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Box To Box Films has expanded its senior team, tapping Shine TV producer Tom Hutchings in an executive producer role.

Hutchings joins co-founders James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin, kicking off with what Box to Box describes as one of its “most successful properties.”

Previously at Shine TV for eight years, Hutchings marks the first major hire since Bruin Capital’s investment in Box To Box. His industry journey began at BBC Drama, and he has produced acclaimed unscripted content globally. His credits include Channel 4’s “Hunted” and “Celebrity Hunted,” Disney+’s “Finding Michael,” BBC’s Comic Relief docs and “Bear Grylls Meets President Zelenskyy.” He also contributed to “Gogglebox” at Studio Lambert and “Goldrush” at Raw.

Based in London, Paris and Los Angeles, Box To Box Films is renowned for sports documentaries like Netflix’s “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” “Full Swing,” “Six Nations: Full Contact,” “Tour de France: Unchained” and the upcoming “Sprint.

Netflix has picked up an untitled documentary about the Montreal Expos and the events surrounding the Major League Baseball team’s departure in 2004. The doc, which the streamer has confirmed exclusively to Variety, reps Netflix’s next original project out of Canada.

The doc is the first greenlit under Netflix’s new creative partnership with Montreal-based Attraction. Netflix signed a first-look deal with Attraction last November, for French-language film projects to be developed and produced by the company.

Jean-François Poisson will direct the untitled baseball doc. Marie-Christine Pouliot, Attraction’s head producer, documentary, and Richard Speer, president of Attraction, will executive produce.

According to Netflix, the film explores the setbacks that led to the departure of the Expos from Montreal and how the loss of an MLB team in Montreal continues to spark debate 20 years later.

Some of those setbacks included fee disputes between the city and Expos owner Jeffrey Loria over a new stadium,...

On Saturday, October 28th rugby fans around the world watched as the final leg of the 2023 Rugby World Cup played out in France at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis. All the matches played in nine venues across 10 host cities. South Africa beat New Zealand 12-11 in the final to win their third consecutive match by one point and claim a record fourth Webb Ellis Trophy.

Prior to that at the Six Nations Championship, on March 18, 2023, Ireland won the tournament for a 15th time, along with a 13th Triple Crown and a fourth Grand Slam; it was also the first time they won the title in Dublin.

The Six Nations Championship is an annual international men’s competition between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Previously called the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship, the tournament has been running since 1883.

Six Nations and producers of Formula 1: Drive to Survive...

It’s a quiet month on Netflix in January, but the streamer still has some good stuff lined up for the new year, including an interesting documentary about the Centra Tech cryptocurrency scam. Bitconned arrives on the first of the month alongside Netflix’s latest Harlan Coben adaptation, Fool Me Once, which sees an ex-soldier called Maya witness her husband’s murder on a nanny cam. The crime then leads her down a deadly path where she uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

Schitt’s Creek star Daniel Levy will also debut his first film as writer and director with Good Grief on Netflix this month. The movie follows Levy’s character Marc as he does some soul-searching after the death of his husband.

Kevin Hart has a new movie called Lift hitting the platform this month, too. He plays the leader of a heist crew looking to rob $500 million in gold from...