This holiday weekend’s Specialty box office is mostly quiet with debuts, while key Oscar nominees are keeping their zest. At over $3.2M, Magnolia Pictures' documentary nominee I Am Not Your Negro, in its third weekend of release, has pulled ahead in cumulative gross of all but a few 2016 non-fiction releases…

Oscilloscope purred over the weekend with the debut of cat doc Kedi exclusively at New York’s Metrograph, scoring the weekend's top per theater average at $40.5K. Fox Searchlight opened Amma Asante's A United Kingdom in several locations grossing $70K (though the company said it picked up as the weekend wore on). Fox…

Magnolia Pictures’ Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro packed in audiences over the weekend, putting it on track to be one of the year's highest-grossing non-fiction films. Magnolia bowed the Toronto premiere directed by Raoul Peck in 43 theaters, grossing $709K. Paladin's Chapter & Verse, however…

Following major festival accolades and a short qualifying run, Magnolia Pictures' Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro heads to more than two dozen cities this weekend. The film is the final title in the documentary category to begin its regular theatrical run. On the other end of the spectrum, Sony…

The 13th annual Glasgow Film Festival has announced its line-up, which includes UK premieres of titles such as Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time: Life's Journey, Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome and Aki Kaurismaki's The Other Side of Hope. The 12-day event will feature nine world and…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Raoul Peck, who just earned a DGA nomination for his acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro, has signed with ICM Partners. The film, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, is based on published and unpublished writings of James Baldwin, and examines the past, present, and future of race in America. ICM…

“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.” Samuel L. Jackson recites that line in the new trailer for I Am Not Your Negro, in which director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished: a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original…

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the first 11 films that will run in its Panorama section. The fest says two prominent themes have already emerged among the films selected to date: “a fresh historically reflective approach to the history of black people in North America, South America and Africa” and "Europa…

Magnolia Pictures will screen Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro for a one-week special run beginning December 9 in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a nationwide theatrical release on February 3 in 25 markets. The rollout for the pic, which was just nominated for an Indie Spirit Award this…

The Cinema Eye Honors recognizing the best in documentary filmmaking have unveiled nominations for its 10th edition. Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin docu I Am Not Your Negro and Ezra Edelman’s five-part OJ: Made In America lead the pack with five noms apiece. The awards, part of New York’s Cinema Eye Week, will be bestowed…

The International Documentary Association has announced nominations and creative recognition awards for the 2016 IDA Documentary Awards. The 32nd edition of ceremony honoring nonfiction filmmaking is set for Friday, December 9th at the Paramount Studios Backlot in Los Angeles. The IDA will honor five filmmakers and…

The Hamptons Film Festival today said Lionsgate’s musical La La Land starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone won the fest’s Audience Award for Narrative Feature. Magnolia Pictures’ I Am Not Your Negro from Raoul Peck won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature, and Netflix's The White Helmets won the Audience Award…