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The Grammys awarded Billie Eilish’s theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie No Time to Die its Best Song Written for Visual Media on Sunday, a highlight of the pre-primetime Grammy Awards recipients. Eilish co-wrote the song for the film with brother Finneas. The tentpole franchise pic has moved several times…

UPDATED with DOC NYC winners, 6:30 PM: CNN Films has acquired the documentary feature Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice and set its television premiere for New Year’s Day on CNN. Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly isn't short on documentarians. Atop its existing 400 or so documentary branch members, the Academy in July invited almost 100 additional doc-makers to join. Despite some internal concern that a few invitees might need help with the dues, now $450 a year, it…

Two and a half cheers for the Landmark Theatres in West Los Angeles. The parking escalators have been broken for weeks. Those purple and black staff outfits are a bit somber. And $15 seems high for an hour and 35 minutes of Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice, as delightful as it is. But the Landmark, so far, has…

UPDATED with adjusted weekend grosses. The specialty box office was fairly quiet this weekend, with a handful of releases and holdovers that were, at best, mild. Neon and Participant Media‘s Monos hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on a total of five screens. Directed by Alejandro Landes, the Red Dawn-esque…

This week, Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple will make its Los Angeles debut at the Nuart, attempting to gain some traction when it expands to New York and other markets in the following weeks. The film premiered at Sundance to critical acclaim and was acquired by Oscilloscope shortly after. The intimate storytelling of Ms. Pur…

You know the voice. You know the face. It’s time to get to know the woman. Here is the first trailer for Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, a feature documentary that takes an insider’s look at one of the most successful recording acts of the 20th century. “Linda could literally sing anything,” longtime friend and…

EXCLUSIVE: North American distribution rights to Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice have been co-acquired by Greenwich Entertainment and 1091 (formerly The Orchard). The documentary, directed by Oscar winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and produced by James Keach and  Michele Farinola and CNN…

As evidenced by Wednesday’s opening-night screening of The Apollo, this promises to be an exceptionally good year for the documentary competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. Two other docus focusing on remarkable personal stories, one in show business and the other on the high seas, join the fray Thursday and Friday…