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“I was always interested in the family dynamic because I come from a musical family,” blockbuster producer Frank Marshall tells us on what drew him to direct the HBO documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.

“I was always interested in what made them tick. Until I examined their career and journey, I had no idea what an incredible story it was,” says Marshall, “They transcended five decades, and somehow they stayed together over these five decades and kept reinventing themselves.”

“People think about them as kind of lightweights and they’re really heavyweights,” adds Marshall who has executive produced such docus as 2018’s What Haunts Us and produced Alex Gibney’s 2013 nonfiction feature The Armstrong Lie.

Of the myriad moments which Marshall explores in How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is the success behind Saturday Night Fever, both the 1977 film, which went on to...

The Women’s Image Awards has announced its 2018 nominations, with the BBC miniseries “Little Women” that aired on PBS’ “Masterpiece” series earning a leading six bids on the TV side. As for films, “Mary Queen of Scots” secured five spots on the ballot, followed by the Ruth Bader Ginsberg biopic “On the Basis of Sex” and Melissa McCarthy’s “Can Your Ever Forgive Me,” both with four.

Given the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement’s push against sexual harassment and lack of equal opportunity for women in Hollywood, the fact that an organization like Women’s Image Awards exists is more important than ever. The group that is celebrating its 20th anniversary has just announced its nominations in 18 categories. The TV and film nominees are selected from a field of submissions from networks and studios.

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Exclusive: New Regency has acquired the feature film rights to Norman Partridge’s award-winning horror novel Dark Harvest, with Michael Gilio set to write the project. Matt Tolmach, who has recently produced such hits as Venom and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (which together have made north of $1.4 billion worldwide), is set to produce Dark Harvest alongside David Manpearl.

Originally published in 2007 by Tor Books, Dark Harvest is set on Halloween in 1963 in a small Midwestern town where teenage boys eagerly square off with the butcher knife wielding October Boy, aka Ol’ Hacksaw Face aka Sawtooth Jack. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. One teen, Pete McCormick, knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in the one-horse town. But before the night is over, Pete will look into...

On Wednesday, October 3, in Beverly Hills, Gold Derby’s 2018 fall awards kickoff party welcomed more than 200 performers, executives, publicists and industry insiders to The Farmhouse restaurant to celebrate the launch of a new awards season. The celebs included Robert Forster (“What They Had”), David Kajganich (“Suspiria”), Adina Porter (“American Horror Story”), Vincent Rodriguez III (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), and Diane Warren (“Rbg”). Click through our photo gallery above to see many of the famous folk who let loose at Gold Derby’s private shindig, which included an open bar and passed hors d’oeuvres.

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Here’s the who’s-who list of of the various films and TV programs that were represented at our 2018 awards party (complete photo gallery above):

“American Horror Story” (Adina Porter)

“BlacKkKlansman” (Terence Blanchard)

“Blindspotting” (Rafael Casal)

“Blindspotting” (Janina Gavankar)

“Castle Rock” (Gina Welch)

“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” (Tati Gabrielle...

On Wednesday, October 3, in Beverly Hills, Gold Derby’s 2018 fall awards party welcomed more than 200 performers, executives, publicists and industry insiders to The Farmhouse restaurant to celebrate the launch of a new awards season. The celebs included Robert Forster (“What They Had”), David Kajganich (“Suspiria”), Adina Porter (“American Horror Story”), Vincent Rodriguez III (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), and Diane Warren (“Rbg”). Click through our photo gallery above to see many of the famous folk who let loose at Gold Derby’s private shindig, which included an open bar and passed hors d’oeuvres.

Here’s the who’s-who list of of the various films and TV programs that were represented at our 2018 awards party (complete photo gallery above):

“American Horror Story” (Adina Porter)

“BlacKkKlansman” (Terence Blanchard)

“Blindspotting” (Rafael Casal)

“Blindspotting” (Janina Gavankar)

“Castle Rock” (Gina Welch)

“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” (Tati Gabrielle)

“Claws” (Jimmy Jean-Louis)

“Corporate” (Matt Ingebretson)

“Corporate” (Jake Weisman...

A Florida teacher is suing Starz and filmmakers of What Haunts Us for defamation, claiming the Emmy-nominated documentary falsely ties him to instances of sexual abuse at his alma mater. 

Adam Bonsignori is an alumnus of the Porter-Gaud school in Charleston, South Carolina. The film centers on a teacher's sexual abuse of the students there in the late '70s and '80s. While Bonsignori was a student there while the abuse was occurring, he says he wasn't a victim and didn't know about it until the teacher, Eddie Fischer, was arrested in 1997, according to the ...

A Florida teacher is suing Starz and filmmakers of What Haunts Us for defamation, claiming the Emmy-nominated documentary falsely ties him to instances of sexual abuse at his alma mater. 

Adam Bonsignori is an alumnus of the Porter-Gaud school in Charleston, South Carolina. The film centers on a teacher's sexual abuse of the students there in the late '70s and '80s. While Bonsignori was a student there while the abuse was occurring, he says he wasn't a victim and didn't know about it until the teacher, Eddie Fischer, was arrested in 1997, according to the ...

During Deadline’s Awardsline Screening Series, director Paige Goldberg Tolmach said that the road to making her Starz documentary What Haunts Us started with a news piece about Jerry Sandusky, the responsibility to protect her son from “monsters” and the need to expose her high school’s sordid history of sexual abuse.

Nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, What Haunts Us has Tolmach returning to her hometown to investigating her alma mater, Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, Sc after a string of suicides could be possibly linked to sexual abuse that went unchecked at the school for a decade. From 1972-1982, a teacher by the name of Eddie Fischer worked at Porter-Gaud and developed close relationships with male students. He became a popular and beloved figure at the school, but while there, he took advantage of his position to secretly molest 20 male students.

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“This is a story about my hometown,” reveals Paige Tolmach about “What Haunts Us.” “It’s about my school, my community, my friends, and it was a hard thing to make because of that.” Tolmach made her directorial debut with this documentary about the long history of sexual abuse at her Charleston, Sc, high school. She now competes at the Emmys for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Watch our exclusive video interview with Tolmach above.

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The film tells the disturbing true story of Eddie Fischer, a teacher and coach at Porter Gaud School who molested dozens of boys throughout his tenure. Despite alarming evidence of abuse, the faculty and townspeople largely looked the other way. And like many abusive Catholic priests who were transferred from diocese to diocese to shield them from consequences, Fischer was eventually allowed...

In 2005, when the public’s love affair with theatrical feature documentaries was at an all-time high, the Television Academy decided to create a juried Emmy award for nonfiction projects. The new kudo, called exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking, would not be part of the overall Primetime Emmy ballot. Instead the category’s nominated films, up to five, would be selected by a nominating and voting jury of “experienced filmmakers” selected from the TV Academy’s Nonfiction Peer Group.

That same group recommended the new award, which, according to the Academy “honors and encourages exceptional achievement in one or more of the traditional components of documentary filmmaking, including profound social impact, significant innovation of form and remarkable mastery of filmmaking technique.”

While the nonfiction community cheered the new award, others were puzzled: What distinguished it from the award already established, the documentary or nonfiction special?

According to the Academy, the juried...

Charleston, South Carolina native Paige Goldberg Tolmach is a local girl made good. She co-founded a successful eco products business in La and recently earned an Emmy nomination for her directorial debut, the documentary What Haunts Us.

Those accomplishments might seem enough for Charleston to take pride in Paige, but to hear Tolmach tell it, the city has decidedly mixed feelings about her.

“Still, in my hometown, right now, they’re really angry at me,” Tolmach tells Deadline. That anger stems from the very film she made, the one that earned recognition in the prestigious Emmy category of Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.

Tolmach’s film probes a serial molestation scandal that took place at Charleston’s distinguished Porter-Gaud prep school, a subject she says some would prefer go unmentioned.

“People told me, ‘How dare you talk about this?’” she recounts. “‘We worked so hard to sweep it under the rug.

As the gap between great TV and great film narrows, so does the gap between their respective awards organizations. Can a project receive Oscars and Emmys? In some cases, the answer is a resounding “No”: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences changed its rules after Ezra Edelman’s acclaimed ESPN documentary “O.J.: Made in America” won the 2017 Oscar. Never again, said AMPAS, will a multi-part TV “series” cross our stage.

Still, many two-hour documentary films see theatrical debuts before they hit television, which makes them eligible for both Oscars and Emmys. This year’s Oscar winner, “Icarus,” came from Netflix, as did Oscar-nominee “Strong Island.” And they are among the five films in the Documentary Emmy race, along with “Jane” (National Geographic), Matt Heinemann’s “City of Ghosts” (A&E) and “What Haunts Us” (Starz).

“Jane” has a chance at seven Emmys, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing,...

As the gap between great TV and great film narrows, so does the gap between their respective awards organizations. Can a project receive Oscars and Emmys? In some cases, the answer is a resounding “No”: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences changed its rules after Ezra Edelman’s acclaimed ESPN documentary “O.J.: Made in America” won the 2017 Oscar. Never again, said AMPAS, will a multi-part TV “series” cross our stage.

Still, many two-hour documentary films see theatrical debuts before they hit television, which makes them eligible for both Oscars and Emmys. This year’s Oscar winner, “Icarus,” came from Netflix, as did Oscar-nominee “Strong Island.” And they are among the five films in the Documentary Emmy race, along with “Jane” (National Geographic), Matt Heinemann’s “City of Ghosts” (A&E) and “What Haunts Us” (Starz).

“Jane” has a chance at seven Emmys, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing,...

The 2018 Emmy talk, sketch and unscripted categories could look a lot similar to last year. Categories like the reality races remain mostly unchanged, while the Variety/Talk competition has just one notable switch: “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” replacing “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Incumbents such as RuPaul (as best reality host), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (variety/talk series) and “Saturday Night Live” (variety/sketch series) are all expected to repeat their wins.

But there are a few potential changes on the horizon: Sadly, CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” will likely win the Outstanding Informational Series Or Special category as a posthumous tribute to the show’s host.

Also, if the outstanding reality competition category is finally ready for a switch, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” seems like the likely contender.

Just like last year, IndieWire’s Screen Talk podcast will launch a weekly Emmy edition...