – Roger Federer. It was, therefore, with enormous sadness but heartfelt appreciation that tennis fans greeted the news in 2022 that Federer, bowing to time, would retire from the sport he defined for more than 20 years.

Roger...

Asif Kapadia has co-directed 12 Final Days with Joe Sabia, a highly-anticipated look at tennis legend Roger Federer’s retirement.

A great piece has popped up at Variety, charting the behind the scenes story of how acclaimed documentary maker Asif Kapadia became involved with the soon to release 12 Final Days. Kapadia is no stranger to making brilliant documentaries focused upon the careers and lives of sporting legends (see Senna and Diego Maradona) but as the piece explains, he came onto this project when Sabia was already deep into post-production.

The film releases next week on Amazon Prime Video here in the UK and given Federer’s enduring popularity as a tennis icon, we’d imagine that there’ll be no shortage of viewers waiting to see it. Given that Luca Guadagnino’s brilliant tennis drama, Challengers is now available to watch at home as well, might we humbly recommend what might...

Asif Kapadia co-directs backstage access to a tennis great’s final games that includes much crying but too few questions

The tears of Roger Federer, along with the tears of Rafael Nadal and even the tears of Novak Djokovic, are what finally give some point to what is otherwise a pretty bland, officially sanctioned corporate promo for the Federer brand. This documentary for Amazon Prime – co-directed by Asif Kapadia and video content producer Joe Sabia – has behind-the-scenes access, following the final 12 days in the top-flight tennis career of the legendary champion, from his announcement of retirement in 2022 to his emotional curtain-call appearance at the Laver Cup in London, named after Rod Laver, the starry new Europe-versus-the World team tournament that Federer has done so much to develop.

Federer was bowing out with style like the class act he’s always been and as legends such as Björn Borg, John McEnroe,...

Roger Federer offers a tearful goodbye to a celebrated tennis career in the trailer for Asif Kapadia’s feature sports documentary Federer: Twelve Final Days, which dropped on Monday ahead of a June 10 world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

As the curtain comes down on his 24 years of competitive play in professional tennis, Federer struggles to contain his emotions in what the doc’s producers call a home video never intended for public viewing. “I thought until this morning I had emotions in check, but I can feel it coming up,” a vulnerable Federer says at one point in the feature documentary as his final tournament match approaches.

Federer: Twelve Final Days is directed by Kapadia, who is best known for documentaries like Amy, about the late Amy Winehouse, Senna, about Formula 1 race car driving legend Ayrton Senna, and a film about soccer great Diego Maradona.

The trailer...

The first Muslim International Film Festival (Miff) ended this weekend in London with Amjad Al Rasheed’s debut feature Inshallah A Boy taking the best feature gong while veteran documentarian Asif Kapadia picked up the festival’s honorary Trailblazer Award.

The festival ran from May 30 to June 2 in London. The festival was launched by producer Sajid Varda with a focus on highlighting international Muslim culture and faith through filmmakers of all backgrounds.

This year’s competition jury featured Claudia Yusef (Head of Development at BBC Films), Leon Oteng (Production Inclusion Manager at BFI Filmmaking Fund), Neila Butt, Tas Brooker, actor Youssef Kerkour (Channel 4’s Home).

Accepting the best feature award, Rasheed said: “I’m honored to be competing with these great films and winning Best Feature at the Muslim International Film Festival. Thank you Miff, thank you jury.

Soccer Aid for Unicef 2024 will take place on June 9 at Stamford Bridge.

The live show on ITV1, Stv and Itvx will be hosted by Unicef UK Ambassador Dermot O’Leary, who will be joined once again by Unicef UK High Profile Supporter, Alex Scott. Sam Matterface returns as Commentator, with Iain Stirling on Co-Comms duty. A half-time entertainment show will also be announced in due course. Previous performers include Rita Ora, Robbie Williams and Tom Grennan.

England have won five times since the game began in 2006 – but their last victory came in 2018. They trail the Soccer Aid World XI Fc who have won the fixture seven times – and are on a record five-year winning streak.

England will take to the pitch in a specially commissioned Euro ’96 kit. This is ahead of Euro 2024 – the first game of which is just five days after Soccer Aid. The Soccer Aid World XI Fc will...

Asif Kapadia has been tapped by Amazon’s Prime Video to direct a feature documentary on Roger Federer.

The Amy and Senna helmer and co-director Joe Sabia will capture Federer through the final 12 days of his celebrated pro tennis career. The documentary will exclusively stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The feature film is a home video Federer never intended for public viewing, as he says goodbye to the game and his fans, according to a description. The doc will include interviews with tennis rivals and friends, including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, with Federer offering access to his sports relationships.

“Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends,” Federer said in a statement. In 2022, Federer announced he was retiring from professional tennis...

British filmmaker of Indian origin Asif Kapadia has been greenlit by Amazon Prime Video to do a feature-length documentary chronicling the final 12 days of tennis legend Roger Federer’s professional career, reports ‘Variety’.

The as-yet-untitled documentary was originally planned as a home video never intended for public viewing.

Featuring interviews from Federer’s rivals and friends, notably Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, the documentary captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, “as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades,” a Prime Video press statement said, according to ‘Variety’.

Kapadia, an Oscar and BAFTA winner for his celebrated Amy Winehouse documentary ‘Amy’ (2015), has won BAFTAs for his biographical documentaries on car racing champion Ayrton Senna (‘Senna’; 2010) and the Argentine football legend Diego Maradona (2019).

His debut film, ‘The Warrior’ (2001), featured Irrfan Khan playing a warrior in feudal...

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia is helming a Prime Video doc about the latter days of tennis legend Roger Federer’s career, which was originally intended as a home movie.

The feature-length doc will chronicle the final 12 days of the career of the man who is deemed by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time.

Amazon said the untitled doc was “originally a home video never intended for public viewing,” which “captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades.”

Federer said: “Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends”

He added: “During my career, I tended to shy away from having cameras around me and my family, especially during important moments.

Netflix has debuted a teaser trailer for the upcoming season 6 of ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive.’

Offering unprecedented access, this new season will once again take fans behind the scenes, to witness first-hand how the drivers and teams prepare to battle it out for the 2023 Fia Formula 1 World Championship.

The 10-episode series will offer never-before-seen footage as we follow new team lineups, management takedowns, fierce friendships and bitter rivalries of another high-octane season on the Formula 1 circuit. Formula 1: Drive to Survive is executive-produced by Academy-Award winner James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin (Diego Maradona) for Box to Box Films.

Executive Produced by: Academy-Award winner James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin (Diego Maradona) for Box to Box Films.

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The new season will be available on the streamer from February 23rd.

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The Motion Picture Association ratings board gave Zack Snyder’s sci-fi war film Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver and the Blumhouse horror production Imaginary PG-13 ratings this week, but they also sat through a movie that gave them some rougher material to sit through: the psychological horror film Immaculate, which reunites Sydney Sweeney – whose credits include Euphoria, the recent romantic comedy release Anyone but You, and the upcoming Sony Marvel movie Madame Web – with Michael Mohan, who directed her in the erotic thriller The Voyeurs. Immaculate is set to reach theatres on March 22nd, and it now sports an R rating for strong and bloody violent content, grisly images, nudity and some language.

Scripted by Andrew Lobel, Immaculate sees Sweeney taking on the role of Cecilia, a woman of devout faith who is offered a fulfilling new role at an illustrious Italian convent. Her warm welcome to the picture-perfect...

A year and a half ago, it was announcedthat Sydney Sweeney – whose credits include Euphoria, the recent romantic comedy release Anyone but You, and the upcoming Sony Marvel movie Madame Web – was going to re-team with Michael Mohan, who directed her in the erotic thriller The Voyeurs, for the psychological horror film Immaculate. Last month, Neon acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the film and let it be known they’re planning to give it a theatrical release. Now we know that Immaculate will be reaching theatres on March 22nd. With just two months to go until that date arrives, a poster has been unveiled, and you can check it out at the bottom of this article. The trailer will be making its way online tomorrow.

Scripted by Andrew Lobel, Immaculate sees Sweeney taking on the role of Cecilia, a woman of devout faith who is offered a fulfilling...

Madrid — Greater than fiction. Viewed by an estimated 5 billion, the most watched event in TV history, and the climax of the most popular sport on earth, no achievement compares in epic terms to Argentina’s victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Yet soccer, as Atletico de Madrid manager Diego Simeone famously has it, is played match by match. It is won moment by moment. No doc feature to date perhaps captures the ever evolving drama of Argentina’s campaign – the flux and flow of psychological advantage, the huge emotional stakes, the roll call of protagonists, and the multiple narratives of universal resonance emerging moment by moment – than “Soccer Soul” (“Elijo Creer”), narrated by Ricardo Darín, star of Oscar-winning “The Secret in Their Eyes” and dropped by HBO Max on Jan. 11 in Argentina and the rest of Latin America.

It begins with the defining moment of the whole 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Box to Box Films, the production company behind Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive, has received a minority investment from Bruin Capital, an investment company focused on global sports, media and technology.

Financial and other details weren’t disclosed, but Box to Box said on Tuesday that the capital injection amounted to a “significant” minority investment.

Founded in 2016 by Academy Award-winning producer James Gay-Rees and Emmy-winning producer Paul Martin, Box to Box has also been behind such sports productions as Formula 1 documentary Senna, soccer doc Diego Maradona and Netflix’s tennis series Break Point, as well as Amy Winehouse doc Amy, among others.

“With this fresh Bruin investment, the company will expand into self-financed projects as well as new verticals (i.e., digital, branded and scripted) while also exploring strategic M&a,” Box to Box said.

It will continue to be led by Gay-Rees, Martin and managing director Samantha Lawrence,...

Netflix has shared the new trailer for its four-part docuseries focused on British hitmaker and Take That singer Robbie Williams.

Robbie Williams, hitting the streaming service on November 8, features “30 years of never-before-seen archive footage” to chart the singer’s career, from his start as a 16-year-old in the British boy band to his struggles with drugs and alcohol to his emergence as a solo star to his role of father.

“I was the center of the pop culture world,” Williams admits in the trailer. “I felt like I was giving...

"Raw. Honest. Real." Netflix has revealed a first look teaser trailer for their next musician doc series called Robbie Williams, which is obviously about the singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. So many docs from the music industry, it's pretty much just a part of their marketing & promotion packages nowadays. Despite good talent being involved on the filmmaking side! This four-part documentary series goes behind the eyes of the biggest UK solo artist of all time, Robbie Williams. Featuring hundreds of hours of intimate, never-before-seen personal archive spanning 30 years, by an acclaimed filmmaking team including director Joe Pearlman and Asif Kapadia as an executive producer. Not everyone in the US may be a big fan of Robbie, because: His discography includes seven UK No. 1 singles, and all but one of his 14 studio albums have reached No. 1 in the UK. Though not in the US. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the UK,...

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Sports has signed what has been described as a new “strategic partnership” with Italy’s top-flight soccer league Serie A.

The deal, which was announced yesterday via Roc Nation’s social accounts, has been forged to enhance the Italian league’s reach in North America. The two entities said they will partner to raise the league’s awareness in North America by engaging existing and new fans through digital content, marketing activations, and events.

Roc Nation and Serie A have had a working partnership since 2019. In 2020 at the height of the covid pandemic, the agency inked a deal with leading Serie A side AC Milan to host an event to raise support for key workers. The event was hosted by DJ Khaled and featured performances from artists such as Alicia Keys and Kelly Rowland. All proceeds went to charity. The pair later announced a full partnership.

Beijing, June 14 (Ians) Lionel Messi, a seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, hinted at the possibility of extending his international career until 2026.

In a live broadcast interview on Wednesday, Messi expressed his intention to maintain his exceptional form on a daily basis, Xinhua reported.

The reigning world champions, Argentina, are scheduled to play a friendly match against Australia at the Workers’ Stadium in Beijing on Thursday night. This match marks the first time Messi and his teammates will play together abroad since their victory over France in the final of the Qatar World Cup, achieved through a penalty shootout.

Messi, who will turn 36 later this month, has accumulated almost all the accolades in football following his remarkable journey in Qatar. However, he will be 39 years old by the time the 2026 World Cup takes place, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

“There are still many years ahead until the 2026 World Cup,...

"If she's playing her best, no one can beat her." Netflix has released a third & final trailer for Break Point, a sports doc series about the next generation of tennis superstars. The first half of this debuted in January, the rest of the episodes arrive on Netflix on June 21st. Now is the time to catch up with this. "Following a golden age of greatness, tennis' next generation is ready to take over." Exec produced & showrun by two acclaimed doc filmmakers - Paul Martin and James Gay-Rees also known for the popular F1 doc series "Formula 1: Drive to Survive". Break Point follows a select group of top tennis players on and off the court as they compete in intense tournaments. Featured players in these final eps: Nick Kyrgios, Taylor Fritz, Ons Jabeur, Ajla Tomljanovic, Iga Swiatek, Frances Tiafoe, and Aryna Sabalenka. Break Point gets up close & personal with top...

Emanating live from La Plata, Mendoza, San Juan and Santiago del Estero, Argentina is the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Hungry under-20 athletes from 24 nations will compete with matches airing live on FS2 and Fox Soccer Plus. Can the Usmynt win its first U-20 World Cup trophy? Will another nation take home the top prize? Or will one of the 11 nations that have already captured gold win it again? Find out starting this Saturday, May 20 through Sunday, June 11 on Fox Sports 2 and Fox Soccer Plus. Follow along with a 7-Day Free Trial of Fubo.

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If this is the first time you’re hearing of the FIFA U-20 World Cup — you’re not alone.

Other titles include Dea Kulumbegashvili’s new film and ’Like A Son’ starring Vincent Lindon.

Goodfellas, the Paris-based sales company formerly known as Wild Bunch International, has unveiled a lively slate of titles ahead of Cannes, including starry period drama The Flood, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Those Who Find Me, French social drama Like A Son, prison drama Inside, football documentary Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023 and Spanish thriller When The Party’s Over, along with several titles in Cannes’ Official Selection.

The Flood is the second feature from Italian director Gianluca Jodice following The Bad Poet and stars Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet as...

On Monday, Oscar-winning documentarian Asif Kapadia told a roomful of Cph:dox Conference attendees that he might have never directed a nonfiction film had it not been for Harvey Weinstein “killing” his first narrative feature film, “The Warrior.”

“The Warrior,” starring the late Irrfan Khan, is about a mercenary directed by an evil warlord to wreak havoc on a rural village in Rajasthan by forcing the poor inhabitants to pay taxes. In 2003, the film won two BAFTAs for outstanding debut and outstanding British Film. But according to Kapadia, the film garnered no attention outside of England due to Weinstein, who bought worldwide rights – excluding the U.K. – in 2001.

“I was flown out to New York to meet Weinstein, and everyone was saying how great it was that the film had sold to Miramax,” Kapadia said. “I remember saying why I did not feel good about (the deal).”

At the meeting, Kapadia...

The 2023 London Screenings, which unfold Feb. 27 to March 3, take place in an increasingly crowded international TV calendar. The event kicks off just days after the Berlinale Series Market, overlaps with the BBC Studios Showcase and precedes Series Mania and MipTV.

The week-long showcase has established itself as a key place to acquire the best of British and international programming. All major global TV distributors, spanning 26 companies, have a plethora of content to offer across genres and formats, and a series of screenings, meetings and events have been lined up.

To help you cut through the slates, Variety has surveyed the goods from key international distributors. Here are our picks of 15 shows that will whet buyers’ appetites.

A Body That Works

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“A Body That Works”

An intense triangle involving love, jealousy, desire and selflessness sees a childless couple enlist the help of a surrogate to conceive. At the heart...

Khan’s creation for English National Ballet is filmed by Kapadia, and has an ambiguous intensity that should interest audiences beyond dance fans

Asif Kapadia returns with something unlike his previous acclaimed films … but maybe not utterly unlike. Kapadia has become known for intense documentary studies of agonised public figures including Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse and Diego Maradona, for whom the glare of attention, and the claustrophobic crush of public adulation, was a kind of addictive ordeal. There are points of similarity in this new, fascinating and perplexingly ambiguous film, something without a clear story, but which admits of any number of readings.

Creature is a filmed theatre project, capturing Akram Khan’s English National Ballet work, also entitled Creature, starring the charismatic dancer Jeffrey Cirio as the Creature, thrillingly athletic and physical, every muscle and tendon visible. The Creature is apparently kept captive in some remote army research unit-slash-prison in the snowy wastes,...

Netflix has released the trailer for the fifth season of the motor racing series ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive.’

Offering unprecedented access, this new season will once again take fans behind the scenes, to witness first-hand how the drivers and teams prepare to battle it out for the 2022 Fia Formula 1 World Championship. The series will offer never-before-seen footage and interviews from the sport’s biggest names.

The series is executive-produced by Academy-Award winner James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin (Diego Maradona) for Box to Box Films.

Also in trailers – Superbowl Big Game Spot: ‘Fast X’

The 10-episode series streams from February 24th.

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The director of Amy, who’s never watched a ballet, has adapted a dystopian sci-fi piece by the choreographer, who’s never made a film. They discuss art, myths, and why Bruce Lee connects them as much as their south Asian roots

In the opening scene of Creature, a new film based on an English National Ballet production at Sadler’s Wells two years ago, a man appears out of nowhere, writhing, squirming, twitching. He is not in agony, but suffering from something possibly worse: bewilderment. When he walks, he loses his footing. It’s a ballet turned upside down; instead of rising to the air in an elegant saute, the dancer flounders uncomfortably on the ground. Creature, as the nameless protagonist is known, has been transplanted to an entirely unfamiliar environment – a polar research station – where he is being subjected to an experiment to test the limits of the human body to endure cold,...

Exclusive: Luxury labels are “naturally evolving” toward producing and making their own indie feature films, says Charles Finch, founder and chief executive of Finch and Partners, the consulting firm that has been the prime mover in enabling “a synergy of content” between the entertainment sector and the crème de la crème of brands.

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For 25 years, Finch tells Deadline, “we have either represented studios in helping to promote their programming or we have brought enormous luxury deals to artists, and...

2023 conference has the theme ‘Future At Our Fingertips’.

Diego Maradona director Asif Kapadia and The Mole Agent filmmaker Maite Alberdi are among the speakers for Cph:Conference, the industry talks programme of Cph:dox film festival in Copenhagen (March 15-26).

Running from March 20-24, this year’s Conference programme has the theme ‘Future At Our Fingertips’, taking the changed post-pandemic distribution and financing landscape as its launching point. It will centre on questions of inclusivity, freedom and sustainability of documentary as an art form.

UK director Kapadia, who won the Oscar for best documentary in 2016 for Amy, will participate in one of three ‘Mornings With Filmmakers’ sessions,...

The World Cup only happens every four years, and each tournament brings with it its own ups, downs, trials, tribulations, surprise contenders, and thrilling finales. The 2019 Women's World Cup saw the USA win the trophy for a second consecutive tournament; Qatar 2022 gave Lionel Messi a fairy tale ending at last.

Almost sounds like something out of a movie, doesn't it?

Luckily, soccer has been the topic of many films through the years. In this article, we will detail 14 of the best-known, including comedies, biopics, romance, murder mysteries, and documents of real-life tragedies. Along the way, you'll find everyone from the legends of the sport, including the sadly departed Pelé and Diego Maradona, to Hollywood superstars such as Sylvester Stallone and Will Ferrell. Within the bounds of "The Beautiful Game," almost anything is possible.

Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)

Our first movie, "Mike Bassett: England Manager," is a mockumentary that stars Ricky Tomlinson...

"It's not easy to manage all the pressure." Netflix has unveiled a full official trailer for the sports doc series Break Point, about the next generation of tennis superstars on the rise. Debuting in January with half of the episodes, then more in the summer. Any big tennis fans out there? "Following a golden age of greatness, tennis' next generation is ready to take over." Exec produced & showrun by two acclaimed doc filmmakers - Paul Martin and James Gay-Rees also known for their recent popular F1 doc series "Formula 1: Drive to Survive". Break Point follows a select group of top tennis players on and off the court as they compete in gruelling Grand Slams and tournaments. Featured players include Felix Auger-Aliassime, Casper Ruud, Matteo Berrettini, Ons Jabeur, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Nick Kyrgios, Aryna Sabalenka, Maria Sakkari, Ajla Tomljanovic, Sloane Stephens, and Stefanos Tsitsipas. Break Point gets up close & personal with...

Brazilian football legend Pelé passed away at the age of 82 on December 29, 2022. The sad news came less than two weeks after Lionel Messi held aloft the trophy at the Qatar 2022 Word Cup, eliminating any doubt that he deserves his place in the conversation about who is the greatest footballer of all time. Yet for some, the Emir's insistence on honoring the Argentine captain with the traditional bisht was an unwelcome reminder of the controversial venue for the tournament, while his compatriot Diego Maradona's legacy will always be tainted by the "Hand of God." Meanwhile, Pelé remains synonymous with the world's favorite sport at its most exuberant and uninhibited.Although it's been over 50 years since he last played for the Seleção, Pelé in the brilliant gold and blue of Brazil at the 1970 World Cup, embracing a teammate and punching the air with joy, is one of football's most iconic images.

Rio de Janeiro, Dec 30 (Ians) Tributes flowed for Brazilian football legend Pele following his death from cancer at the age of 82.

Pele’s passing dominated news headlines in Brazil and across South America on Friday.

“Pele showed the power of sport and set a new limit to fame,” the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper said, referring to his status as an icon of the 20th century.

It also highlighted Pele’s role in temporarily halting Nigeria’s civil conflict as the warring parties signed a two-day ceasefire in 1969 to accommodate a friendly match featuring the famous No. 10.

“The superstar enchanted with his football stopped wars and changed the game forever,” Folha de S.Paulo’s Juca Kfouri wrote.

The newspaper praised Pele’s ability to maintain impossibly high standards over a professional career that started in his mid-teens and extended until his mid-30s.

“During his 20-year career, teams changed.