{"id":659635,"date":"2026-08-27T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:52:23","slug":"chess-documentary-grandmasters-acquired-by-good-deed-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659635\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Documentary ‘Grandmasters’ Acquired By Good Deed Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Good Deed Entertainment<\/a> has acquired Grandmasters<\/a>, a documentary from award-winning filmmaker Liza Mandelup<\/a> that uncovers drama roiling the world of top-tier chess.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrandmasters premiered as a documentary series at Tribeca Festival in June but will launch in theaters as a nonfiction feature told in three chapters. Good Deed plans to release the film nationwide on October 11 at AMC locations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn Grandmasters, the once esoteric and uninspired world of top-level competitive chess is thrown into turmoil when an eccentric German entrepreneur enlists Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen<\/a> to launch a new league that aims to revolutionize the game, challenge the sport\u2019s governing body, and \u2018make chess cool,\u2019\u201d notes a synopsis. \u201cExpertly helmed by Mandelup (Jawline, Caterpillar), with access and support provided by Chess.com, the documentary chronicles the rivalries, reinventions, and personal battles shaping the modern pursuit of greatness in the game of kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, Mandelup said, \u201cI\u2019m constantly drawn to people who have built their lives around a single pursuit, so getting to spend time with some of the best chess players in the world was immediately exciting to me. What I didn\u2019t expect was how much drama sat just beneath the surface. I wanted to get beyond the idea of a chess genius and make something funny, intimate, and deeply human about the people behind the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDirector Liza Mandelup attends the \u2018Grandmasters\u2019 premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 7, 2026 in New York City.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManny Carabel\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival<\/p>\n

\n\tGood Deed released Mandelup\u2019s documentary Caterpillar in theaters last November.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLiza has a gift for bringing audiences inside a story, and the beautifully executed Grandmasters opens up the world of chess in a way audiences haven\u2019t seen before,\u201d commented Erik Donley, head of acquisitions and distribution at Good Deed Entertainment. \u201cWe are thrilled to be partnering with Liza once again on another culturally captivating story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChess has proved fertile ground for fictional exploration on screen, to whit the hit Netflix series The Queen\u2019s Gambit (2020); Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire and Liev Schreiber (2014); The Luzhin Defence (2000), and Searching for Bobby Fischer, starring Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen and more (1993). Mandelup\u2019s film explores the real thing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have been living in the drama of top-level chess for decades, and knew that the outside world had only seen a very small portion of it,\u201d observed Danny Rensch, co-founder and Chief Chess Officer of Chess.com. \u201cThe story of these players is so much bigger than the board, and Good Deed understood that immediately. Now we get to share it as widely as it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrandmasters is a Boardwalk Pictures production, starring Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Jan Henric Buettner, Hans Niemann, Danny Rensch, Levy Rozman, and Lotis Key. In addition to directing the film, Mandelup executive produced the project alongside Jordan Wynn, Andrew Fried, Lana Barkin, Patrick Altema, and Alex Leibow. The film is produced by Max McGillivray and Christian Vazquez. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Good<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGood Deed Entertainment<\/p>\n

\n\tGood Deed Entertainment is an independent film studio \u201cbuilt around distinctive voices and underserved audiences.\u201d Recent releases include\u202fLooking Through Water\u202f(Michael Douglas) and\u202fDrive Back Home\u202f(Alan Cumming), alongside a catalog of acclaimed films such as\u202fLucky Grandma,\u202fTo Dust, and the Academy Award nominee\u202fLoving Vincent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired Grandmasters, a documentary from award-winning filmmaker Liza Mandelup that uncovers drama roiling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,59703,278742,19,17,59704,104295,327],"class_list":["post-659635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-good-deed-entertainment","tag-grandmasters","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liza-mandelup","tag-magnus-carlsen","tag-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117168751361821295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}