FOSSE/VERDON, FROZEN 2 Among Nominees for Guild of Music Supervisors Awards - See Full List!
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 09, 2020 The Guild of Music Supervisors announced today the nominees of their landmark 10th annual award ceremony celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in movies, television, games, advertising, and trailers. Crowning the evening will be this year's Icon Award honoree composer...
Showtime Receives 18 Emmy Nominations
by Tori Hartshorn - July 16, 2019 Today, SHOWTIME was recognized with 18 Primetime Emmy Award nominations by the Television Academy, including the network's second consecutive nomination in the Outstanding Limited Series category for ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA. The network was also honored for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for WHO IS A...
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival Presents Offscreen Panels and Events
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 21, 2019 Sundance Institute will convene dozens of offscreen events, including inclusive and intersectional conversations on the next wave of storytelling, radical data transparency, the future of democracy at its intersection with the arts, behind-the-scenes panels on the art of filmmaking and musical perfo...
Variety & Rolling Stone Announce Programming for Inaugural Truth Seekers Summit
by Sarah Jae Leiber - July 21, 2021 Keynote speakers will include Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) with panels from documentarians behind Allen v. Farrow, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summe...
Showtime to Premiere CYPRESS HILL: INSANE IN THE BRAIN Documentary
by Michael Major - February 23, 2022 Using a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage captured by Oriol himself, as well as images of band members B Real, DJ Muggs, Sen Dog and Eric “Bobo” Correa, CYPRESS HILL: INSANE IN THE BRAIN tells the story of a brotherhood that has withstood the test of time to create a truly origina...
Full Program Announced for 2021 Sundance Film Festival
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 15, 2020 The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent work selected across the Feature Film, Short Film, Indie Series and New Frontier categories for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival....
Showtime to Mark the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop With ALL UP IN THE BIZ Documentary
by Michael Major - July 17, 2023 Featuring never before seen footage, musical interludes, animation, puppetry, and interviews with Biz Markie and other prominent figures in hip hop – from Fat Joe to Nick Cannon to Tracy Morgan – ALL UP IN THE BIZ is a heartwarming portrait of how one underdog’s dreams – fortified by an unwavering d...
Showtime Documentary Films Acquires North American Rights to WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 18, 2019 Showtime Documentary Films dives deeper into the music documentary space with the acquisition of North American rights to WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, a four-part limited docuseries from filmmaker Sacha Jenkins (BURN MOTHERF*CKER, BURN!) that transcends the music documentary genre by creating a ne...
Busta Rhymes, Eve, Fat Joe, Ice-T and More Join A&E Networks Latest Docu-Series ORIGINS OF HIP HOP
by Michael Major - April 19, 2022 Across eight hours, the series will explore the origins of Busta Rhymes, Eve, Fat Joe, Grandmaster Flash, Ice-T, Ja Rule, Lil Jon, and Uncle Luke as they reflect on their personal journeys and the evolutions of their artistic points of view through their own eyes. The series will be narrated by reno...
Showtime Documentary Films Acquires North American Rights to WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 18, 2019 Showtime Documentary Films dives deeper into the music documentary space with the acquisition of North American rights to WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, a four-part limited docuseries from filmmaker Sacha Jenkins (BURN MOTHERF*CKER, BURN!) that transcends the music documentary genre by creating a ne...
SHOWTIME to Kick Off Multi-Year Hip Hop 50 Initiative with 3 New Documentaries
by Michael Major - October 27, 2021 Video Music Box (w/t) will premiere Friday, December 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Ricky Powell: the Individualist, directed by Josh Swade, will premiere Friday, December 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. And Rolling Like Thunder, directed by Roger Gastman, will premiere Friday, December 17 at 8 p.m. ET/PT....
Showtime Offers Two Documentaries Examining Racial Injustice In America for Free
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 05, 2020 In an effort to provide resources and raise awareness around the ongoing struggle against systemic racism in America, SHOWTIME has made two of its acclaimed documentaries available for free....
FOSSE/VERDON, FROZEN 2 Among Nominees for Guild of Music Supervisors Awards - See Full List!
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 09, 2020 The Guild of Music Supervisors announced today the nominees of their landmark 10th annual award ceremony celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in movies, television, games, advertising, and trailers. Crowning the evening will be this year's Icon Award honoree composer...
Showtime Announces HIP HOP 50
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 19, 2021 HIP HOP 50 programming will begin airing later this year on SHOWTIME, running over the next three years and culminating with the 50th anniversary of the genre in 2023. The announcement was made by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc....
Showtime Releases All Four Episodes Of WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 10, 2019 SHOWTIME has released all four episodes of the highly anticipated docuseries WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MENearly to its subscribers. The WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN episodes are available now for on-demand streaming or download on the SHOWTIME and SHOWTIME ANYTIME apps and on partner on-demand plat...
Showtime Documentary Films to Premiere SHANGRI-LA
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 31, 2019 Showtime Documentary Films today revealed the official poster and trailer for SHANGRI-LA and announced the four-part docu-series, a collaboration from Academy Award® and Emmy® winner Morgan Neville (Won't You Be My Neighbor, 20 Feet From Stardom), legendary music producer Rick Rubin, and director Je...
Francis and the Lights to Headline The SHOWTIME House at SXSW
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 08, 2019 Today, SHOWTIME announced that Francis and the Lights will headline the music line-up at The SHOWTIME House on Monday, March 11 at South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals, located at Clive Bar on Rainey Street. Monday's performance is part of The SHOWTIME House Of Music, celebrating mus...
VIDEO: Showtime Releases the Trailer for WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 25, 2019 Ahead of its Sundance Film Festival premiere this coming Monday, SHOWTIME has released the official trailer for WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, the four-part limited docuseries from filmmaker Sacha Jenkins (BURN MOTHERF*CKER, BURN!).The full series will air on SHOWTIME later this spring. WU-TANG CLA...
VIDEO: Showtime Releases CYPRESS HILL: INSANE IN THE BRAIN Trailer
by Michael Major - March 31, 2022 SHOWTIME has released the official trailer for CYPRESS HILL: INSANE IN THE BRAIN. Told through the intimate lens of photographer and director Estevan Oriol (LA Originals), CYPRESS HILL: INSANE IN THE BRAIN is a smoke-filled journey across the lives and careers of the groundbreaking, genre-defying Hi...
Showtime Documentary Films Announces BITCHIN': THE SOUND AND FURY OF RICK JAMES
by TV News Desk - June 15, 2021 At the center of it all is the “Punk-Funk” that encompassed a unique swath of 20th-century music history from jazz to soul to R&B to rock and eventually, to hip-hop....
The Complete List of Winners from the 10th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
by Abigail Charpentier - February 07, 2020 The Guild of Music Supervisors held its landmark 10th annual award ceremony this evening at The Wiltern in Los Angeles celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in movies, television, games, advertising, and trailers. Over 1,000 attendees joined the Guild to honor the 31 ...
Showtime Returns To SXSW Celebrating BLACK MONDAY, THE CHI, SHAMELESS and Music Documentaries
by Tori Hartshorn - February 25, 2019 SHOWTIME will celebrate its upcoming music documentaries SHANGRI-LA and WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN as well as series BLACK MONDAY, THE CHI and SHAMELESS at the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals from Monday, March 11 through Wednesday, March 13. Combining culture, art, food and ...
Busta Rhymes, Eve, Fat Joe, Ice-T and More Join A&E Networks Latest Docu-Series ORIGINS OF HIP HOP
by Michael Major - April 19, 2022 Across eight hours, the series will explore the origins of Busta Rhymes, Eve, Fat Joe, Grandmaster Flash, Ice-T, Ja Rule, Lil Jon, and Uncle Luke as they reflect on their personal journeys and the evolutions of their artistic points of view through their own eyes. The series will be narrated by reno...
VIDEO: Showtime Releases the Trailer for WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 25, 2019 Ahead of its Sundance Film Festival premiere this coming Monday, SHOWTIME has released the official trailer for WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, the four-part limited docuseries from filmmaker Sacha Jenkins (BURN MOTHERF*CKER, BURN!).The full series will air on SHOWTIME later this spring. WU-TANG CLA...
New Shorts and Special Events Added to SUNDANCE Lineup
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 10, 2019 Works selected across the Indie Episodic, Shorts and Special Events sections of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, underlining Sundance Institute's commitment to showcasing bold independent storytelling regardless of form, format or length.... |