Few film-makers are as idiosyncratic as Spike Lee and while this movie is unlikely to find mass acceptance, it is heartening to see him make something like this and Red Hook Summer in between his premium cable documentaries and larger budget fare like Oldboy.
The deal is not a one-off, either, it seems – Hulu is launching the film under its new Hulu Documentary Films arm, which will become the new home for premium original and exclusive documentary film titles coming to Hulu.
Its documentary series on premium cable and satellite channel HBO was nominated for an Emmy in its opening season.
The premium network's first major documentary release of the year, which premieres at the Sundance film festival before airing in April, is an intimate profile of heiress-designer-artist-writer-socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, who at 91, appears to have lost none of her vitality and sass.
In recent years, Warren G has continued ushering artists into the industry, but now, as the producer of a new documentary available on YouTube Premium titled "G Funk," he is telling the story of his beginnings. .
That answer — in its full form, including a word you won't hear on television outside of premium cable — is the title of an hourlong documentary Monday night on HBO.
Mr. Lee's television version, which had its premiere on the Black Starz premium cable channel in June, lies halfway between documentary and fiction -- fitting for a man who repeatedly fictionalized his life story for public consumption.
LeBron James SpringHill Entertainmentt will begin production on a multi-part HBO documentary on the life of Muhammad Ali, the premium network and the NBA champion announced Monday.
So it's telling — almost a signal of surrender — that "Cinema Verite," an HBO movie about the making of that legendary documentary, falls back on the scripted contrivances of premium cable.
"The Case Against 8" will air on premium cable channel HBO later this year, and the filmmakers said the documentary fits into the larger battle for marriage equality across the country.
