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Lotus Entertainment has come aboard to finance, executive produce and handle international sales on Kirsten Sheridan's Amy Winehouse biopic that has Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) in talks to star as the tragic singer. Sheridan, daughter of Jim and an Academy Award nominee for In America, has penned…

The Amy Winehouse story Amy has become the second-highest-grossing documentary of all time in the UK. Released by Altitude Film Distribution, it recently was crowned the top-grossing British documentary ever. The UK box office is now £3.44M ($5.39M). Asif Kapadia's look at the late Grammy winner previously had the…

Asif Kapadia’s ecstatically-reviewed Amy, a powerful tribute to tragic singer Amy Winehouse, has scored the largest ever opening for a British docu at the UK box office with $808,000, making it the second biggest opening weekend ever for a docu in the country after Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.  Kapadia’s film…

Late multi-Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse gets the spotlight in a new film by BAFTA-winner Asif Kapadia, simply titled Amy, which A24 will open in New York followed by a national rollout beginning Friday. The title uses never-before-seen footage of the artist and features previously unheard tracks. The doc…

Without question one of the best movies I saw at May’s Cannes Film Festival was one I resisted at first. I really wasn’t all that interested in seeing Amy, Asif Kapadia’s documentary on the life of singer Amy Winehouse. Her unnecessary death at age 27 after a life played out in front of the prying cameras of the…

Asif Kapadia’s Amy had an Out of Competition Midnight Screening here in Cannes last week and is easily one of the films receiving the most praise across the Official Selection. The documentary about Amy Winehouse stunned in its premiere and is gearing up for a July 3 release in both the U.S. and the UK, via A24 and…

The first Saturday of Cannes, usually the busiest day in terms of just about everything, belonged to Gus, Carol and Amy. First up, Gus Van Sant and total revenge against booing critics’ negative reaction Friday night to the press screening of his moving new film Sea Of Trees, which they just didn’t seem to get…

It’s been almost four years since the pop star’s untimely death, but watching footage of Amy Winehouse talking about her career and her approach to songwriting still feels more like seeing a ghost than watching a documentary. That’s my experience, at least, watching the first teaser for Amy, director Asif Kapadia’s…

A24 has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Asif Kapadia’s Amy, the documentary about British singer Amy Winehouse who died four years ago at age 27 from alcohol poisoning. This has all happened quietly and there’s no word on a U.S. release date, but sources say that July is being eyed. In the UK the pic just got a Ju…

The UK’s Altitude Film Distribution has set a July 3 release for the Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, almost four years to the day of her untimely death at 27. The story of the British singer’s life and career is directed by BAFTA-winning Senna helmer Asif Kapadia. No U.S. distributor has been announced on the film…

Alison Thompson, co-president of Focus Features International (FFI), announced multi-territory sales on director Asif Kapadia's (Senna, The Warrior) untitled documentary on five-time Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse. FFI also saw strong sales on seven-time Academy Award-nominated writer/director Mik…

London (April 24, 2013) – Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on director Asif Kapadia's (Senna, The Warrior) untitled documentary on five-time Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse. Using unseen archive footage, the film will show through her own words, the genius in Amy’s…