The Iranian Oscar-winning director said he didn't copy a former student's film

Senior Reporter, HuffPost Life“Senior Year” is currently the most popular movie on Netflix, according to the streaming service’s public ranking system.Released on May 13, this new comedy stars Rebel Wilson as a 37-year-old woman who wakes up from a 20-year coma and decides to go back to high school to live out her dream of becoming prom queen. The cast also includes Sam Richardson, Angourie Rice, ...

Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Allen Leech and more walked the red carpet on May 15 for the movie's New York premiere.

Dr. Mehmet Oz held back from calling the 2020 presidential election “stolen” or “rigged” in his appearance Monday on David Brody’s Real America’s Voice show “The Water Cooler.”When Brody asked Oz about election integrity and and whether he’d seen, Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “2000 Mules,” Oz answered that he had not seen the film, then taking the chance to repeat some statements he has made ...

Netflix's latest true-crime documentary, "Our Father," centers on the fraudulent fertility practice of its subject, Dr. Donald Cline. The shocking story is enough to send a chill down any viewer's spine. The fertility specialist, who practiced in his Indianapolis clinic from 1979 to 2009, inseminated his patients with his own sperm without their knowledge or explicit consent. Cline spawned over a ...

WME has signed filmmaker Iliana Sosa, whose latest documentary "What We Leave Behind" won two prizes at this year's South by Southwest.

Senior Reporter, HuffPostHBO Max’s “The Staircase,” the well-reviewed retelling of the murder case against Michael Peterson, has proved to be a step too far from the truth for the filmmakers behind the original docuseries of the same name.

Jennifer Baichwal’s new documentary charts the battle for accountability over carcinogenic herbicide Roundup.

You can relive the greatest jokes and learn more about the life and controversial career of groundbreaking stand-up comedian George Carlin—who died in 2008 at age 71—in the two-night documentary George Carlin’s American Dream (May 20–21 on HBO and HBO Max). Here are a few facts about the New York City native, who in 1975 was the first-ever host of Saturday Night Live.

U.S. director Lotfy Nathan, best known for his acclaimed documentary '12 O'Clock Boys,' is making his feature debut with 'Harka.'

When Rolling Stone was a rickety operation run out of a rent-free San Francisco loft, and the music business was still so low-key you could score an interview with the Doors’ Jim Morrison by bumping into him in a friend’s apartment, Ben Fong-Torres was there. Fong-Torres, one of Rolling Stone‘s first star writers, finally gets his own spotlight in the excellent new documentary Like a Rolling ...

Documentaries may chronicle real life, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's an honest portrayal.Rosemarie DeWitt and Olivia DeJonge learned this firsthand while preparing to star in HBO Max's adaptation of the 2004 true crime documentary The Staircase. The series followed North Carolina novelist Michael Peterson as he defended himself from accusations of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson, ...

Frank Marshall may be best known for producing films going all the way back to 1973’s “Paper Moon” to “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “The Sixth Sense,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and five “Jurassic Park” movies. But he’s also directed a few films along the way, including the Emmy-nominated 2020 documentary “The Bees Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.”

ReporterLaura NyroMichael Ochs ArchivesA documentary about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted singer-songwriter Laura Nyro is in the works.Nyro’s son Gil Bianchini will serve as an associate producer on the still-untitled film, which will begin production later this year, Deadline reports.

Image Source: HBO / Kent GavinAlmost 25 years after her death, Princess Diana's life story is being revisited once again. Directed by Ed Perkins, "The Princess," which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, uses old interviews and news footage to recount pivotal moments in Diana's public life, including her highly publicized divorce from Prince Charles and fatal 1997 car accident in Paris.

The Deep End has us ready to dive in.Spiritual teacher Teal Swan and her questionable practices are the subject of Freeform's documentary series The Deep End, premiering May 18. Swan, who calls herself a "spiritual leader," has more than 602,000 followers on Instagram and over 145 million views on YouTube.

ReporterThe late Lady Diana’s reign on the big screen continues this summer with The Princess, an upcoming documentary that tells the story of Diana Spencer’s time in the Royal Family through archival footage from the media that both adored and scrutinized her.

Cinetic Media’s Dana O’Keefe has been named president of Double Agent, a new production company dedicated to creating non-fiction content across all genres.Double Agent comes as a joint venture between Black Bear Pictures and New Regency, created by New Regency’s Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer and Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman. Together, they plan to jump on “the extraordinary growth ...

New Regency and Black Bear Pictures are getting into the documentary business with new joint venture, Double Agent.

The first trailer from upcoming Princess Diana documentary 'The Princess' shows the maelstrom that surrounded the tragic royal.