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Musk threatens legal action over documentary
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Elon Musk's lawyers put the makers of a new four-hour documentary about the multibillionaire on formal legal notice days before its premiere, warning that the film defames him.
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Watch Teaser Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Forthcoming Elon Musk Documentary
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An Elon Musk documentary and a Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem thriller premiere at Venice
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Elon Musk Rages Over Alex Gibney’s ‘Hit Piece’ Documentary ‘Musk’: ‘Horrible Human’
The first teaser trailer for Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated Elon Musk documentary “Musk” has been released. The film will world premiere out of competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 8 before continuing to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bleecker Street has released a teaser-trailer for Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated documentary Musk, and it’s not a flattering portrait of the SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink honcho and X owner. Yes, the teaser begins with voices of some people heaping praise on Elon Musk – one idolator roaring he’s “the gr…
What sort of billionaire criticizes another billionaire for giving tons of money to charity? The same kind of billionaire who would gleefully gut USAID, calling it a “criminal organization,” a move that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, according to multiple estimates.
What makes "Musk" such a lacerating and important watch, grounded in Alex Gibney’s supremely insightful but user-friendly mastery of the form, is that it takes this flamboyant but in many ways elusive figure, with his tech ambitions and cosmic dreams and malignant megalomania, and puts him all toget…
The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s nearly four-hour portrait picks apart the tech mogul’s mythology while examining his growing influence over tech, politics and American democracy.
“Musk,” an incisive four-hour documentary probing the world’s richest man, was embraced at Venice Film Festival with a four-minute standing ovation. Despite the lengthy runtime, audiences inside Lido’s famed Palazza del Cinema seemed enraptured in the film, directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, with…
Elon Musk has spoken out about Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary on him, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, calling it a “hit piece” that’s “boring.” “Musk,” which earned a four-minute standing ovation at its premiere and a slew of positive reviews, seeks to make sense of the …
The four-hour documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, and while it’s unclear whether Musk actually watched it, he walked away with strong feelings towards its director
Elon Musk has gone on an hours-long rampage about Alex Gibney after the Oscar-winning director premiered his documentary about the tech mogul at the Venice Film Festival. In a series of vicious and sometimes bizarre posts on X/Twitter, Musk accused the filmmaker of having “zero integrity” and being …
Tech mogul calls director Alex Gibney a ‘bitter old man’ who has ‘zero integrity’ in series of posts on X Elon Musk has issued an angry tirade at the film-maker behind a four-hour documentary about his life and influence, labelling director Alex Gibney a “bitter old man” who has “zero integrity”.
Musk's attorney declares "we have no choice but to put you on formal legal notice" as the tech titan slams the buzzy documentary on X as a "false film."
The tech billionaire's attorney has put documentarian Alex Gibney and his production company on legal notice, claiming the Oscar-winning director defamed Musk in his nearly four-hour documentary.
Elon Musk's lawyers put the makers of a new four-hour documentary about the multibillionaire on formal legal notice days before its premiere, warning that the film defames him.
Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk" is almost four hours long and slated for a theatrical release in the U.S. on October 16, before streaming on HBO next year.
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