2Nd Update: The sequel series to Tiger King has been on Netflix for almost a month now, and today Carole Baskin’s lawsuit against the streamer and others over the Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode directed franchise is over.
Having failed to get a desired injunction to block the November 17 launch of Tiger King 2 and facing a summery judgment motion, Big Cat Rescue founder Baskin and her husband Howard have dropped their contact lawsuit over the series.
In a one-page filing in federal court Wednesday, the Baskins gave “notice of their voluntary dismissal of this action.” Within hours of the dismissal from the plaintiffs, Tampa-based Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington officially tossed the messy matter “without prejudice” – which means it’s over …unlike Joe Exotic’s prison stint.
1St Update, Nov 1, 11:55 Pm: Netflix won’t have to worry about Carole Baskin and her just filed contract lawsuit pulling...
Having failed to get a desired injunction to block the November 17 launch of Tiger King 2 and facing a summery judgment motion, Big Cat Rescue founder Baskin and her husband Howard have dropped their contact lawsuit over the series.
In a one-page filing in federal court Wednesday, the Baskins gave “notice of their voluntary dismissal of this action.” Within hours of the dismissal from the plaintiffs, Tampa-based Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington officially tossed the messy matter “without prejudice” – which means it’s over …unlike Joe Exotic’s prison stint.
1St Update, Nov 1, 11:55 Pm: Netflix won’t have to worry about Carole Baskin and her just filed contract lawsuit pulling...
- 12/16/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
“Tiger King” once roared on Netflix. Now, the docuseries franchise about exotic animal collectors can barely muster a squeak.
“Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story” is the latest chapter in the ongoing, unbelievable saga of big cats and their suspect, and sometimes criminal, owners. Much like Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was an eccentric star — though some would use that term loosely — and private zoo owner in the original “Tiger King.” The new, three-episode miniseries digs deeper into his past and alleges several incidents of sexual abuse and violence against former romantic partners and colleagues. However, this spinoff fails to stir up nearly as much bing-worthy excitement or as many jaw-dropping revelations as the first “Tiger King” (nor its lackluster follow-up released just three weeks ago).
Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the directors of both previous “Tiger King” series, shot extra footage and sit-down interviews with people...
“Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story” is the latest chapter in the ongoing, unbelievable saga of big cats and their suspect, and sometimes criminal, owners. Much like Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was an eccentric star — though some would use that term loosely — and private zoo owner in the original “Tiger King.” The new, three-episode miniseries digs deeper into his past and alleges several incidents of sexual abuse and violence against former romantic partners and colleagues. However, this spinoff fails to stir up nearly as much bing-worthy excitement or as many jaw-dropping revelations as the first “Tiger King” (nor its lackluster follow-up released just three weeks ago).
Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the directors of both previous “Tiger King” series, shot extra footage and sit-down interviews with people...
- 12/10/2021
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
A new chapter in Netflix’s “Tiger King” saga is coming next week.
A three-part documentary about private zoo operator Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, titled “Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story,” is set to premiere on the streamer Dec. 10. Directed by “Tiger King” and “Tiger King 2” documentarians Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode, the series will further dive into Antle’s mysterious past and “lifelong abuses of power,” according to the announcement.
“A lifelong showman, Doc Antle has built his various careers on theatrics, attracting a slew of admirers along the way,” a synopsis of the documentary reads. “But beneath the eccentric, animal-loving facade lies a predator far more dangerous than his beloved big cats and a man shadier than any of his ‘Tiger King’ counterparts. Over three episodes, ‘Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story’ unpacks the truth about Doc, as witnesses come forward to share their troubling stories of abuse...
A three-part documentary about private zoo operator Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, titled “Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story,” is set to premiere on the streamer Dec. 10. Directed by “Tiger King” and “Tiger King 2” documentarians Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode, the series will further dive into Antle’s mysterious past and “lifelong abuses of power,” according to the announcement.
“A lifelong showman, Doc Antle has built his various careers on theatrics, attracting a slew of admirers along the way,” a synopsis of the documentary reads. “But beneath the eccentric, animal-loving facade lies a predator far more dangerous than his beloved big cats and a man shadier than any of his ‘Tiger King’ counterparts. Over three episodes, ‘Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story’ unpacks the truth about Doc, as witnesses come forward to share their troubling stories of abuse...
- 12/3/2021
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
As “Tiger King” itself notes in its Season 2 premiere, during an opening sequence delivered with all the melodramatic gravitas of a grim thriller, Netflix dropped “Tiger King” at precisely the right moment for it to become the cultural sensation it did. By March 19 of 2020, millions of people were stuck at home waiting out the first wave of the novel coronavirus, not realizing that life was about to change for a much longer time than it takes to perfect sourdough starter. For anyone else starved for something besides a deadly virus to focus on, something as flashy and splashy as “Tiger King” provided the perfect kind of distraction. The interwoven tales of warring Oklahoma big cat enthusiasts “Joe Exotic,” Carole Baskin, and the wild cast of characters surrounding them proved irresistible. That the show wasn’t particularly good or well-made didn’t really matter. “Tiger King,” in all its tacky glory,...
- 11/17/2021
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched “Tiger King 2” on Netflix.
It has been a year and a half since “Tiger King” mania took over the newly-locked down world, and now Netflix is hoping to recapture that magic with “Tiger King 2.” This time around, though, the focus is much heavier on Carole Baskin and her missing former husband, Don Lewis.
The original docuseries — centering on a feud between big cat zoo owners and the tumultuous personal life and fame seeking of Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage — first premiered on Netflix in March 2020, right when the Covid-19 pandemic was forcing people inside. A content consumption frenzy ensued, leading to directors Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode filming enough additional footage to fill five more episodes.
There were several questions lingering at the end of “Tiger King” — most obviously, “Was Joe Exotic framed and will he get out of jail?...
It has been a year and a half since “Tiger King” mania took over the newly-locked down world, and now Netflix is hoping to recapture that magic with “Tiger King 2.” This time around, though, the focus is much heavier on Carole Baskin and her missing former husband, Don Lewis.
The original docuseries — centering on a feud between big cat zoo owners and the tumultuous personal life and fame seeking of Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage — first premiered on Netflix in March 2020, right when the Covid-19 pandemic was forcing people inside. A content consumption frenzy ensued, leading to directors Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode filming enough additional footage to fill five more episodes.
There were several questions lingering at the end of “Tiger King” — most obviously, “Was Joe Exotic framed and will he get out of jail?...
- 11/17/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Carole Baskin has filed a last-minute lawsuit against streaming giant Netflix seeking to stop the upcoming release of Tiger King 2 on Nov. 17.
In her complaint filed Monday in federal court in Florida, Baskin says she was “shocked” when the official trailer released last week “prominently portrayed” her as a “central” figure of the upcoming sequel. She claims the new follow-up series repurposes her interview material from the original docuseries without proper consent, after she “steadfastly” rejected any role in Tiger King 2, telling producers, “No, and lose my number.
In her complaint filed Monday in federal court in Florida, Baskin says she was “shocked” when the official trailer released last week “prominently portrayed” her as a “central” figure of the upcoming sequel. She claims the new follow-up series repurposes her interview material from the original docuseries without proper consent, after she “steadfastly” rejected any role in Tiger King 2, telling producers, “No, and lose my number.
- 11/2/2021
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Carole Baskin is suing Netflix for using footage of her in the upcoming “Tiger King 2” series.
Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, filed suit in Tampa, Fla. on Monday against the streamer and production company Royal Goode Productions. According to the documents, obtained by Variety, Baskin alleges that Royal Goode Productions has breached contract by continuing to use footage of her and her husband in “Tiger King 2,” since they only signed appearance release forms for the first documentary. Netflix declined to comment on the matter.
“Understanding that the Appearance Releases limited Royal Goode Productions’ use of the footage of the Baskins and Big Cat Rescue to the single, initial documentary motion picture, the Baskins believed that any sequel – though odious – would not include any of their footage,” the document reads, also stating that the Baskins were surprised to see that footage of them was used in the trailer for “Tiger King 2.
Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, filed suit in Tampa, Fla. on Monday against the streamer and production company Royal Goode Productions. According to the documents, obtained by Variety, Baskin alleges that Royal Goode Productions has breached contract by continuing to use footage of her and her husband in “Tiger King 2,” since they only signed appearance release forms for the first documentary. Netflix declined to comment on the matter.
“Understanding that the Appearance Releases limited Royal Goode Productions’ use of the footage of the Baskins and Big Cat Rescue to the single, initial documentary motion picture, the Baskins believed that any sequel – though odious – would not include any of their footage,” the document reads, also stating that the Baskins were surprised to see that footage of them was used in the trailer for “Tiger King 2.
- 11/1/2021
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Tiger King 2 Trailer — Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin‘s Tiger King 2 (2021) TV show trailer has been released by Netflix. The Tiger King: Season 2 trailer stars Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson. Crew Jerome Upchurch and Damien Drake crafted the cinematography for this TV series. [...]
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- 10/29/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Netflix has released a dramatic first trailer for “Tiger King 2,” the sequel to the larger-than-life documentary series that got everyone through the first isolating weeks of the pandemic. Full of suspense and outlandish characters, “Tiger King” immediately captured viewers’ attention worldwide. Now the saga continues with Joe Exotic behind bars, and not the kind you keep a big cat in. Set to Liza Minnelli singing “Maybe This Time” from “Cabaret,” the trailer below teases plenty of drama and intrigue to come.
Here’s the official synopsis, per Netflix: “With Joe Exotic behind bars and Carole Baskin closing in on ownership of his disreputable zoo, the Emmy-nominated saga continues its twisted course with ‘Tiger King 2’ as newfound revelations emerge on the motivations, backstories, and secrets of America’s most notorious big cat owners. Old enemies and frenemies, including Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson return for another season of murder,...
Here’s the official synopsis, per Netflix: “With Joe Exotic behind bars and Carole Baskin closing in on ownership of his disreputable zoo, the Emmy-nominated saga continues its twisted course with ‘Tiger King 2’ as newfound revelations emerge on the motivations, backstories, and secrets of America’s most notorious big cat owners. Old enemies and frenemies, including Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson return for another season of murder,...
- 10/27/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
With Liza Minnelli’s old Cabaret anthem of optimism playing in the background (“Maybe this time I’ll win!”), the trailer for Netflix’s Tiger King 2 documentary sequel series promises all the drama, backstabbing and just plain weirdness that caught viewers’ attention the first time around.
The new series, premiering Nov. 17, is described by Netflix like this: With Joe Exotic behind bars and Carole Baskin closing in on ownership of his disreputable zoo, the Emmy-nominated saga continues its twisted course with Tiger King 2 as newfound revelations emerge on the motivations, backstories, and secrets of America’s most notorious big cat owners. Old enemies and frenemies, including Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson return for another season of murder, mayhem, and madness. Thought you knew the whole story? Just you wait.
Best line of the trailer? Says the King himself, Joe Exotic, “Jeff and Lauren are...
The new series, premiering Nov. 17, is described by Netflix like this: With Joe Exotic behind bars and Carole Baskin closing in on ownership of his disreputable zoo, the Emmy-nominated saga continues its twisted course with Tiger King 2 as newfound revelations emerge on the motivations, backstories, and secrets of America’s most notorious big cat owners. Old enemies and frenemies, including Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson return for another season of murder, mayhem, and madness. Thought you knew the whole story? Just you wait.
Best line of the trailer? Says the King himself, Joe Exotic, “Jeff and Lauren are...
- 10/27/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Tiger King 2 looks to be more bonkers than its predecessor.
Netflix on Wednesday dropped a full-length trailer for the forthcoming follow-up, and it looks pretty crazy.
“When you thought you’ve seen it all, you haven’t quite seen it all,” the clip teases.
“We have more money than God right now,” Jeff Lowe, who took over Joe’s zoo when he went to prison, says in the clip.
Joe is still incarcerated and unimpressed about everyone on the outside making a lot of money on the success of the original series.
At one point, he vows to make a deal with the devil, likely to get out of the big house.
The clip even touches upon the demands for Donald Trump to pardon him.
The trailer is a lot, and even though Carole Baskin has slammed the decision to bring the show back, it seems like there will...
Netflix on Wednesday dropped a full-length trailer for the forthcoming follow-up, and it looks pretty crazy.
“When you thought you’ve seen it all, you haven’t quite seen it all,” the clip teases.
“We have more money than God right now,” Jeff Lowe, who took over Joe’s zoo when he went to prison, says in the clip.
Joe is still incarcerated and unimpressed about everyone on the outside making a lot of money on the success of the original series.
At one point, he vows to make a deal with the devil, likely to get out of the big house.
The clip even touches upon the demands for Donald Trump to pardon him.
The trailer is a lot, and even though Carole Baskin has slammed the decision to bring the show back, it seems like there will...
- 10/27/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
National Basketball Assn. legend Michael Jordan was not an easy sell on the docuseries The Last Dance. Producer Mike Tollin told a Producers Guild panel of Non-Scripted Television producers that the NBA had kept 500 hours of footage from Jordan’s final season,1997-1998, pending Jordan’s approval to release it.
Tollin said he had to pin Jordan down for a meeting, then finally convinced him by saying, “Every day, people come to my office wearing your shoes who’ve never seen you play. It’s time.”
When Tollin and director Jason Hehir interviewed Jordan, the athlete opened up about friction between teammates and associates outside of basketball. Tollin said episode seven of The Last Dance shows Jordan at his most vulnerable.
“He says, ‘All I wanted was to be the best basketball player I could be. All I ever asked of all of my teammates was no more than I asked of myself.
Tollin said he had to pin Jordan down for a meeting, then finally convinced him by saying, “Every day, people come to my office wearing your shoes who’ve never seen you play. It’s time.”
When Tollin and director Jason Hehir interviewed Jordan, the athlete opened up about friction between teammates and associates outside of basketball. Tollin said episode seven of The Last Dance shows Jordan at his most vulnerable.
“He says, ‘All I wanted was to be the best basketball player I could be. All I ever asked of all of my teammates was no more than I asked of myself.
- 3/20/2021
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
With a flurry of exiting pardons expected from Donald Trump any moment, incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has taken the Justice Department to court in the hopes of joining Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and other similar upstanding citizens in getting a Presidential act of clemency.
“Joe Exotic seeks to require the United States Office of the Pardon Attorney to comply with its ministerial duty to submit a recommendation to the President of the United States regarding Joe Exotic’s application for pardon, so that the President can exercise his Constitutional discretion in determining whether to grant or deny application petition,” declares a complaint that Exotic filed under his real name of Joseph Maldonado-Passage in federal court last week against the DOJ’s Acting Pardon Attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns (read it here).
A self described “gay, gun-toting, redneck in Oklahoma,” according to Exotic’s 257-page initial pardon petition, the infamous...
“Joe Exotic seeks to require the United States Office of the Pardon Attorney to comply with its ministerial duty to submit a recommendation to the President of the United States regarding Joe Exotic’s application for pardon, so that the President can exercise his Constitutional discretion in determining whether to grant or deny application petition,” declares a complaint that Exotic filed under his real name of Joseph Maldonado-Passage in federal court last week against the DOJ’s Acting Pardon Attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns (read it here).
A self described “gay, gun-toting, redneck in Oklahoma,” according to Exotic’s 257-page initial pardon petition, the infamous...
- 12/21/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Apparently the power of Joe Exotic can be denied. “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” the controversial Netflix docuseries that centered on the big cat enthusiast, amateur zoo owner, singer, one-time presidential hopeful and now prison inmate, was shut out at the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
The biggest prize for which it was nominated was the documentary or nonfiction series Emmy, which was handed out on the final night of Creative Arts ceremonies, Saturday, Sept. 19. It lost that award to ESPN’s “The Last Dance.”
“Tiger King” was nominated for five other awards, all of which were handed out earlier in the week, and all of which went to other nominees. Those categories were documentary/nonfiction directing, nonfiction picture editing, documentary series or special music composition (original dramatic score), nonfiction or reality program sound editing (single or multi-camera), nonfiction or reality program sound mixing, and documentary or nonfiction series...
The biggest prize for which it was nominated was the documentary or nonfiction series Emmy, which was handed out on the final night of Creative Arts ceremonies, Saturday, Sept. 19. It lost that award to ESPN’s “The Last Dance.”
“Tiger King” was nominated for five other awards, all of which were handed out earlier in the week, and all of which went to other nominees. Those categories were documentary/nonfiction directing, nonfiction picture editing, documentary series or special music composition (original dramatic score), nonfiction or reality program sound editing (single or multi-camera), nonfiction or reality program sound mixing, and documentary or nonfiction series...
- 9/20/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
The Primetime Emmys take place on September 20 and air live coast-to-coast on ABC. But the majority of awards are handed out at the five Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies that take place in the week leading up to TV’s biggest night. The Creative Arts trophies will be awarded at five events on: September 14 (reality and nonfiction; Sept. 15 (variety); Sept. 16; Sept. 17 and Sept. 19 (mix). The first four of these will stream live on Emmys.com while the last will air on Fxx.
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced TV productions, film shoots and entertainment events to shut down all year to slow the spread of the easily transmitted disease, all of this year’s Emmy ceremonies will be held virtually. While Jimmy Kimmel emcees just one show — the Emmys next Sunday — Best Reality Host nominee Nicole Byer (“Nailed It”) has been tapped to preside over all five of the Creative Arts awards.
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced TV productions, film shoots and entertainment events to shut down all year to slow the spread of the easily transmitted disease, all of this year’s Emmy ceremonies will be held virtually. While Jimmy Kimmel emcees just one show — the Emmys next Sunday — Best Reality Host nominee Nicole Byer (“Nailed It”) has been tapped to preside over all five of the Creative Arts awards.
- 9/20/2020
- by Paul Sheehan, Marcus James Dixon, Joyce Eng, Daniel Montgomery and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
If you were watching Monday’s live stream of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmys (and we were — watch our reactions here), then you definitely heard the name “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” a lot. But not when it came to the winners. Indeed, Netflix’s behemoth docu-series lost five Emmys at the virtual ceremony: directing, music composition, picture editing, sound editing and sound mixing. However, there’s still hope on the horizon as the big prize — Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series — doesn’t get handed out until Saturday, September 19.
See‘Tiger King’ directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin give update on possible Season 2 [Exclusive Video Interview]
During Saturday’s upcoming ceremony, “Tiger King” will face off against ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” Hulu’s “Hillary,” PBS’s “American Masters” and HBO’s “McMillion$.” None of these contenders took home any Emmys on Monday night, so it’s an even playing field heading into...
See‘Tiger King’ directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin give update on possible Season 2 [Exclusive Video Interview]
During Saturday’s upcoming ceremony, “Tiger King” will face off against ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” Hulu’s “Hillary,” PBS’s “American Masters” and HBO’s “McMillion$.” None of these contenders took home any Emmys on Monday night, so it’s an even playing field heading into...
- 9/15/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
“We’re exploring the idea,” says Rebecca Chaiklin about possibly continuing her documentary miniseries “Tiger King” with a second season on Netflix. She explains, “It would be a continuation of the story if we were to conclude that there was enough to film.” With “Tiger King” nominated for six Emmys, Chaiklin and her creative partner Eric Goode discussed the making of the show in an exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above), with Chaiklin joining the call from a moving vehicle and Goode speaking from his Turtle Conservatory headquarters. Chaiklin and Goode are nominated in Best Documentary Directing for the series’ second episode; they also contend through their executive producer credits with Fisher Stevens in the Best Documentary Series race, for which they have submitted the fifth episode for academy consideration.
SEEour chat with “Tiger King” sound editor Ian Cymore.
Goode says about wrestling with the ethics of...
SEEour chat with “Tiger King” sound editor Ian Cymore.
Goode says about wrestling with the ethics of...
- 8/22/2020
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
When directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin began collaborating on a documentary series about the strange world of exotic animal breeders, they thought it might generate modest attention.
“We were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in.”
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness wound up attracting not just a “few people”, but a stampede after it dropped on Netflix in March. And when the Emmy nominations were announced, Tiger King snared half a dozen of them, the most of any documentary.
‘Tiger King’ Zoo Permanently Closed; Jeff Lowe Says New Park Will Be Private Set For TV Content
Netflix earned a record 160 Emmy nominations in all, a tidy number coming in documentary categories, where it lapped the field: Traditional documentary powerhouse HBO scored eight nonfiction nominations, fewer than half of what Netflix collected.
“We were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in.”
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness wound up attracting not just a “few people”, but a stampede after it dropped on Netflix in March. And when the Emmy nominations were announced, Tiger King snared half a dozen of them, the most of any documentary.
‘Tiger King’ Zoo Permanently Closed; Jeff Lowe Says New Park Will Be Private Set For TV Content
Netflix earned a record 160 Emmy nominations in all, a tidy number coming in documentary categories, where it lapped the field: Traditional documentary powerhouse HBO scored eight nonfiction nominations, fewer than half of what Netflix collected.
- 8/19/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The almost first female Potus is in the game, but the playoff in the Emmy docuseries category looks to be a battle between Joe Exotic and Michael Jordan.
Facing Hulu’s Hillary, PBS’ venerable American Masters and HBO’s McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness and The Last Dance snagged six and three nominations respectively from the TV Academy this morning.
With directing, picture editing, sound editing, music composition, sound mixing as well as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series nods, the salacious Netflix series that everyone was watching and talking about in the early days of the Covid-19 lockdown may appear on paper to have roared away with the genre. However, with big league doc series, picture editing and directing nominations, ESPN’s 10-part deep dive into the basketball legend’s career and last championship season at the Chicago Bulls may prove the winner on sheer star power and prestige.
Facing Hulu’s Hillary, PBS’ venerable American Masters and HBO’s McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness and The Last Dance snagged six and three nominations respectively from the TV Academy this morning.
With directing, picture editing, sound editing, music composition, sound mixing as well as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series nods, the salacious Netflix series that everyone was watching and talking about in the early days of the Covid-19 lockdown may appear on paper to have roared away with the genre. However, with big league doc series, picture editing and directing nominations, ESPN’s 10-part deep dive into the basketball legend’s career and last championship season at the Chicago Bulls may prove the winner on sheer star power and prestige.
- 7/28/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Coronavirus stay-at-home orders dramatically impacted television viewing habits, driving up consumption of just about every genre of programming, including documentary. The resulting huge audience numbers and media attention generated by Tiger King and The Last Dance could give those nonfiction series a leg-up as Emmy voters prepare to mark their nomination ballots.
Tiger King, the seven-part series on “murder, mayhem and madness” in the eccentric world of big cat breeders and private zoo operators, dropped on Netflix March 20, just as lockdown orders were being imposed across much of the U.S. Director Eric Goode is the first to say people moored in their homes, TV remote in hand, helped turn the series into a cultural phenomenon.
“I do think we all must assume that that’s part of it,” Goode states. “For sure.”
Tiger King is contending for Emmy nominations in multiple categories, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. It...
Tiger King, the seven-part series on “murder, mayhem and madness” in the eccentric world of big cat breeders and private zoo operators, dropped on Netflix March 20, just as lockdown orders were being imposed across much of the U.S. Director Eric Goode is the first to say people moored in their homes, TV remote in hand, helped turn the series into a cultural phenomenon.
“I do think we all must assume that that’s part of it,” Goode states. “For sure.”
Tiger King is contending for Emmy nominations in multiple categories, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. It...
- 6/26/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Long before Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names, before Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness turned into one of the most successful documentary series of all time, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin embarked on something they little suspected would become a cultural mega-hit.
“We sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in, and we were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we never in a million years expected it to be received the way that it was.”
Tiger King is part true-crime story, part bizarre slice of Americana involving eccentric people who raise big cats in private sanctuaries. The tale was strange enough to begin with but only got more so as filming progressed, culminating in the arrest and conviction of Joe Exotic for allegedly hiring a hit man to bump off Baskin, Joe’s sworn...
“We sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in, and we were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we never in a million years expected it to be received the way that it was.”
Tiger King is part true-crime story, part bizarre slice of Americana involving eccentric people who raise big cats in private sanctuaries. The tale was strange enough to begin with but only got more so as filming progressed, culminating in the arrest and conviction of Joe Exotic for allegedly hiring a hit man to bump off Baskin, Joe’s sworn...
- 6/11/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about “Tiger King” first appeared in the “Race Begins” issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine. It is one in a series of conversations about the effects of the coronavirus on the TV industry.
In the first month of isolation and social distancing, there’s no question which television series dominated social media conversation. Directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin’s “Tiger King,” the Wtf saga of a feuding group of private zoo owners, launched more memes, dropped more jaws and prompted more binges than any other bit of pandemic entertainment. The Netflix docuseries even led to a reporter asking President Donald Trump if he would pardon the mulleted central figure, Joe Exotic.
Obviously, you wouldn’t have spent years making “Tiger King” if you didn’t think it would be of interest to people. But could you ever have anticipated the sensation it became?
Rebecca Chaiklin No, I don’t think so.
In the first month of isolation and social distancing, there’s no question which television series dominated social media conversation. Directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin’s “Tiger King,” the Wtf saga of a feuding group of private zoo owners, launched more memes, dropped more jaws and prompted more binges than any other bit of pandemic entertainment. The Netflix docuseries even led to a reporter asking President Donald Trump if he would pardon the mulleted central figure, Joe Exotic.
Obviously, you wouldn’t have spent years making “Tiger King” if you didn’t think it would be of interest to people. But could you ever have anticipated the sensation it became?
Rebecca Chaiklin No, I don’t think so.
- 6/10/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
However, in the case of Tiger King, the series feels unfocused and unintentionally humorous that this was meant as a mockumentary rather than a real-life documentary. Directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chailkilin bring to the forefront a man who is a stranger-than-fiction character, Joe Exotic. With his bleach blonde mullet and colorful animal print clothes as he holds lions and tigers, you are immediately intrigued by this character. Just in the trailer alone, Joe Exotic mentions murder for hire plot, then cuts to him owning all of these various exotic animals throughout Oklahoma, and even goes into his polygamous marriages. ...
- 4/25/2020
- by Stephanie Bock
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
As the streaming wars kick it up to the next level with Peacock and soon HBO Max on the battlefield, a surging Netflix on Tuesday made it apparent who is still king, in no small part thanks to the success of Tiger King and the return of Money Heist.
In an investor letter released today along with the Reed Hastings-run streamer’s Q1 earnings in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread stay-at-home orders, the company said its sordid saga of the now-imprisoned Joe Exotic, big cats, betrayal and more was watched by 64 million households worldwide over its first month of release.
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To give a further global context,...
In an investor letter released today along with the Reed Hastings-run streamer’s Q1 earnings in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread stay-at-home orders, the company said its sordid saga of the now-imprisoned Joe Exotic, big cats, betrayal and more was watched by 64 million households worldwide over its first month of release.
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- 4/21/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
“Tiger King” is no longer the king of Netflix’s Top 10 titles list. On Friday, the Joe Exotic docuseries had its 25-day streak at No. 1 on the streaming service’s daily rankings of all its available movies and TV shows in the U.S. snapped by “Despicable Me.”
While “Tiger King” has now given up its throne to the Minions, the show was only bumped down to second place among overall titles and still holds its No. 1 slot on Netflix’s Top 10 TV series list.
The true-crime docuseries by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin holds the record for the longest streak atop the streaming service’s overall shows and movies list, having been sitting there since March 23 — three days after it launched. “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez” comes in second with six straight days as Netflix’s most-watched title, followed by “Love Is Blind” and “Spenser Confidential,” which were both...
While “Tiger King” has now given up its throne to the Minions, the show was only bumped down to second place among overall titles and still holds its No. 1 slot on Netflix’s Top 10 TV series list.
The true-crime docuseries by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin holds the record for the longest streak atop the streaming service’s overall shows and movies list, having been sitting there since March 23 — three days after it launched. “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez” comes in second with six straight days as Netflix’s most-watched title, followed by “Love Is Blind” and “Spenser Confidential,” which were both...
- 4/17/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
“Tiger King” director Eric Goode owns several New York hotels and restaurants that have all had to shut their doors amid the coronavirus pandemic, putting many of his employees out of work. Now, some of them are asking for his help.
Goode, who directed and executive produced Netflix’s smash-hit docuseries “Tiger King” along with Rebecca Chaiklin, owns the Bowery Hotel, the Jane Hotel, the Waverly Inn, and a number of restaurants including one well-established NoHo eatery called B Bar and Grill.
Buzzfeed News conducted interviews with some of Goode’s former B Bar staffers who were laid off from the restaurant when the pandemic hit. Many say that they have pleaded with Goode to help those who have fallen on hard times, but that their requests seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
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Goode, who directed and executive produced Netflix’s smash-hit docuseries “Tiger King” along with Rebecca Chaiklin, owns the Bowery Hotel, the Jane Hotel, the Waverly Inn, and a number of restaurants including one well-established NoHo eatery called B Bar and Grill.
Buzzfeed News conducted interviews with some of Goode’s former B Bar staffers who were laid off from the restaurant when the pandemic hit. Many say that they have pleaded with Goode to help those who have fallen on hard times, but that their requests seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
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- 4/16/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
In one of her first big interviews since the release of Netflix’s “Tiger King,” Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin tells the Tampa Bay Times she is angry with the Netflix series’ directors for allegedly betraying her and with viewers for missing the entire point of the show. “Tiger King” tracks the rivalry between Baskin and Joe Exotic, a big cat purveyor from Oklahoma who is now in jail for conspiring to murder Baskin. Joe Exotic alleges Baskin killed her ex-husband and fed him to her tigers. The disappearance of Baskin’s ex-husband has become such a breakout talking point from the series that Florida police have reopened the investigation into the matter.
“I just feel so angry that people have totally missed the point,” Baskin said to the Times. “And the point is these cubs are being abused and exploited and the public is enabling that.”
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“I just feel so angry that people have totally missed the point,” Baskin said to the Times. “And the point is these cubs are being abused and exploited and the public is enabling that.”
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- 4/13/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Documentaries rarely get a chance at damage control. Unless a film or series gets the rare chance for a followup to address concerns of the viewing public, the work usually exists on its own in all its imperfection.
Sensing both an opening and an appetite, Netflix dropped a new episode on Sunday to stoke the show’s popularity while pointing its steady flames in a slightly different direction. Using Netflix vet Joel McHale as a vehicle, this talkback session takes nearly every wrong lesson from the phenomenon built around the series and few from what made “Tiger King” worthy of attention in the first place. It gamifies a human story by adding a sarcastic, reality-show veneer onto an exercise that’s only ever insightful by accident.
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Whether he did...
Sensing both an opening and an appetite, Netflix dropped a new episode on Sunday to stoke the show’s popularity while pointing its steady flames in a slightly different direction. Using Netflix vet Joel McHale as a vehicle, this talkback session takes nearly every wrong lesson from the phenomenon built around the series and few from what made “Tiger King” worthy of attention in the first place. It gamifies a human story by adding a sarcastic, reality-show veneer onto an exercise that’s only ever insightful by accident.
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Whether he did...
- 4/12/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
In its last 10 minutes, after almost seven hours of salacious rumor-mongering and shameless gawking at misfortune, “Tiger King” makes a fleeting attempt at imparting a noble message. “Nobody wins,” says former animal keeper Saff, who lost an arm while tending to a tiger before returning to work less than a week later. “Everyone involved is a so-called animal advocate, [but] not a single animal benefited from this war.” The music starts to swell as footage of happier times and galloping tigers goes into slow motion. “We’ve lost sight of what really matters here,” insists Joshua Dial, former campaign manager for Joe Exotic’s presidential run. “And that’s the conservation and protection of the species of this planet.”
That sentiment is all fine and good — but it has no basis in the reality of “Tiger King,” a messy and opportunistic docuseries that’s highlighted the worst of what true crime can be and do.
That sentiment is all fine and good — but it has no basis in the reality of “Tiger King,” a messy and opportunistic docuseries that’s highlighted the worst of what true crime can be and do.
- 4/10/2020
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Seven editors honed footage for Netflix seven-part docu-series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” about the man who owns the largest collection of big cats in the U.S. The telling of the story of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, is a meta one, including a reality show-within-a-show, and it turns sinister very quickly. After all, there’s an attempted murder plot to sort out.
The first 10 minutes reveal how Exotic winds up in jail, an editing choice made at the behest of Netflix. “Without the promise of things getting bonkers, you don’t know if people will stay tuned,” says editor Doug Abel, the first to come on board the series, in 2017. At that time, he says, the production had a broader concept. “It was about animal trafficking,” he explains.
As director Eric Goode reveals in the series’ opening moments, the instant he’s shown a snow leopard in...
The first 10 minutes reveal how Exotic winds up in jail, an editing choice made at the behest of Netflix. “Without the promise of things getting bonkers, you don’t know if people will stay tuned,” says editor Doug Abel, the first to come on board the series, in 2017. At that time, he says, the production had a broader concept. “It was about animal trafficking,” he explains.
As director Eric Goode reveals in the series’ opening moments, the instant he’s shown a snow leopard in...
- 4/10/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix announced Thursday that a “Tiger King” after-show hosted by Joel McHale will premiere on Sunday.
The show’s Jeff Lowe, who took over the Oklahoma exotic animal zoo from Joe Exotic, had recently hinted that a new episode would be coming this week. The teaser for the eighth installment features McHale wearing a cowboy hat and promising that he talked to several of the show’s subjects about what’s been happening in their lives.
Among the show’s subjects appearing in the new episode are Joe Exotic’s ex-husband John Finlay, Saff, reality show producer Rick Kirkman and Lowe and his wife Lauren — but notably not Carole Baskin or Joe Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, who is currently in a prison medical facility in Texas.
However Joe Exotic did give Netflix an update from prison recently, explaining, “I’m done with the Carole Baskin saga.”
The Tiger King and...
The show’s Jeff Lowe, who took over the Oklahoma exotic animal zoo from Joe Exotic, had recently hinted that a new episode would be coming this week. The teaser for the eighth installment features McHale wearing a cowboy hat and promising that he talked to several of the show’s subjects about what’s been happening in their lives.
Among the show’s subjects appearing in the new episode are Joe Exotic’s ex-husband John Finlay, Saff, reality show producer Rick Kirkman and Lowe and his wife Lauren — but notably not Carole Baskin or Joe Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, who is currently in a prison medical facility in Texas.
However Joe Exotic did give Netflix an update from prison recently, explaining, “I’m done with the Carole Baskin saga.”
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- 4/9/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Looking certain to spend a lot longer behind bars, Tiger King star Joe Exotic has been hit with two big losses in his $89 million-dollar false arrest lawsuit, almost simultaneously.
First, a federal judge yesterday scathingly advocated tossing out the March 17 initiated legal action by the former owner of Oklahoma’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Then today another judge rejected the currently incarcerated Exotic’s attempt to force a recusal in the civil matter.
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All in all, even with Netflix claiming Tiger King snared 34 million unique viewers in the days after its March 20 launch, a bad week on the legal front for the self-representing Exotic, who is presently also...
First, a federal judge yesterday scathingly advocated tossing out the March 17 initiated legal action by the former owner of Oklahoma’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Then today another judge rejected the currently incarcerated Exotic’s attempt to force a recusal in the civil matter.
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All in all, even with Netflix claiming Tiger King snared 34 million unique viewers in the days after its March 20 launch, a bad week on the legal front for the self-representing Exotic, who is presently also...
- 4/8/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
“Tiger King” has clawed its way into the national psyche to become one of Netflix’s biggest-ever original shows.
The docuseries reached a U.S. TV audience of 34.3 unique viewers within the first 10 days of its release (March 20-29), according to Nielsen estimates. That topped season 2 of Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” which had 31.2 million unique viewers in its first 10 days, and was within shouting distance of “Stranger Things 3,” which drew 36.3 million over the comparable 10-day span, the measurement firm said.
On an average per-minute basis, “Tiger King” pulled in an audience of 19.0 million among U.S. viewers from March 20-29, Nielsen reported. That also was higher than “Stranger Things 2” (17.5 million) and nearly matched “Stranger Things 3” (20.5 million).
“Tiger King” has become an undeniable phenomenon, in a seven-episode limited series that weaves a bizarre tale of conflict and crime set in the world of big-cat breeders and private zoos.
The docuseries reached a U.S. TV audience of 34.3 unique viewers within the first 10 days of its release (March 20-29), according to Nielsen estimates. That topped season 2 of Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” which had 31.2 million unique viewers in its first 10 days, and was within shouting distance of “Stranger Things 3,” which drew 36.3 million over the comparable 10-day span, the measurement firm said.
On an average per-minute basis, “Tiger King” pulled in an audience of 19.0 million among U.S. viewers from March 20-29, Nielsen reported. That also was higher than “Stranger Things 2” (17.5 million) and nearly matched “Stranger Things 3” (20.5 million).
“Tiger King” has become an undeniable phenomenon, in a seven-episode limited series that weaves a bizarre tale of conflict and crime set in the world of big-cat breeders and private zoos.
- 4/8/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: If you are among the few who haven’t actually watched Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries, this review contains a lot of details about what goes down in the sad big cat saga.
With Netflix poised in the coming days to cash in and crank the base up a notch with more Tiger King, it’s time to come out and say it: I hate the Red State porn that is the crash and burn of Joe Exotic
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The initial seven episodes of this septic and shallow patchwork of trademark infringement, sex, guns, labor exploitation, song, drugs, mullets, betrayal, animal activism, revenge, and a lot of big cats may be...
With Netflix poised in the coming days to cash in and crank the base up a notch with more Tiger King, it’s time to come out and say it: I hate the Red State porn that is the crash and burn of Joe Exotic
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The initial seven episodes of this septic and shallow patchwork of trademark infringement, sex, guns, labor exploitation, song, drugs, mullets, betrayal, animal activism, revenge, and a lot of big cats may be...
- 4/7/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Carole Baskin, the big-cat activist who is the target of the murder-for-hire plot in Netflix’s “Tiger King,” says she has not been asked to appear in the upcoming bonus episode of the docuseries that Jeff Lowe says is coming — and wouldn’t have joined in even if she was.
“We have not been approached about a new episode and would not participate if asked,” a spokesperson for Baskin told TheWrap in a statement Tuesday.
“Tiger King” follows (and the title refers to) Joe Exotic, the owner of a big-cat zoo in Oklahoma. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was found to be guilty of hiring a hitman to kill Baskin, a rival of his in the animal world. He’s serving a multi-decade prison sentence for that and for animal rights crimes.
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“We have not been approached about a new episode and would not participate if asked,” a spokesperson for Baskin told TheWrap in a statement Tuesday.
“Tiger King” follows (and the title refers to) Joe Exotic, the owner of a big-cat zoo in Oklahoma. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was found to be guilty of hiring a hitman to kill Baskin, a rival of his in the animal world. He’s serving a multi-decade prison sentence for that and for animal rights crimes.
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- 4/7/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
A new episode of the Netflix docuseries sensation, Tiger King, is coming very soon. At least, that’s what one of the stars of the show is saying.
Jeff Lowe, who takes over Joe Exotic’s big cat park halfway through the series, made the announcement via Twitter on Saturday. The video was posted (randomly) by Los Angeles Dodgers player Justin Turner, who’s a fan of the show.
“Netflix is adding one more episode,” said Lowe in the clip. “It will be on next week. We’re filming here tomorrow.”
So our friend @christie_dish listened to the podcast, @HoldingKourt and after last weeks episode decided to send us this!!!
Breaking News Folks
There will be 1 more episode of #TigerKing on@Netflix pic.twitter.com/YeRSIlDKTJ
— Justin Turner (@redturn2) April 4, 2020
There are two kinds of characters on Tiger King, colorful and mysterious. Lowe certainly falls into the latter and...
Jeff Lowe, who takes over Joe Exotic’s big cat park halfway through the series, made the announcement via Twitter on Saturday. The video was posted (randomly) by Los Angeles Dodgers player Justin Turner, who’s a fan of the show.
“Netflix is adding one more episode,” said Lowe in the clip. “It will be on next week. We’re filming here tomorrow.”
So our friend @christie_dish listened to the podcast, @HoldingKourt and after last weeks episode decided to send us this!!!
Breaking News Folks
There will be 1 more episode of #TigerKing on@Netflix pic.twitter.com/YeRSIlDKTJ
— Justin Turner (@redturn2) April 4, 2020
There are two kinds of characters on Tiger King, colorful and mysterious. Lowe certainly falls into the latter and...
- 4/4/2020
- by Ryan Beltram
- We Got This Covered
John Finlay has his sights set on a couple of A-list actors to portray him in an eventual biopic.
The real-life subject featured in Netflix‘s popular docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness tells People that he’d want Channing Tatum to play him in a scripted adaptation of his life story.
“He’s always had a special place in my heart,” Finlay says of Tatum, 39, sharing a sweet personal connection to the star. “He did a shout-out to my distant cousin; she died of stage-four brain cancer. When he did his shout-out, he did it because it was on her bucket list.
The real-life subject featured in Netflix‘s popular docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness tells People that he’d want Channing Tatum to play him in a scripted adaptation of his life story.
“He’s always had a special place in my heart,” Finlay says of Tatum, 39, sharing a sweet personal connection to the star. “He did a shout-out to my distant cousin; she died of stage-four brain cancer. When he did his shout-out, he did it because it was on her bucket list.
- 4/4/2020
- by Christine Pelisek, Benjamin VanHoose
- PEOPLE.com
Some of the most interesting documentaries are ones that start out as one thing and quickly divulge into something else by the end. The filmmakers behind Tiger King no doubt intended to make a docuseries about rival big cat sanctuaries and what they’re doing to help these animals from becoming extinct.
Instead, though, we got a bat-sh*t crazy story about everything from polygamy and cults to missing persons and a murder-for-hire. And the people within this world are so strange and unique that by the end we’re no longer thinking about the animals, but the ones exploiting them for profit. It’s certainly a weakness of the series, but that’s not stopping the creators from thinking about making a sequel.
In fact, producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin say they have so much more content available and that because this is an on-going story, another outing might be worth doing.
Instead, though, we got a bat-sh*t crazy story about everything from polygamy and cults to missing persons and a murder-for-hire. And the people within this world are so strange and unique that by the end we’re no longer thinking about the animals, but the ones exploiting them for profit. It’s certainly a weakness of the series, but that’s not stopping the creators from thinking about making a sequel.
In fact, producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin say they have so much more content available and that because this is an on-going story, another outing might be worth doing.
- 4/3/2020
- by Ryan Beltram
- We Got This Covered
Netflix's Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness has shined a spotlight on animal rights violations through the lens of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka "Joe Exotic." But the docuseries from directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin doesn't tell the full story, according to some featured in the series.
Case in point: Brittany Peet, a PETA Foundation lawyer who testified at Maldonado-Passage's trial and rescued nearly 50 animals from his custody. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Peet says the audience reaction to Joe Exotic specifically and the Netflix doc at large "has been all over ...
Case in point: Brittany Peet, a PETA Foundation lawyer who testified at Maldonado-Passage's trial and rescued nearly 50 animals from his custody. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Peet says the audience reaction to Joe Exotic specifically and the Netflix doc at large "has been all over ...
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness has managed to wrangle the proverbial big cats of a quarantine-caged Netflix audience. As the documentary series continues its pop culture dominance, discussions have shifted to prospective actors to play the enthrallingly eccentric cast of characters on the big screen— at least, for an idyllic time when the coronavirus has mostly dissipated, and we can go back to watching stuff on the big screen. Well, the titular Tiger King, Joe Exotic, apparently has his own ideas.
Co-directors of the Netflix phenomenon, Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode, recently sat down—via phone—for a THR interview in which it is revealed that the show’s central figure, Joseph Schreibvogel, a.k.a. Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, is apparently doing a bit a dream-casting from his prison cell. While his incarceration has mostly insulated him from the impact of the series, which he has yet to watch,...
Co-directors of the Netflix phenomenon, Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode, recently sat down—via phone—for a THR interview in which it is revealed that the show’s central figure, Joseph Schreibvogel, a.k.a. Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, is apparently doing a bit a dream-casting from his prison cell. While his incarceration has mostly insulated him from the impact of the series, which he has yet to watch,...
- 4/2/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Yes, the world is enraptured by Joe Exotic, one of the subjects of Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness. But is the empathy misplaced? The now-imprisoned star of the Netflix documentary series has become the subject of many celebrity tweets, memes and the talk of, well, the internet. Joe Exotic is one of the big cat owners and former private zoo operator profiled in Tiger King. He's in prison now for charges in an attempted murder-for-hire plot targeting Carole Baskin, an animal activist and owner of a big cat sanctuary. While some subjects of the documentary series, like Baskin, haven't been pleased with the series, according to filmmakers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, Joe Exotic has been loving the...
- 4/2/2020
- E! Online
Sylvester Stallone and his family are taking a walk on the wild side.
While social distancing at home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Stallone, 73, joined his wife and three daughters to dress up as the subjects of Tiger King, Netflix’s hit true crime documentary series about the life of Joe Exotic and his former Oklahoma animal park.
Stallone shared pictures and videos from the family’s hilarious costume event, in which he dressed as Jeff Lowe, while wife Jennifer Flavin as Carole Baskin, daughter Sophia as Exotic, Sistine as Exotic’s husband John Finlay and Scarlet dressed as head zookeeper Erik Cowie.
While social distancing at home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Stallone, 73, joined his wife and three daughters to dress up as the subjects of Tiger King, Netflix’s hit true crime documentary series about the life of Joe Exotic and his former Oklahoma animal park.
Stallone shared pictures and videos from the family’s hilarious costume event, in which he dressed as Jeff Lowe, while wife Jennifer Flavin as Carole Baskin, daughter Sophia as Exotic, Sistine as Exotic’s husband John Finlay and Scarlet dressed as head zookeeper Erik Cowie.
- 4/2/2020
- by Nicholas Rice
- PEOPLE.com
Attention casting directors — Joe Exotic has spoken!
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the filmmakers behind the wild Netflix docuseries Tiger King, revealed that disgraced zookeeper Joseph Maldonado-Passage (aka Joe Exotic) wants either Brad Pitt or David Spade to portray him in a scripted take on his life story.
But not just any David Spade. Maldonado-Passage, 57, specifically requested circa-2001-Joe-Dirt David Spade, mullet and all.
“He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him,” said Chaiklin, adding, “He doesn’t refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as ‘Joe Dirt.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the filmmakers behind the wild Netflix docuseries Tiger King, revealed that disgraced zookeeper Joseph Maldonado-Passage (aka Joe Exotic) wants either Brad Pitt or David Spade to portray him in a scripted take on his life story.
But not just any David Spade. Maldonado-Passage, 57, specifically requested circa-2001-Joe-Dirt David Spade, mullet and all.
“He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him,” said Chaiklin, adding, “He doesn’t refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as ‘Joe Dirt.
- 4/2/2020
- by Benjamin VanHoose
- PEOPLE.com
By Glenn Dunks
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is the undisputed king of the internet right now. A zeitgeist that has steamrolled over a society that has been stuck inside, isolated with little else to do but binge and over-indulge on anything that distracts the mind and the body. Scratch beneath the veneer of its sneering Christopher-Guest-goes-to-the-trailer-park milieu and Tiger King proves to be lazy at best, morally corrupt at worst. Expanded out to an over-confident seven episodes, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin dig their series deeper into grimy, ethically dubious territory with little of that digging towards something substantial.
The story of Tiger King, though, is certainly interesting. How could it not be considering the ever-escalating crime saga of Joe Exotic, a private big cat zoo owner and operator whose life gravitates towards weird and weirder. He’s a true drama queen...
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is the undisputed king of the internet right now. A zeitgeist that has steamrolled over a society that has been stuck inside, isolated with little else to do but binge and over-indulge on anything that distracts the mind and the body. Scratch beneath the veneer of its sneering Christopher-Guest-goes-to-the-trailer-park milieu and Tiger King proves to be lazy at best, morally corrupt at worst. Expanded out to an over-confident seven episodes, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin dig their series deeper into grimy, ethically dubious territory with little of that digging towards something substantial.
The story of Tiger King, though, is certainly interesting. How could it not be considering the ever-escalating crime saga of Joe Exotic, a private big cat zoo owner and operator whose life gravitates towards weird and weirder. He’s a true drama queen...
- 4/1/2020
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
“Tiger King”: It’s the docuseries everyone is watching. At least everyone with a Netflix account, which at the end of 2019 was more than 167 million people. And given that it is the age of a pandemic, with families forced to stay inside, those numbers may have grown in the past few weeks alone.
“Tiger King” is Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode’s seven-part portrait of big cat enthusiast and Oklahoma zoo owner Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, who is currently serving 22 years for animal welfare charges and the murder-for-hire plot of one of his rivals in the big cat world, Carole Baskin.
The in-depth look at this larger-than-life world — which also includes polygamy, meth, the potential murder of Baskin’s former husband Don Lewis, and an actual 2016 presidential run — has been in the Top 10 programs on the streamer since a day after it debuted on March 20. It has been in the No.
“Tiger King” is Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode’s seven-part portrait of big cat enthusiast and Oklahoma zoo owner Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, who is currently serving 22 years for animal welfare charges and the murder-for-hire plot of one of his rivals in the big cat world, Carole Baskin.
The in-depth look at this larger-than-life world — which also includes polygamy, meth, the potential murder of Baskin’s former husband Don Lewis, and an actual 2016 presidential run — has been in the Top 10 programs on the streamer since a day after it debuted on March 20. It has been in the No.
- 4/1/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Are you hungry for more Tiger King? Recently, producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the possibility of a second season for the Netflix TV show.
The true crime docuseries focuses on the conflict between Joe Exotic, the owner of a private big cat zoo in Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin, the owner of a non-profit animal sanctuary.
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The true crime docuseries focuses on the conflict between Joe Exotic, the owner of a private big cat zoo in Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin, the owner of a non-profit animal sanctuary.
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- 4/1/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
What is there left to say about Tiger King? Created by documentarians Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the absurd story of Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage — more commonly known as Joe Exotic — and his strange place in the even stranger world of big cat zoos seems to have captivated viewers the whole nation over. And it’s not hard to […]
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- 3/31/2020
- by Harrison Whitaker
- Uinterview
An endlessly memeable hotbed of illicit activities and wild animals, the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park is the primary setting of Netflix's wild Tiger King docuseries. The Oklahoman attraction has drawn much controversy over the years, especially with regard to animal abuse on its premises. Even after all that its founder Joe Exotic (Joseph Maldonado-Passage) has been through, it remains open today. Here's what we know about the whereabouts of the G.W. Zoo thus far.
Today, the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park is still under the ownership of CEO Jeff Lowe, who partnered up with Tim Stark of the nonprofit Wildlife in Need. If you recall, Lowe, a sketchy character himself, swooped in and financed the zoo after Maldonado-Passage lost all of his money in the million-dollar Carole Baskin lawsuit.
After Maldonado-Passage landed in jail, Lowe made plans to shut down the current facility and move the animals to a zoo in Thackerville,...
Today, the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park is still under the ownership of CEO Jeff Lowe, who partnered up with Tim Stark of the nonprofit Wildlife in Need. If you recall, Lowe, a sketchy character himself, swooped in and financed the zoo after Maldonado-Passage lost all of his money in the million-dollar Carole Baskin lawsuit.
After Maldonado-Passage landed in jail, Lowe made plans to shut down the current facility and move the animals to a zoo in Thackerville,...
- 3/31/2020
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Trevor Noah kicked off the March 30 episode of “The Daily Show” by addressing “the only story everyone’s talking about right now,” which is obviously the Netflix docuseries sensation “Tiger King.” The late night host said he watched all seven episodes of the show over the weekend and came to a chilling conclusion: “Joe Exotic is not only one of the weirdest people you will ever meet in your life, he could also be president of the United States.” Joe Exotic is the over-the-top owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park who is currently in prison for hiring a hitman to kill his rival, Carole Baskin. In Noah’s eyes, Joe Exotic is just as “presidential” as Donald Trump.
“He’s self-absorbed, he’s disorganized, he’s obsessed with conspiracy theories,” Noah said comparing Joe Exotic and Trump. “But maybe the most presidential thing about Joe Exotic is that...
“He’s self-absorbed, he’s disorganized, he’s obsessed with conspiracy theories,” Noah said comparing Joe Exotic and Trump. “But maybe the most presidential thing about Joe Exotic is that...
- 3/31/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Tiger King” directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin are defending their hit Netflix series in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times following criticism lobbed at them from their documentary subject Carole Baskin. The wildlife conservationist at the center of “Tiger King” called the Netflix docuseries “salacious and sensational” in an interview with The Wrap last week. Baskin alleged that “Tiger King” producers approached her to do a wildlife documentary that was pitched to her as a big cat version of “Blackfish,” the 2013 documentary about the mistreatment of killer whales at Sea World. Baskin said she was shocked “Tiger King” instead partly focused on her husband’s 1997 disappearance case.
Goode and Chaiklin told the La Times that Baskin “certainly wasn’t coerced” to appear on the Netflix series and openly talked about “her personal life, her childhood, her abuse from her first and second husband, and the disappearance of her ex,...
Goode and Chaiklin told the La Times that Baskin “certainly wasn’t coerced” to appear on the Netflix series and openly talked about “her personal life, her childhood, her abuse from her first and second husband, and the disappearance of her ex,...
- 3/30/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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