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DEADLINE
Lindsey Vonn Inks First-Look
Deal With CBS STUDIOS
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn has signed a two-year first look deal with CBS Studios via her Après Productions. Under the pact, Après Productions’ Vonn and partner Claire Abbe will develop content across all television and digital media.
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VOGUE
Lindsey Vonn on Good Sleep,
Great Skiing, and What She Learned
in Her New Picabo Street Documentary
Lindsey Vonn may have retired from professional skiing, but that doesn’t mean she’s slowed down much. The former downhill superstar just published a memoir, Rise, earlier this month, detailing a life and career that has included 82 World Cup wins, 20 World Cup titles, three Olympic medals, and seven World Championship medals. And on January 21, a new documentary film she co-directed with Frank Marshall about her childhood idol, ’90s ski legend Picabo Street, will air on Peacock and Olympics.com ahead of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. PICABO explores lesser known aspects of Street’s life, and her challenges both in and out of the limelight and on and off the slopes.
VARIETY
Picabo Street Among Olympians Profiled
in New Peacock Documentaries Streaming Prior to the Winter Games
In the run up to the 2022 Winter Beijing Olympic Games beginning on Feb. 4, NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock will debut three original documentaries about Olympic athletes.
Lindsey Vonn, Tara Lipinski and Picabo Street are among the Olympic gold medalists involved in new docus titled "Meddling," "Picabo" and "American Rock Stars."
VARIETY
Picabo Street Documentary Launches With Lindsey Vonn, Frank Marshall Directing
Olympic Channel has started production on a documentary on gold medalist skier Picabo Street, directed by Lindsey Vonn and Frank Marshall, Variety has learned exclusively.
Street won the gold in the Super-G at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. She also won the silver medal in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics. The film, slated for release in 2022, will explore Street’s childhood, her difficult road to the gold medal, rise to fame and enduring legacy.
The project will be Vonn’s first film project via her new production company Après Productions. Vonn, who the downhill gold medal in 2010, co-founded Après Productions with her partner and longtime friend, Claire Brown, to create content that will tell untold athlete’s stories.
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TODAY
Lindsey Vonn Talks About
Reality Competition Series ‘The Pack’
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn joins the 3rd hour of TODAY to talk about hosting “The Pack,” a competition show in which people and their dogs face off in challenges around the world. She also discusses her message of body positivity on social media.
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OUTDOOR SPORTS WIRE
Lindsey Vonn: The Final
Season Snags Two Emmy Nominations
Film From Teton Gravity Research (TGR) and HBO Honored For Promotion, Camera Work Jackson, Wyo.
(April 2020) – Teton Gravity Research (TGR), the global leader in action and adventure lifestyle media, announced this week that its documentary collaboration with HBO, Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, has been nominated for two sports Emmy Awards. The nominations are the latest accolades for the film, which debuted In November 2019 and profiled the final, gut-wrenching season for the most decorated female alpine skier of all time.
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SLASH FILM
Frank Marshall On The Role Of A Producer, His New Picabo Documentary, And More
It would be tough to overstate just how important Frank Marshall has been to the story of Hollywood over the last several decades. As a producer, his credits are genuinely astounding, including many of the biggest hits in history, ranging from "Back to the Future" to "Signs" to "Jurassic World," with a ton of others in between. The man has nearly 150 producer credits to name and is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down.
USA TODAY
'The Pack': Dogs and Owners Embark on Global Competition Hosted by Lindsey Vonn, Her 'Diva' Dog Lucy
Former Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn is a three-time medalist, but on the set of Amazon’s global competition series “The Pack” (now streaming), another top dog reigned supreme: co-host Lucy, her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
“We're a duo, but she’s definitely the star of the show,” Vonn, 36, says of her rescue pup, who learned how to play for the media while attending Vonn’s World Cup press conferences.
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FORBES
For Lindsey Vonn, Navigating Life After 'The Final Season’ — And Amid A Pandemic
When two of the world’s busiest people are conducting all their business from a shared living space, things are going to get chaotic.
It’s late April 2020, and Lindsey Vonn and her fiancé, New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, are sheltering-in-place in their new Los Angeles home. They typically reside in New Jersey when Subban is in-season, but when the NHL suspended its season in early March due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vonn and Subban decided to spend their quarantine in L.A. with their three dogs: Leo, a Staffordshire Terrier; Bear, a Retriever mix; and Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.
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FORBES
Lindsey Vonn Launching Production
Company: Après Productions
Lindsey Vonn is having no trouble keeping busy since hanging up her skis following a decorated 17-year career that includes three Olympic medals and 82 World Cup victories. The greatest female ski racer ever was profiled in Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, an HBO documentary that premiered in November 2019; launched her own skiwear collection, Legacy Line, with Head Sportswear; will release her memoir, Rise: My Story, in March 2020; and will launch a beauty line next spring. As if she didn’t have enough on her plate, Vonn and Claire Brown will venture into the entertainment industry with the creation of Après Productions.