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Sky & Netflix develop separate doc series around Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder
Both Netflix and the UK’s Sky have commissioned separate documentary projects about the 1996 murder…
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Factual round-up: Viking doc in Euro and Oz sales; HBO and Sky snag Diana premiere; Vice Media launches ‘Source Material’
NENT UK secures Euro and Oz sales for Viking doc Broadcasters Rai in Italy, Geo…
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MIPCOM Factual round-up: Sky acquires Yusuf Hawkins doc; Beyond sells 300+ hours to US; Great Pacific asks ‘What If’
Sky acquires HBO’s Yusuf Hawkins doc Sky in the UK has acquired feature documentary Yusuf…
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Lightbox hires Laufer for development
Murder Mountain and Tell Me Who I Am producer Lightbox has appointed Nicole Laufer as…
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A+E’s ‘Miss Scarlet And The Duke’ heads to the US, Canada, Australia
US broadcaster PBS, Seven Network in Australia and CBC in Canada are among broadcasters to…
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Showtime commissions Lightbox for limited docuseries on 6ix9ine
Showtime Documentary Films has commissioned Lightbox for a limited docuseries profiling hip-hop artist Tekashi 6ix9ine,…
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Lightbox scores Netflix Original with feature doc ‘Tell Me Who I Am’
Netflix has commissioned Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox for a feature doc on memory…
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Dragonfly exec flies to Lightbox to oversee development
US- and UK-based factual producer Lightbox has appointed the director of development at Dragonfly to…
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Bigger, better and celebrity-laden: Is the future of docs sustainable?
As documentaries cutting through on SVODs begin to look glossier and more high-profile by the…
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Hulu takes US rights to Lightbox’s Harvey Weinstein doc
Hulu has paid a seven figure sum for US rights to Untouchable, Lightbox’s feature documentary…