 Laura Poitras’ Julian Assange doc “Risk” lands at Showtime (video)  April 10, 2017 - 11:06 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - TV's mad grab for high-brow documentary wages on, with Showtime the latest to add to its growing prestige roster, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The network has secured premiere rights to Risk, the latest effort from acclaimed documentarian Laura Poitras. Her last, Edward Snowden starrer CitizenFour, nabbed the 2015 Oscar for best documentary after a brief theatrical run and a wider release on HBO. Like CitizenFour, Risk also focuses on the airing dirty laundry in an era of tech and political tumult — turning the lens on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A theatrical release, from young distributor NEON, will precede the summer bow on Showtime. "It is an exciting time to be working with Showtime and Neon,” said Poitras. “Both organizations are thinking outside the box about how to bring complex stories to a wide audience. I am thrilled to team up with them on Risk." The film, which has been in production for six years, has unprecedented access to Assange and those around him. An early cut of the film premiered during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but filming continued through the presidential election — one that saw headlines highjacked when Assange's Wikileaks dumped countless emails from the Democratic National Committee. Showtime has been lapping up documentaries over the last two years. The network has premiered Listen to Me Marlon, Weiner and Zero Days — as well as the upcoming Whitney. "Can I Be Me?." An Oscar nom has thus far eluded the network. Good news for Showtime (and Poitras) is that the rollout for Risk won't make it a victim of Friday's Motion Picture Academy rule changes that will keep multi-part TV documentaries — like 2017 Academy Award winner O.J. Simpson: Made in America — from being considered in future Oscars. (When Risk premiered at Cannes, it clocked in at just under 90 minutes.)   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Turkey extends military presence in Azerbaijan  The Turkish parliament has adopted a bill submitted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extend the mandate of Turkish troops.Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skillsArmenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi ArabiaPashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”. |
