Netflix to Stream ‘Casting JonBenet’ Documentary

Netflix will stream Casting JonBenét, a movie coping with the unsolved homicide of JonBenét Ramsey, as Entertainment Weekly experiences. Last yr, several series examined the crime main as much as the 20th anniversary of the six-year-old’s homicide in December 1996.

Casting JonBenét will make its world premiere during the Sundance Film Festival later this month. Netflix plans to stream it within the spring and it’ll even have a restricted theatrical launch. Netflix acquired the worldwide rights to the documentary.

The documentary is described as “a sly and stylized exploration of the world’s most sensational child-murder case.” Directed by Kitty Green, it was shot over 15 months. She and her staff traveled to Boulder, CO, the Ramsey’s hometown, to talk with folks there to achieve perception on the crime and the way its aftermath has affected the neighborhood.

It’s the newest in a string of tasks which have addressed the homicide, together with Lifetime’s Who Killed JonBenét? and CBS’ The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey. The latter has elicited two lawsuits following the docuseries’ September airing, which culminated in consultants from the present theorizing that Ramsey’s older brother Burke could have by chance killed his sister. Last week, Burke Ramsey filed a lawsuit in opposition to CBS, the present’s producers and the consultants that appeared within the sequence for $750 million. Earlier he filed a $150 million lawsuit in opposition to one of many consultants, Dr. Werner Spitz, who can be named within the CBS swimsuit.