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Amanda Knox has been one of the biggest sources of fascination in the true crime world, and she is getting another crack at a fictionalized interpretation of her story. Hulu has released a teaser for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, set to premiere on the streamer August 20. The series will reunite Grace Van Patten with Hulu after her captivating portrayal of Lucy in the unstable romantic drama, Tell Me Lies. The teaser for TheTwisted Tale of Amanda Knox is only 15 seconds, but it is jam-packed with harrowing visuals depicting the infamous case.

“Many people think they know my story,” Van Patten narrates as the accused murderer gets pulled from a police van, “but now it’s my turn to tell it.” The trailer shows Knox’s treatment by authorities and the media circus that the case became. This depiction of the true-crime story is also not the first time...

Hollywood’s entertainment industry has delivered quite a few real-life-based documentary pieces over the years, but perhaps hardly any of them have proven to be as harrowing as the titular story of Amanda Knox. Released back in 2016, that Netflix documentary has fascinated many people over the years, and now, it seems to be an even more must-watch piece.

This increased fame of the rated 82% on Rotten Tomatoes documentary comes in light of the recently released episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. This is because, appearing in the same, the real Knox shared a key detail of her story of how she coped after twice being convicted and later acquitted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher after proving her innocence.

Amanda Knox’s confession makes her documentary even more of a must-watch piece Amanda Knox in a still from the titular documentary. | Credits: Netflix.

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The team behind Laid couldn’t be happier to have included Amanda Knox in the Peacock comedy series.

Adapted from the Australian project of the same name, the show centers on Ruby (Stephanie Hsu), who realizes that her previous lovers are dying and sets out to understand why this is happening. Zosia Mamet co-stars as Ruby’s best friend Aj, while other castmembers include Michael Angarano and Tommy Martinez.

One surprising member of the cast is Knox, who makes an appearance in the final episode of the first season that is currently streaming. Knox became a public figure after she was convicted and then ultimately acquitted of the 2007 murder of her roommate in Italy. Co-showrunner Sally Bradford McKenna describes herself to The Hollywood Reporter as a big true-crime fan who saw Knox as the right fit for a role, given the series’ story.

“I’m obsessed with her,” Bradford McKenna says of Knox.

How many stories of Amanda Knox do we really need? At least one more, according to Hulu, whose new eight-part series Blue Moon has begun filming in Italy, sparking backlash from the residents of Perugia, where Meredith Kercher was found murdered back in 2007. A 20-year-old Knox and her then-lover, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of killing Knox's roommate 17 years ago, and subsequently spent four years in an Italian prison before their release in 2011 due to shoddy police work. She was later acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015, and has since gone on to become an author and activist.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, residents of Perugia have shown up in full force to the production, displaying banners that read "Rispetto per Meredith," which translates to "Respect for Meredith." The dramatization stars Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies), and will air on Hulu next year, with Knox now 37 on board as an executive producer.

Locals of an Italian city are furious that Hulu’s controversial Amanda Knox drama is filming in their region, claiming the upcoming TV show will bring fresh and unwanted attention to the fact that British student Meredith Kercher was murdered there in 2007.

Production for Blue Moon began last week in Perugia, a medieval city about two hours northeast of Rome. Starring Tell Me Lies star Grace Van Patten, the eight-episode series is “based on the true story of how Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate and...

The presence of those working on Hulu‘s Amanda Knox series in the Italian city of Perugia is prompting backlash after filming began near where student Meredith Kercher was found stabbed to death 17 years ago.

Residents displayed banners reading “Rispetto per Meredith” (respect for Meredith) around the city as cast and crew members for Blue Moon — executive produced by Knox herself — arrived to get production underway.

The eight-part drama, starring Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies), will air on the Disney-owned streaming service and detail Knox’s battle to clear her name when she was convicted of the 21-year-old’s murder in 2007.

After substantial flaws were uncovered in the initial police investigation, Knox and Italian ex-partner Raffaele Sollecito were released from prison in 2011 and definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015. Knox later became an activist, journalist, and authored the memoir Waiting to Be Heard. Rudy Guede was eventually...

Hulu’s Amanda Knox series is causing an uproar in the Italian city of Perugia, where the show – executive produced by Knox herself – has been filming 17 years after the murder of Meredith Kercher.

The arrival of the show’s cast and crew last week in the university town, where Knox’s British roommate was found dead in their room on Nov. 2, 2007, has prompted angry locals to put up banners that read “Rispetto per Meredith” (“Respect for Meredith”). The outcry has led the city’s mayor, Vittoria Ferdinandi, to issue a letter of apology to Perugia citizens, which was published in Italian newspapers.

“We could have not authorized the filming of five scenes in Perugia,” the Perugia mayor said in the letter, “but they would have been filmed in any other town in our region.”

She continued: “We believed that allowing [the scenes] to be filmed here would provide us an element of...

The Amanda Knox limited series at Hulu has added four new cast members, Variety has learned.

Currently titled “Amanda,” the series has added John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico, and Roberta Mattei.

The quartet join previously announced series lead Grace Van Patten as well as Sharon Horgan, who will play Knox’s mother Edda Mellas.

Hoogenakker will play Curt Knox, described as “Amanda Knox’s fun-loving but stoic father who, despite his divorce from her mother, is a great dad to his daughters. He leads the charge to defend his daughter in the press.” Acquaroli stars as Giuliano Mignini, “the Italian prosecutor in Amanda Knox’s case. A man with a need to prove himself, he’s convinced of Amanda’s involvement in the murder from the jump, and he finds his life and legacy defined by his relationship to her.”

De Domenico will play Raffaele Sollecito, “Amanda Knox...

Amanda Knox broke down in tears during an Italian television interview this week, insisting she had “nothing to hide” after failing to overturn her slander conviction related to the 2007 murder of her British roommate.

The 36-year-old Knox became choked up as she told Sky TG24 that she has been “unjustly accused for 17 years… my entire adult life.”

“From the beginning I just wanted to do the right thing and tell the truth,” Knox said, adding that she is a “victim” with “nothing to hide.”

Knox also became audibly emotional on her podcast Labyrinths, saying she has “been here before” pouring her heart out in court only to be “torn down.”

She expressed confusion over last week’s ruling by Italy’s highest court, which reinstated her slander conviction for falsely accusing bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing her 21-year-old roommate Meredith Kercher. Knox’s three-year sentence was considered served after four years in prison.

On Wednesday, June 5, an Italian court upheld Amanda Knox‘s 2009 conviction of slander in which she falsely accused her former boss Patrick Lumumba of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher. Two days before her latest court trial, the 36-year-old took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share that she would be defending herself once again.

Her post which was shared on June 3 read, “On June 5th, I will walk into the very same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a crime I didn’t commit, this time to defend myself yet again. I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me.” The retrial got Knox a three-year jail sentence which she will not serve because she already served 4 years following her wrongful conviction of Kercher’s murder.

NBC News reported that Knox’s attorney claimed to be “very surprised at the outcome of...

Amanda Knox’s attempt to “clear my name once and for all” in connection to the headline-gripping 2007 murder of her roommate in Italy concluded Wednesday with a re-conviction for slander as an Italian court found Knox wrongly accused an innocent man for the killing.

Making her first appearance in an Italian court since 2011 — the same year she was released after spending four years in prison following her wrongful conviction in the murder of fellow exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy — Knox once again faced the charge related to her...

Maid star Margaret Qualley is gearing up to play Amanda Knox for a new Hulu limited series about the controversial figure. The untitled project from 20th Television and The Littlefield Company is created by Kj Steinberg whose past projects include This Is Us and Gossip Girl. Steinberg will serve as showrunner with Knox executive producing alongside Monica Lewinsky, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Described as an eight-episode series, the show will be based on Knox’s version of events surrounding the savage killing of her roommate Meredith Kercher 16 years ago. Monica Lewinsky (Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images) As true-crime enthusiasts will recall, Knox found herself at the center of a media frenzy for years after she and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested after Kercher was found murdered in their apartment. Both Knox and Kercher were studying abroad in Italy. Both Knox and Sollecito were convicted of killing Kercher in...

Margaret Qualley is taking on the role of Amanda Knox.

The 29-year-old actress will portray the 36-year-old formerly incarcerated author and activist in a Hulu limited series, via THR.

The currently untitled series is from 20th Television and The Littlefield Company, amd has been “on a fast development track” at Hulu. Kj Steinberg created the series and will serve as showrunner. Amanda and Monica Lewinsky are also among the executive producers.

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Hulu describes the eight-episode series as “based on the true story of how Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.”

She and her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested after Meredith was found murdered in their apartment. The two were convicted of killing her in 2009, had their convictions overturned in 2011 and found guilty again in a retrial before finally being...

Amazon’s Prime Video has snapped up the UK and Ireland rights for The Murder of Meredith, a documentary that dives into the shocking 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher. According to Deadline, the 90-minute doc will land on Amazon in November and aims to reframe the narrative around the tragic events of November 1, 2007, when the 21-year-old Kercher was brutally murdered in the Italian town of Perugia. At the time, Kercher’s life was overshadowed by American student Amanda Knox, her flatmate who was accused of her murder, along with Rudy Guede and Raffaele Sollecito. A media frenzy took place at the time, with Knox becoming the driving subject of headlines. Knox, Guede, and Sollecito were originally found guilty of murder by the Italian courts. However, Knox and Sollecito later had their convictions overturned. The Murder of Meredith will be told by those involved with the case, delving into the evidence,...

Exclusive: Prime Video is to delve into the shocking murder of British student Meredith Kercher back in 2007.

Amazon’s streaming service has boarded The Murder of Meredith and taken UK and Ireland rights. British indie Woodcut Media is producing and distributor Abacus Media Rights has the rights elsewhere and will be selling the feature-length doc in Cannes at Mipcom.

The 90-minute doc is set to launch on Amazon in November after Abacus brokered an agreement with Amazon. It will look to reframe the narrative around the terrible events of November 1, 2007, when the 21-year-old Kercher was brutally murdered while studying in the Italian university town of Perugia

Her story led to a media frenzy full of speculation, twists and turns. Over the years, her life and reputation have been pulled apart and eclipsed by Amanda Knox, the American student and Kercher’s flatmate who was accused over her murder along with Rudy Guede and Raffaele Sollecito.

Matt Damon’s new movie, Stillwater, opens by building up to a gentle but pointed bit of misdirection, the subtle sort of deviation from our expectations meant to say as much about the audience as it does about the man at the story’s center — something of an running theme for this particular movie. When we first see Bill Baker (Damon), he’s waist-deep in rubble, the recognizable but devastated remains of what used to be someone’s home. Bill is a roughneck from Oklahoma, a state squarely, oft-tragically at the center of that mid-u.

Amanda Knox, activist, journalist and author of 'Waiting to Be Heard,' which retells the events of her charge of murder in Italy, her eventual acquittal and the fall out that followed, is not happy about an upcoming Matt Damon movie that is garnering much praise. She will not be the first in line to buy a ticket to watch Stillwater. Yesterday, she took to Twitter to call out Matt Damon and Tom McCarthy for stealing her story in in a series of tweets.

"Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #Stillwater."

She continues, "This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is "loosely based" or "directly...

Writer-director Tom McCarthy’s movie ‘inspired’ by 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher reinforces conspiracy theories about the case, says Knox

Amanda Knox has accused actor Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy of “rip[ping] off my story without my consent at the expense of my reputation” in the upcoming film Stillwater, which McCarthy has said was inspired by Knox’s experience after the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.

In an essay on the online publishing platform Medium, Knox takes particular aim at McCarthy, who told Vanity Fair that Stillwater was directly inspired by the Kercher case, which resulted in Knox being wrongly convicted for Kercher’s murder along with her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and spending four years in prison, before ultimately being acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s supreme court of cassation. Rudy Guede, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2008, is the only person convicted of Kercher’s murder.

Amanda Knox criticized the new film Stillwater, a movie inspired by the American student’s ordeal in Italy, in a long series of tweets Thursday.

“Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #Stillwater,” Knox wrote. “This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is ‘loosely based’ or...

Amanda Knox is all about the Facts. Lady Gaga  tweeted on Thursday, "Fame is prison." Knox, who famously spent four years in prison in Italy for the 2007 murder of her roommate before being acquitted, responded, "I hear you, but...prison is prison." Gaga, 33, has not responded. In 2007, Knox, now 32, and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of murdering her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, during an alleged drunken sex assault. Kercher was found stabbed in their apartment n the Italian town of Perugia. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. She served four years. Following an appeal, both she and Sollecito were found not guilty of...

American college student Amanda Knox was studying abroad in Italy 2007 when her roommate Meredeth Kercher was murdered. Knox and her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of raping and killing Knox’s British roommate and the courts painted Knox as a violent, sexual deviant. A local burglar Rudy Guede was convicted in 2015 when DNA evidence tied him to […]...

Facebook Watch found the perfect person to host its new show about women who've been publicly shamed: Amanda Knox, the 30-year-old who was tried for the murder of her roommate and ultimately exonerated. In the six-part docuseries The Scarlet Letter Reports, which debuted on May 2, Amanda sits down with famous female pariahs, hoping to reveal the real people behind the "two-dimensional characters" propagated by the media and the public. It wasn't long ago that Amanda was presumed guilty… Until, of course, she was proven otherwise. At 20 years old, the Seattle native was arrested after the 2007 murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, with whom Amanda roomed as she studied abroad in Perugia, Italy. Amanda was nicknamed "Foxy Knoxy" in the press and thought to have killed Meredith in a sex game gone wrong. In 2011, however, she had her murder conviction overthrown. She and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were then retried and again found guilty,...

"Foxy Knoxy" is still haunting Amanda Knox.  More than a decade after the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, the 30-year-old Seattle native is still battling the public persona that was painted of her while on trial for the 2007 tragedy. Amid all the media coverage of Knox after Kercher's death and during the trial, she was painted as a young, sex-crazed American she-devil as outlets picked at her life in college before Italy, her social behavior while studying abroad, her relationship with her then-Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and the prosecution's theories on her motives and argued participation in the murder. After her childhood nickname "Foxy Knoxy" was...

Ten years ago, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy.

Her roommate, Amanda Knox, was arrested — and twice convicted — for the November 1, 2007 killing. She spent four years in prison during the detention and prosecution before being freed on appeal. In 2015, Italy’s highest court eventually exonerated her and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. A third person, Rudy Guede, was also convicted of Kercher’s murder and remains behind bars.

Ten years to the day of Kercher’s murder, Knox is writing about her feelings in a new essay, entitled “Mourning Meredith.” The essay was published on WestsideSeattle.com.

“Ten years ago tonight,...

In the small, rented Seattle home that Amanda Knox shares with her poet-novelist partner and three cats, small circles of blue paper taped to the wall above the couple’s side-by-side computers catalog their future projects together.

Knox, 30, who is now six years removed from the Italian prison where she spent four years before her conviction was overturned in the murder of her study-abroad roommate in 2007, calls them “our balls in the air.”

One bears the words, “Lady Justice,” the title of Knox’s next book, which she describes as “part memoir, part investigative journalism, looking at the greater forces...

She was not looking for love when Amanda Knox says it crept up on her again.

Following her release six years ago from an Italian prison for a headline-grabbing murder she did not commit, the former study-abroad student returned to Seattle to rebuild what she could of her life, she tells People exclusively in this week’s issue.

“When I first came home, I was afraid that the prosecution’s narrative would forever limit and define me,” says Knox, 30.

She and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were twice convicted in the 2007 murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy,...

Guilt or innocence was never the question that drove a pair of documentary filmmakers to dive into the tabloid-ready murder case of Amanda Knox.

Fueled by allegations of sex games gone wrong, the 2007 arrests of Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, for the stabbing death of Knox’s study-abroad roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, seized the headlines and remained there through two trials and the suspects’ eventual 2015 exoneration by Italy’s highest court.

The investigation, media coverage and aftermath — Knox, now 30, served four years in Italian prison and tells People in this week’s issue how she has since...

It was a dream destination 10 years ago for Amanda Knox, then a 20-year-old American studying abroad, but the town of Perugia, Italy, became for her a place of fear and terror with her arrest and wrongful conviction for the murder of 21-year-old British roommate Meredith Kercher.

Six years after her release from Italian prison, Knox, 30, tells People exclusively in this week’s issue that she is preparing to go back and reclaim the city on her own terms.

“The only way that I’m going to come full circle is by physically, literally, coming full circle,” she says. “I know...

Her story and face became fixtures in the headlines 10 years ago as Amanda Knox, then a 20-year-old American studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, faced a charge of murder alongside her then-boyfriend amid allegations of a sex game gone wrong.

She spent four years in prison overseas before an appeal reversed her homicide conviction and, in 2015, she and Raffaele Sollecito were exonerated by Italy’s highest court in the 2007 killing of Knox’s 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Now, six years after Knox’s homecoming, the subject of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary Amanda Knox tells People exclusively in this week’s...

It was an international murder case that captivated the world.

American college student Amanda Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were charged with the 2007 death of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, who was sexually assaulted and found fatally stabbed in the Italian apartment she shared with Knox. Both Knox and Sollecito were convicted after police said DNA evidence linked them to the crime – but then were acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s highest court because of “stunning flaws” in the investigation and a lack of evidence.

The Amanda Knox story became international news and landed on the cover of People.

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Catherine Pearson Feb 22, 2017

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Similarly, the court of public opinion — as well as the courts of Italy — declared that 20-year-old party girl Amanda Knox, studying abroad in Perugia, murdered her roommate, Meredith Kercher. It took eight years, but in 2015 the Italian Supreme Court finally declared her innocent, and that she had no motive.

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