Exclusive: Sports Illustrated Studios, a division of Authentic Studios, and Spyglass Media Group are partnering to produce a documentary on the life of Julie Krone, the most accomplished female jockey of all time and the only woman to ever win a Triple Crown race.
Larissa Bills, director and producer of Apple TV+’s recent docuseries The Super Models, is attached to direct and produce. The documentary will highlight Krone’s groundbreaking racing accolades as she earned her place as the first woman elected to the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., alongside her personal battles and triumphs.
Born in 1963, five years before women were legally allowed to race thoroughbreds, the only way for Krone to break into the male-dominated sport was to curse louder, fight harder, and ride faster than her competitors. She reached the pinnacle of the sport in 1993 when she became the first and...
Larissa Bills, director and producer of Apple TV+’s recent docuseries The Super Models, is attached to direct and produce. The documentary will highlight Krone’s groundbreaking racing accolades as she earned her place as the first woman elected to the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., alongside her personal battles and triumphs.
Born in 1963, five years before women were legally allowed to race thoroughbreds, the only way for Krone to break into the male-dominated sport was to curse louder, fight harder, and ride faster than her competitors. She reached the pinnacle of the sport in 1993 when she became the first and...
- 6/6/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
One was born with partial facial paralysis. The other grew up speaking Austrian-accented German, eventually transitioning to German-accented English.
If you were trying to concoct the archetypal Hollywood star in a lab, it wouldn’t be Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yet for more than 20 years they dominated the box office, their wattage rivaled only by the klieg lights of a movie premiere.
The improbable origins and unlikely rise of these two action icons are told in a couple of documentaries in Emmy contention: the feature Sly, directed by Thom Zimny, and the docuseries Arnold, directed by Lesley Chilcott.
“[EP] Allen Hughes brought the Arnold project to me,” Chilcott explains. “At first I said, ‘What don’t we already know?’ And he said, ‘I said the same thing myself.’ But then I started thinking about how weird and unusual it is that Arnold’s been successful in so many completely different areas.
If you were trying to concoct the archetypal Hollywood star in a lab, it wouldn’t be Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yet for more than 20 years they dominated the box office, their wattage rivaled only by the klieg lights of a movie premiere.
The improbable origins and unlikely rise of these two action icons are told in a couple of documentaries in Emmy contention: the feature Sly, directed by Thom Zimny, and the docuseries Arnold, directed by Lesley Chilcott.
“[EP] Allen Hughes brought the Arnold project to me,” Chilcott explains. “At first I said, ‘What don’t we already know?’ And he said, ‘I said the same thing myself.’ But then I started thinking about how weird and unusual it is that Arnold’s been successful in so many completely different areas.
- 6/2/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 15 and ends the night of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 15, and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.
The State of the Race
While there has not exactly been a cutdown on documentary series in the way there has been for scripted series, it does seem like budgets have gone down. There is already talk online of people feeling tricked by the merger of HBO Max and Discovery+ that has led viewers to take projects like “Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV...
The State of the Race
While there has not exactly been a cutdown on documentary series in the way there has been for scripted series, it does seem like budgets have gone down. There is already talk online of people feeling tricked by the merger of HBO Max and Discovery+ that has led viewers to take projects like “Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV...
- 5/30/2024
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Ron Howard, Mike Bloomberg and Faiza J. Saeed are set to receive the Paley Center for Media’s Paley Honors Award.
The illustrious prize, recognizing the the trio’s individual contributions to media, is the Paley Center’s highest honor and will be presented at a gala event in New York next month, where each of the honorees will be recognized with video highlights of their media achievements and tributes from colleagues and other media figures.
“Each of this year’s recipients represents the very best across media, entertainment and business,” Paley CEO and president Maureen J. Reidy said in a statement.
Actor, writer, director and producer Howard’s credits include The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, Arrested Development, Parenthood, Apollo 13 and the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind. Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment was recently behind The Super Models, The Dynasty: New England Patriots and Genius, the latest...
The illustrious prize, recognizing the the trio’s individual contributions to media, is the Paley Center’s highest honor and will be presented at a gala event in New York next month, where each of the honorees will be recognized with video highlights of their media achievements and tributes from colleagues and other media figures.
“Each of this year’s recipients represents the very best across media, entertainment and business,” Paley CEO and president Maureen J. Reidy said in a statement.
Actor, writer, director and producer Howard’s credits include The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, Arrested Development, Parenthood, Apollo 13 and the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind. Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment was recently behind The Super Models, The Dynasty: New England Patriots and Genius, the latest...
- 5/6/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, showing off the full panels of all 20 shows that participated in Saturday’s all-day showcase of the year’s best in nonfiction, unscripted and late-night programming as Emmy season ramps up.
Click here for the streaming site.
This year’s panel lineup featured a load of shows that have been generating zeitgeist-y buzz, including Gypsy Rose Blanchard joining the conversation with the EPs for The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the filmmakers behind Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the producers behind this year’s Oscars, and the creatives behind late-night staples Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Daily Show.
The documentary field was also well-repped, featuring filmmakers Ron Howard (Jim Henson Idea Man) Roger Ross Williams (The Super Models), Morgan Neville (Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces) Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss (Girls State...
Click here for the streaming site.
This year’s panel lineup featured a load of shows that have been generating zeitgeist-y buzz, including Gypsy Rose Blanchard joining the conversation with the EPs for The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the filmmakers behind Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the producers behind this year’s Oscars, and the creatives behind late-night staples Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Daily Show.
The documentary field was also well-repped, featuring filmmakers Ron Howard (Jim Henson Idea Man) Roger Ross Williams (The Super Models), Morgan Neville (Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces) Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss (Girls State...
- 4/29/2024
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s Emmy race features some of the most explosive nonfiction content in recent years: docuseries on the fate of a beloved talk show host, a vulnerable young woman victimized in a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, the scandal involving Nickelodeon kids shows, and a revealing look inside one of professional sports’ greatest dynasties.
Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event — your indispensable guide to TV awards season — goes in depth on all of it Saturday in a showcase that kicks off at 9 a.m. Pt.
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
Among the panelists joining today are key talent behind Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams?, Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, and The Dynasty: New England Patriots from Apple TV+. Gypsy Rose Blanchard herself joins us to talk about telling her shocking story in Lifetime’s The Prison...
Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event — your indispensable guide to TV awards season — goes in depth on all of it Saturday in a showcase that kicks off at 9 a.m. Pt.
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
Among the panelists joining today are key talent behind Lifetime’s Where Is Wendy Williams?, Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, and The Dynasty: New England Patriots from Apple TV+. Gypsy Rose Blanchard herself joins us to talk about telling her shocking story in Lifetime’s The Prison...
- 4/27/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The strikes are behind us, Emmy season is upon us, and it’s time to hear from the creatives and talent behind some of the TV season’s most talked-about nonfiction programs. Deadline’s daylong Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event will offer just that this weekend, giving awards-watchers a chance to kick back at home and take in the tales.
You can RSVP for Saturday’s livestream here.
Starting at 9 a.m. Pt Saturday, the fourth annual event features 20 panels with cast and creatives from series, specials and telefilms.
Here is what and who you can expect to see.
From ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
From Prime Video: Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (Writer/Director...
You can RSVP for Saturday’s livestream here.
Starting at 9 a.m. Pt Saturday, the fourth annual event features 20 panels with cast and creatives from series, specials and telefilms.
Here is what and who you can expect to see.
From ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
From Prime Video: Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (Writer/Director...
- 4/24/2024
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Stormy Daniels Doc Finds Global Distribution
Blue Ant Studios (Canada’s Drag Race) has taken worldwide distribution on Stormy, an in-depth documentary about the life of Stormy Daniels coming on the day of Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Daniels made headlines in 2018 when The Wall Street Journal reported that, just before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, she was paid $130,000 to stop her disclosing an affair she and Trump allegedly had in July 2006. Trump’s trial takes place from today in New York. Peacock’s Stormy is produced by Emmy-nominated Erin Lee Carr and producer/director Sarah Gibson (Orgasm Inc: The Story of One Taste), who were also behind the Britney vs. Spears explosive doc. “Our team is thrilled to have international rights for this sought-after documentary produced by two renowned filmmakers who specialize in portraying the stories of women...
Blue Ant Studios (Canada’s Drag Race) has taken worldwide distribution on Stormy, an in-depth documentary about the life of Stormy Daniels coming on the day of Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Daniels made headlines in 2018 when The Wall Street Journal reported that, just before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, she was paid $130,000 to stop her disclosing an affair she and Trump allegedly had in July 2006. Trump’s trial takes place from today in New York. Peacock’s Stormy is produced by Emmy-nominated Erin Lee Carr and producer/director Sarah Gibson (Orgasm Inc: The Story of One Taste), who were also behind the Britney vs. Spears explosive doc. “Our team is thrilled to have international rights for this sought-after documentary produced by two renowned filmmakers who specialize in portraying the stories of women...
- 4/15/2024
- by Hannah Abraham
- Deadline Film + TV
The South by Southwest debut of “Stormy” was not your typical Imagine Documentaries premiere.
About adult film star Stormy Daniels’ alleged affair with former President Donald Trump, the film drew an eclectic crowd that included porn stars and “Muppet” director-producer Frank Oz, who sat in the same row as Daniels and her entourage made up mainly of buff bodyguards. Dogs sniffed Austin’s Stateside Theater prior to the screening. After it unspooled, Daniels spoke to the SXSW audience, revealing that she first met “Stormy” exec producer Judd Apatow when he hired her for a small part in his 2005 film “40 Year-Old Virgin.” When she was a no-show due to a death in the family, Apatow sent her flowers and rescheduled her shoot date.
“I thought he would replace me,” Daniels, who would go on to appear in “Knocked Up” for the filmmaker, told the crowd, with director Sarah Gibson standing nearby.
About adult film star Stormy Daniels’ alleged affair with former President Donald Trump, the film drew an eclectic crowd that included porn stars and “Muppet” director-producer Frank Oz, who sat in the same row as Daniels and her entourage made up mainly of buff bodyguards. Dogs sniffed Austin’s Stateside Theater prior to the screening. After it unspooled, Daniels spoke to the SXSW audience, revealing that she first met “Stormy” exec producer Judd Apatow when he hired her for a small part in his 2005 film “40 Year-Old Virgin.” When she was a no-show due to a death in the family, Apatow sent her flowers and rescheduled her shoot date.
“I thought he would replace me,” Daniels, who would go on to appear in “Knocked Up” for the filmmaker, told the crowd, with director Sarah Gibson standing nearby.
- 3/21/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
A documentary on Stormy Daniels, the porn star who made national headlines when it was revealed that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the former president, is coming to Peacock next month.
“Stormy,” directed and produced by Emmy-nominated helmer Sarah Gibson, premieres on the streamer on March 18. Gibson is known for her work on documentary films and series including Netflix’s “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste,” which she co-directed, and “Britney vs. Spears,” which she produced.
“From reporters to lawyers to politicians, many have attempted to define Stormy Daniels,” the doc’s official description reads. “‘Stormy’ tells the unvarnished truth about an unlikely American icon — this time, in her own words.”
Erin Lee Carr, director of “Britney vs. Spears,” serves as a producer on “Stormy.” Judd Apatow is an executive producer via his Apatow Productions, alongside Sara Bernstein and Meredith Kaulfers for Imagine Documentaries.
“Stormy,” directed and produced by Emmy-nominated helmer Sarah Gibson, premieres on the streamer on March 18. Gibson is known for her work on documentary films and series including Netflix’s “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste,” which she co-directed, and “Britney vs. Spears,” which she produced.
“From reporters to lawyers to politicians, many have attempted to define Stormy Daniels,” the doc’s official description reads. “‘Stormy’ tells the unvarnished truth about an unlikely American icon — this time, in her own words.”
Erin Lee Carr, director of “Britney vs. Spears,” serves as a producer on “Stormy.” Judd Apatow is an executive producer via his Apatow Productions, alongside Sara Bernstein and Meredith Kaulfers for Imagine Documentaries.
- 2/5/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
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Quick Answer: Masters of the Air is an Apple Original and can only be streamed with an Apple TV+ subscription. The new series airs every Friday, starting Jan. 26
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The sound of victory is great in theory, but what does it cost to get there? In the new Apple Original series, Masters of the Air follows Major Gale Cleven (played by Austin Butler...
Quick Answer: Masters of the Air is an Apple Original and can only be streamed with an Apple TV+ subscription. The new series airs every Friday, starting Jan. 26
Watch 'Masters of the Air'
The sound of victory is great in theory, but what does it cost to get there? In the new Apple Original series, Masters of the Air follows Major Gale Cleven (played by Austin Butler...
- 1/31/2024
- by Kyle Lamar Rice
- Rollingstone.com
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,...
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,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The International Documentary Association (IDA), Cinema Eye Honors and Gotham Awards have delivered their verdicts on the top feature docs of the year. And, for the streamers, it’s a grim result.
Absent from the Gothams’ doc feature selections, the Cinema Eye’s top feature and director noms and the IDA’s 17-title shortlist are titles from Netflix, Prime Video and Apple TV+.
The lists read, in the words of one leading awards publicist, “like a giant fuck-you to Netflix.” And with Oscar campaigning in high gear, they pose the question: Is a streamer backlash brewing?
The Gotham noms are mostly non-u.S. productions, including Kino Lorber’s Four Daughters, PBS’ 20 Days in Mariupol and Cinema Guild’s Our Body. Likewise, the IDA’s shortlisted titles included Morocco’s The Mother of All Lies, Colombia’s Anhell69, South African artist portrait Milisuthando, the CBC-backed Twice Colonized and the BBC-backed,...
Absent from the Gothams’ doc feature selections, the Cinema Eye’s top feature and director noms and the IDA’s 17-title shortlist are titles from Netflix, Prime Video and Apple TV+.
The lists read, in the words of one leading awards publicist, “like a giant fuck-you to Netflix.” And with Oscar campaigning in high gear, they pose the question: Is a streamer backlash brewing?
The Gotham noms are mostly non-u.S. productions, including Kino Lorber’s Four Daughters, PBS’ 20 Days in Mariupol and Cinema Guild’s Our Body. Likewise, the IDA’s shortlisted titles included Morocco’s The Mother of All Lies, Colombia’s Anhell69, South African artist portrait Milisuthando, the CBC-backed Twice Colonized and the BBC-backed,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Adam Benzine
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After settling her lawsuit against CoolSculpting, which she alleged left her “brutally disfigured, and undergoing a great deal of therapy,” Linda Evangelista says she no longer blames herself for the ordeal that left her “unrecognizable” and depressed as she developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (Pah), what’s said to be a rare but serious side effect of CoolSculpting’s fat-freezing process.
“I don’t blame myself any more. I’m not hard on myself any longer,” Evangelista tells U.K. publication The Times. “And how people feel about me still bothers me a little bit, but it used to bother me a lot. I know now that I didn’t do anything wrong. For the longest time I thought I did. I’m not completely rid of it, but I work hard at getting rid of the guilt and the shame. And I’m not letting it ruin my life. I...
“I don’t blame myself any more. I’m not hard on myself any longer,” Evangelista tells U.K. publication The Times. “And how people feel about me still bothers me a little bit, but it used to bother me a lot. I know now that I didn’t do anything wrong. For the longest time I thought I did. I’m not completely rid of it, but I work hard at getting rid of the guilt and the shame. And I’m not letting it ruin my life. I...
- 11/27/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the spring of 2022, Ibram X. Kendi was recognized as one of the most banned authors in America. The National Book Award winner’s passionate reporting on the permeation of racist ideas throughout American history riled up conservative proponents, leading to three of Kendi’s tomes being banned in six school districts across multiple states. Now, his efforts to expose racist ideology is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, Stamped From the Beginning.
Stamped From the Beginning, based on Kendi’s 2016 book of the same name, shines a light...
Stamped From the Beginning, based on Kendi’s 2016 book of the same name, shines a light...
- 11/22/2023
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment is partnering with Wattpad Webtoon Studios to develop a feature adaptation of Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell, the hit comic from the creator known as Unfins, which has thus far garnered more than 160 million views on digital comic publishing platform, Webtoon.
Attached to script the live-action take is Cody Blue Snider, a veteran of the commercial and music video worlds, who is best known for his award-winning shorts All That Remains and Fool’s Day. Imagine will produce alongside Wattpad Webtoon Studios, with Karen Lunder and Allan Mandelbaum overseeing for Imagine, and Aron Levitz, David Madden and Lindsey Weems Ramey overseeing for Wattpad Webtoon.
Unfins’ Ringo Award-nominated comic tells the story of Paul, a hapless high schooler madly in love with “the girl next door.” After mistakenly summoning The Great Duke of Hell, Astaroth, Paul offers his soul...
Attached to script the live-action take is Cody Blue Snider, a veteran of the commercial and music video worlds, who is best known for his award-winning shorts All That Remains and Fool’s Day. Imagine will produce alongside Wattpad Webtoon Studios, with Karen Lunder and Allan Mandelbaum overseeing for Imagine, and Aron Levitz, David Madden and Lindsey Weems Ramey overseeing for Wattpad Webtoon.
Unfins’ Ringo Award-nominated comic tells the story of Paul, a hapless high schooler madly in love with “the girl next door.” After mistakenly summoning The Great Duke of Hell, Astaroth, Paul offers his soul...
- 11/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Roger Ross Williams is having quite the year. So far, the Oscar-winning director has released his first fiction film, Amazon Studios’ “Cassandro”; the HBO documentary “Love to Love You, Donna Summer”; AppleTV+ docuseries “The Super Models”; and Hulu miniseries “The 1619 Project.”
Joining Williams’ impressive output this year is Netflix’s “Stamped From the Beginning,” an adaptation of the eponymous bestselling book by Ibram X. Kendi about the history of racism and anti-Blackness in the U.S. The film has its European premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on Tuesday.
To have “Stamped From the Beginning” play at the festival is special to the American director, who now lives in the Dutch capital. “Amsterdam is my home, I love the city so much. IDFA is such an important festival for the Dutch community but it’s also an important festival for me, personally, being a Dutch resident married to a Dutch person,...
Joining Williams’ impressive output this year is Netflix’s “Stamped From the Beginning,” an adaptation of the eponymous bestselling book by Ibram X. Kendi about the history of racism and anti-Blackness in the U.S. The film has its European premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on Tuesday.
To have “Stamped From the Beginning” play at the festival is special to the American director, who now lives in the Dutch capital. “Amsterdam is my home, I love the city so much. IDFA is such an important festival for the Dutch community but it’s also an important festival for me, personally, being a Dutch resident married to a Dutch person,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Dorothy Street Pictures, the production company behind documentaries including “Pamela, a Love Story” and “Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story,” have tapped Lily Kaplan as their new head of development.
Kaplan joins the company’s New York office from Imagine Documentaries, where she will lead Dorothy Street’s transatlantic operation with a focus on growing their portfolio of high-end documentary films and series.
At Imagine, Kaplan worked on docs including “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” for Netflix, “Judy Blume Forever” for Amazon Prime Video, “Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming With Dave Letterman” for Disney+ and “The Super Models” for Apple TV+.
Lily Kaplan (courtesy of Dorothy Street Pictures)
Dorothy Street was launched by Julia Nottingham in 2018. It is backed by Sister, the company founded by Jane Featherstone, Elisabeth Murdoch and Stacey Snider.
“I am thrilled to join Julia and the team at Dorothy Street to help build out the premium documentaries slate,...
Kaplan joins the company’s New York office from Imagine Documentaries, where she will lead Dorothy Street’s transatlantic operation with a focus on growing their portfolio of high-end documentary films and series.
At Imagine, Kaplan worked on docs including “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” for Netflix, “Judy Blume Forever” for Amazon Prime Video, “Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming With Dave Letterman” for Disney+ and “The Super Models” for Apple TV+.
Lily Kaplan (courtesy of Dorothy Street Pictures)
Dorothy Street was launched by Julia Nottingham in 2018. It is backed by Sister, the company founded by Jane Featherstone, Elisabeth Murdoch and Stacey Snider.
“I am thrilled to join Julia and the team at Dorothy Street to help build out the premium documentaries slate,...
- 11/7/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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When the heartfelt hit Ted Lasso earned a massive amount of Emmy nominations earlier this summer, it maintained its spot as one of the most celebrated series of the year with 21 nods. But for anyone who has wanted to check out what the show was all about since it first premiered, you could only stream it one place: Apple TV+, Apple’s very own streaming service.
So what sets Apple TV+ apart,...
When the heartfelt hit Ted Lasso earned a massive amount of Emmy nominations earlier this summer, it maintained its spot as one of the most celebrated series of the year with 21 nods. But for anyone who has wanted to check out what the show was all about since it first premiered, you could only stream it one place: Apple TV+, Apple’s very own streaming service.
So what sets Apple TV+ apart,...
- 10/31/2023
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix’s trailer for Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams’ Stamped From the Beginning features clips of female scholars discussing the connection between the United States’ history of racism and the history of power. The documentary based on Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s bestselling book will premiere on November 10, 2023 in select theaters, followed by a release on the streaming service on November 20.
“When we started looking at historians and scholars, we came up with a long list. I noticed the pattern that most of the people doing the work around racism in America were Black women,” stated director Williams in an interview on Netflix’s Tudum. “I asked them in pre-interviews, ‘Why do you do this work?’ And many of them said the same thing — that they had no choice. This was their experience and their life. And if they’re going to dedicate their life to something, it’s going...
“When we started looking at historians and scholars, we came up with a long list. I noticed the pattern that most of the people doing the work around racism in America were Black women,” stated director Williams in an interview on Netflix’s Tudum. “I asked them in pre-interviews, ‘Why do you do this work?’ And many of them said the same thing — that they had no choice. This was their experience and their life. And if they’re going to dedicate their life to something, it’s going...
- 10/30/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Frédéric Tcheng on celebrating Bethann Hardison: “I think it’s really important to see what Bethann did and the historical movement she created.” Photo: Oliviero Toscano, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
When I spoke with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer on Zoom from Paris, months before the 22nd edition, he noted Frédéric Tcheng and Bethann Hardison’s Invisible Beauty (produced by Lisa Cortes of Harold Crooks and Judd Tully’s The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons) as one of the highlights to see and commented: “We play all the films by Frédéric Tcheng (Halston and the World première of Dior And I). He’s a great person, very elegant.” Frédéric also co-directed Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel with Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Bent-Jorge Perlmutt and was a co-editor with Bob Eisenhardt for Matt Tyrnauer’s Valentino: The Last Emperor.
Frédéric Tcheng...
When I spoke with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer on Zoom from Paris, months before the 22nd edition, he noted Frédéric Tcheng and Bethann Hardison’s Invisible Beauty (produced by Lisa Cortes of Harold Crooks and Judd Tully’s The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons) as one of the highlights to see and commented: “We play all the films by Frédéric Tcheng (Halston and the World première of Dior And I). He’s a great person, very elegant.” Frédéric also co-directed Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel with Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Bent-Jorge Perlmutt and was a co-editor with Bob Eisenhardt for Matt Tyrnauer’s Valentino: The Last Emperor.
Frédéric Tcheng...
- 10/14/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Imagine Documentaries, the non-fiction branch of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, is looking to boost a new generation of documentary talent.
Speaking at a panel at Rome’s Mia Market, Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein revealed that her company has signed a development deal with filmmakers Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill, whose teenagers-in-Texas portrait “Cusp” premiered to critical acclaim at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, while praising director Jackie Jesko, whose three-part, true-crime doc “Savior Complex” premiered on HBO last month.
“It’s important to champion and make room for the next generation,” said Bernstein, heralding Bethencourt and Hill’s film as “one of the best cinema verité style docs I’d seen in a long time.”
“I thought it was incredibly riveting,” Bernstein continued. “[And] we’re always looking at those filmmakers… [because] it’s exciting to think about the next generation, to ask who’s up and coming.
Speaking at a panel at Rome’s Mia Market, Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein revealed that her company has signed a development deal with filmmakers Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill, whose teenagers-in-Texas portrait “Cusp” premiered to critical acclaim at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, while praising director Jackie Jesko, whose three-part, true-crime doc “Savior Complex” premiered on HBO last month.
“It’s important to champion and make room for the next generation,” said Bernstein, heralding Bethencourt and Hill’s film as “one of the best cinema verité style docs I’d seen in a long time.”
“I thought it was incredibly riveting,” Bernstein continued. “[And] we’re always looking at those filmmakers… [because] it’s exciting to think about the next generation, to ask who’s up and coming.
- 10/13/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Documentaries like Netflix’s Harry & Meghan are “almost in a different category,” the docs boss of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment said today.
Responding to a question from Deadline at Mia Market, former HBO producer Sara Bernstein also said the “fees have raised in terms of what this access looks like and what it costs a producer like our company” on shows where the subjects exert a certain amount of editorial control.
Although it isn’t only Harry & Meghan that opted for this approach, the conversation was sparked by last year’s hit doc series, which was co-produced by the ex-royal duo’s Archewell Productions via a multi-million dollar Netflix deal.
“We live in a world today where celebrities, big personaltiies and talent of a certain magnitude understand what their value is to the industry and to an audience,” Bernstein said. “I think that has...
Responding to a question from Deadline at Mia Market, former HBO producer Sara Bernstein also said the “fees have raised in terms of what this access looks like and what it costs a producer like our company” on shows where the subjects exert a certain amount of editorial control.
Although it isn’t only Harry & Meghan that opted for this approach, the conversation was sparked by last year’s hit doc series, which was co-produced by the ex-royal duo’s Archewell Productions via a multi-million dollar Netflix deal.
“We live in a world today where celebrities, big personaltiies and talent of a certain magnitude understand what their value is to the industry and to an audience,” Bernstein said. “I think that has...
- 10/12/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Gayle King is addressing the recent comments Cindy Crawford made about her longtime friend Oprah Winfrey.
In the first episode of Apple TV+’s new docu-series The Super Models, Cindy, 57, reflected on her first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show back in 1986 when she was 20-years-old.
During the interview, Oprah, 69, focused primarily on Cindy‘s body, which made the model feel “like the chattel or a child, be seen and not hear.”
Keep reading to find out more…
“When you look at it through today’s eyes, when Oprah’s like, ‘Stand up and show me your body. Show us why you’re worthy of being here,’” Cindy added. “In the moment I didn’t recognize it, only when I look back at it am I like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so not okay, really. Especially from Oprah.’”
While arriving at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s 2023 Albie Awards,...
In the first episode of Apple TV+’s new docu-series The Super Models, Cindy, 57, reflected on her first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show back in 1986 when she was 20-years-old.
During the interview, Oprah, 69, focused primarily on Cindy‘s body, which made the model feel “like the chattel or a child, be seen and not hear.”
Keep reading to find out more…
“When you look at it through today’s eyes, when Oprah’s like, ‘Stand up and show me your body. Show us why you’re worthy of being here,’” Cindy added. “In the moment I didn’t recognize it, only when I look back at it am I like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so not okay, really. Especially from Oprah.’”
While arriving at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s 2023 Albie Awards,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Gayle King is weighing in on the recent high-profile comments made by Cindy Crawford criticizing an early interview with Oprah Winfrey.
In the first episode of the new AppleTV+ docuseries “The Super Models”, Crawford reflected on her very first appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1986, when she was 20, and she calls out Winfrey for making her feel like a “chattel,” or like a piece of property.
King, a close friend of Winfrey’s, spoke with Et’s Rachel Smith on Thursday at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s 2023 Albie Awards in New York City, and she explained that she’d “heard about it” but that she hasn’t yet watched the clip of the interview in question, or the new show.
“I haven’t seen it, and I want to see it, but I’m surprised and a little disappointed,” King shared. “Because I know Cindy’s been on her show many,...
In the first episode of the new AppleTV+ docuseries “The Super Models”, Crawford reflected on her very first appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1986, when she was 20, and she calls out Winfrey for making her feel like a “chattel,” or like a piece of property.
King, a close friend of Winfrey’s, spoke with Et’s Rachel Smith on Thursday at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s 2023 Albie Awards in New York City, and she explained that she’d “heard about it” but that she hasn’t yet watched the clip of the interview in question, or the new show.
“I haven’t seen it, and I want to see it, but I’m surprised and a little disappointed,” King shared. “Because I know Cindy’s been on her show many,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
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Being a supermodel is not always glamorous, as the original four (Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington) divulge in a new four-part docuseries. Beyond the jet-setting, lavish evenings, and racks of clothes, The Super Models is an exposé into the industry’s darker sides.
“It’s fashion and it’s fun and light,” filmmaker Roger Ross Williams tells Rolling Stone. “…but also it’s life.
Being a supermodel is not always glamorous, as the original four (Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington) divulge in a new four-part docuseries. Beyond the jet-setting, lavish evenings, and racks of clothes, The Super Models is an exposé into the industry’s darker sides.
“It’s fashion and it’s fun and light,” filmmaker Roger Ross Williams tells Rolling Stone. “…but also it’s life.
- 9/28/2023
- by Kyle Lamar Rice
- Rollingstone.com
Cindy Crawford revealed in the Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models that talk show host Oprah Winfrey treated her like a child during a 1986 interview on Winfrey’s show.
During an appearance alongside Elite Modeling founder John Casablancas, Crawford recounted being referred to like she was chattel or a child when Winfrey asked her to stand up and exclaim that she had a “very good” body.
“I was like the chattel or a child, like be seen and not heard,” Crawford recounted in the docuseries. “When you look at it through today’s eyes when Oprah’s like, ‘Stand up and show me your body,’ like show us why you’re worthy of being here. In the moment I didn’t recognize it. Only when I look back at it and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so not Ok really.’ Especially from Oprah.”
What was the context of the Oprah Winfrey interview?...
During an appearance alongside Elite Modeling founder John Casablancas, Crawford recounted being referred to like she was chattel or a child when Winfrey asked her to stand up and exclaim that she had a “very good” body.
“I was like the chattel or a child, like be seen and not heard,” Crawford recounted in the docuseries. “When you look at it through today’s eyes when Oprah’s like, ‘Stand up and show me your body,’ like show us why you’re worthy of being here. In the moment I didn’t recognize it. Only when I look back at it and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so not Ok really.’ Especially from Oprah.”
What was the context of the Oprah Winfrey interview?...
- 9/27/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
You know their names: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington. The supermodel quartet reached instant fame and held the fashion industry in the palm of their hands in the Nineties. To filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, they were the first influencers with indelible power, photographed globally and enamored by millions.
“They’d seen them in pictures,” Williams says to Rolling Stone, “but they hadn’t heard them speak.”
In the docuseries The Super Models, now streaming on Apple TV+, the fashion deities discuss their rise to stardom, their shatterproof bond,...
“They’d seen them in pictures,” Williams says to Rolling Stone, “but they hadn’t heard them speak.”
In the docuseries The Super Models, now streaming on Apple TV+, the fashion deities discuss their rise to stardom, their shatterproof bond,...
- 9/24/2023
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Christy Turlington’s daughter Grace Burns, 19, made her debut at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday.
Dressed in a sheer one-shouldered dress, she walked down the runway of the Alberta Ferretti spring 2024 show. Her dress was light pink with a floral design in various colors of muted green and maroon. Burns wore her hair long and straight, tucked behind her ears, as she made her way down the runway through the historic Castello Sforzesco.
She later posted an Instagram Reel of her runway moment, captioned, “@albertaferretti thank you thank you thank you for having me in your show… in a castleeeeee!!!!! So so so honored to be a part of this beautiful collection.”
Milan Fashion Week follows Burns’ first runway show ever in June, where she walked the British Vogue x LuisaVia Roma show in Florence. She wore a white Victoria Beckham dress with black lace gloves and stockings to match.
Dressed in a sheer one-shouldered dress, she walked down the runway of the Alberta Ferretti spring 2024 show. Her dress was light pink with a floral design in various colors of muted green and maroon. Burns wore her hair long and straight, tucked behind her ears, as she made her way down the runway through the historic Castello Sforzesco.
She later posted an Instagram Reel of her runway moment, captioned, “@albertaferretti thank you thank you thank you for having me in your show… in a castleeeeee!!!!! So so so honored to be a part of this beautiful collection.”
Milan Fashion Week follows Burns’ first runway show ever in June, where she walked the British Vogue x LuisaVia Roma show in Florence. She wore a white Victoria Beckham dress with black lace gloves and stockings to match.
- 9/22/2023
- by Bay Zisman
- Uinterview
"The Super Models" is a new 4-part 'docuseries' tracking the careers of models Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington throughout the 1980's, now streaming on AppleTV+:
"...'The Super Models' travels back to the 1980's, when four women from different corners of the world united in New York.
"Already forces in their own right, the gravitas they achieved by coming together transcended the industry itself. Their prestige was so extraordinary that it enabled the four to supersede the brands they showcased, making the names 'Naomi', 'Cindy', 'Linda' and 'Christy' as prominent as the designers who styled them.
"Today, the four supermodels remain on the frontlines of culture through activism, philanthropy and business prowess.
"As the fashion industry continues to redefine itself – and women’s roles within it – this is the ultimate story of power and how four women came together to claim it, paving the way for those to follow.
"...'The Super Models' travels back to the 1980's, when four women from different corners of the world united in New York.
"Already forces in their own right, the gravitas they achieved by coming together transcended the industry itself. Their prestige was so extraordinary that it enabled the four to supersede the brands they showcased, making the names 'Naomi', 'Cindy', 'Linda' and 'Christy' as prominent as the designers who styled them.
"Today, the four supermodels remain on the frontlines of culture through activism, philanthropy and business prowess.
"As the fashion industry continues to redefine itself – and women’s roles within it – this is the ultimate story of power and how four women came together to claim it, paving the way for those to follow.
- 9/22/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Like mother, like daughter.
Christy Turlington’s 19-year-old daughter, Grace Burns, celebrated a modelling first on Wednesday as she made her Milan Fashion Week debut.
Grace — who is the daughter of Turlington and Ed Burns — walked the runway at the Alberta Ferretti spring 2024 show, held at the historic Castello Sforzesco.
The teenager donned a pretty one-shoulder pink floral dress as she did the honours.
Grace Burns walks the runway at the Alberta Ferretti fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 20, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage/Getty)
Read More: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington And Linda Evangelista Reunite On The Runway For London Fashion Week
Grace took to social media afterwards to thank the designer for giving her such an amazing opportunity.
She wrote alongside a clip, “@albertaferretti thank you thank you thank you for having me in your show… in a castleeeeee!
Christy Turlington’s 19-year-old daughter, Grace Burns, celebrated a modelling first on Wednesday as she made her Milan Fashion Week debut.
Grace — who is the daughter of Turlington and Ed Burns — walked the runway at the Alberta Ferretti spring 2024 show, held at the historic Castello Sforzesco.
The teenager donned a pretty one-shoulder pink floral dress as she did the honours.
Grace Burns walks the runway at the Alberta Ferretti fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 20, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage/Getty)
Read More: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington And Linda Evangelista Reunite On The Runway For London Fashion Week
Grace took to social media afterwards to thank the designer for giving her such an amazing opportunity.
She wrote alongside a clip, “@albertaferretti thank you thank you thank you for having me in your show… in a castleeeeee!
- 9/22/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Just one week after Whoopi Goldberg startled her co-hosts on “The View” by pausing mid-sentence to ask Alyssa Farah Griffin if she was pregnant, Joy Behar had her own blunt personal question to ask on Thursday. Mid-topic, the ABC host asked Sunny Hostin point blank if she fakes orgasms for her husband.
The question came up as the ABC hosts were discussing “The Super Models,” a new docuseries on Apple TV+ that looks back on the careers of Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. In it, Whoopi Goldberg explained, Crawford speaks about her past relationship with Richard Gere, and says that as a young woman, you’re “willing to mold yourself around the person you’re in love with.”
Behar quickly disputed that idea, saying never to fake interests because the lie will always come back to bite you. But host Sunny Hostin admitted that she totally...
The question came up as the ABC hosts were discussing “The Super Models,” a new docuseries on Apple TV+ that looks back on the careers of Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. In it, Whoopi Goldberg explained, Crawford speaks about her past relationship with Richard Gere, and says that as a young woman, you’re “willing to mold yourself around the person you’re in love with.”
Behar quickly disputed that idea, saying never to fake interests because the lie will always come back to bite you. But host Sunny Hostin admitted that she totally...
- 9/21/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
More than 30 years after they tied the knot, Cindy Crawford is looking back on her short-lived marriage to Richard Gere.
In the newly released Apple TV+ docuseries, “The Super Models”, the now-57-year-old runway icon reflected on her 22-year-old self when she met the movie star. The two tied the knot in 1991 and announced their separation three years later.
“In the beginning of a relationship, when you’re a young woman, you’re like, ‘You like baseball? I like baseball. You’re really into Tibetan Buddhism? I might be into that. I’ll try that,” she said, referencing Gere’s longtime practice of the religion.
Added Crawford, “You’re willing to kind of mold yourself around whoever you are in love with.”
Crawford’s supermodel days also shifted during her marriage to Gere, as she veered away from “the fashion elite” and took charge of other career opportunities, like her famed Pepsi commercial.
In the newly released Apple TV+ docuseries, “The Super Models”, the now-57-year-old runway icon reflected on her 22-year-old self when she met the movie star. The two tied the knot in 1991 and announced their separation three years later.
“In the beginning of a relationship, when you’re a young woman, you’re like, ‘You like baseball? I like baseball. You’re really into Tibetan Buddhism? I might be into that. I’ll try that,” she said, referencing Gere’s longtime practice of the religion.
Added Crawford, “You’re willing to kind of mold yourself around whoever you are in love with.”
Crawford’s supermodel days also shifted during her marriage to Gere, as she veered away from “the fashion elite” and took charge of other career opportunities, like her famed Pepsi commercial.
- 9/21/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Runway legend Naomi Campbell is slashing her stilettos into the stigmas Black women face.
In her new Apple TV+ doc, “The Super Models”, the generation-defining supreme supermodel – who has catwalked for brands like Marc Jacobs and Chanel – explains that being labelled as “difficult” throughout her career has been fuelled by racism.
Read More: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington And Linda Evangelista Reunite On The Runway For London Fashion Week
“It was hard to be an outspoken Black woman and I definitely got the cane for it many times,” she remembered in the third episode of the throwback series.
After leaving Ford’s modelling agency for Elite, Campbell was offered a contract with beauty company Revlon. Upon learning how little it was compared to what she made in a day, she told a meeting full of people that she wouldn’t accept the offer.
She said that decision led to...
In her new Apple TV+ doc, “The Super Models”, the generation-defining supreme supermodel – who has catwalked for brands like Marc Jacobs and Chanel – explains that being labelled as “difficult” throughout her career has been fuelled by racism.
Read More: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington And Linda Evangelista Reunite On The Runway For London Fashion Week
“It was hard to be an outspoken Black woman and I definitely got the cane for it many times,” she remembered in the third episode of the throwback series.
After leaving Ford’s modelling agency for Elite, Campbell was offered a contract with beauty company Revlon. Upon learning how little it was compared to what she made in a day, she told a meeting full of people that she wouldn’t accept the offer.
She said that decision led to...
- 9/20/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
In Apple TV+’s new docuseries The Super Models, Linda Evangelista reflects on being in an “abusive relationship.”
In the third episode of the four-part series focused on Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington’s rise to power, Evangelista recalls that difficult time as images appear on the screen of her marriage to Elite Model Management executive Gérald Marie between 1987 and 1993.
“I learned that maybe I was in the wrong relationship,” she says. “It’s easier said than done to leave an abusive relationship. I understand that concept because I lived it. If it was a matter of just saying, ‘I want a divorce, see ya,’ it doesn’t work that way.”
Evangelista suggests that this man was physically violent, saying, as it sounds like her voice is breaking, “He knew not to touch my face, not to touch the moneymaker, you know?”
She adds, “I married him...
In the third episode of the four-part series focused on Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington’s rise to power, Evangelista recalls that difficult time as images appear on the screen of her marriage to Elite Model Management executive Gérald Marie between 1987 and 1993.
“I learned that maybe I was in the wrong relationship,” she says. “It’s easier said than done to leave an abusive relationship. I understand that concept because I lived it. If it was a matter of just saying, ‘I want a divorce, see ya,’ it doesn’t work that way.”
Evangelista suggests that this man was physically violent, saying, as it sounds like her voice is breaking, “He knew not to touch my face, not to touch the moneymaker, you know?”
She adds, “I married him...
- 9/20/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though beauty is subjective, some images, portraits and spaces are so exquisite that they become timeless, forever solidified in the imagination of popular culture. The perfect image brings in consumers. Since advertising began, models have always held a place in society. Yet, during the late ’80s and the ’90s, one group of models transcended fashion to become icons.
In the new Apple TV+ docuseries “The Super Models,” co-directors Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills examine the careers of legends Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington. Four very different women from varied backgrounds began their journeys as teens, later leaping off the pages of magazines and onto global runways. As they became more powerful and recognized outside the fashion industry — even as society started to press back against unrealistic beauty standards — they learned to speak up for themselves and each other during an era in which women were still tethered to silence.
In the new Apple TV+ docuseries “The Super Models,” co-directors Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills examine the careers of legends Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington. Four very different women from varied backgrounds began their journeys as teens, later leaping off the pages of magazines and onto global runways. As they became more powerful and recognized outside the fashion industry — even as society started to press back against unrealistic beauty standards — they learned to speak up for themselves and each other during an era in which women were still tethered to silence.
- 9/20/2023
- by Aramide Tinubu
- Variety Film + TV
Cindy Crawford is reflecting on that 1986 Oprah Winfrey interview.
Crawford appeared on Apple TV+’s “The Super Models” alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington.
During the docuseries, Crawford called out Winfrey for commenting on her body during the talk show interview nearly 40 years ago, in which she appeared alongside Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas.
During the 1986 chat, Winfrey asked the then-20-year-old to “stand up [for] just a moment,” telling her studio audience, “This is what I call a body.”
Read More: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington And Linda Evangelista Reunite On The Runway For London Fashion Week
The docuseries featured a clip of the interview, showing Crawford doing what she was told and standing up to show off her figure, Page Six reported.
Crawford, now 57, said, “I was like the chattel or a child, be seen and not heard. When you look at it through today’s eyes,...
Crawford appeared on Apple TV+’s “The Super Models” alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington.
During the docuseries, Crawford called out Winfrey for commenting on her body during the talk show interview nearly 40 years ago, in which she appeared alongside Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas.
During the 1986 chat, Winfrey asked the then-20-year-old to “stand up [for] just a moment,” telling her studio audience, “This is what I call a body.”
Read More: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington And Linda Evangelista Reunite On The Runway For London Fashion Week
The docuseries featured a clip of the interview, showing Crawford doing what she was told and standing up to show off her figure, Page Six reported.
Crawford, now 57, said, “I was like the chattel or a child, be seen and not heard. When you look at it through today’s eyes,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
In Apple TV+’s new docuseries The Super Models, Cindy Crawford is re-evaluating key moments from her career, including one questionable Oprah Winfrey Show moment from 1986 that she now claims was “so not Ok.”
Throughout the episode in question, Crawford sat alongside her then-representative from Elite Modeling Agency, John Casablancas. Winfrey asked the 20-year-old burgeoning model to stand up to give the audience a better look at her figure. “Now this is what I call a body!” exclaimed Winfrey.
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Throughout the episode in question, Crawford sat alongside her then-representative from Elite Modeling Agency, John Casablancas. Winfrey asked the 20-year-old burgeoning model to stand up to give the audience a better look at her figure. “Now this is what I call a body!” exclaimed Winfrey.
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- 9/20/2023
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
The documentarian Roger Ross Williams usually establishes trust by getting a meal with his subjects before shooting. In the case of “The Super Models,” he and co-director Larissa Bills were meeting four legends.
Cindy Crawford hosted the pair at her Malibu home; Christy Turlington took them to a bookstore in Manhattan; Naomi Campbell Zoomed them from her closet. In early 2020, Crawford, Turlington, Campbell and Linda Evangelista came to Imagine Entertainment with the notion of executive producing a documentary about their reign over fashion in the 1980s and ’90s. Williams, an Oscar winner for 2009’s “Music by Prudence,” and Bills were brought in to tell their collective story of living as icons — and finding themselves as women.
And that’s how Williams ended up telling Evangelista about the House of Evangelista. On FX’s “Pose,” a group of drag ballroom performers borrow her name, and her hauteur. “I made this whole speech,...
Cindy Crawford hosted the pair at her Malibu home; Christy Turlington took them to a bookstore in Manhattan; Naomi Campbell Zoomed them from her closet. In early 2020, Crawford, Turlington, Campbell and Linda Evangelista came to Imagine Entertainment with the notion of executive producing a documentary about their reign over fashion in the 1980s and ’90s. Williams, an Oscar winner for 2009’s “Music by Prudence,” and Bills were brought in to tell their collective story of living as icons — and finding themselves as women.
And that’s how Williams ended up telling Evangelista about the House of Evangelista. On FX’s “Pose,” a group of drag ballroom performers borrow her name, and her hauteur. “I made this whole speech,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
“The Super Models” is taking viewers back to the ’80s with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. In the four-part docuseries, viewers will have a chance to get to know these ladies on a different level and see the impact they had within their field. This group of models shook up the world of modeling and changed it for generations to come. The inspiring fashion docuseries premieres exclusively on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, Sept. 20. You can watch The Super Models with a 60-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.
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About ‘The Super Models’ Premiere
In “The Super Models,” these four individual women offer insight into their unique journeys,...
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About ‘The Super Models’ Premiere
In “The Super Models,” these four individual women offer insight into their unique journeys,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Aubrey Chorpenning
- The Streamable
Naomi. Cindy. Christy. Linda. You don’t have to be a fashionista to know four of the most recognizable models to ever strut down the runway. In the four-part docuseries, The Super Models, exec producers Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington share their humble career beginnings in the 1980s and their rise in the industry that made them arguably more famous than the brands, like Calvin Klein and Revlon, with which they were associated. “It had been a dream of the four women to collectively tell their stories because they thought any one of them has an amazing [tale],” says Roger Ross Williams, who directs with Larissa Bills. (Credit: Apple TV+) Through extensive footage and new interviews, the quartet reveal basking in their fame was of less interest than elevating the industry’s perception of women, and their own philanthropy efforts to help others. “We looked powerful, and...
- 9/17/2023
- TV Insider
There are a few documentarians who dabble in feature filmmaking: R.J. Cutler (“If I Stay”), Matt Heineman (“A Private War”), even Werner Herzog (there are many). To their ranks we can now add Oscar-winner Roger Ross Williams (“Music By Prudence”), and he’s all in on making it work.
At Telluride, Williams screened his well-reviewed Sundance feature “Cassandro”; saw the world premiere of “Stamped from the Beginning” at the Toronto International Film Festival; and Apple TV+ will air his four-part docuseries “The Super Models” September 20.
It’s an eclectic and vibrant collection of work and none of it was straightforward or easy. “Cassandro” is based on the true story of Luchador Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal in a career-best performance) who finds his true identity as the cross-dressing El Exotico on the Mexico wrestling circuit. Williams met his subject on the Amazon documentary short “The Man Without a Mask” (2016).
“I knew that story inside out,...
At Telluride, Williams screened his well-reviewed Sundance feature “Cassandro”; saw the world premiere of “Stamped from the Beginning” at the Toronto International Film Festival; and Apple TV+ will air his four-part docuseries “The Super Models” September 20.
It’s an eclectic and vibrant collection of work and none of it was straightforward or easy. “Cassandro” is based on the true story of Luchador Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal in a career-best performance) who finds his true identity as the cross-dressing El Exotico on the Mexico wrestling circuit. Williams met his subject on the Amazon documentary short “The Man Without a Mask” (2016).
“I knew that story inside out,...
- 9/15/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The supermodels are making a comeback.
At Thursday’s Vogue World event kicking off London Fashion Week, models Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell brought the heat.
Read More: ‘The Super Models’: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista & Christy Turlington Tell Their Stories In Event Docuseries
The four icons of the ’90s reunited to close out the show, walking out to Annie Lennox performing a “Sweet Dreams” medley.
Christy Turlington Burns, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Cindy Crawford close #VogueWorld 2023 in a fashion finale for the ages: https://t.co/17ABY2lohh pic.twitter.com/Frsqb38PkX
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) September 14, 2023
Crawford, Evangelista and Turlington were all in metallic dresses, while Campbell donned a forest green dress.
The foursome strutted out on the runway before doing a walk around the audience as Lennox performed.
Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista and Turlington’s runway reunion comes ahead of the...
At Thursday’s Vogue World event kicking off London Fashion Week, models Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell brought the heat.
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The four icons of the ’90s reunited to close out the show, walking out to Annie Lennox performing a “Sweet Dreams” medley.
Christy Turlington Burns, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Cindy Crawford close #VogueWorld 2023 in a fashion finale for the ages: https://t.co/17ABY2lohh pic.twitter.com/Frsqb38PkX
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) September 14, 2023
Crawford, Evangelista and Turlington were all in metallic dresses, while Campbell donned a forest green dress.
The foursome strutted out on the runway before doing a walk around the audience as Lennox performed.
Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista and Turlington’s runway reunion comes ahead of the...
- 9/15/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams is known for capturing moments of intimacy and awe in documentaries like God Loves Uganda and the Oscar-nominated Life, Animated. With Cassandro, a portrait of gay lucha libre wrestling star Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), Williams has brought that sense of warmth and showmanship to his first scripted feature. The film, which arrives in theaters Sept. 15 and on Prime Video Sept. 22, is just one of a bumper crop of Williams projects that are landing in 2023, from HBO’s Love to Love You, Donna Summer, which premiered in May, to the AppleTV+ docuseries The Super Models, due Sept. 20, to his hybrid doc feature on the history of racism, Stamped from the Beginning, set to be released by Netflix in November.
At the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, Williams spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about making the leap to scripted fare, the trip to Juarez, Mexico that...
At the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, Williams spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about making the leap to scripted fare, the trip to Juarez, Mexico that...
- 9/14/2023
- by Rebecca Keegan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When Bethann Hardison co-created the Black Girls Coalition in 1988 — a group formed with Iman to shine a spotlight on women of color in modeling — she didn’t know she was laying the foundation for a discussion about diversity in fashion that would continue for decades.
“I just wanted to celebrate Black models. I wanted them to see each other,” says Hardison, the subject of the new documentary Invisible Beauty. Co-directed by Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I, Halston) and Hardison and in theaters Sept. 15, the film details the fashion industry’s history of racial exclusion and her unflagging efforts over decades to push for progress. One minute into the film, actress Tracee Ellis Ross calls Hardison the “godmother of fashion.”
Bethann Hardison
The title Invisible Beauty is a nod to Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, in which an unnamed Black man narrates what life is like for African Americans in the South.
“I just wanted to celebrate Black models. I wanted them to see each other,” says Hardison, the subject of the new documentary Invisible Beauty. Co-directed by Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I, Halston) and Hardison and in theaters Sept. 15, the film details the fashion industry’s history of racial exclusion and her unflagging efforts over decades to push for progress. One minute into the film, actress Tracee Ellis Ross calls Hardison the “godmother of fashion.”
Bethann Hardison
The title Invisible Beauty is a nod to Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, in which an unnamed Black man narrates what life is like for African Americans in the South.
- 9/9/2023
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Want to watch something a little different on Apple TV+ this fall? How about “The Super Models,” a new documentary series that charts the careers of four of the biggest models ever: Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington.
The four-part series looks back on when these four women first entered the modeling scene together in 1970s NYC, becoming worldwide sensations in the process.
Continue reading ‘The Super Models’ Trailer: Documentary Series About Four Of The Biggest Fashion Models Ever Hits Apple TV+ On September 20 at The Playlist.
The four-part series looks back on when these four women first entered the modeling scene together in 1970s NYC, becoming worldwide sensations in the process.
Continue reading ‘The Super Models’ Trailer: Documentary Series About Four Of The Biggest Fashion Models Ever Hits Apple TV+ On September 20 at The Playlist.
- 9/7/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
"The Super Models" is a new 4-part 'docuseries' tracking the careers of models Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington throughout the 1980's, streaming September 20, 2023 on AppleTV+:
"...'The Super Models' travels back to the 1980's, when four women from different corners of the world united in New York.
"Already forces in their own right, the gravitas they achieved by coming together transcended the industry itself. Their prestige was so extraordinary that it enabled the four to supersede the brands they showcased, making the names 'Naomi', 'Cindy', 'Linda' and 'Christy' as prominent as the designers who styled them.
"Today, the four supermodels remain on the frontlines of culture through activism, philanthropy and business prowess. As the fashion industry continues to redefine itself – and women’s roles within it – this is the ultimate story of power and how four women came together to claim it, paving the way for those to follow.
"...'The Super Models' travels back to the 1980's, when four women from different corners of the world united in New York.
"Already forces in their own right, the gravitas they achieved by coming together transcended the industry itself. Their prestige was so extraordinary that it enabled the four to supersede the brands they showcased, making the names 'Naomi', 'Cindy', 'Linda' and 'Christy' as prominent as the designers who styled them.
"Today, the four supermodels remain on the frontlines of culture through activism, philanthropy and business prowess. As the fashion industry continues to redefine itself – and women’s roles within it – this is the ultimate story of power and how four women came together to claim it, paving the way for those to follow.
- 9/7/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington get candid about their high-profile careers in the first trailer for Apple TV+’s The Super Models.
The four-part docuseries launches Sept. 20 on the streaming platform and focuses on the lives of the four models who helped define beauty and power after rising to prominence in the 1980s, all while forging a close bond. The project promises unprecedented access to the stars as they open up about their paths and discuss key moments from their modeling journeys.
The Super Models also boasts a long list of notable names and fashion industry professionals to weigh in on the four women. Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, David Fincher, Donatella Versace, Isaac Mizrahi, Anna Sui, Grace Coddington and Vivienne Westwood are among those offering commentary.
“I was not seen as a person who had a voice in her own destiny,” Crawford recalls in the footage.
The four-part docuseries launches Sept. 20 on the streaming platform and focuses on the lives of the four models who helped define beauty and power after rising to prominence in the 1980s, all while forging a close bond. The project promises unprecedented access to the stars as they open up about their paths and discuss key moments from their modeling journeys.
The Super Models also boasts a long list of notable names and fashion industry professionals to weigh in on the four women. Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, David Fincher, Donatella Versace, Isaac Mizrahi, Anna Sui, Grace Coddington and Vivienne Westwood are among those offering commentary.
“I was not seen as a person who had a voice in her own destiny,” Crawford recalls in the footage.
- 9/7/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Another acquisition has been pulled from The CW’s schedule.
The network has removed Bump, an Australian dramedy about a pregnant 17-year-old, from its Monday lineup, replacing it with repeats of Whose Line Is It Anyway? at 9:30 pm, TVLine has confirmed. Remaining episodes of the show, which was in the middle of airing its second season, will be made available on the CW app and Cwtv.com.
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The network has removed Bump, an Australian dramedy about a pregnant 17-year-old, from its Monday lineup, replacing it with repeats of Whose Line Is It Anyway? at 9:30 pm, TVLine has confirmed. Remaining episodes of the show, which was in the middle of airing its second season, will be made available on the CW app and Cwtv.com.
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- 9/6/2023
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington dominated the pop culture space in the ’90s, most notably in George Michael’s music video “Freedom! ’90.”
Although the iconic models were equally featured in the video, Campbell said she was the “leader” of the group. “George pitched it to me in L.A. and his exact words were, ‘You’re the leader of the gang and unless you say yes, the rest of the girls won’t,'” she recalled to Daily Mail in 2022.
Leader or not, Crawford said Michael insisted that all of the models appear in the video. “He wants you five, and it has to be all of you five,” she shared.
Naomi Campbell revealed how George Michael pitched the ‘Freedom! 90’ video
During a 2017 appearance on Harry, Harry Connick Jr.’s former talk show, Campbell opened up about how Michael pitched the idea to her at a club.
Although the iconic models were equally featured in the video, Campbell said she was the “leader” of the group. “George pitched it to me in L.A. and his exact words were, ‘You’re the leader of the gang and unless you say yes, the rest of the girls won’t,'” she recalled to Daily Mail in 2022.
Leader or not, Crawford said Michael insisted that all of the models appear in the video. “He wants you five, and it has to be all of you five,” she shared.
Naomi Campbell revealed how George Michael pitched the ‘Freedom! 90’ video
During a 2017 appearance on Harry, Harry Connick Jr.’s former talk show, Campbell opened up about how Michael pitched the idea to her at a club.
- 9/6/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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