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With the recent passing of singer-songwriter Sharon Jones, Barbara Kopple's film Miss Sharon Jones! has become an even more emotionally challenging watch. Following Jones through her fight with pancreatic cancer and riding along on her tour with her band of 20 years The Dap-Kings, we get a picture of a woman for whom…

Funk, soul and R&B singer Sharon Jones, lead singer of the revivalist funk band Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 60.  Nominated for a Grammy in 2014, the next year Jones was the subject of the Barbara Koppel-directed documentary Miss Sharon Jones! which debuted…

Several Specialty debuts did pretty well over the weekend, with Roadside Attractions' Indignation, directed by James Schamus, leading the pack. Close behind was Sony Pictures Classics' Equity and Kino Lorber's Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil. Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple's doc Miss Sharon Jones! crooned to $12K…

After a career as writer, producer and distribution chief, James Schamus makes his feature directorial debut with Indignation, in theaters following a fest circuit that included Sundance, Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle and others. The Roadside/Summit release is also being eyed as a breakout role for actor Logan…

Starz Digital has acquired North American distribution rights to Barbara Kopple's Miss Sharon Jones!, the documentary about the soul singer that first bowed at Toronto and played this spring at SXSW. A July 29 theatrical release is planned followed by a digital, on-demand and home video release in the fall. The docu…

The full roster of the American Film Institute’s AFI DOCS fest in Washington D.C. this June will include the world premiere of Doc & Darryl, the Judd Apatow-Michael Bonfiglio documentary about baseball greats Darryl Strawberry and Dwight “Doc” Gooden. The roster was unveiled today, and other just-announced films set…