Roadside Attractions and Miramax To Release Whitney Houston Documentary WHITNEY 7/6

According to Comingsoon.net, the forthcoming documentary following the life of Whitney Houston will be released this summer on July 6. The doc, titled WHITNEY, is directed by Kevin Macdonald, who is known for winning the Academy Award for ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER. The documentary is coming from Roadside Attractions and Miramax. Read more about it from Comingsoon.net here!

In a statement, McDonald says, ""I approached Whitney's life like a mystery story; why did someone with so much raw talent and beauty self-destruct so publicly and painfully? I was lucky enough to have the support of Pat Houston and the Whitney Houston estate in this quest. They entrusted me with the 'keys to the vault' while giving me complete freedom to follow the story wherever it went. At heart, Whitney is an intimate family story that reveals a new side to a woman that even her most die-hard fans never knew."

Acquired by beIN Media Group (beinmediagroup.com) in March 2016, MIRAMAX is a global film and television studio best known for its award-winning and original content. Nasser Al-Khelaifi serves as Chairman of MIRAMAX and beIN Media Group. Upcoming projects include I, Tonya about controversial figure skater Tonya Harding starring Margot Robbie, the Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker film Labyrinth which MIRAMAX is co-financing with Open Road Films, and Whitney, the documentary feature from Oscar -winning director Kevin Macdonald on pop icon Whitney Houston, Recent releases include Bad Santa 2 starring Billy Bob Thornton, who reprises his Golden Globe nominated role as Willie Soke, and Oscar , Golden Globe and Emmy winner Kathy Bates, with Broad Green Pictures co-producing/co-financing and handling U.S. theatrical; Bridget Jones's Baby from Working Title for Universal Pictures, MIRAMAX and StudioCanal, with Oscar winners Rene Zellweger and Colin Firth reprising their roles in the third installment of the Bridget Jones film series; Southside With You. inspired by the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama, starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter, with MIRAMAX and Roadside Attractions partnering on the U.S. release; as well as Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series in its third season in the U.S. on El Rey Network. In 2015, MIRAMAX together with Roadside Attractions, released the critically acclaimed Mr. Holmes, one of the year's most successful independent hits, directed by Academy Award winner Bill Condon and starring Academy Award nominees Sir Ian McKellen and Laura Linney; as well as the Kevin Hart hit comedy The Wedding Ringer with Sony-Screen Gems.

Collectively, MIRAMAX's unrivaled library of more than 700 titles has received 278 Academy Award nominations and 68 Oscars , earning most notably four Best Picture awards for The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago and No Country for Old Men. More iconic titles from the library include critically acclaimed and commercial hits alike, such as Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream film franchise, Kill Bill Vol. 1&2, and The Aviator.

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