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The Jinx — Part 2 Gets Trapped in Its Own Fame-Themed Ouroboros
The push-pull of the true-crime genre is that, no matter how much it intends to give a voice to the...
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Posted Monday 1/10/22 at 1:35PM EST
Robert Durst dies at 78, months after he was sentenced to life in prison for his friend's murder
The real estate scion, the subject of HBO's 2015 true-crime docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,...
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Posted Saturday 11/20/21 at 5:52AM EST
TV documentaries are having a real-life impact, from Framing Britney Spears to Surviving R. Kelly to Who Killed Malcolm X?
Phil Bertelsen, along with Rachel Dretzin, co-directed Who Killed Malcolm X?, the Netflix docuseries that helped exonerate convicted Malcolm X...
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Posted Saturday 10/16/21 at 7:58PM EDT
Robert Durst hospitalized, placed on a ventilator after contracting COVID
The Jinx subject is in the hospital two days after he was sentenced to life in prison for the killing...
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Posted Friday 10/15/21 at 2:57AM EDT
Robert Durst sentenced to life in prison
The Jinx subject and multimillionaire real estate heir was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole...
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Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 6:18PM EDT
The Jinx filmmaker found Robert Durst's conviction "very gratifying"
“I can’t say I was surprised because if you watch the trial it was extraordinary,” said Andrew Jarecki, who won...
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Posted Friday 9/17/21 at 6:35PM EDT
The Jinx's Robert Durst found guilty of first-degree murder
A Los Angeles jury found the 78-year-old real estate heir guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the 2000 shooting death of...
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Posted Tuesday 8/17/21 at 1:38PM EDT
Robert Durst testifies that appearing on The Jinx was a “very, very, very, big mistake"
Durst tried to explain on the witness stand what he meant when he said on the 2015 HBO docuseries, “What...
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Posted Saturday 7/10/21 at 12:20AM EDT
TV's true-crime docuseries boom has surprised industry veterans while drawing increased scrutiny
HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, premiering in February 2015, and Netflix’s Making a Murderer, released...
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Posted Saturday 10/03/20 at 7:13AM EDT
A Wilderness of Error fails in its attempt to pull a "Jinx"
The FX true-crime docuseries from The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst writer/producer Marc Smerling tries pull a...
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Posted Wednesday 3/04/20 at 7:15PM EST
The Jinx's Robert Durst's first day on trial focused on the victims
The 76-year-old real estate heir and HBO docuseries subject spent the first day of his trial Wednesday listening to prosecutors...
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Posted Thursday 4/25/19 at 5:38AM EDT
HBO stands by The Jinx following revelation that Robert Durst's alleged confession was edited out of order
"Andrew Jarecki is an experienced, respected and award-winning filmmaker whose film speaks for itself,” HBO said in a statement responding...
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HBO's The Jinx edited Robert Durst's alleged confession out of order
At the end of HBO's 2015 headline-grabbing documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Durst is...
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Posted Friday 10/26/18 at 5:20AM EDT
The Jinx's Robert Durst ordered to stand trial for murder
The real estate heir and subject of the 2015 HBO true-crime docuseries The Jinx has been ordered to stand trial...
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Posted Monday 10/22/18 at 10:25PM EDT
Get Out and Halloween horror production company Blumhouse is trying to conquer TV
Blumhouse has found big-screen success with horror films Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Get Out and, most recently, Halloween.