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Social media influencer Liver King has been arrested and charged with making alleged “terroristic threats” against Joe Rogan, Austin’s Kxan reports. The 47-year-old born Brian Johnson shared a series of Instagram videos earlier this week in which he challenged the podcaster to a fight.

“Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out, my name’s Liver King. Man to man, I’m picking a fight with you,” he said. “I have no training in Jiu-jitsu; you’re a black belt, you should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you.

You’ve seen the raw liver. You’ve heard the grunts. You might’ve even stumbled across a video of a shirtless sprint through the forest. Brian Johnson, better known as the Liver King, built an online fitness empire by devouring raw meat and promoting an all-natural “ancestral lifestyle,” with the muscles to back it up — and Untold: The Liver Kingtells a story unlike any other.

“When the Liver King burst onto my feed I, like so many, was transfixed,” director Joe Pearlman tells Netflix. “I wanted to find out more; who he really was and what was really going on. The truth was even crazier than I could have possibly imagined.”

With his signature bushy beard, hardcore workouts, and a diet that raised more than a few eyebrows, Brian Johnson rose to internet stardom preaching the virtues of “ancestral living” — a lifestyle built on core tenets that include...

“Liver is king.”

This statement is the central belief that took 47-year-old Brian Johnson from an awkward father of two to a social media superstar, 6 million followers deep. Johnson, better known online by the moniker Liver King, built a digital empire, lifestyle brand, and supplement company based on living an “ancestral lifestyle,” a return to a caveman style of eating with ancient grains, minimal cooking, and a reliance on raw protein. Johnson preached following nine key ancestral tenets in order to achieve maximum health: sleep, eat, move, shield, connect, cold,...

The raw meat and ‘roided up empire of the Liver King is getting the documentary treatment, with a new trailer for Untold: The Liver King, premiering today on Rolling Stone.

For those whose memories of the long-ago days of 2022 might be fuzzy, “Liver King” was the moniker of Brian Johnson, a fitness and masculinity influencer who gobbled raw meat (especially liver), threw spears, and demonstrated other extreme workout techniques. While Johnson claimed his strength came from living an “ancestral lifestyle,” he later admitted to juicing his muscles through more modern techniques — steroids.

Ridley Scott’s production company Rsa is set to revisit the Battle of Mogadishu in a new Netflix documentary, “Surviving Black Hawk Down.”

The documentary, directed by Jack MacInnes (“Leaving Afghanistan”), will explore the real events of the 1993 battle between U.S. and Somalian forces, which inspired Scott’s 2001 film.

The feature, which was nominated for four Oscars including director, starred Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Hugh Dancy and Jason Isaacs, among others.

It also featured Orlando Bloom and Tom Hardy in the first flush of their careers

The three-part documentary will explore the real events behind the film, incorporating immersive storytelling and first person interviews from the people who witnessed it first-hand.

“Survivng Black Hawk Down” will premiere on the streamer on Feb. 10.

Jamal Osman and Emma Supple produce while Exec producers are Dominic Crossley-Holland and Tom Pearson.

“Rsa are thrilled to bring this compelling story to a new audience with Netflix,...

Exclusive: Netflix has turned to one of its most trusted documentary directors to tell the story of the Liver King’s steroid scandal.

The streamer’s Untold franchise has enlisted Joe Pearlman to helm the Liver King film after he directed the Robbie Williams and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now documentaries.

Pearlman’s other credits include HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts and Bros documentary feature After the Screaming Stops.

Produced by Bitachon 365 and Candle True Stories, the Liver King film will examine the social backlash against the self-styled “primal living” social media guru after he admitted to steroid use.

In 2022, the TikTok star, whose real name is Brian Johnson, issued an apology for taking the body-building drug, something he had repeatedly denied in the past.

“I lied, and I misled a lot of people,” said Johnson, who built an audience of millions...

Filmmaker Brett Morgen has added Grammy winner to a list of career accomplishments that includes multiple Emmy wins and an Academy Award nomination.

His documentary Moonage Daydream, an immersive exploration of David Bowie’s creative process, won Best Music Film at the 66th Grammy Awards, a category handed out Sunday in the pre-telecast ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

In his acceptance, Morgen was effusive in his praise of the British rock star, songwriter, visual artist, and actor who died in 2016 at the age of 69.

“David Bowie,” he said as he held the gramophone trophy, “the single greatest artist who’s walked the face of this earth.”

Director Brett Morgen accepts the Grammy Award for Best Music Film.

Morgen also thanked his wife, Debra Eisenstadt — an executive producer of the film — their children and the executors of Bowie’s estate, including William “Bill” Zysblat.

“I met with David Bowie’s executors…...

The biggest movie of 2023 just keeps rockin’ and rollin’.

Barbie danced away with a marvy 11 Grammy nominations today, including Record and Song of the Year for Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” and Song of the Year for Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night.” Those tracks also will vie for Best Song Written for Visual Media against two other cuts from the blockbuster pic: Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” and “Barbie World” by Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice featuring Aqua.

That pink quartet will vie for the hardware against Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” from the 2022 smash Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

The doll’s haul also includes noms for Best Score Soundtrack and Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, along with mentions for Best Rap Song (“Barbie World”) and Pop Solo Performance (“What Was I Made For?”).

Related: 2023-24 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For Oscars, Emmys, Grammys,...

The past 18 months have produced an abundance of celebrity documentaries, but Netflix’s newly released “Robbie Williams” sets out to do something different. Charting Williams’ rise from clueless teenager in British mega-boy band Take That to solo superstar, there’s no talking heads and no glossing over the less salubrious moments in Williams’ 35-year-career, including his relationships, drug-taking and depression.

Director Joe Pearlman, the filmmaker behind last year’s “Harry Potter” reunion and Netflix’s recent Lewis Capaldi documentary, set out to make a series about Williams confronting his extraordinary life head-on. Eschewing traditional documentary formats, the four-part show sees Williams interviewed, mostly in bed, while watching archive footage stretching back three decades.

“We did an initial interview and Rob gave a brilliant interview but it was an interview I’d heard before,” Pearlman says. “We were like, there’s so much more here. We’ve seen the footage, we...

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,...

Netflix has released a teaser trailer for a four-part documentary series about British pop star Robbie Williams, which is set to premiere later this year.

The documentary series, which was announced at the Edinburgh TV Festival, promises to provide an intimate glimpse at the bombastic entertainer, with director Joe Pearlman tracking Williams’ days as a boy band member with the British group Take That to his rise to solo super stardom and his struggles with addiction. The episodes use archival footage and new interviews with Williams to paint a portrait of his storied,...

I haven’t got to the point where any of this feels normal to me yet,” says Lewis Capaldi. He points out that we’re speaking “six years, to the day” since he released his first single, “Bruises”, which quickly racked up 28 million plays on Spotify, making the Glaswegian the fastest unsigned artist to reach 25 million streams on the platform. The following year he wrote a song about the loss of his grandmother – “Someone You Loved” – that would be streamed a staggering 2.8 billion times.

Now “Forget Me” – the lead single from his second album, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent – has turned platinum in the UK, and he’s still finding his success “just... pfffft... just f***ing bizarre, y’know? I don’t think it will ever feel normal.”

Video-calling from a hotel room in Atlanta in the middle of his US tour, Capaldi seems more settled in...

A new documentary telling the story of Lewis Capaldi’s rise to fame has been released on Netflix.

The one-off film, titled How I’m Feeling Now, released on Wednesday night (5 April), follows Scottish musician Capaldi through the highs and lows of his ascension to becoming a household name.

In it, he confronts his imposter syndrome and describes how his life completely changed after he achieved international success with his hit singles “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go”.

The documentary is directed by Joe Pearlman who follows Capaldi to a studio in his family home in Whitburn where he begins to set to work on his sophomore album.

Viewers have praised Capaldi for his sheer honesty about his personal struggles, including his Tourette’s diagnosis.

“Just watched the Netflix documentary on Lewis Capaldi. What a lovely, lovely, lovely lad. He’s put himself under so much pressure and suffered because of it.

Lewis Capaldi has always wanted to sing. Ballads like “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go,” which show off his powerful voice and heart-wrenching lyrics, made the Scottish artist a household name over the last few years — but fame and success haven’t been easy for him. His new documentary How I’m Feeling Now, directed by Joe Pearlman, offers an inside look at Capaldi’s career and sheds light on the the personal battles he’s faced while trying to finish his long-awaited second album.

“My first album was...

About halfway through Joe Pearlman’s “Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now,” the Scottish pop star sets about crafting his second album. As he takes us into his songwriting process, he all but winks at the camera before walking through the ways this sort of thing tends to play out in other music documentaries: he’ll write the song, huff and puff over if it will be a hit, and we’ll suddenly fast-forward to a year later, when he’ll be playing the now-massive hit to sold-out crowds. Capaldi waits a beat. So does the film. Oh, no cutting ahead to the inevitable success? Ha! Back to the grind, it is.

It’s one of many self-referential moments in a film filled with them, in a life filled with them, as Capaldi’s incredible sense of self-awareness are appealing to even those unfamiliar with his work. Capaldi gets it,...

While some of this documentary following the making of the Scottish songwriter’s second album falls into cliched soul-baring territory, Capaldi’s wit and talent shine through

‘A global pandemic is only in the top three weird things that have happened to me in the last three years,” Lewis Capaldi notes at the start of this generically made but nonetheless startling Netflix documentary about his rise. After years strumming in Scottish pubs and clubs, his raw piano ballad Bruises went viral and lift-off was vertical: his debut album became the biggest seller in the UK in both 2019 and 2020, and its single Someone You Loved, a seven-week chart topper in the UK, made him the first Scottish solo artist to reach US No 1 since Sheena Easton in 1981. An endearing goofball on social media, Capaldi won even more fans by puncturing influencer culture with his blithely unglamorous image, but his japes disguised...

Netflix Boards ‘Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now’

Netflix has boarded Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now from The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann indie Pulse Films. The Brit Award-winning superstar was followed at a pivotal moment in his career for the doc, as he returned to his Scottish roots to reconnect with his old life having achieved global success. Filmed over several years and directed by BAFTA-winning Bros: After the Screaming Stops helmer Joe Pearlman, How I’m Feeling Now finds the 26-year-old back at his parent’s house in Scotland to begin work on his second album. The film captures Capaldi’s defining year, struggling to balance the familiarity of home, normality, and all he’s ever known, with life as one of the biggest stars on the planet, gleaning an intimate portrait of his unique character, hopes and fears in his own words. Co-financed by BMG and Quickfire,...

Lewis Capaldi’s feature-length documentary “How I’m Feeling Now” has been snapped up by Netflix.

The streamer has acquired worldwide rights to the doc, which is set to drop globally on April 5, via Independent Entertainment. The project was produced by BMG and Pulse Films, a Vice Media Group company, and co-financed by Quickfire Films.

“Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now” is directed by Joe Pearlman (“Bros: After the Screaming Stops”) and gives fans an inside look into the multi-platinum, award-winning artist as he returns to his roots following unimaginable global success including five headline tours and chart-topping singles.

As 26-year-old Capaldi returns to his family home in Scotland, where he started out, he grapples with balancing fame with normality as well as starting on the always-tricky sophomore album.

“This started out as a film about the process of creating the ‘difficult second album’ but ended up being an...

Lewis Capaldi needs to reconnect with his roots. In the announcement video for his upcoming Netflix documentary How I’m Feeling Now, the Scottish musician cycles through a number of identities, cosplaying as the streaming platform’s greatest hits. One moment he’s vying for the hand of a duke like a Bridgerton character and in the next, he’s a strategic Squid Game contestant. In another, he’s Joe Exotic in Tiger King and the moody Wednesday Addams in Wednesday.

The documentary will hopefully clear up any confusion about who Capaldi really is.

Los Angeles, Feb 11 (Ians) Award-winning singer Lewis Capaldi is set to star in a tell-all TV documentary.

The 26-year-old singer has agreed to a lucrative deal with Netflix and the streaming giant hopes the documentary will give fans an “eye-opening picture of who Lewis is”, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “This documentary has been a labour of love and the outcome is a really eye-opening picture of who Lewis is. It shows his funny side but also much more personal elements. It has been made by director Joe Pearlman, who was behind the infamous 2018 documentary ‘Bros: After The Screaming Stops’.

“Netflix is really impressed by what has been made and they have forked out a massive sum to have it exclusively. The hope is it will be out this year.”

Capaldi is looking forward to giving his fans a closer look at his real-life self.

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One of the original bad boys of 1990s pop is getting the no-holds-barred documentary treatment.

Netflix has revealed it is production on an unscripted series about Robbie Williams, the former Take That member who famously split from the band in 1995 and would go on to have a hugely successful solo career. Asif Kapadia, who landed an Oscar for his Amy Winehouse feature doc Amy, is exec producing, while Joe Pearlman, best known for the hugely acclaimed Bros. music doc Bros: After the Screaming Stops, directs.

The series will launch in 2023 and is described as an “unfiltered, in-depth examination of a global icon and natural-born-entertainer who had to navigate the highs and lows of being in the limelight for more than 30 years.” The project will cover the intense media scrutiny Williams faced, plus adulation and addiction, professional and personal break-ups, reunions, recovery and the...

Netflix has put a doc series about British pop superstar Robbie Williams into production, as its UK original series chief Anne Mensah doubled down on the streamer’s commitment to the UK despite the incoming cost of living crisis and concerns over drops in share price.

The multi-part music doc will launch in 2023 and contain exclusive access to Williams. It is billed as “an unfiltered, in-depth examination of a global icon and natural-born-entertainer who had to navigate the highs and lows of being in the limelight for more than 30 years.”

Show will look at the media scrutiny that has followed the former Take That singer’s career, his relationship with adulation and addiction and his professional and personal break ups. Footage captured over more than 25 years will be included in the no-holds-barred look at the entertainer and will reveal a more nuanced and multifaceted character.

“He’s really willing to go there,...

Netflix is in production on a documentary series about British pop singer and former Take That member, Robbie Williams.

The multi-part series will launch in 2023 and promises to be an “unfiltered, in-depth examination of a global icon and natural-born-entertainer who had to navigate the highs and lows of being in the limelight for more than 30 years.”

The series will cover Williams navigating media scrutiny throughout his career, as well as addiction, professional and personal break-ups, reunions, recovery and the impact all of this has had on the performer’s mental health.

Featuring 25 years’ worth of intimate, never-before-seen archive, and exclusive access to Williams, Netflix says the project will be a definitive series on the musician and a “no-holds-barred look” that will reveal a more nuanced and multifaceted Williams.

The series is directed by Joe Pearlman (“Bros: After the Screaming Stops”) and executive produced by Oscar-winning “Amy” director Asif Kapadia.

Also executive producing is Dominic Crossley-Holland.

Scottish musical sensation Lewis Capaldi is the subject of a feature-length documentary directed by BAFTA winner Joe Pearlman (“Bros: After the Screaming Stops”) and produced by Pulse Films. The film will be shopped to buyers at the Cannes virtual market by Independent Entertainment.

The 24-year-old Capaldi has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame over the past 36 months, earning a Grammy nomination and Brit award for his debut single “Someone You Loved,” in addition to a second Brit for best new artist, and selling out an arena tour before he’d even released his debut album.

It’s a stark contrast to his life just three years ago, when he was still carrying his own gear while performing in Scottish bars and pubs. The film follows Capaldi over a five-year period, from a global headline tour to returning to his parents’ home in Scotland to start work on his sophomore album.

Exclusive: The Late Late Show producer Fulwell 73 is kicking off its latest soccer doc about Manchester United legend Sir Matt Busby.

The company, which has made soccer docs including The Class of ’92 and Netflix’s Sunderland ‘Til I Die, is making Busby, exploring the life of Busby, who is widely considered one of the greatest managers of all time. He managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 as well as the second half of the 1970/71 season and was the first manager of an English soccer club to win the European Cup.

Joe Pearlman, director of BAFTA-nominated Bros doc After The Screaming Stops, is directing the feature doc, and Altitude Films has come on board to distribute in the UK and will launch in November.

He was responsible for managing the ‘Busby Babes’, a team of talented young players, eight of which died in the Munich Air disaster in 1958 on the way...

Russell T Davies historical drama scoops three gongs at London event.

A Very English Scandal picked up three Bafta Craft Awards last night (April 28), beating Killing Eve and Patrick Melrose, which each won two awards. Meanwhile, script supervisor Emma Thomas was honoured with the Bafta Craft Special Award for her outstanding contribution to the industry.

A Very English Scandal won for Costume Design, Director: Fiction and Editing: Fiction, while Killing Eve picked up awards for Original Music and Sound: Fiction. Patrick Melrose won the Production Design and Writer: Drama awards.

The awards celebrate the best behind-the-scenes television talent of the last 12 months.

A Very English Scandal, the BBC and Amazon co-production, scored three gongs at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards. The Hugh Grant-fronted mini-series beat two other high-profile U.S.-backed series, Killing Eve and Patrick Melrose, which both won two awards at the behind-the-scenes awards.

The event was hosted by Episodes’ Stephen Mangan in London and comes ahead of the main awards next month.

A Very English Scandal, based on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal, won in Costume Design, Director: Fiction and Editing: Fiction, while BBC America’s Killing Eve picked up the Original Music and Sound: Fiction awards and Showtime and Sky co-pro Patrick Melrose received the Production Design and Writer: Drama award with David Nicholls beating Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Russell T Davies and Lennie James to the latter.

2019 Winners

Writer: Drama

David Nicholls Patrick Melrose – Two Cities / SunnyMarch / Little Island Productions / Sky Atlantic

Lennie James Save Me – World Productions / Sky...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...

HeyUGuys has to confess, we didn’t know what to expect when we sat down with the brothers Bros to talk about their new documentary, After The Screaming Stops.

The film follows the pair on a journey from their day jobs in California and Nevada to the stage of the O2, while reminiscing about their four years in the late 80s/ early 90s atop the music charts.

The thing is, the documentary is funny. Really funny. And it’s not entirely clear if the Goss brothers are in on the joke. With Matt delivering a seemingly never-ending slew of mixed metaphors, the doc’s co-directors, Joe Pearlman and David Soutar, clearly knew they had something special on their hands, whether the brothers realised it or not.

Fortunately, we discovered the pair, while not entirely aware of the comedic slant at the time of filming, have taken the documentary in good spirit.

“H…O…M…E….those letters are incredibly important. They are… the personification of home.”

There’s something about former boyband legend Matt Goss. It could be his enduring, striking looks, replete with that wisp of blonde hair and those piercing eyes we were so accustomed to seeing, staring out from newsagent shelves from the covers of Smash Hits or Just 17.

Or perhaps it’s his thoughtfulness, as exhibited in Joe Pearlman and David Soutar’s documentary about the reformation of 1980s hit factory, Bros.

In truth, it’s all of the above the makes Matt Goss so watchable. Particularly his astonishing turn of phrase, delivering unique metaphors (the directors would later refer to them as Matt-isms) with alarming regularity.

The co-directors join Goss in the Us, where he evidently likes to stare pensively across the Vegas skyline (at least when he’s not performing on stage at The Mirage). Meanwhile,...

The final wave of programming for Fantastic Fest has been unveiled and the lineup features Jonah Hill’s directorial debut MID90S, the U.S. premiere of David Robert Mitchell’s La noir Under the Silver Lake starring Andrew Garfield and the fest’s closing night pic, Drew Goddard’s star-studded Bad Times at the El Royale.

As the bookend to this year’s fest, El Royale stars Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, and Cynthia Erivo in a mystery thriller about seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, that meet at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption — before everything goes to hell.

Fantastic Fest will also feature Karyn Kusama’s noir thriller Destroyer starring Nicole Kidman and the North American Premiere of Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited...