FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights to Elaine May’s Mike Nichols: American Masters and will release the documentary throughout the world in all media as early as this summer.  

Mike Nichols

FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights to Elaine May’s Mike Nichols: American Masters and will release the documentary throughout the world in all media as early as this summer.  

May enjoyed a comedy dup partnership with the late Nichols, who died in 2014, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before he went on to direct such films as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate.

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