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[01/08/25 - 06:00 AM]
CNN Films Brings the Television Premiere of "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" to CNN on Sunday, February 2 at 9pm ET/PT
CNN Films will broadcast the television premiere of the acclaimed feature documentary, a moving and cinematic account of a man who not only embodied a hero on screen but became a symbol of hope.

[via press release from CNN]

CNN Films Brings the Television Premiere of "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" to CNN on Sunday, February 2 at 9pm ET/PT

Presented by DC Studios in Association with HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films, Words+Pictures, and a Passion Pictures and Misfits Entertainment Production

NEW YORK - (January 8, 2025) - CNN Films will broadcast the television premiere of the acclaimed feature documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a moving and cinematic account of a man who not only embodied a hero on screen but became a symbol of hope. From award-winning filmmakers Ian Bonhôteand Peter Ettedgui and presented by DC Studios in association with HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films, Words+Pictures, and a Passion Pictures and Misfits Entertainment Production, the film will premiere on Sunday, February 2, at 9pm ET/PT on CNN.

Chronicling his personal and professional life before and after the near-fatal horseback riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story uses Reeve's own words, as well as intimate testimonials from his closest family members and friends, to paint a rich, nuanced portrait of a man who refused to be defined by his physicality and who proved that you don't need tights and a cape to be a hero.

Weaving together never-before-seen, intimate home movies and an extraordinary trove of personal archival material, Super/Man features the first-ever extended interviews filmed with Reeve's children, as well as insight from Reeve's brother, his first wife Gae Exton, and Hollywood colleagues and friends such as Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Whoopi Goldberg, and Secretary of State John Kerry. The film also features extensive archival footage of Reeve with his best friend and Juilliard classmate Robin Williams, who, with his wife Marsha, was a constant source of support for Reeve and his family.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui and produced by Lizzie Gillett, Robert Ford, Ian Bonhôte. Executive producers are Connor Schell, Libby Geist, Marie Margolius, Mark Meatto, Andrew Ruhemann, David Moulton, Andee Ryder, and Daniel Kilroy. The film presented by DC Studios in association with HBO Documentary Films and CNN Films, in association with Words+Pictures, a Passion Pictures and Misfits Entertainment production in association with Jenco Films.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story will stream live for pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, CNN connected TV and mobile apps on Sunday, February 2. The film will also be available on demand beginning Monday, February 3 to pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, CNN connected TV and mobile apps, and Cable Operator Platforms.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story world premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it was jointly acquired by DC Studios, Warner Bros. Motion Pictures, HBO and CNN Films. The acclaimed documentary has won six Critics Choice Documentary Awards, is nominated by the Producers Guild of America for its 2025 documentary motion picture award and is longlisted for Best Documentary for the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards. Super/Man was released theatrically by DC Studios and Warner Bros. Motion Pictures and is currently available to stream on Max.

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About CNN Originals

The CNN Originals group develops, produces and acquires original, long-form unscripted programming for CNN Worldwide. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development, oversees the award-winning CNN Originals portfolio that includes the following premium content brands: CNN Original Series, CNN Films, CNN Flashdocs, and the newly formed CNN Studios, an internal production studio which creates long-form programming for CNN's global platforms. Since 2012, the team has overseen and executive produced more than 45 multi-part documentary series and 60 feature-length documentary films, earning more than 110 awards and 445 nominations for the cable network, including CNN Films' first Academy Award(R) for Navalny. Acclaimed titles include the Peabody Award winning and 13-time Emmy(R) Award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown; five time Emmy(R) nominee, Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller; Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid directed by Matt Tyrnauer; Emmy(R) nominated Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico; the Emmy(R) Award-nominated "Decades Series": The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, and The 2010s, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman; The Last Movie Stars, directed by Ethan Hawke about the lives and careers of actors and humanitarians Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; the Emmy(R) Award winning Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed by Lisa Cortés; Luther Vandross: Never Too Much, directed by Dawn Porter; The Many Lives of Martha Stewart;This is Life with Lisa Ling; Primetime Emmy(R) and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen; See It Loud: The History of Black Television, executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter; Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight in partnership with the BBC; the Producers Guild Award and three-time Emmy(R) Award-winning Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; BAFTA nominee and Directors Guild Award winner, Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle; and the five-time Emmy(R) Award-winning United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell; and The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. CNN Originals can be seen on CNN, the CNN Original Hub on Max and discovery+, the CNN Originals FAST channel, and for pay TV subscription via CNN.com, CNN apps and cable operator platforms.

About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, Max, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Film Group, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.





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