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 to…

Ten-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren didn’t win Sunday in the Original Song category at the Academy Awards for RBG‘s feminist anthem “I’ll Fight,” but powerhouse singer Jennifer Hudson knocked it out of the park singing it in the first performance among among the nominees.

The song also served as a reminder of the Acade…

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 …

On Oscar nomination morning, director RaMell Ross tuned in to see if his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening would make the cut. A year earlier it would have seemed like the longest of long shots, a film without major distribution that defied easy description, dealing with African-American life in the…

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 t…

Four of the most successful documentaries of recent years remain in contention for a prize beyond box office glory—the kind that comes with an Oscar trophy. 

Won't You Be My Neighbor?, RBG, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo all made the Oscar documentary shortlist as the Academy culled the list of 166 eligible…

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…

As if there wasn’t enough gut-punch news out of Washington the past few days, now comes word that Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery this morning to remove two malignant cancerous nodules from her left lung.

It’s the 85-year-old liberal hero’s third treatment for different cancers in 20 years, but a spokesperson sai…

RBG, Three Identical Strangers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hal, Into the Okavango and twin climber titles The Dawn Wall and Free Solo have been nominated for the Producer Guild’s 2019 Documentary Motion Picture award. The winner will be announced January 19 at the PGA Awards at the Beverly Hilton, among the cappers to…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has finalized deals for movies on its American Film Market sales slate, including TIFF horror-western The Wind, U.S. box office hit doc RBG, and Sebastian Silva's suspense-drama Tyrel.

Well-received female-fronted genre pic The Wind, which tells the story of a settler in the…

The perilous attempt by climber Alex Honnold to become the first person ever to scale and solo climb Yosemite’s 3000 foot high El Capitan Mountain with no ropes or safety gear is chronicled in the documentary Free Solo, a film that has climbed the list of nominees with six nods (and one honor) for the 2018 Critics Choi…

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 course…