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When it comes to the great surge we’ve seen at the box office for documentaries, “investment by someone or some entity” like CNN Films makes all the difference according to RBG co-director and producer Julie Cohen. “If you’re making a documentary for $50K, there’s going to be limitations on what the quality is going…

Since its Sundance 2018 unveiling, the documentary RBG has — like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — proven to be most resilient. While fellow successful theatrical release docus from that Sundance like Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Three Identical Strangers were strangely excluded from the final Oscar ballot …

This morning’s nomination for RBG as Best Feature Documentary serves a welcome cap to a banner year for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the SCOTUS whose culture status has been greatly elevated thanks, in part, to this film and the Felicity Jones-starring biopic On the Basis of Sex in which Ginsburg made a cameo. It didn’t hurt…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is said to be working from her hospital bed as she recovers from surgery to remove cancerous lobes from her lung, welcome news to progressives anxious that she continue her service on the nation's highest court. Her admirers may also take comfort from the words of RBG…

“We’re all born to do something,” songwriter Diane Warren says. “And this is what I was born to do.” Certainly, looking at all Warren has accomplished in her career, the industry agrees. Amassing nine Oscar nominations between 1988 and 2018, along with a Grammy, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and three consecutive Billboard…

Successful documentaries stand out any year because with the possible exception of highly-produced non-fiction fare about political advocacy, cute animals or legendary rock stars, they are often viewed as particularly big gambles, even for veteran distributors hardened by the shifting whims of the box office. Of…

RBG documentarians Betsy West and Julie Cohen had both interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the past, but it was when Ginsburg’s name was gaining steam in popular culture that the idea of doing a documentary was born. “We said ‘hey, someone should do a documentary on Justice Ginsburg and it should be us,'” said…