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21.04.2024 - 02:00 / deadline.com
In the late 1990s Joker writer-director Todd Phillips, then applying his trade as an underground documentary filmmaker shot a non-fiction project titled Frat House, which nabbed the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance before being promptly acquired by HBO Films.
“The premise of the documentary is that he pledged fraternities at colleges,” John Sloss, producer, founder and CEO of Cinetic Media, told an audience at the Sands Film Festival in St. Andrews, Scotland. He was discussing the pic as part of an onstage Q&A about the current state of documentary filmmaking alongside Molly Thompson, Head of Documentaries and Non-Fiction at Apple TV+, and Oscar-winning producer Melanie Miller (Navalny, Maestra).
Sloss had been representing Phillips at the time. Despite the early buzz surrounding the pic, it was never officially released. HBO shelved the project.
“What happened was that a separate chapter of the fraternity he [Phillips] pledged and made look like a bunch of idiots in his film, was the same fraternity that the head of Time Warner’s son belonged to at another college,” Sloss said.
Sloss said Sheila Nevins, who was running HBO docs at the time and he described as “one of the great figures in the history of documentary filmmaking,” intervened and put in a call to “kill the documentary” by concocting a story about the credibility of the nonfiction filmmaking.
“It had just won the grand jury prize at Sundance and Sheila manufactured this idea that, wait a minute, the filmmaker is pledging the fraternity, this isn’t real at all. This is shocking. This is not a documentary. But that was the entire premise of the film,” Sloss said.
The one-hour doc featured now widely reported scenes of ferocious hazing
NOTHING was off limits during the roast of Tom Brady… Not even his divorce from Gisele Bündchen!
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With almost 2,000 guests in attendance, a million fans camped outside and over 36 million viewers watching from home, people were eager to catch the first glimpse of Kate Middleton ’s bridal gown. Already renowned for her simple yet elegant style, royal experts had been speculating for months over what type of dress Kate would opt for.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Brian Helgeland’s illustrious Hollywood career includes winning an Oscar for writing “L.A Confidential,” directing Heath Ledger’s beloved 2001 comedy “A Knight’s Tale” and scripting films such as “Man on Fire” and “Mystic River.” It also could’ve included a “Game of Thrones” spinoff series had HBO moved forward on his pitch, which was titled “Ten Thousand Ships” and centered on Queen Nymeria. “It came out great, but I think they felt the period of my show was too far removed from the pillars of the original,” Helgeland recently told Inverse about his spinoff.
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