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Amazon MGM is developing a movie about Tiger Woods, with Barack and Michelle Obama’s company Higher Ground in talks to produce.

Based on Kevin Cook’s book “The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played,” the biographical drama will chart the rise of the child prodigy turned golf star. “King Richard” filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green is attached to direct.

Taking inspiration from the book’s moniker, the film is expected to focus on Woods’ triumph of winning four consecutive major championships, known as the “Tiger Slam.” After turning pro at age 20 in 1996, Woods became one of the most recognizable golfers of all time. He has 15 major championship wins to his name, including 82 PGA Tour victories.

His life off the green, though rife with drama, reportedly won’t be depicted in the film. In 2009, Woods fell from grace after numerous extramarital affairs came to light. As part of the fallout,...

When coach Bill Belichick took the podium at Tom Brady’s Roast, he used the opportunity to take a dig at the 10-part docuseries “The Dynasty” about the great New England Patriots teams he coached.

“I’m so honored to be here for the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix,” said Belichick. “It’s not to be confused with the roast of Bill Belichick on the 10-part Apple TV series.”

This sentiment that “The Dynasty” has an anti-Belichick slant, has been stoked publicly by former players (some of whom participated in the documentary) and had gasoline thrown on it by the Boston sports media. In an interview with IndieWire, director Matt Hamachek brushed aside the criticism.

“I certainly had no dog in this fight,” said Hamachek. “I think that a lot of the reaction probably stems from Bill no longer being on the team.”

What Hamachek is pointing to is how the docuseries’ biggest twist,...

Hamachek and team expertly combine interviews and archival footage to create a compelling sports docuseries on the New England Patriots dynasty. The series sheds light on the human drama behind the iconic NFL team, presenting a complex and contextually rich portrait of their rise as an 'evil empire.' From incredible footage to surprising revelations about the Patriots' controversies, The Dynasty offers a fascinating look at the team's journey from underdogs to perceived villains.

Author Jeff Benedict and filmmaker Matt Hamachek have a special artistic relationship. Benedict co-authored (with Armen Keteyian) the premiere biography of Tiger Woods, and Hamachek (with Matthew Heineman) brought it to vivid life in the two-part documentary Tiger. In 2020, Benedict released arguably the most well-researched and authoritative account of the New England Patriots dynasty which spanned the first two decades of our young century, The Dynasty. It was a time when quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichik,...

Peak behind the curtain of one of the most dominant sports dynasties ever built: the New England Patriots. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by author Jeff Benedict, the Apple TV+ documentary series, “The Dynasty: New England Patriots,” offers unprecedented access to those people instrumental to the success of the franchise, including former quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and owner Robert Kraft. With in-depth interviews, never-before-seen video footage, and audio files from the team’s archive, you’ll learn just what it takes to become the most dominant franchise not just in NFL history, but all of sports. Catch the premiere of the 10-episode series on Friday, Feb. 16 on Apple TV+. You can watch The Dynasty: New England Patriots with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.

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A dominant sports dynasty descends into a tense relationship between NFL coach Bill Belichick, star quarterback Tom Brady and team owner Robert Kraft in the trailer for Apple TV+’s The Dynasty: New England Patriots, which dropped on Tuesday.

The 10-part series from Imagine Documentaries is based on a best-selling book by Jeff Benedict and chronicles the rise and historic 20-year run of the Patriots during the celebrated Brady-Belichick-Kraft era. But the docu-series directed by Matthew Hamachek also exposes an apparent tense undercurrent surrounding the team.

“There’s things that were done that can’t be undone,” Brady says in an interview during one point in the trailer against game footage of Belichick tossing a water bottle in anger on the sidelines.

Benedict spent two years with the Patriots while writing his book, which was published in 2020. The filmmakers behind the Apple TV+ series also had access to the team during the 2021 season,...

“Black Mirror” Renewed at Netflix

The future is now for “Black Mirror.” The hit Netflix sci-fi series has received a Season 7 renewal after its much-anticipated return this year.

Created by Charlie Brooker, “Black Mirror” consists of standalone drama episodes “that tap into the collective unease about the modern world,” exploring technoparanoia and the “intended and unintended consequences of new technologies and the effect they have on society and individuals.” After a four-year hiatus, it returned for a sixth season this past June and reached the Top 10 in 92 countries’ viewing records.

Watch the trailer for Season 6 of “Black Mirror” below:

Casting has yet to be announced for Season 7. The five-part Season 6 featured a host of A-listers, including Salma Hayek, Annie Murphy, Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett, and Paapa Essiedu

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Former New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and the NFL team’s owner are featured in Apple TV+’s The Dynasty: New England Patriots documentary series. The teaser trailer doesn’t provide any details on the docuseries, but fortunately the streaming service has released a decent synopsis of the 10-part docuseries.

“Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Hamachek (Tiger), The Dynasty: New England Patriots chronicles the rise and historic 20-year run of the Patriots during the Brady-Belichick-Kraft era. The docuseries is based on the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling book of the same title by author Jeff Benedict, and goes deeper, drawing on thousands of hours of never-before-seen video footage and audio files from the Patriots organization’s archive,” reads Apple TV+’s synopsis. “In addition to interviews with past and present Patriots players, coaches, and executives, the unparalleled access includes Kraft, Belichick, Brady, and confessionals...

Prime Video series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” has unveiled first look images.

The series is a reimagining of the 2005 film starring Brad Pit and Angelina Jolie as Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, respectively. In this iteration, Donald Glover (“The Martian”) stars as John Smith, while Maya Erskine (“PEN15”) stars as Jane Smith.

This new version features John and Jane both landing jobs working for an international spy agency where they must pose as spouses Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith. As they navigate a new mission each week, they find themselves falling in love with one another, complicating — and compromising — their “strictly business” relationship. Notably, this version features an intentional sham marriage between two strangers, as compared to the 2005 original, in which Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith were married without being aware of each other’s identity as an assassin.

Glover serves as co-creator and executive producer, along with Francesca Sloane...

So you’re hungry, and you want to eat something healthy. Maybe a salad. Whoops. Romaine lettuce and spinach are prolific carriers of foodborne pathogens (a 2006 baby spinach contamination led to a severe E. coli outbreak). Ok, so maybe a chicken sandwich. Not so fast: It remains industry practice to sell raw chicken infected by salmonella. How about a wholesome peanut butter sandwich? Well, peanuts, too, have a bad salmonella history.

Such is the hazard of watching Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, a sobering new Netflix documentary that...

The second half of HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary drew 874,000 total viewers on Sunday night, charting significant growth over Part 1.

Part 2 of “Tiger,” which notably featured Rachel Uchitel’s first-ever sit-down interview about her relationship with Woods, grew 37% over Part 1, which scored 639,000 viewers the day of its premiere last week.

The second installment covered Woods’ downfall in the wake of multiple injuries, the infamous 2009 affair scandal that tarnished his public image and the 2017 DUI arrest that many saw as a death knell for the golfer’s career. It also covered Woods’ comeback victory at the 2019 Masters Tournament.

“Tiger” currently stands as the most-watched HBO Sports doc since Bill Simmons’ “Andre the Giant” walked through the curtain back in April 2018. A spokesperson for HBO said last week that there have been “about 15” HBO Sports titles in the genre between the two docs.

“Tiger” hails from HBO Sports and Jigsaw Productions in association with Our Time Projects.

The filmmakers behind “Tiger” and “Fed Up” are teaming with the producer of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” on a new investigative documentary into food safety.

Entitled “Poisoned,” the film will be directed by Stephanie Soechtig and executive produced by Jeff Benedict and produced by Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire. It will be based on Benedict’s book, “Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat.”

“‘Poisoned’ began with my interest in writing about the Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993 that sickened over 750 children, four of whom died,” said Benedict in a statement. “But once I entered that world, it became clear the story was much bigger than one outbreak. It’s the same broken system behind each of these horrific events, and while we’ve become more vigilant about what we eat, the issues plaguing the industry rage on.”

Soechtig...

Hollywood loves character-driven stories with a meteoric rise, a dramatic fall and the ultimate redemption. Tinsel Town is going to love HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary, and so will viewers — and it’s only going to take two minutes to hook you.

“Tiger,” from directors Matthew Heineman and Matt Hamachek, has an excellent opening scene. The cold open combines never-before-seen footage from Eldrick “Tiger” Woods’ dad, Earl, speaking glowingly about his boy at the Haskins Collegiate Awards Banquet with a childhood Tiger making sure “daddy” just saw his brilliant iron shot from the fairway. Earl’s audio continues over a signature Woods win at The Masters, and then ultimately, laid on top of police-station footage from Tiger’s 2017 DUI arrest.

Yeah, it’s been a wild 45 years.

Heineman and Hamachek told TheWrap they first read about Earl Woods’ proud-papa Haskins speech in Gary Smith’s 1996 Sports Illustrated article, “The Chosen One.

Tiger, the new HBO documentary about golfing legend Tiger Woods's life, gives us an inside look into the often enigmatic athlete's personality, childhood, and career. Jaw-dropping in its depictions of Woods's relationship with his father, the backlash after his cheating scandal, his chronic pain and resulting opioid addiction, and his struggles with fame and pressure, the documentary is making waves within the sports community and beyond. As a living legend known by many as the greatest golfer of all time (just second to Jack Nicklaus in major championships), it is fascinating to finally get the chance to know the human behind the mythology. That being said, if you're wondering whether Woods participated in or approved the documentary, he definitely did not. In fact, in all probability, he does not approve or support it.

According to a statement released to Golf Digest, Tiger Woods's agent Mark Steinberg isn't pleased about the new doc,...

While honestly not being the biggest sports fan, especially when it comes to professional golf, one player in particular quickly became a household name and that is Tiger Woods. Even if you have never followed a game of golf in your life, you have most certainly heard the name Tiger Woods and how he came to dominate the sport at such a young age, but as we have learned by watching HBO’s new two-part documentary “Tiger” that domination certainly came with a hefty price. As quickly as one can rise, they can fall just as fast and things can get ugly very quickly! HBO’s documentary is based upon the book “Tiger” written by Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict. Keteyian is also one of the executive producers for the HBO two-part series. The series immediately delves into Tiger’s relationship with his father Earl Woods, who was without a...

Part 1 of HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary, “Tiger,” hooked 639,000 total viewers across all platforms on Sunday.

That’s not amazing, but it is better than par for the course. The 639,000 total viewers mark the best performance for an HBO Sports doc since Bill Simmons’ “Andre the Giant” walked through the curtain back in April 2018.

The “Tiger” tally includes all platforms — so yes, streaming is counted here — and a TV encore. A spokesperson for HBO estimated there have been “about 15” HBO Sports titles in the genre between the two docs.

Part 2 of “Tiger” premieres this coming Sunday on HBO and HBO Max. Like the Part 1 debut, it will face competition about as stiff as it gets in the form of the primetime NFL Playoffs.

HBO’s two-part “Tiger” doc is driven by never-before-seen footage and revealing interviews with those who were once close with Woods, including his former caddy and close...

Tiger Woods’s story was easy to read as the most inspiring in American sports until the very moment it became among the most depressing. On one side of the pivot point of November 2009 sits a life lived in public as an athlete bound for glory from his earliest days, treated as a Messianic figure by his overweening father and, shortly thereafter, as a culture-shifting superstar by the media. On the other, after Woods’s double life was suddenly and publicly ripped open, sits scandalous ignominy that, as Woods’s preternatural athletic gifts slipped away with age, could no longer merely be clawed through with athletic achievement.

These two halves to Woods’s life so far form the two parts of HBO’s excellent new documentary “Tiger,” a project that brings together an unusual serious-mindedness with as rare a gift of pacing. This series makes elegant and understated arguments about celebrity,...

HBO has released the first trailer for their upcoming Tiger documentary. HBO Sports and Jigsaw Productions is bringing the two-part documentary illuminating in sweeping scope and vast detail the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. The network first announced the documentary back in July of this year, promising to have some of the closest people associated with the golfer. The brief trailer covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time, from greatness at a young age to the tabloids later in life.

Tiger, which was originally going to debut in December, will now premiere in January 2021. The documentary is driven by never-before-seen footage and revealing interviews with those who know Tiger Woods best, including his former caddy and close friend, Steve Williams; golf legend and six-time major champion Sir Nick Faldo; Earl Woods' friend and biographer, Pete McDaniel; Tiger's first true love, Dina Parr,...