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The 2025 jewel heist from the Louvre Museum in Paris has grabbed headlines and the world’s attention since October. Now, R.J. Cutler and Laurent Bouzereau (Music by John Williams) are developing a documentary that will explore the theft and the search for the criminals, as well as the public obsession that followed.
Twenty-five years after The Virgin Suicides, Coppola chats with VF before being honored at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2025 Film Benefit, presented by Chanel.
Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful nominated in Song - Documentary Film for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards
Never Too Late From "Elton John: Never Too Late" nominated for a Grammy in Best Song Written For Visual Media
“Martha” nominated for the 2026 Realscreen Awards in Non-Fiction - Arts & Culture
She's one of America's best directors. He's one of America's best designers. Now, their friendship has yielded a documentary.
"Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series" is now streaming on Apple TV. This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on Oct. 27, 2025
Ms. Coppola’s first-ever documentary, unveiled at the Venice Film Festival, is an affectionate portrait of her decades-long bond with the designer.
Variety and Rolling Stone’s Truth Seekers Summit on Aug. 14 brings a unique variety of director. The work each respective director has made recently diverges from their fellow panelists in style, in subject matter and in approach, but all the filmmakers share a commitment to using the tools of art to reveal stories the viewer may not have expected.
Join us at the Paris Theater August 12 + 13 for our series MARTHA, BILLIE & ANNA: Portraits by R.J. Cutler, in celebration of MARTHA's two Emmy nominations!
Aug 12, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE screens on 35mm + intro by former Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington.
Aug 13, MARTHA will be followed by Q&A with R.J. Cutler!
“Martha” included on the 2025 Grierson Awards longlist
Top filmmakers Joe Berlinger, Bao Nguyen and R.J. Cutler, among others, are also to be featured at the summit, presented by Paramount+
Major news for fans hopelessly devoted to Olivia Newton-John: a documentary in production about the late singer and actress will be coming to Netflix.
The five-part series follows the inaugural Esports World Cup (EWC) — a tournament so massive it offered a record-shattering $60 million prize pool. Shot in verité style, Level Up isn’t just about gameplay. It’s about the lives behind the keyboards. From international rivalries to stories of grit and personal sacrifice, Cutler captures the emotional intensity of elite-level gaming—and proves esports is no longer just a pastime. It’s a profession, a path, and for some, the only way out.
The Emmy-winning director on what he learned from D.A. Pennebaker, and how he navigates big personalities like Martha, Wintour, Cheney & Eilish
Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker RJ Cutler details the beats of a wild career that’s landed him exclusive access to make documentaries about Anna Wintour, Dick Cheney, Billie Eilish, Elton John and, most recently, Martha Stewart in Netflix’s juicy 2024 tell-all Martha, about the world’s first influencer.
Electronic sports, also known as esports, have escalated from a niche for dedicated gamers competing in organized video game matchups into an industry that boasts millions of participants and spectators globally. Despite some debate about its validity as a “real” sport, what was once perceived as a hobby of enthusiasts has morphed into the multi-million-dollar mainstream where streaming services, the advertising community, the participating players, the job market, and an annual global competition like the Esports World Cup (EWC) are reaping the benefits.
“I didn’t want some namby-pamby, Ralph Lauren documentary,” Martha Stewart declared Monday night in Beverly Hills as she and filmmaker R.J. Cutler sat for an FYC event on the outdoor deck of the Maybourne Hotel to tout the Netflix docu “Martha.”
Realscreen’s Global 100 Top Tens for 2025: Unscripted brings the drama
To this day, the Mañana Será Bonito tour is the highest-grossing—and the first-ever stadium tour—by a Latina recording artist.
Now, thanks to a new documentary—Mañana Fue Bonito (Tomorrow Was Beautiful)—available on Netflix today, Karol's fans can relive the era that changed everything for the singer, as well as see all that it took to make history and shift the perception of success for Latinas in music.
Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber for an in-depth conversation spanning the “discovery” of James Carville for The War Room, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, The September Issue, which captured the power dynamics inside Vogue, and Cutler’s controversial portrait of Martha Stewart. Cutler reflects on storytelling, democracy, and what drives him to document people. His newest documentary, Fight for Glory, chronicling the drama of the 2024 World Series
Little Known Facts is a weekly podcast hosted by stage and film actress Ilana Levine. With over 250 interviews to date with today’s most successful artists, Levine engages her celebrity guests in intimate conversations that are hilarious, vulnerable, revealing and inspiring. Episode 224: R.J. Cutler is an award-winning producer and director who has made some of the most significant documentaries of the past quarter century.
As his superb Showtime documentary Belushi premieres next month and with Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry upcoming from Apple TV+, R.J. Cutler has launched the production company This Machine, with an investment from Industrial Media. Cutler sealed the deal with Industrial Media’s CEO Eli Holzman and President Aaron Saidman.