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Reel Works has announced a first-time partnership with their MediaMKRS workforce development program and documentary film/TV production company Jigsaw Productions, helmed by Academy Award®-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. 

Starz has greenlighted a BMF documentary series from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, executive producer and creative force behind the network’s breakout hit drama series BMF. The eight-episode docu series, produced by G-Unit Film and Television and Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, will be executive produced by Jackson and Shan Nicholson (“erusalem: City of Faith and Fury) who will also serve as the series’ showrunner. The series will be directed by Nicholson and Chris Frierson (The King).

You wouldn’t be crazy to associate filmmaker Alex Gibney with documentaries. Over his decades-long career, a vast majority of his work has been in non-fiction filmmaking.

Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones will lead the cast of Two Wolves, a Vietnam War-set thriller being helmed by Oscar nominated documentarian Alex Gibney.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s Audible has ordered a documentary podcast series about the 2008 financial crisis that is exec produced by Alex Gibney.

In the Same Breath,” debuting Aug. 18 on HBO and HBO Max, is the latest to test that appetite.

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Gibney is to exec produce MGM and Tadmor Entertainment’s limited series about judo champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki.

In his new documentary, filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Going Clear”) alleges that the U.S. opioid crisis is not just a crisis but a crime committed by pharmaceutical companies, distributors, pharmacists and doctors all looking for a paycheck.

NEW YORK -- Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary “The Crime of the Century” opens with a body bag.It contained a man from San Diego — his remains carried away in the predawn hours after overdosing on fentanyl — one of nearly a half million Americans to die from opioid abuse since 2001.Filmmaker Alex Gibney quickly widens the lens, however, for an explanation of how the drugs that caused the crisis came to be, how companies aggressively promoted and distributed

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen you hear the phrase “the opioid crisis,” it can sound like it’s referring to a natural disaster with a beginning and an end. But as Alex Gibney’s shattering two-part, four-hour HBO documentary “The Crime of the Century” makes devastatingly clear, the opioid crisis is more than a human tragedy that has claimed half a million lives.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorApple TV Plus announced “The Line,” its first combination podcast-TV original — a bid to exploit the tech giant’s podcast footprint to seed signups for its TV subscription service.“The Line,” from Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, comprises two non-fiction series: a six-part narrative non-fiction audio series that debuted Monday (April 6) on Apple Podcasts and a four-part limited documentary series premiering this fall on Apple TV Plus.The pair of original series

Video: Leonardo Dicaprio bags a BAFTA (The Independent)Robin wouldn't make music video like Blurred Lines againCardi B insists she’s ‘comfortable’ in her skin in makeup-free video The nominees for the documentary category were also announced on Tuesday, with voter suppression film All In: The Fight for Democracy, written by Jack Youngelson, Herb Alpert Is. .

Also Read: 'The Nevers' Teaser: Watch 'Touched' Victorian Women Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly Kick Some Ass (Video)“The Crime of the Century” will debut on HBO in May and be available to stream on HBO Max.The first half of the doc will focus on how “the opioid crisis has resulted in a country ravaged by corporate greed and betrayed by some of its own elected officials, following the aggressive promotion of OxyContin, a highly addictive drug from family owned pharmaceutical giant, Purdue Pharma,”

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EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development The Brand, a drama from Kirk Rudell (Human Discoveries), Alex Gibney and his Jigsaw Productions and CBS Studios.

Marta Balaga In his latest documentary “Crazy, Not Insane”—screening at documentary film festival IDFA—Alex Gibney gives the floor to Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a renowned American psychiatrist who has examined numerous serial killers.

“Crazy, Not Insane,” directed by Alex Gibney, which premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m.Based in New Haven, Conn., the 83-year-old has spent her life uncovering what makes a person become a killer. She’s interviewed and studied more than 100 adult and juvenile capital defendants and serial killers on death row, including Ted Bundy.“It’s not a choice.

Near the start of Alex Gibney’s documentary “Crazy, Not Insane,” his subject asks the kind of essential question that feels so unanswerable that it is brought up not nearly as often as it should be. Thinking about the nature of evil and recalling her childhood interest in the Nuremberg Trials, she asks very plainly, “How come I don’t kill?” Everyone gets angry.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith only three weeks before a particularly consequential Election Day, political movies — both documentaries and docudramas — are flooding the market in an effort to keep voters engaged and enraged.Most prominent are Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Alex Gibney’s pandemic response expose “Totally Under Control” and Liz Garbus-Lisa Cortés’ “All In: The Fight for Democracy.”But that’s just the tip of the political iceberg of movies taking

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDonald Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis brought all the chaos and contradictions of the pandemic into sharp focus.

Given that it lays out in unsparing terms the extent of a staggering American failure that ranks up there with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, “Totally Under Control” is a surprisingly calm piece of work. A damning account of how the greatest technological, scientific, and military power on the planet laid down and allowed a pandemic to march right over it, the documentary is filled with eyewitnesses to the clown show who still don’t appear able to process what they saw.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger teamed up to film a secret documentary titled, “Totally Under Control”.

A brand new documentary is being released this month and it will take a look at how President Trump handled the coronavirus pandemic.

Absolutely no in the world of documentaries moves as fast as Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. Known for award-winning docs like “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” (his CV is outrageously long) Gibney already unveiled “Agents Of Chaos” this fall, on September 23 on HBO, a timely and revealing look at Russia’s interference into the 2016 election.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticConnecting the seemingly infinite threads of online trolling, Russian subterfuge and the astonishing evolution of American politics has become a favorite past-time of impassioned intellectuals raging against the Trump administration. In trying to pinpoint all the significant factors that led to Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory, some have identified Russia’s interest in American affairs as the key to understanding how we got to where we are today.