ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS Revisiting Adnan Syed, Post-Serial Think you know everything about the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee, the twisty criminal case that formed the backbone of the 2014 smash-hit podcast Serial? Even if you answer in the affirmative, documentarian Amy Berg believes that her four-part HBO docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed, has something to offer. For starters, as she tells K. Austin Collins, “the podcast was mostly about [Serial’s] investigation from their perspective”—i.e. that of Sarah Koenig and co. But the film version allows the major players in the murder and subsequent investigation and trial—which ended with the conviction of Lee’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed, who has always maintained his innocence—to take center stage. That number includes Lee herself, who often faded into the background on Serial. “I definitely wanted to bring Hae to life in the film in a way that I think would have been impossible to do in that [podcast] form,” said Berg. “I was very fortunate to have access to her journals, and to many of her friends and her family’s friends.” Those close to Lee, she said, “all described her as this person who would fight for the truth . . . and they all said that if this wasn’t the way this actually happened, that she would have wanted to fight for the truth.” Elsewhere in HWD, Joanna Robinson demystifies the end-credits sequence(s) in Captain Marvel; Corey Feldman has a change of heart following a viewing of Leaving Neverland; Julie Miller premieres a new clip from Queer Eye Season 3; and Julianne Moore opens up about a bit of drama that somehow stayed buried through all of awards season.

On the Case Amy Berg explains why she dedicated a whole new docuseries to the criminal case Serial Season 1 made famous—and how her project fills in the podcast’s gaps. READ MORE » Tesse-What? It’s hardly a Marvel movie these days without some gleaming stone or special weapon for our hero to chase; here’s how the one in Captain Marvel has traveled throughout the franchise. READ MORE » “Such Horrendous Crimes” After initially deeming Leaving Neverland one-sided, actor and onetime Michael Jackson friend Corey Feldman has had a serious change of heart. READ MORE » A Woman’s World In honor of International Women’s Day, Netflix unveils a clip from Queer Eye’s forthcoming season premiere—centering on Jody, a prison guard struggling with what it means to be feminine. READ MORE » Spill That Tea Julianne Moore says she was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me?, a film that ultimately starred Melissa McCarthy—and that she has not seen the movie because it’s “still kind of painful.” READ MORE »