Miramax picks up rights to Whitney Houston doc

14 June 2016

The company is reteaming with Roadside Attractions to handle the US theatrical release on Kevin Macdonald’s upcoming film. Miramax has also acquired additional international territories that include Latin America, China, CIS, and Benelux. Whitney will chart the career of the late Whitney Houston and is being produced by Simon Chinn of Searching For Sugar Man fame, his Lightbox Media partner Jonathan Chinn, and Lisa Erspamer. Executive producers are Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall from Altitude, which sold out the film in Cannes last month.