It might seem contradictory that the rise of short video clip popularity coincided with the popularity of long form journalism, but Netflix may be the common factor. The streaming network didn’t invent true crime documentation, but it helped shape the style, and keeps a vast repository of the hottest cold cases.
Real-life crime stories are riveting, whether the watcher is concerned about avoiding such events or solving them. There is something for every taste, from feature-length documentaries to full series. Not all crimes are equal under the laws of public opinion, but these are some of the most dangerously addictive true crime offerings currently available on Netflix.
Making a Murderer (2015)
Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi’s 10-part documentary on Steven Avery catapulted Netflix to the top of the True Crime streaming game. Making a Murderer spurred the fascination with the genre more than any other series. Avery served 18 years...
Real-life crime stories are riveting, whether the watcher is concerned about avoiding such events or solving them. There is something for every taste, from feature-length documentaries to full series. Not all crimes are equal under the laws of public opinion, but these are some of the most dangerously addictive true crime offerings currently available on Netflix.
Making a Murderer (2015)
Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi’s 10-part documentary on Steven Avery catapulted Netflix to the top of the True Crime streaming game. Making a Murderer spurred the fascination with the genre more than any other series. Avery served 18 years...
- 9/8/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Not so long ago, Netflix was the king of must-see documentaries – mostly about true crime, and nearly all from the other side of the pond. The ongoing appetite created for documentaries like Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and The Staircase sparked a trend that now goes far beyond Netflix, with all the major streamers, plus regular UK terrestrial channels, after a slice of the documentary action.
The good news is they’re not all about serial killers any more. The even better news is they’ve cottoned onto our wish to be entertained as well as educated, weaving clever storytelling narratives to tell a tale that will break boundaries, keep you invested, and often stay with you for a long time after the credits roll.
Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting British documentary series being released in 2023 and beyond, from the BBC,...
The good news is they’re not all about serial killers any more. The even better news is they’ve cottoned onto our wish to be entertained as well as educated, weaving clever storytelling narratives to tell a tale that will break boundaries, keep you invested, and often stay with you for a long time after the credits roll.
Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting British documentary series being released in 2023 and beyond, from the BBC,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Netflix often likes to double down on their true crime programming. For example, they released both Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the Bundy biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile around the same time. They did something similar with Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes and the series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Now they’re following the release of the true crime-inspired movie The Good Nurse (read our review Here) with the release of the documentary Capturing the Killer Nurse. The teaser trailer for the documentary, which will be available to watch on the streaming service as of November 11th, can be seen above.
Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, Capturing the Killer Nurse has the following synopsis:
Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He was also one...
Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, Capturing the Killer Nurse has the following synopsis:
Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He was also one...
- 11/7/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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At first, director Alex Gibney wholeheartedly embraced the influx of energy — and money — the streamers have increasingly pumped into the documentary space over the past decade. Selling to the growing platforms eager to bulk up their content libraries struck the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief as a creative windfall — a larger market for the kind of filmmaker-driven films that had previously found some success at the box office and HBO. His company, Jigsaw, could produce unique, entertaining titles in a traditionally underfunded field, told in stylistically distinct ways, and receive “greater monetary reward” to boot.
But then, a red flag: Gibney started to get notes from the streamers “that tried to scientifically rationalize the process,” he says: “‘Our algorithm states that by minute 10 you should do X, Y or Z.'” In the meantime,...
At first, director Alex Gibney wholeheartedly embraced the influx of energy — and money — the streamers have increasingly pumped into the documentary space over the past decade. Selling to the growing platforms eager to bulk up their content libraries struck the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief as a creative windfall — a larger market for the kind of filmmaker-driven films that had previously found some success at the box office and HBO. His company, Jigsaw, could produce unique, entertaining titles in a traditionally underfunded field, told in stylistically distinct ways, and receive “greater monetary reward” to boot.
But then, a red flag: Gibney started to get notes from the streamers “that tried to scientifically rationalize the process,” he says: “‘Our algorithm states that by minute 10 you should do X, Y or Z.'” In the meantime,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Mia Galuppo and Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety and Rolling Stone announced today the final lineup for their Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Showtime Documentary Films, on August 25 in New York.
The summit coincides with the Truth Seekers journal, a collaboration between Variety and Rolling Stone. The special issue features a deep dive from Variety’s Addie Morfoot into the heated debate in the nonfiction community on the question of who — and who shouldn’t — have the right to tell the stories that involve historically marginalized communities. The story also delves into the rise of celebrity-financed biographical...
The summit coincides with the Truth Seekers journal, a collaboration between Variety and Rolling Stone. The special issue features a deep dive from Variety’s Addie Morfoot into the heated debate in the nonfiction community on the question of who — and who shouldn’t — have the right to tell the stories that involve historically marginalized communities. The story also delves into the rise of celebrity-financed biographical...
- 8/23/2022
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Swedish crime drama series The Truth Will Out is getting a U.S. remake from Paradise Lost director Joe Berlinger and Endemol Shine North America.
Berlinger, who has directed a slew of true crime documentaries and rock docs such as Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, has teamed with the production company to direct and exec produce an English-language adaptation of the series, which is based on an idea from famed Swedish author and criminologist Leif Gw Persson.
Persson is best known in the U.S. as the author of the books that short-lived Fox series Backstrom, starring Rainn Wilson, was based on.
The series, known as Det Som Göms I Snö in Sweden, comes from Endemol Shine North America’s sister Swedish company Yellow Bird, which is similarly owned by Banijay.
The original launched in 2018 and follows a Stockholm police detective with a history of mental instability, and...
Berlinger, who has directed a slew of true crime documentaries and rock docs such as Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, has teamed with the production company to direct and exec produce an English-language adaptation of the series, which is based on an idea from famed Swedish author and criminologist Leif Gw Persson.
Persson is best known in the U.S. as the author of the books that short-lived Fox series Backstrom, starring Rainn Wilson, was based on.
The series, known as Det Som Göms I Snö in Sweden, comes from Endemol Shine North America’s sister Swedish company Yellow Bird, which is similarly owned by Banijay.
The original launched in 2018 and follows a Stockholm police detective with a history of mental instability, and...
- 7/19/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Continuing his efforts to chronicle every American serial killer in brutal, fetishistic, detail, Joe Berlinger’s new Netflix series “Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes” operates on the same wavelength as his 2019 “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” — obvious, lurid, and compulsively watchable. Ostensibly about the 60 hours of interviews made by Gacy while on death row, “Conversations” is oddly less interested in using his own words to psychoanalyze the former construction worker turned murderer.
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- 4/26/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
The true-crime genre, either podcasts or documentaries or documentary series, is proving to be quite the boon for streamers and anyone who places a premium on churn and time spent. Adjacent to that genre is the true-crime serial killer genre, and Netflix and filmmaker Joe Berlinger are going all-in on it. After directing two Ted Bundy projects, “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,” and the drama film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” starring Zac Efron as Bundy, Berlinger is returning to the streamer for another ‘Conversations With A Killer’ series, but this time on notorious John Wayne Gacy.
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- 4/8/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
How do serial killers get away with murder — or, to be more accurate, multiple murders? That question has haunted Americans through the decades known as the so-called Golden Age of Serial Killers until today, fueling the ever-chugging true crime industry. The latest subject under the microscope has undoubtedly been John Wayne Gacy, who got the Peacock treatment last year with John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, and is the next subject in Joe Berlinger’s Netflix property Conversations With a Killer. The John Wayne Gacy Tapes premieres on April 20, 2022.
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- 4/7/2022
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Serial killer Ted Bundy began his killing streak more than 40 years ago. Through early arrests and a highly-publicized trial, he captivated America with his charm and "good looks," although that latter claim is debatable. From the detectives working the case to psychologists to newspaper journalists, everyone wanted to know why the man displayed such a blatant disregard for human life, particularly women's. Countless books and documentaries, including Netflix's 2019 release "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes" and "Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer," have tried to delve below the surface to understand what made one of the world's most notorious killers tick.
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- 1/22/2022
- by Jason Scott
- Slash Film
The second season of Joe Berlinger’s “Crime Scene” docuseries for Netflix, premiering Dec. 29, centers on the so-called Times Square Torso Ripper.
“Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer” will focus on how the danger and depravity of New York’s Times Square in the late 1970s and early 1980s allowed serial killer Richard Cottingham to commit heinous acts of murder for 13 years. Cottingham, along with Times Square and New York’s self-proclaimed porno king, Martin “Marty” Hodas, are all key characters in Season 2, which is split into three parts.
The first season of Berlinger’s series, “The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” launched in February and explored the real-life mysterious disappearance, subsequent death and conspiracy theories surrounding tourist Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Netflix says 45 million households checked out Season 1 in the first four weeks of its debut. The streamer subsequently renewed the docuseries for three more seasons.
“Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer” will focus on how the danger and depravity of New York’s Times Square in the late 1970s and early 1980s allowed serial killer Richard Cottingham to commit heinous acts of murder for 13 years. Cottingham, along with Times Square and New York’s self-proclaimed porno king, Martin “Marty” Hodas, are all key characters in Season 2, which is split into three parts.
The first season of Berlinger’s series, “The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” launched in February and explored the real-life mysterious disappearance, subsequent death and conspiracy theories surrounding tourist Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Netflix says 45 million households checked out Season 1 in the first four weeks of its debut. The streamer subsequently renewed the docuseries for three more seasons.
- 12/28/2021
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
The rise and fall of American financier and convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is the subject of a new docuseries ordered by Netflix. The as-yet untitled series hails from Paradise Lost and Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes director Joe Berlinger and RadicalMedia in association with Berlinger’s Third Eye Motion Picture Company.
Madoff, once the most respected man on Wall Street and the biggest con artist it would ever see,
pulled the levers behind a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that left a devastating financial and human toll. Madoff died in April at Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. at the age of 82.
With unique access to victims, whistleblowers, investigators, and archives, the series will explore the cautionary tale of big money, insatiable greed, and a broken system that enabled one man to single-handedly manipulate the global financial market, according to Netflix.
In addition, production has secured...
Madoff, once the most respected man on Wall Street and the biggest con artist it would ever see,
pulled the levers behind a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that left a devastating financial and human toll. Madoff died in April at Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. at the age of 82.
With unique access to victims, whistleblowers, investigators, and archives, the series will explore the cautionary tale of big money, insatiable greed, and a broken system that enabled one man to single-handedly manipulate the global financial market, according to Netflix.
In addition, production has secured...
- 10/26/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The trailer for American Boogeyman, yet another film to cast a handsome actor as a serial killer, faces backlash. Who is asking for more Bundy content?
Ted Bundy, the serial killer convicted of murdering more than 30 women in the 1970s who probably killed upwards of 100 whose names receive little attention, once mused, in interviews on death row, that he hoped his story would sell. Thirty-two years after his death by electric chair, Bundy seems to have been prescient about a curiosity with the mild-looking sociopath. The past couple of years has seen a veritable “Bundy binge” in true crime content: a two-hour Oxygen special, too many podcasts to list, the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron as a suave Bundy.
Despite significant pushback to the glamorization of Bundy as an object of fascination that distracts from his victims,...
Ted Bundy, the serial killer convicted of murdering more than 30 women in the 1970s who probably killed upwards of 100 whose names receive little attention, once mused, in interviews on death row, that he hoped his story would sell. Thirty-two years after his death by electric chair, Bundy seems to have been prescient about a curiosity with the mild-looking sociopath. The past couple of years has seen a veritable “Bundy binge” in true crime content: a two-hour Oxygen special, too many podcasts to list, the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron as a suave Bundy.
Despite significant pushback to the glamorization of Bundy as an object of fascination that distracts from his victims,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
There’s no end in sight to Hollywood’s fascination with serial killer Ted Bundy. Two years ago, on the 30th anniversary of Bundy’s death by electric chair, Netflix released the docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. One week later, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, with Zac Efron upending his teen […]
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- 7/11/2021
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Based on actual transcripts of interviews between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and the then-incarcerated Ted Bundy, “No Man of God” resurrects an oft-told serial killer story with fresh blood in the hands of director Amber Sealey. The movie first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, and now is headed to theaters and on demand platforms on August 27 from Rlje Films. Watch the official trailer for the film below.
Here’s the synopsis: “In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency’s criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim’s families. As Hagmaier delves into Bundy’s dark and twisted mind,...
Here’s the synopsis: “In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency’s criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim’s families. As Hagmaier delves into Bundy’s dark and twisted mind,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Directors Amber Sealey and Joe Berlinger got caught up in a feud, ahead of the June 11 Tribeca premiere of Sealey’s Ted Bundy pic No Man of God.
The quarrel began with an email Berlinger sent to Sealey, after noticing interviews in which she discussed the glorification of Bundy in American culture. In these interviews, he felt she was comparing her film favorably to others made about the infamous serial killer—including two of his own—implying that past films had contributed to the idolization of Bundy, whereas hers does not.
“Forgive the unsolicited advice, but after reading some of your interviews about your Bundy movie, I feel compelled to tell you that tearing down my work to promote yours is a slippery slope and intellectually dishonest and deeply offensive,” Berlinger said in the email, which you can read in its entirety below. “My work has gotten wrongfully convicted people...
The quarrel began with an email Berlinger sent to Sealey, after noticing interviews in which she discussed the glorification of Bundy in American culture. In these interviews, he felt she was comparing her film favorably to others made about the infamous serial killer—including two of his own—implying that past films had contributed to the idolization of Bundy, whereas hers does not.
“Forgive the unsolicited advice, but after reading some of your interviews about your Bundy movie, I feel compelled to tell you that tearing down my work to promote yours is a slippery slope and intellectually dishonest and deeply offensive,” Berlinger said in the email, which you can read in its entirety below. “My work has gotten wrongfully convicted people...
- 6/13/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Amber Sealey, who helmed the new film about Ted Bundy, “No Man of God,” has responded to Joe Berlinger’s email accusing her of attempting to discredit his two films centered on the serial killer to gain attention for her release.
“It felt like he was trying to silence me, to let me know that his films and his work were more important than mine could ever be and it felt a little mansplain-y,” Sealey wrote to Variety in an email.
Berlinger directed the docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and the film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” starring Zac Efron, both of which debuted on Netflix. Sealey’s film, “No Man of God,” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday in advance of its theatrical debut this summer.
In an email to Sealey obtained by Variety, Berlinger wrote: “Forgive the unsolicited advice, but...
“It felt like he was trying to silence me, to let me know that his films and his work were more important than mine could ever be and it felt a little mansplain-y,” Sealey wrote to Variety in an email.
Berlinger directed the docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and the film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” starring Zac Efron, both of which debuted on Netflix. Sealey’s film, “No Man of God,” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday in advance of its theatrical debut this summer.
In an email to Sealey obtained by Variety, Berlinger wrote: “Forgive the unsolicited advice, but...
- 6/12/2021
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Update: In response to a request for comment from IndieWire, Amber Sealey issued a statement, excerpted here: “I found his initial email to me quite shocking. He clearly wanted me to get it as he Dm’d me on Ig and he sent an email to my website. It felt like he was trying to silence me, to let me know that his films and his work were more important than mine could ever be and it felt a little mansplain-y. I have never mentioned his name or his films in any of my press interviews so it was dishonest of him to state that I was trashing his films. His name came up one time in a podcast that I don’t even believe he’s heard, but never in the trades or press interviews did I say anything about his films specifically.”
Earlier: In response to a request from IndieWire,...
Earlier: In response to a request from IndieWire,...
- 6/12/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Joe Berlinger is accusing Amber Sealey, the filmmaker behind “No Man of God,” a new film about Ted Bundy, of taking unnecessary potshots at the two films he previously made about the serial killer in an effort to generate attention for her movie.
The indie director, whose credits include both the Netflix docu-series “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and the drama film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” which starred Zac Efron as the murderer, fired off a trenchant email to Sealey the day before her film premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Forgive the unsolicited advice, but after reading some of your interviews about your Bundy movie, I feel compelled to tell you that tearing down my work to promote yours is a slippery slope and intellectually dishonest and deeply offensive,” Berlinger wrote. “How did my film glorify Bundy? Do you know anything about me and...
The indie director, whose credits include both the Netflix docu-series “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and the drama film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” which starred Zac Efron as the murderer, fired off a trenchant email to Sealey the day before her film premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Forgive the unsolicited advice, but after reading some of your interviews about your Bundy movie, I feel compelled to tell you that tearing down my work to promote yours is a slippery slope and intellectually dishonest and deeply offensive,” Berlinger wrote. “How did my film glorify Bundy? Do you know anything about me and...
- 6/11/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A few years ago, before director-producer Joe Berlinger embarked upon making a docu series and narrative feature about Ted Bundy, he asked his daughters what they knew about the serial killer. Both were college-aged and “the prototypical Bundy victim,” he says, and neither one of them knew who Bundy was, let alone the extent of his crimes.
Although he was already seeing pushback on such projects, with many wondering why serial killers should get such large platforms, Berlinger felt it was important to make “people aware that this stuff really happens,” he says. “You can’t remind people enough that there are dark forces out there that one needs to guard against.”
That was part of the motivation for Berlinger doing the 2019 Netflix docu-series “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and 2019 scripted feature film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” starring Zac Efron as Bundy.
The same belief...
Although he was already seeing pushback on such projects, with many wondering why serial killers should get such large platforms, Berlinger felt it was important to make “people aware that this stuff really happens,” he says. “You can’t remind people enough that there are dark forces out there that one needs to guard against.”
That was part of the motivation for Berlinger doing the 2019 Netflix docu-series “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and 2019 scripted feature film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” starring Zac Efron as Bundy.
The same belief...
- 4/16/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Watch the Exclusive Trailer For The Deadly Type, Possibly the Most Disturbing True-Crime Show of All
If you've never heard of Candice DeLong, that's understandable. She's not exactly a public figure, though she's likely been mentioned in articles well below their headlines. DeLong a former FBI agent and criminal profiler who has worked profiled domestic terrorists and serial killers - many of whom you've definitely heard of. Her new show, The Deadly Type, premiering March 4, is the push you've been looking for to subscribe to discovery+. In it, you'll see footage of interviews with some very, very creepy killers. If you watched Netflix's Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes or The Confession Killer, this series is for you.
- 3/4/2021
- by Maggie Panos
- Popsugar.com
If you watch enough true crime documentaries on streaming platforms, you start to notice a template emerging. There are the moodily lit reenactments, complete with perky voiceovers from the victim’s diary or blog, written during happier times. There are the journalists and “experts” on the case (more often than not, YouTubers or message board posters) offering their own versions of what may have occurred, with little to no evidence to back it up. And there are the red herrings, the tantalizing alternative theories or explanations of the case spliced...
- 2/25/2021
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” streaming now on Netflix.
From his “Paradise Lost” trilogy that began in 1996 to his 2009 documentary “Crude” that looked at the pollution of the Amazon, documentarian Joe Berlinger has spent a lot of time in his career and his personal philanthropy exposing false narratives and telling stories of wrongful convictions. But, he has also been interested in exploring how geography can impact criminal behaviors, such as in “Paradise Lost,” 2014’s “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger” and 2019’s Netflix docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.” Now, he has teamed back up with the streamer for “Crime Scene,” a true crime docuseries that allows him to dig deeper into these elements than ever before.
The first season of “Crime Scene” is subtitled “The Vanishing at the Cecil...
From his “Paradise Lost” trilogy that began in 1996 to his 2009 documentary “Crude” that looked at the pollution of the Amazon, documentarian Joe Berlinger has spent a lot of time in his career and his personal philanthropy exposing false narratives and telling stories of wrongful convictions. But, he has also been interested in exploring how geography can impact criminal behaviors, such as in “Paradise Lost,” 2014’s “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger” and 2019’s Netflix docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.” Now, he has teamed back up with the streamer for “Crime Scene,” a true crime docuseries that allows him to dig deeper into these elements than ever before.
The first season of “Crime Scene” is subtitled “The Vanishing at the Cecil...
- 2/10/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel explores the strange case of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian woman who disappeared in January 2013 while she was staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA. It’s a very famous case with many theories posited across the internet, which captured people’s imaginations after some very odd footage of Lam was released by the LAPD, hoping to find out what happened to her. More than two weeks after Elisa was last seen her body was discovered in a water tank on top of the hotel, after guests at the hotel reported a drop in pressure and discoloration of the water.
Was she murdered? Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could it even have been something supernatural? This four part docuseries from Joe Berlinger, who made the excellent documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, delves...
Was she murdered? Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could it even have been something supernatural? This four part docuseries from Joe Berlinger, who made the excellent documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, delves...
- 2/10/2021
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
In its fourth and final episode, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” finally gets to its point.
After three episodes of unpacking the mysterious disappearance of Elisa Lam, the infamous Cecil Hotel in which she was last seen, the fraught history of downtown Los Angeles, and even several truly confusing “web sleuth” theories about what might have happened, the new Netflix series reaches a perhaps unsatisfying conclusion: that the simplest explanation is almost definitely the right one. This hour not only addresses all the reasons why this particular case got so much attention, but why that attention complicated everything about it beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. It’s surprisingly self-aware, and occasionally very smart about the intersections of local history, public interest and the infinite possibilities of the internet’s involvement.
So it’s really too bad that it takes three full episodes of melodrama and rampant conspiracy...
After three episodes of unpacking the mysterious disappearance of Elisa Lam, the infamous Cecil Hotel in which she was last seen, the fraught history of downtown Los Angeles, and even several truly confusing “web sleuth” theories about what might have happened, the new Netflix series reaches a perhaps unsatisfying conclusion: that the simplest explanation is almost definitely the right one. This hour not only addresses all the reasons why this particular case got so much attention, but why that attention complicated everything about it beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. It’s surprisingly self-aware, and occasionally very smart about the intersections of local history, public interest and the infinite possibilities of the internet’s involvement.
So it’s really too bad that it takes three full episodes of melodrama and rampant conspiracy...
- 2/9/2021
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has revealed the new series Crime Scene, which tackles the mythology of locations in contemporary crime. The first season focuses on the nefarious Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Directed by Joe Berlinger, the trailer contains footage of “Hotel Death,” explaining the murders and suicides that have occurred within its walls since the early Thirties. “Is there a room here that somebody hasn’t died in?” the hotel manager asks. “I never got used to that.”
The series also investigates the mystery of Elisa Lam, a Canadian college student...
Directed by Joe Berlinger, the trailer contains footage of “Hotel Death,” explaining the murders and suicides that have occurred within its walls since the early Thirties. “Is there a room here that somebody hasn’t died in?” the hotel manager asks. “I never got used to that.”
The series also investigates the mystery of Elisa Lam, a Canadian college student...
- 1/26/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
A five-episode docuseries about the unprecedented relationship between author and journalist Jillian Lauren and the most prolific serial killer in American history, Sam Little, will bow on Starz this spring after a premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.
The story will detail Lauren’s race against time to identify Little’s victims. The series will be executive produced and directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger with Po Kutchins serving as showrunner and executive producer.
Little recently died in prison. He is estimated to have killed at least 93 victims in his decades-long crime spree. The incidents only came to light after he was convicted of killing three Los Angeles women, and began to talk to investigators about his other crimes.
The story will detail Lauren’s race against time to identify Little’s victims. The series will be executive produced and directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger with Po Kutchins serving as showrunner and executive producer.
Little recently died in prison. He is estimated to have killed at least 93 victims in his decades-long crime spree. The incidents only came to light after he was convicted of killing three Los Angeles women, and began to talk to investigators about his other crimes.
- 1/15/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Anyone with a Netflix account already knows that the platform has a monopoly on serial killer-themed entertainment. Two pieces on Ted Bundy, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” and “Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,” made waves last year. Other shows like the David Fincher-led “Mindhunter” fit the bill for crime dramas that specialize in this kind of fare.
Continue reading ‘Night Stalker’ Trailer: The Hunt For A Serial Killer Begins On Netflix In January at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Night Stalker’ Trailer: The Hunt For A Serial Killer Begins On Netflix In January at The Playlist.
- 12/16/2020
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Netflix have played a huge part in the resurgence of the true crime genre over the last few years thanks to the success of shows like Making a Murderer, The Keepers, Evil Genius, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and even Tiger King, which was a crime story at its core. Fans can’t seem to get enough of them, and they’re regularly among the most popular titles on the platform.
The streaming service has also gotten into the Ryan Murphy business in a big way, with the prolific American Horror Story creator signing a huge first-look deal that’s already brought TV shows The Politician, Hollywood and Ratched, documentary A Secret Love and feature film The Boys in the Band since last year alone. Put the two together and success is virtually guaranteed, and that’s exactly what looks to be happening again following the announcement...
The streaming service has also gotten into the Ryan Murphy business in a big way, with the prolific American Horror Story creator signing a huge first-look deal that’s already brought TV shows The Politician, Hollywood and Ratched, documentary A Secret Love and feature film The Boys in the Band since last year alone. Put the two together and success is virtually guaranteed, and that’s exactly what looks to be happening again following the announcement...
- 10/3/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
There will never be a shortage of interest in serial killers and murderers. We’ve long been fascinated by some notorious men for some of the unspeakable things they did and the internet is a great tool for deep-diving into the subject. While some are drawn to such cases out of morbid curiosity, perhaps the greater interest comes from a psychological point of view. Why do they do the things that they do? What’s going on inside their heads that trigger that violent impulse?
As I said, the fascination is endless. In fact, just last year, we got three separate movies examining some aspect of the Manson family and we also got two films about Ted Bundy, the documentary series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the feature, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Ironically, they were both directed by Joe Berlinger.
Zac Efron Is Ted Bundy In New Extremely Wicked,...
As I said, the fascination is endless. In fact, just last year, we got three separate movies examining some aspect of the Manson family and we also got two films about Ted Bundy, the documentary series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the feature, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Ironically, they were both directed by Joe Berlinger.
Zac Efron Is Ted Bundy In New Extremely Wicked,...
- 6/19/2020
- by Ryan Beltram
- We Got This Covered
Elijah Wood will face Ted Bundy in No Man of God, a new thriller from writer C. Robert Cargill and director Amber Sealey. The story will focus on Bill Hagmaier, an FBI agent who interviewed the notorious serial killer on death row. Hagmaier was featured prominently in the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. Deadline […]
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The post ‘No Man Of God’ Tasks Elijah Wood With Interviewing Ted Bundy appeared first on /Film.
- 6/17/2020
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Netflix has released the official trailer for “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” a new docuseries exposing the money, power and secrets behind the international sex trafficking ring that led to Epstein’s 2019 arrest and eventual death in prison.
Premiering on May 27, the four-part series features interviews with Epstein’s victims, detailing their experiences on his private island — also known as “pedophile island” — and at his Palm Beach, Fla., residence. The trailer alone features nine women who have come forward to accuse Epstein of sexual abuse.
The trailer also promises an in-depth look at the 2008 case in which Epstein avoided a life sentence by procuring a secret plea deal with the government. Although federal officials identified 36 underage girls who Epstein had sexually abused and solicited for prostitution, he only served 13 months of jail time. In July 2019, Epstein was arrested once again on charges of sex trafficking of minors, but died in jail in August.
Premiering on May 27, the four-part series features interviews with Epstein’s victims, detailing their experiences on his private island — also known as “pedophile island” — and at his Palm Beach, Fla., residence. The trailer alone features nine women who have come forward to accuse Epstein of sexual abuse.
The trailer also promises an in-depth look at the 2008 case in which Epstein avoided a life sentence by procuring a secret plea deal with the government. Although federal officials identified 36 underage girls who Epstein had sexually abused and solicited for prostitution, he only served 13 months of jail time. In July 2019, Epstein was arrested once again on charges of sex trafficking of minors, but died in jail in August.
- 5/13/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Rock engineer Eddie Kramer — who worked with the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and more — will be the subject of a new documentary, From the Other Side of the Glass. Rolling Stone will team up with Paradise Lost documentarian Joe Berlinger and Spencer Proffer to produce the film.
Directed by John Dorsey, the documentary will trace Kramer’s career, which started in London in the Sixties; he moved there from his hometown of Cape Town, South Africa. It will also examine the era’s cultural and political landscape.
Directed by John Dorsey, the documentary will trace Kramer’s career, which started in London in the Sixties; he moved there from his hometown of Cape Town, South Africa. It will also examine the era’s cultural and political landscape.
- 4/7/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
There are a lot of true-crime documentaries on Hulu, Netflix and HBO right now. Click through the gallery to find your next binge-worthy doc.
“The Keepers” (Netflix)
Ryan White’s documentary series debuted in 2017, and explores murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik, who disappeared in November 1969 and whose body was discovered in January of 1970. The documentary investigates whether Father Joseph Maskell had Sister Cathy killed because she was about to expose him and others for sexual abusing teenage students at Archbishop Keough High School.
“Abducted in Plain Sight” (Netflix)
In maybe one of the craziest stories ever, Jane Broberg is kidnapped by her neighbor, a family friend, on two separate occasions, and how he was able to infiltrate a family.
“The Staircase” (Netflix)
“The Staircase” follows the trial of Michael Peterson in the case after he reported in December 2001 that his wife had fallen down the stairs and died. However, there...
“The Keepers” (Netflix)
Ryan White’s documentary series debuted in 2017, and explores murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik, who disappeared in November 1969 and whose body was discovered in January of 1970. The documentary investigates whether Father Joseph Maskell had Sister Cathy killed because she was about to expose him and others for sexual abusing teenage students at Archbishop Keough High School.
“Abducted in Plain Sight” (Netflix)
In maybe one of the craziest stories ever, Jane Broberg is kidnapped by her neighbor, a family friend, on two separate occasions, and how he was able to infiltrate a family.
“The Staircase” (Netflix)
“The Staircase” follows the trial of Michael Peterson in the case after he reported in December 2001 that his wife had fallen down the stairs and died. However, there...
- 3/18/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Netflix has ordered a docuseries titled “The Innocence Files,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The hour-long episodes detail the personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn. The series is broken down into three parts — The Evidence, The Witness, and The Prosecution. The subjects of the series will be Chester Hollman III, Kenneth Wyniemko, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Thomas Haynesworth, Franky Carrillo, Levon Brooks, Kennedy Brewer, and Keith Harward.
The entire nine-episode season will debut on Netflix on April 15.
“We are thrilled to be part of the groundbreaking Netflix series, ‘The Innocence Files,'” said Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, Innocence Project co-founders and special counsel of the Innocence Project. “This is truly important television. Each episode reveals–step by step–how the American criminal justice system gets it wrong. These stories feature people whose freedom...
The hour-long episodes detail the personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn. The series is broken down into three parts — The Evidence, The Witness, and The Prosecution. The subjects of the series will be Chester Hollman III, Kenneth Wyniemko, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Thomas Haynesworth, Franky Carrillo, Levon Brooks, Kennedy Brewer, and Keith Harward.
The entire nine-episode season will debut on Netflix on April 15.
“We are thrilled to be part of the groundbreaking Netflix series, ‘The Innocence Files,'” said Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, Innocence Project co-founders and special counsel of the Innocence Project. “This is truly important television. Each episode reveals–step by step–how the American criminal justice system gets it wrong. These stories feature people whose freedom...
- 3/9/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Elizabeth Kendall, the former fiancée of Ted Bundy, has made her thoughts known on Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which was based on her memoir The Phantom Prince that relates her life with the convicted serial killer.
The book had been out of print for years, but when Kendall was approached by documentary director Joe Berlinger, who also made Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, she decided that working with the filmmakers would provide the most honest account of her tale. In an updated edition of the book reissued last month, she addresses the movie and describes her thoughts on how it portrayed her story, saying:
“If the story was going to be told again, the only way we could influence the outcome was to work with the film and documentary makers. We decided this was the most empowering way to proceed.”
Of the completed film itself,...
The book had been out of print for years, but when Kendall was approached by documentary director Joe Berlinger, who also made Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, she decided that working with the filmmakers would provide the most honest account of her tale. In an updated edition of the book reissued last month, she addresses the movie and describes her thoughts on how it portrayed her story, saying:
“If the story was going to be told again, the only way we could influence the outcome was to work with the film and documentary makers. We decided this was the most empowering way to proceed.”
Of the completed film itself,...
- 2/25/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
Starz released the trailers for Season 5 of “Outlander” and Season 2 of docuseries “Wrong Man,” as well as a teaser for its upcoming scripted drama series “Hightown.”
“Outlander,” which returns Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, is based on material from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling series of the same name.
Here is the official description for Season 5:
“Season Five of “Outlander” finds the Frasers fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie must find a way to defend all that he has created in America, and to protect those who look to him for leadership and protection – while hiding his personal relationship with Murtagh Fitzgibbons, the man whom Governor William Tryon has ordered him to hunt down and kill. With her family together at last, Claire Fraser must use her modern medical knowledge and foresight to prevent them from being ripped apart once again.
“Outlander,” which returns Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, is based on material from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling series of the same name.
Here is the official description for Season 5:
“Season Five of “Outlander” finds the Frasers fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie must find a way to defend all that he has created in America, and to protect those who look to him for leadership and protection – while hiding his personal relationship with Murtagh Fitzgibbons, the man whom Governor William Tryon has ordered him to hunt down and kill. With her family together at last, Claire Fraser must use her modern medical knowledge and foresight to prevent them from being ripped apart once again.
- 1/14/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
‘Murder Mystery’ (Photo credit: Netflix).
While Australians might like to think their tastes in movies and TV shows often are markedly different to Americans, that isn’t true when it comes to the most watched shows on Netflix.
There is a high degree of overlap between the two countries in the lists of the most popular titles of 2019 released by the streamer last week.
Murder Mystery, the feature comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston was the top show while Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, an action thriller starring Ryan Reynolds, ranked second in Australia and third in the Us.
Stranger Things 3, The Irishman, The Witcher, Triple Frontier and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile also figured among the top 10 in both.
Netflix’s The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a true-crime series directed by Chris Smith, was the most popular documentary in Australia, resonating more strongly here than in the...
While Australians might like to think their tastes in movies and TV shows often are markedly different to Americans, that isn’t true when it comes to the most watched shows on Netflix.
There is a high degree of overlap between the two countries in the lists of the most popular titles of 2019 released by the streamer last week.
Murder Mystery, the feature comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston was the top show while Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, an action thriller starring Ryan Reynolds, ranked second in Australia and third in the Us.
Stranger Things 3, The Irishman, The Witcher, Triple Frontier and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile also figured among the top 10 in both.
Netflix’s The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a true-crime series directed by Chris Smith, was the most popular documentary in Australia, resonating more strongly here than in the...
- 1/5/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
At the start of 2019, Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes dropped on Netflix, and boy did it stir up a hefty interest in true crime. The four-part docuseries (which features never-before-heard audio interviews with the infamous serial killer who committed more than 30 violent sex crimes and murders) was probably, at one point, your true-crime obsession. However, if you've whipped through all the episodes, there are plenty more incredible true-crime documentaries where that came from. From the atrocious acts that begin all true crime stories to the often deceivingly complicated cases that follow, check out our gallery of 49 documentaries that are a must-watch for any true-crime fan, ahead.
- Additional reporting by Haley Lyndes
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- Additional reporting by Haley Lyndes
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- 1/1/2020
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
As 2019 comes to an end, Netflix has unveiled its list of programs that viewers binged the most this past year.
The streaming juggernaut, which reportedly has more than 158 million subscribers worldwide, announced its top 2019 programming via Twitter on Monday. Netflix ranked its top ten overall programs and also shared other lists, breaking down the programs into several categories, including most popular movies, TV shows, documentaries and standup comedies.
On the streaming service’s overall list, Murder Mystery, the comedy film starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, ranked at the top of Netflix’s most popular releases for the year. Coming...
The streaming juggernaut, which reportedly has more than 158 million subscribers worldwide, announced its top 2019 programming via Twitter on Monday. Netflix ranked its top ten overall programs and also shared other lists, breaking down the programs into several categories, including most popular movies, TV shows, documentaries and standup comedies.
On the streaming service’s overall list, Murder Mystery, the comedy film starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, ranked at the top of Netflix’s most popular releases for the year. Coming...
- 12/31/2019
- by Eric Todisco
- PEOPLE.com
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston’s “Murder Mystery,” Beyonce’s historic “Homecoming,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Disney’s “The Incredibles 2” rank among the most popular Netflix movies of 2019, the notoriously ratings-averse streamer announced Monday.
Netflix has released a master list of its most-favored content in the United States, as well as individual rankings of films, original series, unscripted shows and comedy specials.
Following “Murder Mystery” as the year’s most popular film were titles including Michael Bay’s critically panned “6 Underground,” Pixar’s “The Incredibles 2,” Ben Affleck’s “Triple Frontier,” and Sony Animation’s Oscar winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Viewership numbers were not disclosed, though in June the streamer tweeted that “Murder Mystery” had Netflix’s biggest opening weekend ever, with over 30 million accounts watching the whodunit around the world. A sequel is currently in development.
For the 2019 lists, “popularity” was not determined by the total...
Netflix has released a master list of its most-favored content in the United States, as well as individual rankings of films, original series, unscripted shows and comedy specials.
Following “Murder Mystery” as the year’s most popular film were titles including Michael Bay’s critically panned “6 Underground,” Pixar’s “The Incredibles 2,” Ben Affleck’s “Triple Frontier,” and Sony Animation’s Oscar winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Viewership numbers were not disclosed, though in June the streamer tweeted that “Murder Mystery” had Netflix’s biggest opening weekend ever, with over 30 million accounts watching the whodunit around the world. A sequel is currently in development.
For the 2019 lists, “popularity” was not determined by the total...
- 12/30/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
A man walks into a bar. He’s handsome enough to attract the attention of the ladies in this tavern, including Liz Kloepfer, a single mother who’s been dragged to the tavern by her best friend for a night out. He notices her, too. They meet-cute at the jukebox, talk, flirt. He takes her home. She invites him in. They spend a chaste night together. When she wakes up, Liz finds him in the kitchen, fixing breakfast for her toddler. You can see her thinking: Who is this guy?...
- 12/16/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Dec 12, 2019
A second helping of justice will be served. Starz announces premiere date for Joe Berlinger's Wrong Man Season 2.
Joe Berlinger's documentary series Wrong Man shows what long form documentary journalism can achieve. After the first season, the Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had been tried six times by nearly all-white juries; Christopher Tapp was exonerated from rape and murder charges after serving 20 years of a 30-year sentence; Evaristo Salas will go to into a new trial represented by a pro bono lawyer.
After a successful first season, Starz has announced that Wrong Man season 2 will premiere on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 9:45 p.m. The premiere episode will air following the series finale of Power.
After the premiere episode, Wrong Man will air on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. The six-episode documentary series examines the cases of three different inmates who are...
A second helping of justice will be served. Starz announces premiere date for Joe Berlinger's Wrong Man Season 2.
Joe Berlinger's documentary series Wrong Man shows what long form documentary journalism can achieve. After the first season, the Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had been tried six times by nearly all-white juries; Christopher Tapp was exonerated from rape and murder charges after serving 20 years of a 30-year sentence; Evaristo Salas will go to into a new trial represented by a pro bono lawyer.
After a successful first season, Starz has announced that Wrong Man season 2 will premiere on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 9:45 p.m. The premiere episode will air following the series finale of Power.
After the premiere episode, Wrong Man will air on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. The six-episode documentary series examines the cases of three different inmates who are...
- 12/12/2019
- Den of Geek
Netflix is to add to its stable of informative content with a series looking at the most haunted locations in America.
Currently without a title, the series is described as “a gritty and meticulous study of some of America’s most notorious haunted locations,” promising episodes that won’t shy away from the grisly details of the tales featured, and that lovers of the dark and macabre will have plenty to keep them engaged.
The Us is awash with buildings and areas that have bloody and gruesome histories, meaning the show will have little trouble in finding inspiration. Possibilities of focus points include 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York (the location for the events that inspired The Amityville Horror) and the Winchester Mystery House, a labyrinthine mansion constructed with a deliberately confusing layout designed to trap spirits.
New Photos Show Off The Haunted Real-Life House From The Conjuring 1 of 7
Click to...
Currently without a title, the series is described as “a gritty and meticulous study of some of America’s most notorious haunted locations,” promising episodes that won’t shy away from the grisly details of the tales featured, and that lovers of the dark and macabre will have plenty to keep them engaged.
The Us is awash with buildings and areas that have bloody and gruesome histories, meaning the show will have little trouble in finding inspiration. Possibilities of focus points include 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York (the location for the events that inspired The Amityville Horror) and the Winchester Mystery House, a labyrinthine mansion constructed with a deliberately confusing layout designed to trap spirits.
New Photos Show Off The Haunted Real-Life House From The Conjuring 1 of 7
Click to...
- 12/11/2019
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
It is the best of times and, arguably, the trickiest of times when it comes to the documentary industry. There’s no doubt that 2018 was a banner year for documentaries at the box office with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Academy Award-winning “Free Solo” garnering $29 million; Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” grossing $22.8 million; and Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s “Rbg” taking in $14.4 million. This year has not proven as stellar at the B.O. but Neon’s “Apollo 11” has had a healthy run. The film grossed $12 million worldwide and was the big winner at the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, grabbing the documentary feature, editing and score prizes.
Non-fiction films have also gotten a big boost from streamers, undoubtedly raising the profiles of docs in recent years.
“The real impact of streamers is that they have brought documentaries to an audience that wouldn’t typically watch documentaries,...
Non-fiction films have also gotten a big boost from streamers, undoubtedly raising the profiles of docs in recent years.
“The real impact of streamers is that they have brought documentaries to an audience that wouldn’t typically watch documentaries,...
- 12/4/2019
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Among the nearly 20 documentary films and TV series projects shared with Variety by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, one stands out: Martin Scorsese has a new music documentary in the kiln.
Imagine Docs, which is the entertainment company’s nonfiction unit, said that the documentary will mark a return to familiar territory for “The Irishman” director Scorsese — specifically the 1970s music scene. Scorsese is no stranger to this world, as his 2019 Netflix documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue” explored a legendary 1975 Bob Dylan tour through the eyes and ears of the period. Scorsese’s prior music documentaries include “George Harrison: Living in the Material World,” “No Direction Home,” and “The Last Waltz.” In terms of fiction projects revolving around this turbulent era of music, Scorsese and Mick Jagger were among the co-creators of HBO’s one-season wonder, “Vinyl,” which starred Bobby Cannavale (who stars in “Irishman”) as a decadent ’70s record executive.
Imagine Docs, which is the entertainment company’s nonfiction unit, said that the documentary will mark a return to familiar territory for “The Irishman” director Scorsese — specifically the 1970s music scene. Scorsese is no stranger to this world, as his 2019 Netflix documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue” explored a legendary 1975 Bob Dylan tour through the eyes and ears of the period. Scorsese’s prior music documentaries include “George Harrison: Living in the Material World,” “No Direction Home,” and “The Last Waltz.” In terms of fiction projects revolving around this turbulent era of music, Scorsese and Mick Jagger were among the co-creators of HBO’s one-season wonder, “Vinyl,” which starred Bobby Cannavale (who stars in “Irishman”) as a decadent ’70s record executive.
- 11/28/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In just over a year, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has stealthily assembled a slate of nearly 20 documentary feature and TV series projects, with distribution partners such as Netflix, Showtime and Apple TV Plus in place.
The prestigious lineup features filmmakers and producers including Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Berg, Morgan Neville and Howard himself. The subjects range from deep dives into icons like New York gossip queen Cindy Adams, star chef José Andrés, and former NBA star Dwyane Wade (now an agent), to penetrating looks at guitar hero Carlos Santana and last year’s wildfire that devastated Paradise, Calif.
Imagine’s documentary unit was founded in September 2018 and is headed by former RadicalMedia executive Justin Wilkes and longtime HBO Documentary Films senior vice president Sara Bernstein. The pair have been pulling their weight in an established film and television production company that has been investing heavily...
The prestigious lineup features filmmakers and producers including Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Berg, Morgan Neville and Howard himself. The subjects range from deep dives into icons like New York gossip queen Cindy Adams, star chef José Andrés, and former NBA star Dwyane Wade (now an agent), to penetrating looks at guitar hero Carlos Santana and last year’s wildfire that devastated Paradise, Calif.
Imagine’s documentary unit was founded in September 2018 and is headed by former RadicalMedia executive Justin Wilkes and longtime HBO Documentary Films senior vice president Sara Bernstein. The pair have been pulling their weight in an established film and television production company that has been investing heavily...
- 11/26/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
New Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma came into the position with a bang: The org’s decision to eliminate Emmy DVD screeners effective next year came at the very beginning of his tenure (although it had been in the works for some time), and helped define his first few months at the helm. Scherma’s day job is serving as president of RadicalMedia (“Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”); he helped oversee the company’s evolution from commercials and music videos to producing documentaries and series like IFC’s new “Sherman’s Showcase.” At the Academy, he hopes to use that experience to similarly guide the org as it faces a dramatic shift in the industry.
I sat down with Scherma recently to conduct his first extensive interview in his new role. Since he’s just seven months in, he’s still working with Academy president and COO Maury McIntyre,...
I sat down with Scherma recently to conduct his first extensive interview in his new role. Since he’s just seven months in, he’s still working with Academy president and COO Maury McIntyre,...
- 8/15/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
In an age when Netflix’s “Skip Intro” button threatens to make a TV show’s opening credits into an endangered species, it’s more important than ever to acknowledge the work being done by the artists who set the tone for some of the year’s most notable series. “I have two jobs,” says two-time Emmy winner Patrick Clair, nominated this year for the haunting introduction to “True Detective” Season 3. “The main title needs to prove its worth — and also make it worth watching again and again.” His fellow nominees in the main title design category share that philosophy, while also revealing how they went about innovating — or in some cases, re-innovating — the art of these brief yet stunning sequences.
“Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”
(Netflix)
Elastic creative director Lisa Bolan was inspired by the actual cassette tape technology that captured those original interviews in her...
“Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”
(Netflix)
Elastic creative director Lisa Bolan was inspired by the actual cassette tape technology that captured those original interviews in her...
- 8/1/2019
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Variety Film + TV
Serial killer Ted Bundy continues to fascinate the American public even decades after his execution. The latest demonstration of that comes with the popular success of the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger. The four-part series is now contending for Emmy nominations.
It’s by no means the first documentary examination of Bundy’s string of brutal sex crimes in the 1970s, a fact not lost on Berlinger.
“The bar is awfully high to do something on Bundy, because it’s a well-worn tire,” the director recalls thinking when he was first approached with the documentary idea. The pitch came from Stephen Michaud, co-author of the book Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, who had recorded hours of interviews with Bundy in the 1980s while the convicted murderer sat on Florida’s death row. Hearing the audio convinced Berlinger to move forward.
It’s by no means the first documentary examination of Bundy’s string of brutal sex crimes in the 1970s, a fact not lost on Berlinger.
“The bar is awfully high to do something on Bundy, because it’s a well-worn tire,” the director recalls thinking when he was first approached with the documentary idea. The pitch came from Stephen Michaud, co-author of the book Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, who had recorded hours of interviews with Bundy in the 1980s while the convicted murderer sat on Florida’s death row. Hearing the audio convinced Berlinger to move forward.
- 6/17/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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