{"id":279237,"date":"2026-02-11T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:15:07","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-eli-roth-qc-entertainment-team-on-death-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279237\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio, Eli Roth, QC Entertainment Team On ‘Death Boom’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Eli Roth<\/a>, Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>\u2018s Appian Way Productions, and QC Entertainment have partnered on\u00a0Death Boom<\/a>, a feature-length documentary about the contemporary death care industry from director Jessica Chandler (A Fine State This Is).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe expos\u00e9 film, currently in post-production, reunites Roth and Appian Way, who previously collaborated on the shark-finning doc\u00a0Fin, which contributed to the shutdown of shark kill tournaments along the East Coast of the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a \u201cspiritual follow-up\u201d to\u00a0Fin,\u00a0Death Boom\u00a0\u201cpulls back the curtain on the catastrophic mental and environmental impacts of the contemporary death care industry. The film, shown through the lens of the workers at the heart of it as they prepare for the passing of 77 million baby boomers, exposes the toll that embalming, cremation, and traditional burial have on those who\u2019ve passed, their families, and deathcare workers, and the corruption \u2013 political, religious, and corporate \u2013 that stands in opposition to greener methods being nationally legalized and accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe synopsis continues: \u201cThe film ultimately shows what is possible if these green methods are put into wider practice, and works toward normalizing conversations around death and grief.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with producing, Roth narrates the documentary and appears on camera, as does Chandler.\u00a0Oscar winner DiCaprio, riding high with awards darling One Battle After Another, produces with Jennifer Davisson and Phillip Watson for Appian Way (Killers Of The Flower Moon). Raymond Mansfield and Sean McKittrick serve as producers for QC Entertainment and Edward H. Hamm, Jr as an executive producer. <\/p>\n

\n\tGet Out and BlacKkKlansman outfit QC Entertainment fully financed the project and will represent the film alongside WME Independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJessica Chandler and I have wanted to make this film for over twenty years, since she first told me about the environmental horrors of the death care industry and how avoiding death as a subject makes us complicit. We spent years finding brave people willing to speak on camera, revealing the poisoning of our bodies and land that contaminates our water, air, and food,\u201d said Roth. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cWe aimed to show the issue from all sides, without blame or shame, and to present clear solutions that already exist but are blocked by those invested in maintaining the current system for profit. Made entirely in secrecy, the film will shock and inspire. This is not an attack on an industry, but an effort to understand how we got here and how we can move forward together to protect future generations. Jessica and her team did incredible work, and we hope the film galvanizes people to take control of their own death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are incredibly proud to reunite with Eli Roth and join forces with the visionary team at QC Entertainment to bring Jessica Chandler\u2019s urgent work to the screen,\u201d said President of Appian Way, Jennifer Davisson. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued: \u201cAt Appian Way, we are drawn to stories that empower us to look at the systems we\u2019ve long taken for granted and challenge them through our filmmaking.\u00a0Death Boom\u00a0is a crucial exploration of a crisis that is as much about environmental preservation as it is about human dignity, and we are honored to join a conversation that we can no longer avoid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tQC partners McKittrick, Mansfield and Hamm commented: \u201cDeath Boom is exactly the kind of urgent, unflinching storytelling we built QC Entertainment to champion \u2013 work that grips you, stays with you, and sparks a conversation. Jessica has made a powerful documentary that confronts the real costs of how we handle death in America while illuminating solutions that already exist. We\u2019re proud to partner with Eli Roth and Appian Way to bring a film that replaces taboo with truth \u2013 and shows what\u2019s possible when better options are made accessible \u2013 to audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Eli Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio\u2018s Appian Way Productions, and QC Entertainment have partnered on\u00a0Death Boom, a feature-length documentary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156720,7391,156,14383,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-279237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-death-boom","9":"tag-eli-roth","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}