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Apple TV+ is stepping up to the plate for a three-part docuseries on the 2024 World Series, Variety has learned exclusively.

Production on the series is already underway. It will offer fans exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the teams vying for the Major League Baseball (MLB) championship, including interviews with players, coaches, journalists, fans, and family members.

The show is produced under the partnership between MLB and its MLB Studios label and Imagine Documentaries. Emmy winner R.J. Cutler is directing and executive producing under his This Machine banner, which is set up at Sony Pictures Television. Five-time World Series champion Derek Jeter is also executive producing via Cap 2 Productions. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Nick Trotta, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein, Marc Gilbar, Mark Blatty, Trevor Smith, and Justin Yungfleisch also executive produce.

Apple TV+ is also the exclusive home of “Friday Night Baseball, ” a weekly doubleheader streaming every Friday throughout the regular season.

Despite being an NBA mega-star with the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry is eager to show off his comedy chops in the trailer for Peacock’s Mr. Throwback, which was released on Wednesday.

Curry’s chance to play a comedy hero has come with the Universal Television mockumentary that marks his first scripted TV role and is set to premiere on Aug. 8.

Mr. Throwback

The comedy sees Adam Pally as Danny Grossman, a down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer who looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, basketball legend Curry, who plays himself on screen.

In Mr. Throwback, Curry aims to help his middle school buddy get redemption. “Let’s do a documentary on it,” he says at one point in the trailer. That has the former school buddies joyously traveling on Curry’s private jet and sharing pre-game horse placenta drinks, called “placenta-ritas.”

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Steph Curry is having a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” meets “Ballers” moment.

The NBA legend and Golden State Warriors point guard will make his TV acting debut on Peacock comedy series “Mr. Throwback,” which he also executive produces. The mockumentary follows a down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer (Adam Pally) who seeks redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade basketball teammate (Curry). Pally also executive produces.

“I was excited to step into the world of scripted comedy with ‘Mr. Throwback,’ a story with love for family and friends at its center,” Curry said in a press statement. “I’m looking forward to viewers getting to see me play a version of myself no one has ever seen before, and hope they feel connected to the characters and the dilemmas they face throughout the series.”

Curry was featured in Peter Nicks’ 2023 biography-documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” which debuted at Sundance.

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NBA star Stephen Curry is often brought up in the conversation about GOATs — the greatest basketball players of all time.

While the four-time NBA champion and two-time Mvp’s ranking might be debatable, Curry is making his Goat connection official — by producing a sports comedy movie by the same name for Sony Pictures Animation.

Curry and his Unanimous Media co-founder Erick Peyton will produce the film alongside Academy Award nominee Michelle Raimo Kouyate, and Modern Magic’s Adam Rosenberg (“Creed 3”) and Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”).

“With ‘Goat,’ we look forward to uplifting audiences with diverse characters and heartwarming storylines that will have you rooting for the underdog,” stated Peyton and Curry about the movie, which is aimed at families and sports fans alike.

Emmy-nominated director Tyree Dillihay (“Bob’s Burgers”) will direct the film, and Adam Rosette (“Orion and the Dark”) will co-direct. “Fairfax” creators...

Stephen Curry has netted a new scripted project as the basketball superstar continues making inroads as a Hollywood playmaker.

Curry’s producing banner Unanimous Media and David Henrie’s Cedar Hill are developing the basketball-focused comedy feature Trick Shot. A director has yet to be attached to the film that has a script from Jay Longino, whose previous writing credits include Uncle Drew (2018) and Skiptrace (2016).

Trick Shot centers on a middle school student who is dismal at basketball until a freak accident occurs, and he suddenly can’t miss a shot. His newfound hoops talent leads him to become an unexpected NBA rookie, where he is soon an integral member of his favorite team.

Producers include Curry and Erick Peyton for Unanimous Media, David Henrie and James Henrie for Cedar Hill and Ben Everard for Everard Entertainment. Longino and Unanimous’ Brian Testuro Ivie serve as executive producers.

Curry is a...

Saul “Canelo” Álvarez is a global boxing star from Mexico with his four division world championships, and named the most undisputed middleweight champion of the world. Born on July 18, 1990, in Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, Álvarez has captivated fans worldwide by representing his Mexican values and heritage with his amazing exploits in the ring.

The documentary will take an inside look at four division world champion and undisputed super middleweight champion of the world, icon of boxing, Saul “Canelo” Álvarez and his career-defining rivalry with fighter Triple G. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will next fight against Jaime Munguia on Saturday, May 4 in Las Vegas.

Stephen Curry & Erick Peyton will produce, while Karla Peraza De Diaz, Brian Testuro Ivie will serve as executive producers.

“We’re honored to have the opportunity to tell the story of Canelo Álvarez, someone we have immense admiration and respect for,” said Erick Peyton & Stephen Curry of Unanimous Media.

Exclusive: Rtg Features, the sister studio to basketball media company Slam, is partnering with arts organization Heartland Film to launch the first annual Slam Film Festival dedicated to basketball-themed movies.

The festival, which will take place February 16-18, 2024, at Living Room Theaters in Indianapolis, will be a mix of world premiere titles, recent festival circuit movies and iconic films. The event will be the first-ever film festival exclusively focused on basketball, and is launched in celebration of Slam’s 30th anniversary in 2024. Scroll down for the lineup.

There will be 30th anniversary screenings of Steve James’ classic doc Hoop Dreams, William Friedkin’s Nick Nolte and Shaquille O’Neal film Blue Chips and Jeff Pollack’s Above The Rim. Newer films set to screen will include Palm Springs 2024 title Amongst The Trees, exec-produced by NBA star Paul George, and recent doc biopic Stephen Curry: Underrated (2023).

In addition to screenings and post-screening Q&As,...

A24 is backing a new documentary titled “Open Wide,” about an orthodontist whose controversial method of reshaping people’s jawlines went viral on TikTok for all the wrong reasons.

Sara Goldblatt directed “Open Wide,” which will be available to watch Jan. 23 on Netflix.

The documentary explores a father and son who are fighting to upend mainstream orthodontics. According to the official logline, “John Mew has waged a lonely war against the industry — and that teenage rite of passage, braces, for decades. With his son Mike now taking up the fight, the Mews’ fringe theories have turned into a full-blown online sensation. But even while mewing goes viral on TikTok and the Mews churn out content for their millions of followers, Mike is pursued by the British Orthodontic Society and threatened with expulsion by the very people who took away his father’s license.”

The father-son’s technique of “mewing,” which...

Deadline on Tuesday launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Documentary, its annual showcase of the year’s best nonfiction films that are in the running for the Documentary Feature Oscar.

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A total of nine buzzworthy films participated in panel discussions during Sunday’s virtual event, featuring movies from Amazon MGM Studios, Apple Original Films, HBO Documentary Films, National Geographic Documentary Films, Paramount+ and MTV Documentary Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Telemark and Greenwich Entertainment.

Panelists who joined to discuss their projects included directors Davis Guggenheim (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie), Peter Nicks (Stephen Curry: Underrated), Jesse Moss and Amanda McBain (The Mission), Christopher Sharp (Bobi Wine: The People’s President), Raoul Peck (Silver Dollar Road), Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal (They Shot the Piano Player), Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson (Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), Jakub Piątek (Pianoforte) and...

When Stephen Curry decided to turn pro after a stellar college basketball career at tiny Davidson College in North Carolina, NBA scouts looked him over. They weren’t impressed.

“Far below NBA standard in regard to explosiveness and athleticism,” they scoffed. “Do not rely on him to run your team.”

Curry proved them all wrong, as shown thrillingly in the Apple Original Films documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated, directed by Peter Nicks and produced by an all-star roster including Nicks and Ryan Coogler.

“We discovered that scouting report, which basically did not see his potential,” Nicks explained during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary event. “And we also discovered sort of his inner mentality, which is very much a belief that he was, is, and always will be underrated despite everything that he’s achieved. So, we really wanted to try to unpack that for the audience… Why I...

The 2023 Cinema Eye Honors have unveiled the 20 titles for its Audience Choice Prize Long List, with voting now open.

The 17th annual awards ceremony also recognized the best nonfiction and documentary films and series across five Broadcast categories and a Shorts List with 10 of the year’s top documentary short films, as well as the 20 films in the running for the Audience Choice Prize Long List.

This year’s list includes films from Cinema Eye Honors alumni including “The Eternal Memory,” “American Symphony,” “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” “Stamped from the Beginning,” “32 Sounds,” “A Compassionate Spy,” “Confessions of a Good Samaritan,” “The Mission,” “The Pigeon Tunnel,” and “Stephen Curry: Underrated.”

Hulu series “The 1619 Project” and Showtime’s “Nothing Lasts Forever” lead the Broadcast Film and Series nominations with three nods each. The “1619 Project,” adapted from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’s work with The New...

Actress Tessa Thompson has officially joined the Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees.

The “Creed” actress and producer, along with documentarian Pete Nicks and producers Nina Fialkow and Kimberly Steward, comprise the new additions to the Board. Per an official press release, the foursome are now among the “leaders who guide and steer the entire organization and also act in an advisory capacity.”

Thompson said in a statement, “Both the Sundance Film Festival and the Institute have served as an artistic home for me throughout my career. I’m proud to expand this journey by joining the board to eagerly serve a community that has been so incredibly impactful to me and countless others.”

The new trustees will closely work with Board Chair Ebs Burnough and CEO Joana Vicente to usher in the next wave of rising filmmakers.

“As Sundance Institute continues to respond to the needs of independent artists,...

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced four newly appointed additions to the Institute’s Board of Trustees. Tessa Thompson, Pete Nicks, Nina Fialkow, and Kimberly Steward have joined the leaders who guide the entire organization and also act in an advisory capacity. They add to the Institute’s Board of values-based leaders, building an enduring, evolving community for storytellers. The distinguished new Trustees will work closely with Board Chair Ebs Burnough and CEO Joana Vicente and bring invaluable experience.

“As Sundance Institute continues to respond to the needs of independent artists, we welcome these new members of our Board, each of whom has an incredible commitment to independent film and a long history with the Institute,” said Sundance Institute Board Chair Ebs Burnough. “Together, the Board is poised to identify new and strengthened ways to uplift independent storytellers.”

“We are so pleased to have Tessa, Pete, Nina, and Kimberly join...

SAG-AFTRA may still be on strike, but studios are, nevertheless, pushing their Oscar contenders to garner the adequate (and allowed) attention they need to land nominations.

One of the main methods is getting industry voters out to screenings and making films available on the Academy Screening Room and BAFTA screening platforms. With the two significant organizations banning physical DVD screeners, voting members rely on the respective digital viewing portals to catch up on some of this year’s contenders vying for awards consideration.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.

The Academy performs a heavy vetting process for each film that chooses to submit for consideration. Historically, over 300 movies are in the running for best picture consideration, with more films joining the fray over the next several months. Distributors are the ultimate decision-makers of when a movie is placed in the Academy Screening Room for viewing.

Award-winning production company Ventureland has entered a first-look partnership with independent studio A24 for documentary projects.

John Battsek, producer of Oscar-winning documentaries “One Day in September” and “Searching for Sugar Man,” who also serves as Ventureland’s managing director, will be both producing and executive producing as part of the deal, alongside Ventureland CEO Kerstin Emhoff, president Ali Brown, and co-founder Paul Hunter.

The two companies recently collaborated on freediving Netflix documentary “The Deepest Breath,” which premiered earlier this year at Sundance.

Battsek and Emhoff said: “With our shared culture and ambition to broaden perspectives, we are thrilled to partner with A24. This partnership will allow us to continue to push creative boundaries in making award-winning documentary features and series.”

Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, Ventureland’s credits include PGA and BAFTA-nominated “The Rescue”; double Emmy-winning “Rising Phoenix”; Critics Choice nominee “The Real Charlie Chaplin”; Werner Herzog’s “Theater...

Stephen Curry in “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” now streaming on Apple TV+ As a star NBA player, Stephen Curry knows what it’s like to live in the glare of the spotlight, performing before the cameras each game, making the usual media appearances, and being spotted by fans in his daily life. But what was it like to get a taste of the reality show experience, having a camera crew follow him around for the filming of the documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated? Curry told us it kind of felt like an extension of his usual life, but a little different. (Click on the media bar below to hear Stephen Curry) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Stephen-_Curry_Docu_Crew_Overrated_.mp3 Stephen Curry: Underrated is currently streaming on Apple TV+.

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Stephen Curry in “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” now streaming on Apple TV+ Fourteen seasons into his illustrious career, Stephen Curry is still near the top of his game. In the 2022-23 season, he recorded his third-best points-per-game average, along with a career best rebounds-per-game average. But Curry knows he’s closer to the end of his career than the beginning, which explains the timing of Stephen Curry: Underrated, a new documentary about the four-time NBA champion and how he got to where he is today. As one of the documentary’s producers, Curry talked to us about how he felt as the film took shape and put his life in perspective. (Click on the media bar below to hear Stephen Curry) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Stpeheh_Curry_Curry_Doc_.mp3 Stephen Curry: Underrated is currently streaming on Apple TV+.

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Whether or not Steph Curry is underrated is completely debatable. He’s won a wide selection of NBA accolades, including two Most Valuable Player awards, but there’s an argument to be made that his three-point shooting skills are so prolific that they haven’t been talked about enough in a historical context.

But there’s no arguing the quality of the deal Curry is partnering with Apple TV+ to offer. For a limited time, new and select returning customers can get two months of Apple TV+ for free to watch Curry’s new documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” and thousands of hours of prestige TV featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

How to Get Two Months of Apple TV+ Free Click here to activate the offer. Click “Accept Now.” Sign in with your Apple ID, or create a new one. Enter your contact and payment information and finish signing up.

On July 21, 2023, Apple TV+ premiered “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” a coming-of-age story of Stephen Curry, from an undersized basketball player at a small college, to becoming a larger-than-life NBA superstar. The documentary directed by Peter Nicks currently holds a perfect 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Read our full review round-up below.

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Bill Edelstein of Variety says, “If the measure of a good documentary about a superstar athlete is in synthesizing what makes its subject tick, ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated’ gets passing grades. And that’s no small compliment, considering the movie spends most of its time at school, a familiar place for director Peter Nicks, whose previous doc, ‘Homeroom,’ served up a very different look at education. With enough fresh stories to keep basketball fanatics engaged and a coda that every soccer mom will appreciate, this is...

Stephen Curry is still feeling the glow of winning the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament last weekend.

He grabbed the title with an eagle putt on the 18th green on Sunday, but it’s a shot he made Saturday that continues to reverberate: a hole in one on the course’s par-3 no. 7. After draining the pitching wedge, he sprinted down the fairway in celebration at speeds not normally achieved by golfers unless they’re riding in a motorized cart.

“I had to show off a little bit of athleticism,” Curry tells Deadline. “I kind of blacked out, so I don’t even know where that top-end speed and going from zero to a hundred real quick came from. But that’s what happens when you don’t have any real preparation for thinking that hole in one was going to happen.”

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Oppenheimer and Haunted Mansion.

Haunted Mansion premiere

On Saturday, Disney held the first major red carpet since SAG-AFTRA went on strike, debuting Haunted Mansion at Disneyland with director Justin Simien and the film’s producers.

Phillip J. Bartell, Dan Lin, Kris Bowers, Jonathan Eirich, Nick Reynolds, Justin Simien and Jeffrey Waldron Justin Simien

Oppenheimer New York premiere

Though the New York red carpet was scrapped amid the actors strike, Oppenheimer still debuted in the city on Monday alongside director Christopher Nolan and his filmmaking team.

Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas Andy Thompson, John Papsidera, Nilo Otero, Thomas Hayslip, Ludwig Göransson, Ruth De Jong, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, Jennifer Lame, Ellen Mirojnick, Charles Roven, Kai Bird and Willie D. Burton

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Chase Stokes, Jonathan Daviss, Lukas Gage,...

Ryan Coogler and Peter Nicks met in 2012 when Coogler was making “Fruitville Station” and needed help securing access to a location. Nicks, who was finishing his first feature documentary, “The Waiting Room, came to the rescue. Nine years later, Cooglar hired Nicks to run the nonfiction arm of his production company Proximity Media, which has a five-year overall exclusive television deal with The Walt Disney Co.

The fruits of that partnership have been revealed this summer. Proximity’s first feature documentary, “Anthem,” which Nicks directed, was released in June on Hulu. On July 21, Nicks’ “Stephen Curry: Underrated” will debut on Apple TV +. The doc, which chronicles the NBA star’s life and career, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

“When I heard that Ryan was starting a company, I put together this little PowerPoint presentation and pitched him,” remembers Nicks. “I said, ‘Hey, are you guys going to support nonfiction?...

Stephen “Steph” Curry has been one of the NBA’s top superstars for more than a decade. Drafted in 2009 by the Golden State Warriors, Curry has grown into one of the most prolific three-point shooters in NBA history. Fans can learn more about his life on and off the court in “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” the new documentary premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday, July 21. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.

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Fans might think they know everything there is to know about one of the best distance shooters to ever pick up a basketball. But there’s so much more to learn, a life whose surface has barely been scratched,...

“Stephen Curry: Underrated” is an documentary directed by Peter Nicks, starring Stephen Curry.

Stephen Curry: Underrated is a 2023 documentary film that tells the story of one of the most influential, dynamic, and unexpected players in basketball history. Directed by Peter Nicks, the film blends intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage, and on-camera interviews to document Curry’s rise from an undersized college player at a small town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion, building one of the most dominant sports dynasties in the world.

The film begins with Curry’s childhood in Akron, Ohio, where he was raised by his father, Dell, who was also a professional basketball player. Curry was a gifted athlete from a young age, but he was also undersized for his position. As a result, he was often overlooked by college recruiters. However, he eventually earned a scholarship to Davidson College, where he quickly established...

As the Apple TV+ premiere date for NBA champion and basketball behemoth Steph Curry’s documentary, “Stephen Curry: Underrated”, swings around the corner, the iconic Mvp sat down with Et Canada’s Cheryl Hickey for a conversation about defying the typical archetype of a basketball player and his time golfing over the weekend.

Having already proved himself on the basketball court as a long-shot legend, Curry, 35, made headlines over the weekend for doing the same thing, but in a different realm of sport: golf.

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“Oh, it definitely meant something,” began Curry, who wowed with a hole-in-one on the par 3, 152-yard seventh hole at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course on day two American Century Championship celebrity tournament in Stateline, Nevada.

“I’m never going to say it meant more than an NBA championship...

Almost exactly 10 years ago, Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale” launched the young Oakland filmmaker into the upper echelons of Hollywood influence. With “Black Panther” and “Creed,” Coogler brought fresh energy and social consciousness to existing franchises while expanding their appeal to underserved audiences. Now, those efforts have expanded to the documentary realm.

Two years ago, Coogler rooted his filmmaking efforts beyond the blockbuster arena in the creation of a production company, Proximity Media, which yielded studio efforts like “Space Jam 2” and the Oscar-nominated “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Initially co-founded by Coogler with wife Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian, the company eventually added a non-fiction division overseen by fellow Bay Area filmmaker Peter Nicks. Over the past year, that collaboration has yielded the company’s first two documentary releases, the Sundance-premiering NBA portrait “Stephen Curry: Underrated” and now “Anthem,” which premiered last month on Hulu. The new movie follows composer...

Stephen Curry in “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” premiering July 21, 2023 on Apple TV+. When it comes to NBA basketball, Stephen Curry has already established himself as one of the all-time greats. With four league championships, two Mvp crowns, and nine All-Star Game appearances in his first 14 seasons, some would even argue that he’s the best player of his generation. Curry is now the subject of a new documentary, Stephen Curry: Underrated, that will delve deeper into his life and career. In the film, fans will find out more about what makes Curry tick; when we spoke to him, not surprisingly, he credited basketball for teaching him the most valuable life lessons he’s learned. (Click on the media bar below to hear Stephen Curry) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Stpeh_Curry_Steph_Apple_TV_Plus_.mp3

Stephen Curry: Underrated premieres July 21 on Apple TV+.

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AppleTV has debuted a teaser trailer for the upcoming sports documentary on NBA champion ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated.’

The doc is the remarkable coming-of-age story of one of the most influential, dynamic and unexpected players in the history of basketball. This feature documentary – blending intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage and on-camera interviews – documents Curry’s rise from an undersized college player at a small-town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion, building one of the most dominant sports dynasties in the world.

Directed by Peter Nicks. The film is produced by Peter Nicks and Ryan Coogler through Proximity Media, Erick Peyton through Curry’s Unanimous Media and Sean Havey, Ben Cotner and Marissa Torres Ericson. Sev Ohanian, Zinzi Coogler and Emily Osborne are executive producing.

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The doc hits AppleTV+ on July 21, 2023.

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Stephen Curry in “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” premiering July 21, 2023 on Apple TV+. The remarkable coming-of-age story of one of the most influential, dynamic and unexpected players in the history of basketball: Stephen Curry. This feature documentary – blending intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage and on camera interviews – documents Curry’s rise from an undersized college player at a small town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion, building one of the most dominant sports dynasties in the world. Stephen Curry: Underrated premieres July 21 on Apple TV+

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NBA superstar Stephen Curry’s life and career are spotlighted in the Apple Original Films and A24 documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated. Directed by Peter Nicks, the documentary examines Curry’s unlikely emergence as a dominating point guard in the National Basketball Association after being considered too small to make it in the league.

Apple TV+ shares this description of the feature documentary: “Stephen Curry: Underrated is the remarkable coming-of-age story of one of the most influential, dynamic, and unexpected players in the history of basketball. This feature documentary — blending intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage, and on-camera interviews — documents Curry’s rise from an undersized college player at a small town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion, building one of the most dominant sports dynasties in the world.”

Underrated will open in select theaters and debut on Apple TV+ on July 21, 2023.

Director Nicks serves as a producer along with Ryan Coogler,...

While he isn’t so much of a household name to non-basketball fans as LeBron James, Stephen Curry is one of the best NBA players of the past 20 years. And he’s getting the spotlight in the new Apple TV+/A24 doc, “Stephen Curry: Underrated.”

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As seen in the trailer for the documentary, “Stephen Curry: Underrated” tells the story of Curry, from his time as an undersized, overlooked young college player to his rise in the NBA and becoming one of the elite stars.

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When the American Film Institute announced last year that it was merging AFI Docs, the organization’s annual Washington, D.C., documentary film festival, into the Los Angeles-based AFI Fest, Jamie Shor called Sky Sitney.

Shor, president of PR Collaborative, and Sitney, director of the film and media studies program at Georgetown, had both previously worked for AFI Docs. Shor’s publicity firm had done work for the former festival, previously known as Silverdocs, while Sitney served as AFI Docs festival director from 2005-2014.

“Sky and I were both thinking to ourselves that Washington, D.C., was not going to have a doc presence,” says Shor. “It collectively broke our hearts.”

So, the duo spent the last year and a half creating and building DC/Dox, a new nonfiction film festival based in the nation’s capital. The inaugural four-day festival kicks off on June 15 with the D.C. premiere of...

Apple TV+ has unveiled a new super tease, highlighting new footage of several current and upcoming shows, including “The Morning Show” season 3.

The teaser trailer gives fans the first official look at Jon Hamm in the comedy-drama series starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, who also serve as executive producers. Nicole Beharie was also added as a new addition to season three’s expanded cast.

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The upcoming third season — premiering fall 2023 — also features returning star Julianna Margulies, and recurring stars Tig Notaro, Stephen Fry and Natalie Morales.

Seasons one...

If the measure of a good documentary about a superstar athlete is in synthesizing what makes its subject tick, “Stephen Curry: Underrated” gets passing grades. And that’s no small compliment, considering the movie spends most of its time at school, a familiar place for director Peter Nicks, whose previous doc, “Homeroom,” served up a very different look at education. With enough fresh stories to keep basketball fanatics engaged and a coda that every soccer mom will appreciate, this is a film that’s worthy of its subject.

Produced in part by Curry’s Unanimous Media, “Underrated” leans on abundant clips of the hoop star’s career and interviews with family, coaches and college teammates, as well as fly-on-the-wall moments that come with the kind of access filmmakers get when the subject helps to drive the project. Nicks casts Curry as an undersized underdog-turned-college phenom who becomes a four-time NBA...

Despite a dismal documentary distribution landscape, hundreds of nonfiction filmmakers are heading to Toronto for the 30th edition of Hot Docs Canadian Intl. Documentary Festival determined to sell their independently made docus.

This year, Hot Docs’ programming director Shane Smith selected 214 films from 2848 submissions to screen in-person and online beginning April 27. The slate of nonfiction films from 72 countries will be spread across 13 programs and will feature 70 world and 33 international premieres.

“Part of our value proposition is really mining all of the corners and shining a light in all of the corners of the documentary landscape,” Smith tells Variety. “Kanopy and Tenk are going to be here as well as the bigger players like Netflix. So, we are looking to be a valuable resource for the entire landscape of documentary. Not every film is one that the streamers are going to acquire, but there’s a home for every doc that we show in the festival.

This year’s Sffilm, San Francisco’s long-running film festival, opened outside city limits. On Thursday, Ryan Coogler took the stage at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater to introduce “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” the documentary he produced, and pointed to the middle of the room. “I saw my first movie right there,” he said.

For all the history around Bay Area filmmakers, from the early days of Frances Ford Coppola and George Lucas to the Pacific Film Archive, Oakland’s presence has gained traction. Beyond Coogler, there’s another filmmaker whose relationship with the scene goes much deeper.

Boots Riley rose to fame as the frontman for legendary Oakland hip hop group The Coup more than 30 years ago. He reinvented himself as a filmmaker with 2018 Sundance breakout “Sorry to Bother You,” a riotous workplace satire that doubled as a vessel for Riley’s longstanding Socialist values and investment in empowering the working class.

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Stephen Curry is ready to tell his story. On Thursday, the 35-year-old four-time NBA champion premiered his new documentary, "Stephen Curry: Underrated," during the opening night of the 2023 Sffilm Festival at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, CA. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks and produced by Ryan Coogler, Erick Peyton, and Sean Havey, the film spotlights Curry's rise from college hopeful to NBA superstar through illuminating footage of his years at Davidson College and his 2021-22 season with the Golden State Warriors.

While Curry himself wasn't in attendance (he got called in for practice ahead of this weekend's NBA Playoffs), he made sure to record a special message for attendees. "I am so sorry that I couldn't be there with you in person, but as you can see, I'm here in our practice facility getting ready for our playoffs," Curry said in the clip,...

Stephen Curry in ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated,’ coming in July 2023 to Apple TV+

Director Peter Nicks’ Stephen Curry: Underrated will get a limited theatrical release on Friday, July 21, 2023. The Apple Original Films and A24 documentary will also be available to stream on Apple TV+ on July 21st.

Nicks, two-time Oscar nominee Ryan Coogler, Erick Peyton, Sean Havey, Ben Cotner, and Marissa Torres Ericson produced the documentary on the popular nine-time NBA All-Star and Golden State Warriors point guard. Emily Osborne, Sev Ohanian, and Zinzi Coogler served as executive producers.

Apple TV+ offered this description of the documentary:

“Stephen Curry: Underrated is the remarkable coming-of-age story of one of the most influential, dynamic, and unexpected players in the history of basketball: Stephen Curry. This feature documentary — blending intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage, and on-camera interviews — documents Curry’s rise from an undersized college player at a small-town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion,...

The story of one of the most influential players in NBA histroy will be released in theaters and via Apple TV+ this summer.

Stephen Curry: Underrated blends intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage, and on-camera interviews documenting Curry’s rise from a small town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion. In the process, he became the NBA’s all-time leader in 3-point shots, revolutionizing the sport’s strategy.

Apple Original Films and A24 announced the release date today. The film was directed and produced by Emmy Award-winner Peter Nicks will be released in select theaters and premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, July 21.

Nicks produces alongside Academy Award-nominee Ryan Coogler, Erick Peyton, Sean Havey, Ben Cotner and Marissa Torres Ericson. Emily Osborne, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler are executive producers.

When it opened in 1995 in Times Square, the All Star Café was supposed to be the sports world’s answer to Planet Hollywood. Not only was it developed by the same restaurant chain, but it borrowed from its playbook, attracting legends such as Joe Montana, Shaquille O’Neal, Ken Griffey Jr. and Andre Agassi to serve as ambassadors to the brand. But what began as a red carpet extravaganza slowly deteriorated, a victim of changing tastes and rocky finances.

Now, Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios, the company behind “Yellowstone,” are partnering with Stephen Curry, the nine-time NBA All-Star, four-time NBA champion and two-time NBA Mvp — and his Unanimous Media multimedia company — to produce a feature film and documentary about the All Star Café’s rise and fall. It is based on a 2020 article by Jon Wertheim.

Erick Peyton (“Stephen Curry: Underrated”) will produce for Unanimous Media, while Brian Tetsuro Ivie...

Sports Illustrated Studios & 101 Studios has partnered with future Hall of Famer Stephen Curry and his Unanimous Media to produce a narrative film and a documentary about the All Star Café. The projects will be based on Jon Wertheim’s 2020 Sports Illustrated article.

The All Star Café opened in New York City on December 18, 1995, with much fanfare as the themed eatery set up to be for sports what the Hard Rock Cafe is for music. It opened with a flurry of paparazzi, red carpet and a slew of A-list celebrities and athletes, but the final buzzer sounded on September 23, 2007, when it shuttered under the cloud of bankruptcy. That final chapter included the largest sports memorabilia heist in history cooked up by a group of knuckleheaded kitchen staffers, in what has been hailed as a Coen Brothers Fargo-esque criminal event.

The projects come under the 101 Sports Division partnership with Si Studios...

Sundance documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated” and SXSW television premiere “I’m a Virgo” will open and close Sffilm, the 66th annual San Francisco International Film Festival.

Sffilm unveiled the full lineup for the fest along with the openers and closers. The Bay Area film festival, which screens in theaters across San Francisco as well as Oakland and Berkeley, will host 50 feature film programs (includes Workshop and “mid-lengths”), 46 shorts, and one TV screening (“I’m a Virgo”). Both directors behind “I’m a Virgo” and “Underrated” — Boots Riley and Peter Nicks — grew up in the Bay Area, more specifically in Oakland. Other films from Bay Area filmmakers whose projects will screen include W. Kamau Bell’s “1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed,” Savanah Leaf’s “Earth Mama,” and Babak Jalali’s “Fremont.”

“It is Sffilm Festival season once again and I cannot wait to share this year’s program with local audiences,” Jessie Fairbanks, Sffilm’s director of programming,...

The star of the 2023 Oscar season was “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” but you could be forgiven for thinking it was A24. The company picked up nine Oscars at the ceremony and there wasn’t a safe commercial bet among them.

On top of launching the zany ambition of “Everything Everywhere” into a $107 million worldwide gross, A24 also scored two Oscars for Darren Aronofsky’s divisive “The Whale,” which sneaked its way past $35 million accumulated over a gradual release plan. Its nominees also included two Cannes acquisitions, Best International Feature Film nominee “Close” and “Aftersun,” which secured a Best Actor nomination for Paul Mescal and solidified his stardom. Despite the blockbuster successes of “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” in 2022, the year’s big winner was a company that didn’t exist when these franchises were born.

Yet the Oscars are only a small part of the...

Proximity Media has debuted In Proximity. The show features conversations between key Proximity executives and collaborators, providing listeners with a deep dive into the creative process of making movies, television, music, podcasts, and more, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the multimedia company’s highly acclaimed projects and future titles. Proximity’s Head of Audio Paola Mardo serves as producer. Mardo executive produces alongside Proximity’s founders Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian.

The show’s first episode is between Proximity founder and writer/director Ryan Coogler and Creed collaborator, actor, producer, and first-time director Michael B. Jordan - and is available now.

The two take it back to their first meeting over ten years ago before collaborating on Fruitvale Station, and revitalizing a beloved franchise working on Creed, all the way through the decisions and journey of heading their own production companies today.

“We...

Ryan Coogler is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his films Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).

Ryan Coogler Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Ryan Coogler was born on May 23, 1986 (Ryan Coogler: Age 36) in Oakland, California to Joselyn and Ira Coogler. Ryan Coogler has two brothers, Noah and Keenan. When Coogler was eight his family moved to Richmond, California where he went to Saint Mary’s College High School.

Coogler went to the Saint Mary’s College of California on a football scholarship where he planned on majoring in chemistry. However, he was encouraged by teachers to take creative writing courses, especially screenwriting courses. In 2004, Saint Mary canceled their football program so Coogler transferred to Sacramento State to continue earning a football scholarship.

At Sacramento State, Coogler graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance and went on to study at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Stephen Curry: Underrated, a new documentary by Peter Nicks that follows the life of Stephen Curry and his journey to greatness, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Monday.

The film tracks Curry’s life from a high school basketball player to his time in Davidson College and the 2008 NCAA tournament to the NBA legend we know now.

During the Sundance premiere, Curry talked about what really brought him to greatness.

“Mostly it was about what preceded in my pre-college and college days of learning who I am that set me on my path to get me to the NBA,” Curry explained. “And everything I learned about myself and what it means to pursue greatness at the highest level, but still be in the moment and embrace what’s happening right in front of you, is what matters because everybody sees the finished product, the accomplishments,...

At the age of nine, Steph Curry realized he wasn't as big as his fellow basketball players. Being undersized and outgunned never killed his love for the game, but if he wanted to make an impact, he was going to have to embrace the challenge of adapting to that reality and figuring out ways to compete. Multiple NBA championships later, it's safe to say he succeeded. Like all classic underdog stories, director Peter Nicks' "Stephen Curry: Underrated" is about determination. But it's also about second chances, and how believing in and supporting someone in their lowest moments can have life-changing consequences.

The film crosscuts between parallel tracks, one chronicling Curry's journey to attempt to win a fourth championship with the Golden State Warriors during the 2021-2022 NBA season and the other tracking his rise at North Carolina's sleepy Davidson College. Interviews with his coaches and teammates provide insight into what...

The highly anticipated second season of the acclaimed documentary series “Make or Break,” featuring behind-the-scenes access to the world’s best surfers as they battle for the top title at the World Surf League Championship Tour, is set to premiere with four episodes on Friday, February 17. An additional four episodes debut on Friday, February 24.

With unprecedented access, “Make or Break” returns to the world of professional surfing, offering an intimate deep dive into the aspirations, challenges, accomplishments and personal lives of the surfers who compete to remain on the elite Men’s and Women’s World Surf League Championship Tour. This season will take viewers on location for the 2022 competition season to stunning surf locations across the globe, capturing the highs and lows of the “Dream Tour,” including the first-ever mid-season cut, international rivalries and record-breaking upsets.

Each episode in the eight-part season of the series spotlights internationally recognized surfers...

On Monday night, NBA star Stephen Curry found himself facing a different kind of full-court press — in the form of a mass of reporters lined up on the red carpet at Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of the new documentary “Underrated,” which chronicles his life and career.

In a lucky bit of scheduling, Curry had the night off from NBA play — it’s mid-season for the reigning NBA Finals Mvp and his team, the Golden State Warriors — so he flew into Park City, Utah to join the filmmakers behind the doc, including director Peter Nicks and producers Ryan Coogler, Erick Peyton and Sean Havey, at its premiere.

The highly anticipated documentary played for a packed house at the Eccles and, before the screening, Curry recalled the first time he watched the finished film, pressing play on a screener in the wee hours of the morning following a game.

Is Steph Curry headed to Wakanda? Possibly!

The NBA icon fielded a two-part question on Monday night in Park City during the audience portion of the post-screening Q&a of his Sundance Film Festival title Stephen Curry: Underrated.

Part one: How has your faith inspired you to get to where you are today? Part two, directed at Curry and producer Ryan Coogler who joined him at center stage: Are you going to be cast in Black Panther 3? After Kolby Mac from Minorities Report got both questions out, Curry nearly doubled over with laughter.

“You tell him if we can see if we can shoot it in the summer and find a nice role for me in that universe — absolutely,” Curry said to lots of laughter from the capacity crowd inside Eccles Theatre. “You put the pressure on, and we’ll see what he says.”

Steph Curry in Black Panther 3? “Absolutely,...