Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell is getting as docuseries as he wanna be. Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders is among the producers behind “Coach Luke,” which chronicles the one-time 2 Live Crew frontman as he became a entrepreneur and the head coach of the Edison Senior High School football team in Miami. Mandon Lovett directs the docuseries, which is exec produced by Smac Entertainment’s Constance Schwartz-Morini, Michael Strahan and FredAnthony Smith; Swirl Films’ Eric Tomosunas and Nikki Byles; and Brian Sher and Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders. No outlet is yet attached.
Campbell, of course, is remembered for the popular late 1980s/early 1990s rap group 2 Live Crew — which managed to even hit the Billboard charts with song titles that Casey Kasem wouldn’t say out loud on “American Top 40.” But 2 Live Crew’s lasting impact was its First Amendment fights, via Campbell and the group’s obscenity trials and Supreme Court parody cases.
Campbell, of course, is remembered for the popular late 1980s/early 1990s rap group 2 Live Crew — which managed to even hit the Billboard charts with song titles that Casey Kasem wouldn’t say out loud on “American Top 40.” But 2 Live Crew’s lasting impact was its First Amendment fights, via Campbell and the group’s obscenity trials and Supreme Court parody cases.
- 10/18/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Haley Elizabeth Anderson has wrapped production on Jazzy Jumpers, a documentary she was tapped to direct for Indigenous Media, P&g Studios and A Seed & Wings Productions.
The film tells the story of the Brownsville, Brooklyn-based Double Dutch Team Jazzy Jumpers, headed up by Coach Toni Veal, watching as this group — which has, in recent years, attracted national media coverage — works to defend their World Championship title from their headquarters bordering a public housing complex.
This is the first project on which P&g and Indigenous have partnered, as well as the first feature to emerge from 60 Second Docs, the latter’s three-time Webby Award-winning label, which has to date put out around 1,000 short documentaries about the world’s most interesting and unusual characters. Anderson came to the film as an alum of P&g’s Queen Collective, a longstanding program developed in partnership with Queen Latifah, Flavor Unit Entertainment...
The film tells the story of the Brownsville, Brooklyn-based Double Dutch Team Jazzy Jumpers, headed up by Coach Toni Veal, watching as this group — which has, in recent years, attracted national media coverage — works to defend their World Championship title from their headquarters bordering a public housing complex.
This is the first project on which P&g and Indigenous have partnered, as well as the first feature to emerge from 60 Second Docs, the latter’s three-time Webby Award-winning label, which has to date put out around 1,000 short documentaries about the world’s most interesting and unusual characters. Anderson came to the film as an alum of P&g’s Queen Collective, a longstanding program developed in partnership with Queen Latifah, Flavor Unit Entertainment...
- 8/8/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime Sports has set a premiere date for Goliath, a docuseries examining the historic life, career and impact of NBA center Wilt Chamberlain. The three-parter directed by Rob Ford (The Cost of Winning) and Christopher Dillon (A Crime to Remember) will debut on demand and on streaming on July 14 for all Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers before making its on-air debut on Showtime on July 16 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt with episodes premiering each Sunday.
First announced in 2021 when it was being eyed as a feature documentary, Goliath tells the complete story of Chamberlain’s remarkable life and how it fits into the fabric of American history. Beginning with his emergence on the national scene as a high schooler in the 1950s and following through to his death in 1999, the show highlights with each episode a specific element of Chamberlain’s cultural impact, focusing on the areas of power, money, race,...
First announced in 2021 when it was being eyed as a feature documentary, Goliath tells the complete story of Chamberlain’s remarkable life and how it fits into the fabric of American history. Beginning with his emergence on the national scene as a high schooler in the 1950s and following through to his death in 1999, the show highlights with each episode a specific element of Chamberlain’s cultural impact, focusing on the areas of power, money, race,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: I Can’t Keep Quiet, a documentary about singer-songwriter and women’s right activist Milck, will make its world premiere on May 11 at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Deadline can reveal.
The half-hour film directed by Eurie Chung documents Milck’s journey in the years since her song “Quiet” became a global anthem for the women’s movement that exploded after the election of Donald Trump as president. We have your first look at the film in the trailer above. [Scroll to listen to Milck’s new single “Closer” from the film].
The documentary was produced in partnership with P&g Studios by an all-female team that includes Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker Grace Lee, Emmy Award winner Maile M. Zambuto, Kimberly Doebereiner of P&g Studios, Brianna M. Arnolde, Adrianne E. Gonzalez (Ag), and Peabody Award-winner Chung, who makes her directorial debut with this film.
“I Can’t Keep Quiet is an intimate portrait of Milck...
The half-hour film directed by Eurie Chung documents Milck’s journey in the years since her song “Quiet” became a global anthem for the women’s movement that exploded after the election of Donald Trump as president. We have your first look at the film in the trailer above. [Scroll to listen to Milck’s new single “Closer” from the film].
The documentary was produced in partnership with P&g Studios by an all-female team that includes Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker Grace Lee, Emmy Award winner Maile M. Zambuto, Kimberly Doebereiner of P&g Studios, Brianna M. Arnolde, Adrianne E. Gonzalez (Ag), and Peabody Award-winner Chung, who makes her directorial debut with this film.
“I Can’t Keep Quiet is an intimate portrait of Milck...
- 5/5/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
With every big media entity from ABC to Warner Brothers seeking hours of content, a different kind of player is betting more heavily on the game.
Dentsu Creative, a global agency network formed last year by Japan’s large Dentsu advertising conglomerate, is launching an investment fund said by one person familiar with the matter to total “eight figures,” in a bid to finance games; scripted and unscripted TV projects; and films.
Executives at the advertising heavyweight see an opportunity to create entertainment that does a lot more than distract consumers from the real world. By giving clients access to 200 entertainment specialists in offices around the globe, the hope is to create project that encompass everything from behind-the-scenes extras to merchandise, live events and music soundtracks.
“We want Dentsu Creative to be the first choice for clients looking to operate in the entertainment space,” says Fred Levron, Dentsu’s global chief creative officer,...
Dentsu Creative, a global agency network formed last year by Japan’s large Dentsu advertising conglomerate, is launching an investment fund said by one person familiar with the matter to total “eight figures,” in a bid to finance games; scripted and unscripted TV projects; and films.
Executives at the advertising heavyweight see an opportunity to create entertainment that does a lot more than distract consumers from the real world. By giving clients access to 200 entertainment specialists in offices around the globe, the hope is to create project that encompass everything from behind-the-scenes extras to merchandise, live events and music soundtracks.
“We want Dentsu Creative to be the first choice for clients looking to operate in the entertainment space,” says Fred Levron, Dentsu’s global chief creative officer,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Next to my couch, I have one of those workplace safety tally boards reading “Days Since the Last Docuseries About the Trials and Tribulations of Amateur Football.” It’s time to set the count back to “0.”
I mean, I don’t actually have one of those workplace safety tally boards, but if I did, it would have reflected the time elapsed since the November premieres of HBO’s The Cost of Winning and CBS All Access’ Texas 6 — a gap of almost exactly two months that ends with the arrival of Netflix’s We Are: The ...
I mean, I don’t actually have one of those workplace safety tally boards, but if I did, it would have reflected the time elapsed since the November premieres of HBO’s The Cost of Winning and CBS All Access’ Texas 6 — a gap of almost exactly two months that ends with the arrival of Netflix’s We Are: The ...
- 1/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Next to my couch, I have one of those workplace safety tally boards reading “Days Since the Last Docuseries About the Trials and Tribulations of Amateur Football.” It’s time to set the count back to “0.”
I mean, I don’t actually have one of those workplace safety tally boards, but if I did, it would have reflected the time elapsed since the November premieres of HBO’s The Cost of Winning and CBS All Access’ Texas 6 — a gap of almost exactly two months that ends with the arrival of Netflix’s We Are: The ...
I mean, I don’t actually have one of those workplace safety tally boards, but if I did, it would have reflected the time elapsed since the November premieres of HBO’s The Cost of Winning and CBS All Access’ Texas 6 — a gap of almost exactly two months that ends with the arrival of Netflix’s We Are: The ...
- 1/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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