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50 Cent & Netflix Partner For New Sean “Diddy” Combs Docuseries
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Netflix are partnering to release a new docuseries focused on Sean "Diddy" Combs amid the allegations he faces. The post 50 Cent & Netflix Partner For New Sean “Diddy” Combs Docuseries appeared first on Hip-Hop Wired.
New Netflix docuseries honors women who shaped hip-hop
Premiering August 9th, the series features interviews with Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah, Tierra Whack, Saweetie, and more New Netflix Docuseries Honors Women Who Shaped Hip-Hop Jo Vito
Lebron James’ SpringHill Partners With Marathon Films For Nipsey Hussle Docuseries
HipHopWired Featured Video Nipsey Hussle and his rise as a recognized rapper, entrepreneur, and community advocate is an inspirational tale deserving of the documentary treatment. Marathon Films, the production company founded by the late rapper, partnered with SpringHill media studio, founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, to produce a docuseries focused on Neighborhood Nip. Nipsey Hussle and the story of his life will be depicted across the still-untitled docuseries focusing on his upbringing in Crenshaw en route to his musical career which culminated in collaborations with some of Hip-Hop’s biggest and brightest stars. SpringHill will fund the venture with Marathon Films guiding the storytelling aspect of the docuseries, which will afford the creative team an accurate and thorough...
A Marketing Blitz Fizzes Out in Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? Trailer: Watch
Netflix has released the trailer for Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?, a four-part documentary revolving around a college student who called the soda company’s bluff about a commercial offering a military plane as part of its loyalty program. Taking inspiration for its title from the 2000 stoner comedy Dude, Where’s My Car?, the docuseries centers around a college student named John Leonard who went on a crusade to acquire enough Pepsi Points to redeem them for an AV-8 Harrier II jet. In a commercial for the Pepsi Stuff program, the company advertised that seven million points would be required to purchase the plane. Since it would take 1.4 million 12-packs to rack up that many Pepsi points, executives thought the number was out of reach. However, the fine print in the catalog allowed cust...
Barney Has a Dark Side in Trailer for Docuseries I Love You, You Hate Me: Watch
Everyone wants the purple dinosaur to go extinct in the new trailer for I Love You, You Hate Me. The two-part docuseries about the dark side of Barney & Friends will debut October 12th on Peacock. I Love You, You Hate Me chronicles the spectacular rise and suffocating backlash to an early ’90s children’s sensation. “It just exploded nationwide,” one woman said. Former Barney David Joyner added ,”As [creator Sheryl Leach’s] beloved character was heading into the stratosphere, people couldn’t accept that this was just a show. And so, let the bashing begin.” This included playground chants — this author recalls, “I hate you/ You hate me/ Let’s get together and kill Barney” — but the fallout extended to the performers on the show. One person recounted rumors that, ...
HBO Confirms The Case Against Adnan Syed Sequel
HBO is developing a sequel to their 2019 docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed, leading up to and following the infamous Serial subject’s release from prison. The Case Against Adnan Syed explores Syed’s conviction after his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee went missing and was subsequently found dead in 1999. The smash true crime podcast Serial reignited interest in the case, which is garnering media attention again this week after a Baltimore City judge vacated Syed’s conviction and ordered his release from prison. Prosecutors are still deciding if they want to try Syed again after new information was found suggesting the involvement of two more suspects in Lee’s murder: “The State no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction,” said Baltimore State’s Attorney Maril...
The Osbournes Returning to Reality TV with New Series Home to Roost
The Osbournes are making a return to reality TV with a new docu-series titled Home to Roost. The UK program will chronicle Ozzy and Sharon’s move from Los Angeles back to England, as well as other aspects of their lives. Home to Roost is set to air in 2023 on BBC One and its VOD service iPlayer as a 10-part series of 30-minute episodes. The announcement comes 20 years after the family’s groundbreaking reality series The Osbournes first aired on MTV. Per the BBC press release, like The Osbournes, Home to Roost will also document Sharon and Ozzy’s children Jack and Kelly. It appears that their more reclusive daughter, Aimee, has chosen to stay out of the spotlight, as she did with The Osbournes. A full description of the new docu-series reads as follows: “Home to Roost will document Ozzy and...
New Armie Hammer Docuseries Reveals Texts and Recordings Behind Abuse Allegations: Watch
Warning: The following article contains potentially triggering material relating to sexual assault and violence. If you are a victim of sexual assault, you can access helpful resources by calling RAINN at 1-800-656-4673. The first trailer for the Discovery+ docuseries House of Hammer, centered on disgraced actor Armie Hammer and his obscenely wealthy family, has been released, and with it comes explosive interviews and thorough documentation regarding his alleged history of sexual abuse. The preview introduces three on-camera interviewees including two accusers as well as Casey Hammer, the actor’s aunt and the granddaughter of oil tycoon Armand Hammer, who addresses the audience directly by promising to expose the “dark, twisted secrets of the Hammer family.” It also shows threatening text...
Peace, Love, and Music Devolve Into a Clusterfuck in Trailer for Netflix’s Woodstock ’99 Docuseries: Watch
Woodstock ’99 infamously failed to emulate the three days of peace, love, and music that the original festival embodied 30 years prior. The new Netflix docuseries Clusterfuck: Woodstock ’99 attempts to uncover why, and its first trailer is out now. Combining real footage from the event with interviews with the artists who performed, Clusterfuck retraces the fires and riots that destroyed Woodstock ’99 in three 45-minute episodes. Mounds of garbage and overturned cars litter the series’ trailer, as artists like Jewel recall the festival’s turbulent energy. “It felt like a crowd that could turn at any time,” the singer-songwriter says. Other eyewitnesses attribute the toxicity of the event — which was marred by vandalism and sexual assault — to “male ego,” a lack of secur...
Barack Obama Is a Nature Documentarian in Trailer for Our Great National Parks: Watch
Barack Obama is trading the White House for the great outdoors. The 44th US President lends his voice to the new Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks, which just released its first trailer. Check out the clip below. From a fish that walks on land to hippos that surf the ocean waves, Obama waxes poetic about the little-known animals that inhabit our planet. “Around the world, the more isolated the national park, the more unusual its creatures and the more extraordinary their behaviors,” he narrates, before making a physical appearance in the trailer. Our Great National Parks explores the likes of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, the Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia, and the Chilean Patagonia — all of whic...
AI Program Brings Andy Warhol’s Words to Life in Trailer for Netflix Docuseries: Watch
Ever wonder what Andy Warhol would sound like if an AI program was used to recreate his voice? Well, Netflix and Ryan Murphy have answered that question with a docuseries pulling from Warhol’s posthumously published diaries. Check out the trailer below. Spread out over six one-hour episodes, The Andy Warhol Diaries begins with his childhood in Pittsburgh and traces his larger-than-life journey as a director, publisher, TV producer, and more. With the approval of The Andy Warhol Foundation, “cutting-edge AI techniques” were used to help the eccentric artist posthumously tell his own story from the diaries that he began writing after being shot in 1968. Among the topics covered in the trailer are the religious themes in Warhol’s work, as well as his sexuality: Namely, what was the exten...
Sundance Review: We Need to Talk About Cosby Unravels the Man and the Monster
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: For fifty years, Bill Cosby was America’s Dad, a trailblazer for Black culture on film and television, and comedy. I Spy, The Electric Company, The Cosby Show: All pioneering examples of Black excellence and a guiding light to generations of Black people who yearned to see themselves depicted on screen with grace and intelligence. And then, we learned about the man under those comfy sweaters: someone with credible accusations of sexual assault and rape of dozens of women. For standup comedian W. Kamau Bell, and many Black people across America who’d grown up revering Cosby, those accusations were a tough pill to swallow. What do you do when a man whom you’d idolized, someone who carries seismic importan...
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