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Mahesh Narayanan, the acclaimed Indian director behind “Take Off,” “Malik,” and Locarno title “Ariyippu,” is set to helm “Nk 370” (working title), a Tamil-language feature film chronicling the extraordinary journey of Narain Karthikeyan, India’s first Formula One driver.

The project, currently in development at India’s Blue Marble Films, will be produced by Faraz Ahsan, Vivek Rangachari, and Pratik Maitra. Amish Shah and Nilaanjan Reeta Datta will serve as associate producers. The screenplay comes from Shalini Usha Devi, who penned the critically acclaimed “Soorarai Pottru.”

“Narain Karthikeyan’s journey isn’t just about racing. It’s about belief — in yourself, your country, and a dream no one else can see. That’s what drew me to this story,” said Narayanan.

The film follows Karthikeyan’s remarkable rise from a rebellious boy in Coimbatore to the international racing circuit, overcoming class, color, and crashes to reach Formula One’s pinnacle.

Ahsan...

To be the son of a legend is to be born a ghost. Alex Holmes’s documentary, Hill, understands this existential bind, framing the life of Formula 1 driver Damon Hill not as a sports biography but as a quiet, psychological thriller.

The subject is less the 1996 World Champion and more the man perpetually navigating the shadow cast by his father, Graham, himself a two-time champion and an icon of a more cavalier era. This is not a film about racing so much as it is a study of inheritance—the weight of a name, the specter of a legacy, and the fight for an identity that is one’s own.

Holmes sets a reflective, almost melancholy tone from the start. The narrative structure discards the simple chronology of victory for a deeper probe into the architecture of a psyche shaped by profound loss and a quiet, relentless determination.

The...

Brad Pitt's new sports drama, F1, is not the first film to try to bring the adrenaline-pumping environment of racing to the big screen. However, it looks like it's the first one to get it right.

The new sports drama has Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski at the helm, with a script by Ehren Kruger. Kosinski has previously proven his skills with the billion-dollar Top Gun sequel and other exciting action films, and he delivers again with the racing drama, which was filmed and produced with the involvement of Fia, the Formula 1 governing body, as well as several racing drivers like seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Ahead of its worldwide release on June 27, F1 debuted with a thrilling 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

F1 follows Sonny Hayes, a former Formula 1 driver who had a horrible crash that forced him to retire, failing to reach his potential. However,...

F1: The Movie director Joseph Kosinski reveals that one of the greatest Formula One drivers in the sport's history approved Brad Pitt's real driving in the film. Serving as Kosinski's follow-up to the acclaimed Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the upcoming Apple blockbuster features Pitt in the role of Sonny Hayes, a former Formula One driver who leaves retirement in order to team up with an ambitious younger racer named Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). As has been shown off in the F1: The Movie trailers, Pitt does much of his own driving in the movie on real F1 tracks.

During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kosinski addresses Pitt and Idris' driving in F1: The Movie, revealing that legendary Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton personally signed off on their practical racing stunts. Though the director admits that it was "nerve-wracking" to watch Pitt and Idris driving at such high speeds,...

The Apple TV+ original movie F1 is finally approaching the starting line. After years of hype—teasers, trailers, and spotting Brad Pitt and Damson Idris at real F1 weekends, fans are buzzing with excitement like a V12 engine on full throttle.

To maintain momentum, distributor Warner Bros. recently released the main trailer, and reactions have been mixed. The film is executive produced by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who has been hands-on in making sure the movie captures the authenticity of the sport, and that effort definitely shows.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the visionary behind Top Gun: Maverick, the film boasts stunning cinematography and a commitment to realism. Still, despite all the right ingredients, social media—especially X (formerly Twitter)—has been flooded with divided opinions about the trailer’s tone, dialogue, and overall vibe.

The F1 movie’s main trailer is out, and the reactions are mixed Fictional F...

It’s been nearly two years since I first heard about the upcoming F1 movie, and I was thrilled. With Apple TV+ and Warner Bros. teasing us through glimpses and trailers, and Lewis Hamilton on board as an executive producer, my excitement only grew. But as more promotional material rolled out, that excitement slowly turned into concern: Are they making the movie for the fans, or are they making it to attract more fans to the sport?

On first look, everything sounds perfect, the movie is directed by the legend Joseph Kosinski, there’s F1 licensing, real racers from F1 present as themselves, and filmed when the actual Gp took place, sounds like a dream of any F1 fan; but you know what else had all these except the director? The series Drive to Survive, and I absolutely hate what they did with the sport.

Is the F1 movie a...

The second Formula 1 race of the season is taking place on Sunday (March 23) in Shanghai, China.

Ahead of the 2025 Formula 1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix, the drivers, team principals and more took time before the drivers parade to pay tribute to the late Eddie Jordan, who passed away this past week.

Eddie was a racecar driver before starting his own Formula 1 team, Jordan Grand Prix in 1991, where he gave Michael Schumacher his debut season.

Current F1 drivers, including Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton and reserve driver Zhou Guanyu, Mercedes’ George Russell, Alpine’s Jack Doohan and more all took a moment prior to the race to honor the late, iconic team owner.

“We are deeply saddened to hear about the sudden loss of Eddie Jordan,” F1 President and CEO Stefano Domenicali previously shared in a statement. “With his inexhaustible energy he always knew how to make people smile, remaining genuine and brilliant at all times.

There is a lot to unpack in Drive to Survive. Be it the show’s meticulous approach to fabricating storylines for its own benefit or defending said storylines in a righteously indignant manner, the Netflix docu-series offers an unusual way of looking at the same race from very different perspectives. But the one constant that both Netflix and critics could agree on was everyone’s favorite Aussie: Daniel Ricciardo.

Daniel Ricciardo films his final episode on Drive to Survive Season 7 [Credit: Netflix]

However, now that the Honey Badger has retired, there exists a huge chasm in the space that he once used to fill with his brimming confidence and infectious laughter. While it will be difficult for Drive to Survive to find a fitting replacement within the current lineup of F1 drivers, the series can make a full 180° turn and go for the ultimate villain to fill the vacancy left by the ultimate hero.

Despite the immense popularity that Netflix’s Drive to Survive brought to two of its leading figureheads: Toto Wolff and Christian Horner, the sport is not the first and only means of earnings that established the two rivals in the world of Formula 1.

As competitors, it doesn’t get any better than Wolff and Horner – as one led Mercedes at the height of its power with Lewis Hamilton as the seven-time world champion, and the other is now leading Red Bull with its star performer Max Verstappen succeeding Hamilton as the new generation’s legend.

Christian Horner and Toto Wolff [Photo by Ben Sutherland, licensed under C By 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons]

However, coming down to the brass tacks, there can never be two winners on the board. As Wolff and Horner battle it out on the tracks, one can hardly help but look at all the accomplishments over the years that...

The history of Formula 1 is certainly lucrative, with the highest class of international racing now in its 75th year since its 1950 inception. Since then, many names have been immortalized among the annals of the sport, with the likes of Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, and Lewis Hamilton becoming household names the world over. In recent years, it's been the turn of Max Verstappen and his Red Bull team to take charge, although the battle with Lando Norris across the 2024 season has proven F1 is never a foregone conclusion.

Despite the surmounting rumors about its malicious and misleading content, Drive to Survive enjoys a certain degree of fame and respect among modern-day viewers. Fans have yet to find a fault with the Netflix series that’s serious enough to bring the show down for good. But the F1 docuseries continues to disappoint, like always.

Drive to Survive Season 7 [Credit: Netflix]

In its latest run with Season 7, Drive to Survive not only leaves crucial and fantastic storylines out of the narrative but also misleads the viewers by omission of facts. Most of the season rides on a nostalgia high by using the many emotional farewells and new arrivals to its advantage while forgetting to factor in cases like George Russell’s worst humiliation of the season.

Drive to Survive ignores George Russell’s humiliation George Russell (R) with Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and new teammate Kimi Antonelli (L) in Drive to...

The 2025 Formula 1 racing season, the world-famous series’ 75th anniversary, gets underway late night Saturday, March 7, as teams compete in the Louis Vuitton Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne. It’s the first time since 2019 that the Australian Gp kicks off the F1 season. Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Charles Leclerc look to upend Max Verstappen‘s quest for a fifth straight drivers’ championship. The only driver to win five straight F1 drivers’ championships was Michael Schumacher from 2000-04. It’s also a historic season for seven-time drivers’ champion Lewis Hamilton, as he moves from the Mercedes-amg Petronas F1 Team to Ferrari. ESPN, ESPN2, ABC and ESPN+ combine to televise every race in the 2025 season, with additional practices, qualifying and race encores on Espnews, ESPN3 and Espnu. ESPN is again teaming with Sky Sports and Formula 1 to bring Sky Sports’ award-winning commercial-free presentation to American viewers.

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The stars of Formula 1 were front and center during the recent F1 75 Live event in London, as the ten storied racing teams unveiled their cars and lineups for the 76th running of the Formula 1 World Championship.

Among the teams in attendance was Williams Racing, one of the sport’s most prominent franchises, with a history that dates back almost five decades to when Frank Williams founded the team in 1977. For years,...

Hill will chart the fortunes of Formula 1 champion Damon Hill, and will be release by Sky in the UK this year. More here.

2025 looks to be something of a treat if you sit in the overlapping part of a Venn diagram featuring cinema and Formula 1. First up we have F1, Joseph Kosinski’s highly-anticipated follow-up to Top Gun: Maverick set to arrive in June of this year, featuring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris and plenty of practical driving sequences filmed at actual Formula 1 events. Oh, and British racing champion Lewis Hamilton has been a hands-on producer on the project.

In a further treat, fans of British motorsports now have something else to look forward to in the form of Hill, a feature documentary that will chart the life and career of another British F1 wold champion. Damon Hill (pictured).

He’s a second-generation Formula 1 world champion who overcame...

Netflix has released a highly anticipated biographical drama miniseries on the legendary Brazilian Formula One racer Ayrton Senna. A high-stakes project since its inception in 2020, the show was met with sheer disappointment. The reviews from critics and fans ring a similar tone of dissatisfaction. The legacy of the Brazilian hero was not easy to do justice to. But the Netflix series barely managed to scrape the surface of his life.

A still from Senna miniseries | Credits: Netflix

While the series had great potential of winning hearts with Senna’s larger-than-life story, Netflix seems to have fallen short in its attempt to present a dramatized version of Senna’s life fully. There are many things wrong with this miniseries. However, five significant flaws in the show convince viewers that the show is an absolute disaster.

1. Senna– A Hagiography? Gabriel Leone as Ayrton Senna

When it comes to biographies, there’s always...

Michael Schumacher’s family was reportedly the target of an alleged blackmailing plot involving his former bodyguard.

One of the men expected to appear in court in Germany later in December, charged with aiding and abetting the alleged blackmail scheme, was named as Michael‘s former bodyguard Markus Fritsche, Metro reported.

Prosecutors called the alleged scheme “particularly serious,” containing more than 1,000 private images, video and the 55-year-old former F1 legend’s medical notes.

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Michael has largely been private ever since a major skiing accident in 2013. His wife Corinne has also protected his privacy, including details of his condition following a brain injury.

The former bodyguard reportedly moved into Michael‘s inner circle about a year before the accident, and was with the family for eight years, via MailOnline.

“When the family finally decided to make changes to the care regime and Fritsche was told...

Max Vertsappen is a four time F1 champion!

The 27-year-old Dutch driver took fifth place at the 2024 Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix on Saturday night (November 23), securing his win for this years driver championship. This is his fourth year in a row winning.

George Russell took first place, while his teammate Lewis Hamilton took second, for a Mercedes double podium. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz picked up third, with his teammate, Charles Leclerc, in fourth.

Prior to the race, with only three grands prix left this season, Max just needed to finish Vegas in a higher position than his rival Lando Norris.

At the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Lando finished in sixth place.

With two more races, Lando‘s team, McLaren, is looking to clinch their first constructor championship since 1998, with Ferrari close behind in second and Max’s Red Bull in third.

Congratulations to Max Verstappen on his fourth championship title win!

In the world of Formula 1, the sport often demands much more than just speed and skill. It demands sacrifice, resilience, and sometimes the ability to navigate through grief. When Ayrton Senna tragically passed away during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the impact on his fellow drivers was profound, especially on Michael Schumacher, who was just beginning to rise as one of the sport’s most formidable talents.

Michael Schumacher in Schumacher (2021) | Credit: Netflix

True, Senna was the leader of his generation—driven, competitive, and intensely passionate. Schumacher, a young upstart, was beginning to challenge Senna’s dominance on the track, but the latter’s loss left him questioning the very purpose of racing.

However, why didn’t Schumacher, who admired Senna both as a rival and a driver, attend his funeral? The answer is more complicated than one might think!

Ayrton Senna’s Legacy, Talent, & Unmatched Accomplishments

Ayrton Senna...

Ferrari arrived in a blaze of glory before fizzling out with the whispers of time. Neither Adam Driver nor Penelope Cruz could do anything to save the film while Michael Mann’s 8-year-long hiatus did nothing to improve upon his spiraling reputation as a director since the 2004 masterpiece, Collateral.

Gabriel Leone in Ferrari (2023) [Credit: Neon]

It was the unlikely Brazilian telenovela star Gabriel Leone who stole the spotlight instead. As Alfonso de Portago, Leone gained international recognition and acclaim. Now, as Senna in Netflix’s upcoming eponymous miniseries, Gabriel Leone will rise to the occasion and become the new god of Interlagos.

Ferrari Brought Out the Racer in Gabriel Leone

Formula One is not for everyone. Not the winding hours on the track with g-force twisting one’s neck close to snapping on every turn, the 20 meters of track that passes by in darkness with every millisecond-long blink, the engines that...

Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton is a free agent in his personal life!

The 39-yea-rold British F1 driver is currently on the Mercedes-amg Petronas F1 Team, but starting next year, he will be switching teams to Scuderia Ferrari Hp.

As one of the greatest drivers in the motorsport, Lewis holds the record for a combined most wins, pole positions and podium finishes. His current win tally is at 105!

Back in July, he won his first race in two years, where he made history as the first time an F1 driver has won on any single racetrack nine times. He then picked up his second win of the season a few weeks later.

He is also tied with the most driver championship wins with Michael Schumacher – they both have seven.

While he may be single at the moment, as far as the public knows, Lewis has dated and been linked to...

F1 star Lewis Hamilton is currently single!

The 39-year-old Mercedes-amg Petronas Formula 1 driver is one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport, currently holding the record for a combined most wins, pole positions and podium finishes.

Back in July, he won his first race in two years, where he made history as the first time an F1 driver has won on any single racetrack nine times!

He is also tied with the most driver championship wins with Michael Schumacher – they both have seven.

While he may be single at the moment, as far as the public knows, Lewis has dated and been linked to quite a few popular models and signers, and even had a very high-profile long-term relationship with a famous singer.

We’re taking a look through Lewis Hamilton‘s full dating history, recapping all of the women that have been rumored or confirmed...

Lewis Hamilton is one of the biggest F1 drivers on the grid right now!

With that comes the curiosity around the 39-year-old driver’s dating life.

Lewis is a seven-time Formula 1 world champion, and he’s currently looking to break his tie with Michael Schumacher for the most wins.

Currently, he drives for the Mercedes-amg Petronas F1 Team, where he has been since 2013. He will be switching teams after the current 2024 season and will move to Scuderia Ferrari on a multi-year contract beginning in 2025!

In his personal life, Lewis has dated and been linked to quite a few popular models and signers, and even had a very high-profile long-term relationship with a famous singer.

We’re taking a look through Lewis Hamilton‘s full dating history, recapping all of the women that have been rumored or confirmed to have dated the driver over the years.

Click through the slideshow...

Lewis Hamilton has been heating up the race track for years in Formula 1!

The 39-year-old F1 driver is a seven-time world champion in the sport, tying with Michael Schumacher for the most championship wins ever.

Lewis currently drives for the Mercedes-amg Petronas F1 Team, where he has been since 2013. He will be switching teams after the 2024 season and will move to Scuderia Ferrari on a multi-year contract beginning in 2025!

In his personal life, Lewis has dated and been linked to quite a few popular models and signers, and even had a very high-profile long-term relationship with a famous singer.

We’re taking a look through Lewis Hamilton‘s full dating history, recapping all of the women that have been rumored or confirmed to have dated the driver over the years.

Click through the slideshow to see all of the famous women Lewis Hamilton has dated or been linked to over the years…...

Michelle Yeoh is married! On July 27, wedding guest and former Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa shared photos from Yeoh and ex-Ferrari CEO Jean Todt's wedding ceremony in Geneva on Instagram. Among the photos was a snap of the couple's wedding program, which included the sweet story of their 19-year engagement.

"We met in Shanghai on 4th June 2004," the program read. "On 26th July 2004, J.T proposed to marry M.Y and she said Yes! Today after 6992 days on 27th July 2023 in Geneva, surrounded by loving family and friends, we are so happy to celebrate this special moment together!"

In addition to sharing the couple's program, Massa also included a photo of himself with the bride, groom, and the bride's best actress Oscar for "Everything Everywhere All at Once." He shared another photo of Yeoh wearing a cream, silk shirt paired with an intricate skirt standing alongside her new husband and several wedding guests,...

Exclusive: Fast channel provider WeDoTV has launched a sports channel in German-speaking countries ahead of the Royal Ascot horse races this week.

WeDo Sports debuts tomorrow on the Zattoo, Waipu.tv, LG Channels and Vidaa platforms in Germany, wit more announced soon. It will also roll out on the Wedo app and website.

The network will stream all major German and horse race meets live, including the UK’s Royal Ascot this week (June 20-24) and the Breeder’s Cup in the U.S. later this year.

Other live events secured for the net include the German Sailing Bundesliga, the Sailing Champions League and SailGP.

Weekly programs will provide highlights from football tournaments, Formula 1, e-sports, martial arts and others. There will be docs on sporting icons such as Tiger Woods, David Beckham and Michael Schumacher and teams such as Manchester United.

“The launch of WeDo Sports is another piece of...

The editor of a German magazine that ran an “interview” with former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher – including quotes generated by artificial intelligence – has been sacked.

The publishers of Die Aktuelle, a weekly magazine owned by Funke media group – have also apologised to Schumacher’s family, who said this week they planned legal action.

Funke managing director Bianca Pohlmann announced: “This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It in no way meets the standards of journalism that we and our readers expect from a publisher like Funke.

“As a result of the publication of this article, immediate personnel consequences will be drawn. Die Aktuelle editor-in-chief Anne Hoffmann, who has held journalistic responsibility for the paper since 2009, will be relieved of her duties as of today.”

The magazine ran a front cover of Schumacher, with a headline that read, “Michael Schumacher, the first interview.” The strapline added: “it sounded deceptively real.

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The fifth season of the hit Formula 1 docuseries, Drive to Survive, has just been released on Netflix.

As with past seasons, the series’ latest entry has re-ignited our love for F1 — just in time for the 2023 F1 season’s first race in Bahrain. But, like so many binge-able series, we raced through Drive to Survive Season 5 faster than Charles Leclerc at Baku, and now we’re itching...

Geneva (Switzerland), Nov 10 (Ians) Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari F2003-ga was sold for 13 million Swiss francs at an auction in Switzerland.

The F2003 was one of the most successful cars ever driven by the German Formula 1 driver, who won five races and the 2003 World Championship with it.

An unknown buyer bought Chassis 229 with a bid on the telephone, surpassing every bid after the price hit 10 million francs within 15 minutes at the Sotheby’s auction in Geneva on Wednesday.

The auction house Sotheby’s, which had estimated that the Ferrari would sell for up to 9.5 million francs, showed the final price as 14.69 million francs including fees and taxes.

The Chassis 229 was given Ferrari’s “Red Book” certification and was restored in 2022 at the firm’s Maranello factory.

Schumacher drove it for the first time on his way to winning the 2003 Spanish Grand Prix, the fifth race of that season.

Mexico City, Oct 31 (Ians) Dutch Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen has expressed his surprise at winning a record 14 races in a year and eclipsing the feats of Germany’s Michael Schumacher (2004) and Sebastian Vettel (2013), who have 13 race wins in a year.

Verstappen made history as he beat Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton to claim his 14th victory of the 2022 season at the Mexican Grand Prix after an intriguing strategic battle at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez here on Sunday.

The Red Bull driver said he was “incredibly proud” to achieve the feat.

Verstappen took pole position by more than three-tenths as Mercedes’ George Russell qualified on the front row and Lewis Hamilton qualified third on Saturday. Verstappen — on soft tyres while the Mercedes chose mediums — retained his lead in Sunday’s race, and it soon became clear that he would be able to pull off a one-stop strategy and win, which he did by...

Michael B Jordan has shared a first look at the highly-anticipated film Creed III.

The sequel to 2018’s Creed II is the ninth installment in the Rocky franchise and will follow the story of boxer Adonis Creed (Jordan) who was trained and mentored by Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone.

On Monday (17 October), Jordan shared the teaser posters from the forthcoming film featuring himself and Jonathon Majors, who will play boxing rival Anderson Dame.

“You can’t run... from your past,” the posters read alongside dark pictures of the two boxers inside the ring.

Fans shared their excitement on Twitter for the film, which will also mark Jordan’s directorial debut.

“Jonathan Majors and Michael B Jordan???? I already know this is going to be a masterpiece,” wrote one fan.

“I have a feeling this will be the best one,” another tweet read.

“Michael B Jordan boxing with a sprinkle of break up?...

Apple TV+ has landed the rights to a feature documentary film about seven-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton, the streamer announced Wednesday.

The untitled documentary on Hamilton will be directed by Matt Kay and focus on the racer’s life and career. It will feature access to Hamilton and his team on and off the track, as well as a series of guest interviews.

The film will also discuss how Hamilton, the only Black driver in the Formula One series, embraced what made him different from his peers to rise to the top of the sport and influence positive change for future drivers.

The British racer shares the record for World Drivers’ Championship titles with Michael Schumacher for the most wins, pole positions and podium finishes (182). Hamilton drove for McLaren between 2007-2012. He also was knighted in 2021.

Hamilton is also producing the documentary along with Penni Thow, Box to Box Films,...

London, Dec 15 (Ians) Seven times Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton received his knighthood from Prince Charles at Windsor Castle on Wednesday for his services to motorsport. The 36-year-old was awarded his knighthood and the resulting title in the 2021 New Year Honours list after matching Michael Schumacher with his seventh Formula 1 World Championship, […]...

Michael Schumacher is regarded as one of, if not the, best of drivers in the long history of Formula One. With his seemingly unbreakable records just being broken by Mercedes driver, Lewis Hamilton, many still regard Michael Schumacher as the best driver ever, and those same fans went nuts when Netflix announced a documentary on Schumacher. Releasing on September 15, 2021, Formula One fans all over the globe have marked their calendars for the day. With sports documentaries becoming better and better by the passing year, taking Drive To Survive,and All Or Nothing as prime examples, there should be no reason as to why fans do not expect this documentary to achieve the same feat.

Schumacher contains never before seen footage from the life of Michael Schumacher, and features interviews from friends and family, as well as Formula One colleagues, such as Sebastian Vettel, Jean Todt, Mika Hakkinen, Damon Hill and even David Coulthard.

This year, Netflix grabbed a whopping 35 Oscar nominations for its slate of original movies, including 10 nominations for David Fincher’s “Mank,” six nominations for Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” and five nominations for the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” which featured the final performance from star and Best Actor nominee Chadwick Boseman. The total number of nominations for the streaming service ranked among the most ever by a single studio and dwarfed the Netflix tally in 2020 when the platform grabbed 24 nominations to lead all distributors.

But judging merely by quantity, 2021 could become the biggest year yet for Netflix. Over the final four months of the year, the studio will debut more than 40 titles, including new movies from past Oscar favorites like Adam McKay, Jane Campion, and Paolo Sorrentino as well as buzzy features from first-time filmmakers such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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“Schumacher,” a documentary on champion German Formula 1 racing driver Michael Schumacher, will stream on Netflix from Sept. 15. The film follows his journey from his humble beginnings to the top of Formula 1 where he dominated with seven world championship titles and a total of 91 victories.

In addition to his father and his brother Ralf, Schumacher’s wife Corinna and his two children Gina and Mick, by now a Formula 1 driver himself, speak openly for the first time, as do his closest peers and competitors. Among them are Jean Todt, Bernie Ecclestone, Sebastian Vettel, Mika Häkkinen, Damon Hill, Flavio Briatore, David Coulthard, Willi Weber, Luca di Montezemolo, Piero Ferrari, his manager Sabine Kehm.

Benjamin Seikel and Vanessa Nöcker from B|14 Film GmbH produced “Schumacher”. Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech directed the film.

London based Rocket Science is representing sales and distribution of the film worldwide and facilitated the partnership with Netflix.

Netflix has picked up global rights to Schumacher, a feature documentary about Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, and will release on September 15.

The streamer struck the deal with sales rep Rocket Science. Project comes from Benjamin Seikel and Vanessa Nöcker from B|14 Film GmbH; directors are Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech.

Schumacher features interviews with the driver’s family, including his wife, father and brother, as well as various prominent figures of the motorsport such as Jean Todt, Bernie Ecclestone, Sebastian Vettel, Mika Häkkinen, Damon Hill, Flavio Briatore and David Coulthard. The filmmakers also had access to never-before-seen archive material.

After a glittering career that culminated in him being widely seen as the greatest Formula One driver of all time following 91 race victories and seven world championships, Schumacher suffered a severe brain injury after a skiing accident in 2013 and has since been in recovery.

The timing of the...

Thirty years, nearly to the day, since German motor racing legend Michael Schumacher first joined the Formula One circuit and six years since a near-fatal skiing accident took him out of the limelight, Netflix has unveiled the global launch of documentary Schumacher, on the life and career of one of the sport’s most iconic figures.

The documentary, which will trace Schumacher’s rise from humble beginnings racing around a gravel pit in Kerpen in West Germany to his domination of Formula One — he has a joint-record seven World Drivers’ Championship titles and, at the time of his 2012 retirement, held ...

Thirty years, nearly to the day, since German motor racing legend Michael Schumacher first joined the Formula One circuit and six years since a near-fatal skiing accident took him out of the limelight, Netflix has unveiled the global launch of documentary Schumacher, on the life and career of one of the sport’s most iconic figures.

The documentary, which will trace Schumacher’s rise from humble beginnings racing around a gravel pit in Kerpen in West Germany to his domination of Formula One — he has a joint-record seven World Drivers’ Championship titles and, at the time of his 2012 retirement, held ...

Angelique Kidjo, Yo La Tengo, Bill Frisell, and Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart are among the artists featuring on a 50th-anniversary musical tribute to beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971.

Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Andrew Bird, Devendra Banhart, Gavin Friday & Howie B, the Fugs’ Ed Sanders, and more also appear on the album, which boasts musical interpretations of poems from Ginsberg’s 1971 book; some tracks feature the late poet reciting his works accompanied by the new music.

“In...

London, Dec 31 (Ians) Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been knighted, having been included in the United Kingdom's traditional honours list. Hamilton this year equalled Michael Schumacher's record for most driver's championship wins and surpassed the German great for most career race wins in F1.

Hamilton at the age of 35 is the fourth youngest sportsperson to be knighted after former tennis world no.1 Andy Murray, who was 29 when he received the honour, and cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy, who were both 32 years old.

He is also the fourth F1 driver to receive the honour after Jack Brabham (1978), Stirling Moss (2000) and Jackie Stewart (2001) and the sixth from the sport with F1 team Williams co-founders Frank Williams and Patrick Head being knighted in 1999 and 2015 respectively.

Hamilton is, however, the first from the sport to receive the knighthood while still being an active F1 driver.

Hamilton is the only black driver...

Eclipse Films, Gospel teaming on doc Shane.

A feature documentary about Australian cricketing legend Shane Warne is being made by UK producers Eclipse Films (Finding Your Feet) and Gospel (Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story).

Dogwoof is representing global sales rights to the project, titled Shane, and is launching it to buyers here in Cannes.

Widely considered to be one of cricket’s greatest bowlers, spinner Warne took more than 1,000 wickets in his career, placing him behind onlu Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan in the all-time list. He also led a turbulent personal life, including a drug ban and a high-profile divorce.

The Cannes Film Festival competition began today with the premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” but top North American distributors can’t afford to be distracted. They serve a market in which only the most carefully calibrated selections will thrive — and those who hesitate will almost certainly lose to the streaming buyers. With some of the best stuff already bought, theatrical distributors are forced to to look toward films that have yet to be shot.

Before the festival, HBO Sports scooped up “Diego Maradona,” British documentarian Asif Kapadia’s follow-up to Oscar-winning Cannes hit “Amy.” And after a 20-year symbiotic relationship, Spc acquired Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain & Glory” at the script stage two years ago, which now looks like an early contender for top prizes. Spc now has rights to all his films, and will book repertory Almodovar tributes in many cities around the film’s October opening.

The Cannes Film Festival competition began today with the premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” but top North American distributors can’t afford to be distracted. They serve a market in which only the most carefully calibrated selections will thrive — and those who hesitate will almost certainly lose to the streaming buyers. With some of the best stuff already bought, theatrical distributors are forced to to look toward films that have yet to be shot.

Before the festival, HBO Sports scooped up “Diego Maradona,” British documentarian Asif Kapadia’s follow-up to Oscar-winning Cannes hit “Amy.” And after a 20-year symbiotic relationship, Spc acquired Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain & Glory” at the script stage two years ago, which now looks like an early contender for top prizes. Spc now has rights to all his films, and will book repertory Almodovar tributes in many cities around the film’s October opening.

Middle East distributor and producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment and production, finance and sales company Rocket Science have entered into a joint venture to form Yalla Yalla, a Dubai-based film and television company focused on Arabic-language entertainment.

Yalla Yalla will develop, package, produce and finance television and feature film projects for the fast expanding Middle East and North Africa market, with a view to expanding beyond the region. The team has already been active in acquiring remake rights as well as developing original content for both theatrical and television with the aim of having four feature films and two television series produced within the first 18 months.

Rocket Science will leverage its talent, producing and financing relationships in the U.S. and Europe, while Front Row and its partner, Kuwait National Cinema Company, will harness their regional relationships with filmmakers, tastemakers and financiers.

The company will collaborate with former Wild Bunch head of acquisitions,...

Film project is based on an unpublished memoir written by Roots.

Fred Films and Powder Keg Pictures, the producers behind recent UK box office hit Fisherman’s Friends, are working on a feature about Jamaica-born musician, chef and businessman Levi Roots.

Roots emigrated to London at the age of 11, unable to read or write, and went on to become a successful Reggae artist until his music career was cut short after he was sentenced to nine years in prison for drug offences.

While serving his time, Roots came up with the idea for creating ’Reggae Reggae Sauce’, inspired by his Grandmother’s Caribbean cooking.

Project comes from German filmmakers Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns.

An official documentary is being made about Michael Schumacher, the Formula One driver who remains the sport’s most successful competitor.

A winner of seven Formula One World Championships and still the holder of the most race victories, Schumacher suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a skiing accident in 2013 and continues to receive medical treatment to this day.

The project, titled Schumacher, is being made with the consent of the racing driver’s family.

German filmmakers Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns are steering the film, which is already in post-production.

Schumacher, a documentary about famed Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, is in gear with German filmmakers Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns directing. Rocket Science is presenting, executive producing and handling international sales, starting in Cannes next week. The timely film given this year marks 25 since Schumacher scored his first world championship, is currently in post and is fully supported by the driver’s family.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One pilots of all time, Schumacher is the only one in history to win seven Formula One World Championships, five of which were garnered consecutively with Ferrari. He also holds a number of other all-time racing records. After retiring in 2012, Schumacher suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a skiing accident in 2013 and continues to receive medical treatment to this day.

Benjamin Seikel and Vanessa Nöcker of B | 14 Film are producing along with Dcm, who will...

The first official feature documentary about Formula One racing legend Michael Schumacher is in the final stages of production, with award-winning German filmmakers Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns directing. Rocket Science will launch sales at Cannes.

“Schumacher” will tell the eponymous sporting star’s story. He is the only driver in history to win seven Formula One World Championships. Five of those were won consecutively with the iconic Ferrari team.

The German driver is recognized as one of the best Formula One drivers of all time. After making a comeback, he finally retired in 2012. In 2013, he suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident that left him in an induced coma for six months, from which he is still in recovery.

The sports star’s family support the film. There will be rare interviews and never-before-seen archival footage. It will be framed by Schumacher’s 50th birthday and the 25th...

Seems Michael Schumacher's health has taken another turn for the worse -- so says his former Ferrari boss who gave a cryptic update about the 7-time Formula One champ.  "I have news and unfortunately it is not good," said Luca di Montezemolo, the former president of Ferrari.  Luca didn't get into specifics when addressing reporters Thursday.  47-year-old Schumacher suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in France back in 2013 -- and information about...

For over 60 years Ferrari has been an integral force within the motor racing industry of Formula One. During that time a myriad of true racing icons have driven the unmistakable red livery synonymous and instantly recognisable with the Ferrari brand. This includes some of the most charismatic, talented, and fearsome drivers the sport has ever seen such as Alberto Ascari, Phil Hill, Niki Lauda, and of course the awesome Michael Schumacher.

For much of the time since F1 started out in 1950, one of Scuderia Ferrari’s closest sponsors and technical partners has been motoring giant Shell. Through this relationship Ferrari utilises Shell’s unique and performance maximising technologies. And in turn Shell are able to test out, in the most demanding way, many of the fuel and motoring advances which eventually make their way in to the general world of motoring. This includes their patented Shell V-Power Fuel used by car drivers the world over,...