Type Division of CNN Products Films Founded 2012 | Headquarters United States Website cnn.com/cnnfilms Parent organization CNN | |
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Industry Motion picture
Film distribution Owner Turner Broadcasting System
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CNN Films is a motion picture division of CNN, originally launched in 2012. Its first film Girl Rising premiered in spring 2013 in the United States.
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On October 8, 2012, CNN announced the creation of CNN Films. CNN says that it will acquire and commission original feature-length documentaries that will "examine an array of political, social, and economic subject matters." It also signed development deals with documentary directors Alex Gibney and Andrew Rossi. Since its creation, it already acquired the rights for Girl Rising, a 100-minute documentary narrated by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Kerry Washington, and Selena Gomez.
While the documentaries will initially air on CNN, the network reportedly plans to enter them in film festivals and distribute them to theaters as well.
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, CNN announced the acquisition of three documentaries. It acquired the rights to air Life Itself, a film adaptation of Roger Ebert's 2011 memoir, in television. The project will be directed by Steve James and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Zaillian. It is scheduled to air in 2014. The two other untitled projects are expected to air on CNN in 2013. One, from directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperleini, centers on 9/11 and reconstructs the events at Ground Zero; the other, from director Andrew Rossi, focuses on the transformation of higher education, examining the costs and relevance of college.
CNN Films bought the television rights of Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare which premiered on March 10, 2013 on CNN. The film was directed by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke. The film premiered on January 19, 2012 at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released on October 5, 2012.
It recently acquired Penny Lane's Our Nixon. CNN plans to premiere the film in August, while Cinedigm will release it theatrically. The network has also then acquired the domestic television broadcast rights of the Sundance film selection Robert Stone's Pandora's Promise and is slated to air on CNN on November while it will be theatrically released on June 12.