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Nat Geo is delving into the world of competitive Bollywood dance in its latest series. The Disney-owned broadcaster has ordered Legends (w/t), which comes from Indian Matchmaking creator Smriti Mundhra and 100 Foot Wave producer Joe Lewis.

ESPN Films is working on a docuseries about the legendary Gracie family, Variety has learned exclusively.

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STX Films has released the trailer for its upcoming action thriller “The Contractor,”...

‘The Mauritanian’: Film Review David Rooney The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba without ever being charged with a crime. Macdonald is an exceptional documentary maker ( Touching the Void) with a more uneven track record in narrative features ( The Last King of Scotland is probably strongest among them), and this legal procedural remains strangely flat, des...

A politically charged legal thriller with only an intermittent pulse. TWITTER 2/19/2021 Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch star as lawyers on opposing sides of a habeas corpus case in Kevin Macdonalds drama based on the memoir of a longtime Guantánamo Bay detainee, played by Tahar Rahim. Kevin Macdonald has sensational nonfiction material in The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base i...