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In the past few years, there have been multiple documentaries and docuseries revisiting high-profile cases long after the fact: Lorena Bobbitt (“Lorena”), the Menendez Brothers (“Menendez & Menudo: Boys Betrayed”), JonBenét Ramsey (“JonBenét Ramsey: What Really Happened?”), Casey Anthony (“Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies”), Jared Vogel (“Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster”), boy band creator Lou Perlman (“Dirty Pop”), Brian Peck (“Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV”), Sherri Papini (“The Perfect Wife”), and Gypsy Rose Blanchard (“The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard”), just to name a few. And the trend isn’t limited to docs — Todd Haynes’s 2023 feature film “May December” offered a fascinating fictional version of the Mary Kay Letourneau story after 20-plus years.

The most recent entry in the cycle is the Laci Peterson story, which met its 20th anniversary of the trial this month with two docuseries, “American Murder: Laci Peterson...

With support from the Nancy P. & Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation and Resonance Philanthropies, DocPitch 2024 has awarded five independent documentary filmmakers cash awards totaling $100,000 to help them complete their feature documentary film projects currently in development or post-production.

“With DocPitch 2024, we’re incredibly honored to again be in the position of supporting independent filmmakers in such a tangible way,” said DocLands Director of Programming Joni Cooper. “Thanks to our generous donors, we’re able to help move these passionate storytellers closer to the goal of seeing their projects reach the finish line — and into the public realm. Each project underscores the importance of DocPitch to bring a wide range of timely and significant topics to the public including the industry professional eye, and in turn enriches essential discussions through the process itself.”

DocPitch Award Recipients and their projects:

The Co-Op: The Kids of Dorie Miller – Audience Award $45,000

Director/Producer Paulina...

Paramount Television Studios has promoted Jenna Santoianni, Cheryl Bosnak, and Erika Kirkwood.

Jenna Santoianni has been upped to executive vice president of Paramount Television Studios after previously serving as executive vice president and head of development. She will continue to lead development at Ptvs but will now also oversee daily operations at the studio.

Bosnak, executive vice president and head of current programming at Ptvs, will now also oversee current programming at Paramount Plus as executive vice president and head of current for the streamer. Kirkwood, senior vice president of business affairs for Ptvs, has been promoted to executive vice president and head of business affairs. All three will report to Ptvs president Nicole Clemens.

“Jenna, Cheryl and Erika have each earned these elevated and expanded roles through their indispensable and pivotal leadership, and I am truly pleased to see them advance in our company,” Clemens said. “Paramount Television Studios...

Bron Media Corp. has named executive Josh Miller to a top new role in the non-scripted space.

Miller will serve as a senior vice president at Bron Life, a vertical at the award-winning company dedicated to unscripted film and television. He will report to Bron president Brenda Gilbert and be responsible for growing and managing the existing slates.

“With his vast expertise in non-scripted content, Josh is a tremendous addition to our team,” said Gilbert. “We are excited to have him leading our non-scripted unit as Bron Life continues to grow and diversify.”

Miller joins Bron from Amazon Studios, where he served as a senior creative executive. There he spearheaded development and production on premium docuseries including Jordan Peele’s “Lorena,” Jay-Z’s “Free Meek” and Adam Mckay’s “This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy.”

Throughout his career, Miller has developed and sold series for production companies including Vice Studios,...

A new Johnny Cash live album, recorded in San Francisco in 1968 by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley, is set for release September 24th via the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG. Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24th, 1968 finds the country legend performing in the heart of Haight-Ashbury, and the performance has been teased with Cash’s rendition of “I’m Going to Memphis.”

Recorded just days before the release of his best-known live album, Live at Folsom Prison, Cash historian Mark Stielper tells Rolling Stone...

Hulu’s Sasquatch is not really about bigfoot, although the mythical creature looms large in the three-part series.

The Joshua Rofé-directed project is, in fact, a murder mystery centered around a dangerous, weed-growing community in the Pacific Northwest.

Rofé told Deadline, which broke the news of the series in January, that after he finished Lorena, the Amazon docuseries about Lorena Bobbitt, the woman who famously cut off her husband’s penis, he was looking for a story that was hard to search for, which led him to Sasquatch. Naturally.

“I was feeling so relieved that we were getting so much amazing archival footage [on Lorena], which is a gamechanger when you’re making a doc and you know you’ll be able to represent it visually and capture a time and a place. My weird thought was, what if next time you had a story that you couldn’t even Google.

It’s not evident right away why “Sasquatch” is split into three parts. Given the overall draw for the new Hulu series — the search for answers behind an early-‘90s triple homicide that may or may not have been perpetrated by a legendary cryptozoological figure — there doesn’t seem to be baked-in episodic cutoff points within that premise.

One of the strengths of director Joshua Rofé is how far afield of that central myth it’s willing to travel at various points. What begins as one intrepid journalist’s hunt for answers behind an overheard anecdote that’s lingered for nearly 30 years stretches to fit parts of the greater web surrounding that search. Yet, like so many other true crime-adjacent projects in recent memory, “Sasquatch” shrugs off its most fascinating context for a single thread, one that leaves the audience in as much of an ambling haze as its main surrogate.

When I first sat down to watch Joshua Rofé’s three-episode series entitled Sasquatch last month, I thought I knew what I was in for, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. What starts off as a possibly quirky story about a Bigfoot creature that attacked some weed farmers up in Northern California quickly evolved into something far more shocking that I could have ever imagined, and I was wholly riveted throughout the project from start to finish.

That being said, this writer was thrilled to catch up with Rofé to talk about Sasquatch, and he discussed how the project first came about because of a podcast, how integral journalist David Holthouse was to the success of Sasquatch, the danger they all faced—David, in particular—throughout the making of the documentary and more.

Sasquatch premieres tomorrow, April 20th, exclusively on Hulu.

This documentary was such an unbelievable journey.

Too incredible to be true. Too crazy to be made up. Coming next month to Hulu is a three-part original documentary series titled “Sasquatch,” which has Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass as executive producers. The series from “Lorena” director Joshua Rofé “investigates rumors of a bizarre twenty-five-year old triple homicide said to be the work of a mythical creature.” The 3-part […]...

As if you needed more proof that Al Pacino is a badass. Amazon dropped its first teaser for Jordan Peele’s upcoming Prime Video drama “Hunters” (formerly known as “The Hunt”) on Friday, featuring Pacino as the head of a rag-tag team of Nazi hunters on their quest for righteous revenge in New York City in the ’70s.

Watch the teaser above, in which Pacino’s character says, “This is not murder, this is mitzvah.”

Here’s the official description for the series, which is set to debut some time in 2020:

“Hunters” follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis...

For months, industry insiders have been growing increasingly concerned about what appeared to be a cash-flow issue at independent studio Sonar Entertainment.

Multiple sources report that Sonar has been late on payments for writers on scripts and to talent agencies for packaging fees. The slowdown in the payment schedule has raised questions about Sonar’s ability to continue funding shows. The company has also seen a number of executive departures in recent months. A new CEO was appointed in August.

According to a source familiar with the situation, Sonar has been juggling payments to writers and agencies after its parent company, Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group tightened the purse strings in advance of the management shakeup implemented last month. With 10 shows in production, sources said Sonar took the step of delaying some writer and packaging fee payments in order to manage its cash-flow needs.

But slowing down the...

The term “space case” may as well have been invented for Lucy Cola, a fictional astronaut loosely inspired by Lisa Nowak, who famously (if not entirely factually) donned adult diapers and powered her way cross-country to confront a romantic rival at the Orlando airport, where she was arrested for what amounted to attempted kidnapping and battery. When the story broke — this was a dozen years back, in 2007 — news outlets and tabloids alike treated it as a kind of pathetic “Fatal Attraction” scenario, in which a jealous Nasa engineer couldn’t handle being dumped by one of her colleagues and went berserk.

Now, Natalie Portman offers an alternate interpretation. In its oddly understanding and stylistically ambitious way, “Lucy in the Sky” suggests that maybe outer space was to blame for Nowak’s actions. You see, as an astronaut, Nowak belonged to a very small club of super-achievers who have actually touched the heavens,...

Jordan Peele is set to receive the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing, BAFTA Los Angeles announced Wednesday.

The “Us” director will join Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan as fellow honorees at the British Academy Britannia Awards, which take place on Oct. 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills as presented by American Airlines and Jaguar Land Rover.

“Jordan Peele has earned record-breaking success and critical acclaim through work that pushes boundaries and shines a light on stories of important social relevance,” BAFTA Los Angeles CEO Chantal Rickards said in a statement. “His imaginative storylines, inclusive casting, and bold style evokes John Schlesinger’s spirit of independence, integrity and commitment to excellence. We are honored to celebrate Jordan’s talents at this year’s ceremony.”

Also Read: Innovators List 2019: 12 Hollywood Disrupters, From Jordan Peele to CBS News Boss Susan Zirinsky

Previous recipients of the award have included Steve McQueen,...

DGA-Award winning director Dennie Gordon has been tapped to direct the Season 2 finale and penultimate episode of Warrior, Cinemax’s Tong Wars drama series from Justin Lin and Banshee co-creator Jonathan Tropper. In addition, the busy Gordon directs two episodes of Amazon’s The Hunt, a vengeance-driven Nazi hunting series executive produced by Oscar-winning Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele.

Created by Tropper, Warrior is a gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. After proving his worth as a fighter, Ah Sahm becomes a hatchet man for the Hope Wei, one of Chinatown’s most powerful organized crime families, or tongs.

Warrior is produced for Cinemax by Perfect Storm Entertainment, Tropper Ink Productions and Bruce Lee Entertainment.

It’s been over 25 years since Lorena Bobbitt – now Lorena Gallo – severed John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis, a singular act of violence that sparked a media firestorm. Overnight, the pair were transformed into household names, as well as late-night punchlines, but lost amongst the jokes and innuendo was the opportunity to honestly engage with the serious issues that predicated Gallo’s actions: a documented history of domestic abuse and accusations of marital rape. But times change, and in the aftermath of #MeToo and #TimesUp Gallo’s story is ripe for reassessment, as evidenced by Joshua Rofé’s stellar Amazon four-part docuseries “Lorena,” which strips the signal from the noise and contextualizes both the incident, as well as the media circus that followed. For as unique as Gallo’s tale is, Rofé was almost uniquely qualified to tell it. The director’s two previous documentaries explore similar stories, explorations of individuals...

In 2016, the first season of Ryan Murphy’s “American Crime Story,” about the arrest and trial of O.J. Simpson, swept the Emmys’ limited-series categories, sparking a revival in mainstream interest in both the Simpson case and the true-crime genre. Ever since then, crime stories — American and otherwise — have been multiplying. It’s a boom that’s turning this year’s Emmy race into a digest of recent history.

Connie Britton was a Golden Globe nominee for Bravo’s “Dirty John,” adapted from a Los Angeles Times story and podcast about one woman’s encounter with a devious criminal. Patricia Arquette earned Globe and SAG honors for her role as a real-life prison employee who assisted in a breakout in Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora.” Making her a possible double Emmy nominee for roles taken luridly from life, Arquette currently plays a mother eventually killed by the daughter she torments in Hulu’s “The Act.

Amazon Prime Video is returning to the Hollywood Athletic Club for its annual Emmy for Your Consideration activation — and once again, it’s also opening the space up to fans as well.

The “Prime Experience Fyc” displays and events, which run from April 12 to May 5, focus on promoting the streaming service’s Emmy contenders, including “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Homecoming,” and is geared toward Television Academy voters.

But the “Prime Experience” also offers several events to non-Academy members, who can visit displays devoted to Amazon shows and attend panel discussions devoted to topics such as fashion, women in entertainment, stuntwork, and more.

Netflix organizes a similar activation for its shows (also with a public component) but hasn’t yet revealed when and where its Fyc events will be held this year.

Other series that will be featured at Amazon’s event this year include “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,...

Jenna Santoianni has been named executive vice president and head of development for Paramount Television, as the studio adds several executives to its restructured leadership team under president Nicole Clemens.

Santoianni most recently served as executive VP of television series for Sonar Entertainment, where she oversaw “Das Boot,” “Lorena,” and “Mr. Mercedes,” among other scripted series. She will report to Clemens.

“Jenna brings to this role excellent relationships with creators and talent alike, whose trust and respect she has earned with her stellar taste and great work ethic,” said Clemens, who joined Paramount in September to run is television unit. “As we continue to ramp up our robust development efforts, Jenna is the ideal person to help lead the charge, and I couldn’t be happier to have her on board.”

Paramount TV has also created a current department, which will shepherd existing content and build ongoing relationships with studio partners,...

Welcome to Trailer Watch, a regular feature that helps put the spotlight on series that may fly under the radar in the crowded Peak TV landscape. Each installment of Trailer Watch will explain what the show is and why it looks interesting. This week it's Amazon's Jordan Peele-produced true crime documentary Lorena, which revisits the notorious Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt trials.

It's been more than 25 years since Lorena Bobbitt became the center of a media hurricane after cutting off her husband's penis in response to suffering years of alleged domestic violence and sexual abuse at ...

Nostalgia for the '90s has been gripping the TV industry for a while, mostly in the form of reboots and remakes. But that rose-colored, regressive yearning for a simpler decade has been reshaped by the current, long-overdue championing of marginalized voices, particularly via the #MeToo movement. It's nostalgia crossed with outrage — and the result is a willingness to look at past nightmares with fresh eyes, as in three buzzy new docuseries that remind us how pop culture processed, often problematically, alleged victims of sexual abuse: Lifetime's Surviving R. Kelly, Amazon's Lorena and HBO's Leaving Neverland.

This ...

Amazon's new documentary series Lorena is exactly as described in the title: a four-part documentary miniseries focused on Lorena Bobbitt, the woman at the center of the 1990s criminal case that simultaneously brought attention to domestic violence and became one of the most inappropriate true crime punchlines ever. Although the case of John and Lorena Bobbitt has a considerable pop culture legacy, the story itself is even wilder.

The Crime

The Bobbitts came to the attention of the public on June 23, 1993. Following a domestic dispute, Lorena used a knife to cut off John's penis, drove away and threw it in a field, and eventually called 911. Although the crime that gained the most infamy was that act of castration, it wasn't the only crime committed that night, as a 1994 report from The New York Times explains.

Soon after their wedding in 1989, the Bobbitts' marriage reportedly began to crumble. According to...

Amazon has confirmed cast for The Hunt, a vengeance-driven Nazi hunting series executive produced by Oscar-winning Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele. Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Jerrika Hinton have closed deals to star in the series, along with Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Tiffany Boone, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Greg Austin, and Dylan Baker.

The Hunt follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.

The Hunt, produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment, was created by David Weil (Moonfall), who will write and executive produce. Nikki Toscano executive produces and co-showruns with Weil.

Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV.

Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, Jordan Peele’s “Lorena” debuts on Amazon as does “The Umbrella Academy” on Netflix.

“Miracle Workers,” TBS, Tuesday, 10:30 p.m.

Frustrated with the mess that earth’s become, God contemplates the end while two determined angels try to change his mind in the series premiere of this comedy.

“Doom Patrol,” DC Universe, Friday

In this new super hero series, The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities, but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence and to...

Ahead of its streaming debut on Amazon Prime later this month, “Lorena” had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary series flips the script on the 1993 John and Lorena Bobbitt scandal to allow the latter to finally tell her side of the story. The scandal made headlines and turned Lorena into a joke after she cut off her husband’s penis with a knife while he was asleep in bed, but the real story behind Lorena’s decision was rooted in a history of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband.

During an interview at the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, “Lorena” director Joshua Rofé admitted getting interview subjects to agree to appear on camera wasn’t exactly the easiest thing, despite the fact that Lorena’s story has been justly recontextualized in the #MeToo era. Rofé said there were two tricks to getting...

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that several original shows will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in February, including the first season of “White Dragon”; a new adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery “The ABC Murders,” with John Malkovich as the famed detective Hercule Poirot; and the documentary “Lorena,” which chronicles the life of Lorena Bobbitt, the wife who castrated her husband after years of abuse.

Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first appearances on Amazon Prime Video in February with the service showcasing films from every decade of the 20th century beginning with the 1910s and the Cecil B. DeMille silent classic “A Romance of the Redwoods.” More recent fare includes the Oscar-nominated romantic comedy “Four Weddings and a Funeral,”

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming to Amazon Prime Video in February 2019. Unlike Netflix, Amazon does not disclose the shows...

Even in a world overflowing with d— jokes, the name “Lorena Bobbitt” has proved to be one of the most enduring punchlines that pop culture’s ever had. The extremity of the inciting situation — which left her husband mutilated and both of them on trial — immediately captured the country’s attention and became a genuine phenomenon. The ins and outs of the cases were covered obsessively, kicking off debates and controversy that consumed the media and its consumers alike. And yet, 25 years later, the one detail that most will remember about Lorena Bobbitt is that she once snapped and cut off her husband’s penis. Her experience, for those who don’t remember or weren’t around for the trials, has been reduced to shorthand for the worst thing that a woman scorned could possibly ever do.

But that narrative, as Joshua Rofé’s new docuseries “Lorena” convincingly argues, is...

Here's a tip for Jordan Peele ... Don't Make This Woman Angry!! The lady in the photo is Lorena Bobbitt -- who infamously sliced off her husband's penis back in 1993.  No, Peele's not making a new horror flick -- he's actually the executive producer of a 4-episode documentary series about her life called "Lorena." The two are promoting the series at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah -- and everyone seems to be having a good time.

Director Joshua Rofe was only 10 years old when Lorena Bobbitt was a nightly news mainstay. It wasn't until he was an adult and began reading about and researching Bobbitt's story that he came to understand that, in spite of wall-to-wall news coverage of Bobbitt's personal life and public trial, it was as if, as he puts it, "no one heard her."

"You had this young girl — she was 23 years old at the time — who was essentially on CNN every night during her trial when she was testifying, pouring her heart ...

“Lorena,” a four-part documentary series from Amazon Studios, wants the world to see Lorena Bobbitt in a different light.

In 1993, the 24-year-old woman became a tabloid fixture and late-night punchline for cutting off her husband’s penis with a knife. Although she alleged that she was raped and abused by her partner John Wayne Bobbitt, some of those details got buried in the sensationalistic media coverage.

With new interviews interspersed with old TV footage, “Lorena” director Joshua Rofe refocuses on Lorena Bobbitt’s life as a victim of domestic abuse. The docuseries, which premieres this week at the Sundance Film Festival, argues that Bobbitt was re-victimized by the sexist coverage of her case. In one particularly disturbing clip, Howard Stern attacks Bobbitt’s looks to question the accuracy of her testimony at trial.

Bobbitt and Rofe spoke to Variety about their project and why Bobbitt’s story is more timely...

Most days, it feels like the world may end at any moment. In the world of “Now Apocalypse,” visions of that imminent future come with eye-catching bright greens and pinks. Gregg Araki’s ten-part series, coming to Starz later this year, shows a side of Los Angeles that’s dealing just as much with how to navigate daily life as it is with what’s on the horizon.

A new trailer for the show follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) as he tries to get himself removed from his own personal La rut. His daily dose of weed escapism is eventually leading him to seeing the potential end of the world, a premonition that may or may not have something to do with what he’s smoking. Either way, he’s not alone in his quest to make sense of his present, as friends Ford (Beau Mirchoff), Severine (Roxane Mesquida), and Carly...

We’re just a few days into 2019 and I’m already falling behind on my most important New Years resolution, which is to provide /Film readers with every single trailer that comes out the second it hits the internet. But this batch of film and TV trailers has already convinced me that I’ve once again bitten […]

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Let’s face it: we’ve all wondered what it would look like to see LeVar Burton get taken up through a pneumatic tube. “Weird City,” an science fiction anthology series arriving on YouTube Premium next month, also casts him as something of a mad scientist, which seems extremely promising. Burton is just one of many notable cast members in the ensemble. Written by Jordan Peele and former “Key & Peele” writer Charlie Sanders, “Weird City” also features appearances by Steven Yeun, Mark Hamill, Gillian Jacobs, Awkwafina, Laverne Cox, Rosario Dawson, and Michael Cera.

The six-episode anthology series is set in an imminent science fiction world full of gratification machines and instant muscle pills. In this futuristic society, humans either live in the wealthy, affluent Above the Line part of the slightly-futuristic city of Weird, or Below the Line, where amenities aren’t quite so prevalent. Aside from looking at class differences,...

In today’s TV News Roundup, Amazon sets the release date for upcoming docuseries “Lorena.”

First Looks

Netflix has released the trailer for the fifth of “Grace and Frankie,” which stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as women who became unlikely friends after their husbands left them for each other. In the new season they are dealing with new relationships and trying to get their house back while still navigating their complicated family dynamics. The new season launches Jan. 18.

Variety has obtained an exclusive clip for tonight’s episode of ABC’s “The Kids Are Alright,” featuring guest star Ken Jeong. The show airs Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. Watch the full clip below.

Dates

Amazon has announced the premiere of “Lorena,” coming to Amazon Prime Video Feb. 15. The four-part Prime Original documentary series will first debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 29. The series is executive produced by Jordan Peele,...

Over a quarter century after the rise of the 24-hour news cycle, there are plenty of stories that, in retrospect, help shaped the way American audiences consume headlines. “Lorena,” a new Amazon documentary series premiering at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival later this month, will make the case that the unfolding tale of Lorena Bobbitt is one of those stories.

As one of the series’ interview subjects glibly sums up what became a media sensation, “Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy marries girl. Girl cuts off boy’s penis.” The trailer for “Lorena” puts forth the idea that many of the ensuing stories about Lorena Bobbitt’s actions focused more on the aftermath of her actions rather than her testimony of physical and sexual abuse that preceded the incident.

Directed by Joshua Rofé and executive produced by Jordan Peele, the four-part series features interviews with some of...

A re-examination of one of the most notorious cases of marital strife (and that’s putting it very lightly) is coming to a screen near you. Amazon Prime Video released a trailer for their new docuseries Lorena and have announced that the docuseries will be released on the streaming service on Feb. 15 after making its world premiere at Sundance Jan. 29.

Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life) and executive produced by Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld for Monkeypaw, the four-part docuseries reveals the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt and challenges the long-held narrative that surrounded this event that captivated the country and pop culture.

The series provides a fresh perspective on the story of Lorena Bobbitt and exposes how this event laid the groundwork for the modern 24-hour news cycle and increasing sensationalistic media coverage. Lost in tabloid coverage and late-night talk show jokes,...

Attention true-crime buffs: Amazon’s Prime Video has released the trailer and set the premiere date for “Lorena,” its four-part docuseries detailing the “infamous American scandal” of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt.

The Jordan Peele-executive produced show will launch Feb. 15 on Amazon Prime Video, following the world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 29, the streamer announced Tuesday.

The streaming service also dropped a trailer previewing the “groundbreaking re-investigation,” which comes from executive producer Jordan Peele, featuring brand new interviews with Lorena and her ex.

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“This was a modern love story,” one of the doc’s commentators says, in the two-minute video. “Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy marries girl. Girl cuts off boy’s penis.”

Here’s the official logline for the docuseries, per Amazon: Directed by acclaimed...

Just a few months after a deep-dive story on former 1990s tabloid sensation Lorena Bobbitt published in Vanity Fair, the Amazon trailer for the upcoming docuseries Lorena promises to present "the scandal you know" and "the story you don't."

The docuseries' raison d'être is the 1993 story of Bobbitt, a young wife who cut off her husband John's penis while he was asleep in their home in Virginia after an alleged rape and fled with it in her car. The trial that followed the incident was widely covered in the tabloid media, leading to multiple press ...

The Sundance Film Festival unveiled its lineup of the indie episodic, shorts and special events on Monday. Among the standouts are a documentary series from producer Jordan Peele about the infamous case of John and Lorena Bobbitt dubbed Lorena and a comedic series with Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd in the leads titled State of the Union (Nick Hornby created, and Stephen Frears directed). Also of note is the series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, which traces the arc of iconic rappers and features the participation of every member.

Given the impressive list of names in the episodic lineup,...

Amazon has given the green light to Lorena, a four-part documentary series about the notorious case of spouses Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, with Jorden Peele (Get Out) attached to executive produce via his Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment.

The docuseries is said to provide a fresh perspective on the story of Lorena Bobbitt, the Virginia woman who in 1993 infamously cut off her husband’s penis with a kitchen knife as he slept, and how one event laid the groundwork for the modern 24-hour news cycle and increasingly sensationalistic media coverage. In the above photo, Lorena Bobbitt wipes away tears as she listened to her husband testify in her 1994 trial.

Lorena is directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life).

Per Amazon’s description, “25 years later, Lorena is a groundbreaking re-investigation of the deep moral issues and painful human tragedies buried at the heart of this infamous American scandal.

Amazon has ordered a four-part docuseries from Jordan Peele about Lorena Bobbitt.

“Lorena,” which will be directed by Joshua Rofé, “reveals the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt and challenges the long-held narrative that surrounded this event,” per Amazon’s announcement, and “provides a fresh perspective on the story of Lorena Bobbitt and how one event laid the groundwork for the modern 24-hour news cycle and increasing sensationalistic media coverage.”

“Jordan has proven himself as a captivating voice of social critique and we are excited to work with him on this project. ‘Lorena’ reframes Lorena Bobbitt’s story around issues of sexism and domestic abuse and offers Prime members an exclusive new view into how America got her story wrong and maybe continues to get it wrong,” said Heather Schuster, head of Unscripted, Amazon Originals.

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“When we hear the name ‘Bobbitt’ we think of one of the most sensational incidents to ever be catapulted into a full blown media spectacle,” added Peele. “With this project, Lorena has a platform to tell her truth as well as engage in a critical conversation about gender dynamics, abuse, and her demand for justice. This is Lorena’s story and we’re honored to help her tell it.”

“Our hope for this series is to give viewers pause when the next scandal of the moment is presented to us as macabre entertainment,” Rofé said. “Often, there’s profound pain and trauma just beneath the surface of stories like Lorena’s.”

“Lorena” is executive produced by Peele and Win Rosenfeld for Monkeypaw, Rofé and Steven J. Berger for Number 19, Jenna Santoianni and Tom Lesinski for Sonar and produced by Monkeypaw, Sonar Entertainment and Number 19.

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