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The Paramount+ original documentary Superpower, the once launched last year on Paramount + by co-directors Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman, today begins airing on YouTube. All you’ve got to pay is attention. The deal allows audiences across YouTube's massive footprint to watch the moving story centered on…

Sean Penn, director of the new Ukraine war documentary Superpower, does not hold back in an in-depth interview for Deadline's Doc Talk podcast.   The two-time Oscar winner becomes emotional recalling what he witnessed inside the presidential palace in Ukraine on the very day Russia launched its…

Superpower director Sean Penn isn't mincing words in his denunciation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two-time Oscar-winning actor, whose new documentary about the war in Ukraine is now streaming on Paramount+, calls the Kremlin leader "a gangster with nuclear weapons," in an interview with…

Superpower, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s doc about Ukraine’s fight for freedom, is getting a launch in the war-torn Eastern European country today. Fifth Season, which shops the film, has coordinated a day-and-date release for the doc in Ukraine alongside its launch on Paramount+ in the U.S…

Sean Penn urged the White House to take a more aggressive approach toward arming Ukraine, telling a crowd at a screening of his film Superpower that those who are influencing U.S. policy “need to get out of the pure caution business.” “I don’t mind being foolish in saying that I deeply believe…

Sean Penn, asked about the current state of Hollywood studio chiefs and the plight of writers and directors currently embroiled in labor unrest in the U.S., said Friday in a Cannes Film Festival press conference that “the industry has been upending the writers and directors for a long time. I fully…

On February 24, 2022 Sean Penn and his documentary filmmaking team got up before dawn in Kyiv in anticipation of a planned interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Suddenly, explosions shattered the quiet and missile fire turned the darkened sky to malevolent orange. Russia's full-scale…

Sean Penn has reiterated his offer to have one of his Oscars melted down by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky – saying his gift to the battling leader was inspired by his "continuing shame towards the Motion Picture Academy." Penn debuted his documentary Superpower, detailing Zelensky's…

Roughly three quarters of the way into Superpower, the documentary about the war in Ukraine directed by Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman, the Oscar-winning actor displays a fixed-blade knife while traveling by car through the embattled country. He jokes to the camera, "All of Ukraine should feel safe now that…

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an empowered live video message to attendees of the opening night of the 73rd edition of the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, urging filmmakers and culture "not to remain silent" when it comes to global politics as his country approaches a year since the…

The Berlin Film Festival on Monday said that Sean Penn will debut the documentary he shot in Ukraine with Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Berlin next month. Related Stories Festivals Berlin Film…