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On Wednesday, Amazon debuted the first trailer for My Name Is Pauli Murray, which hits theaters on September 17 and will be available to stream on Prime Video on October 1. The latest doc from Oscar-nominated RBG filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen tells the story of Pauli Murray, one of the most influential figures…

Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to My Name Is Pauli Murray, the Participant, Drexler and Storyville Films documentary which made its world premiere at Sundance. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal…

Win, lose or draw, the frantic election cycle has already made one thing painfully clear: The movies will never catch up. They are too slow. A collaborative, deliberative medium like cinema can never keep pace with events—or more properly, with perceptions of and fascinations with seeming events—that change almost…

Focus Features and Magnolia Pictures said Tuesday that they will rerelease their respective Ruth Bader Ginsburg features On the Basis of Sex and the documentary RBG, in tribute to the late Supreme Court justice. Both pics will play in 1,000 theaters this Friday, and also be available on-demand, with net proceeds from…

Kate McKinnon reflected on the significance and inspiring power of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Bombshell actress paid tribute to the legal titan after Ginsburg, 87, died on Friday. "For so many of us, Justice Ginsburg was a real-life superhero: a beacon of hope, a warrior for justice, a robed…

Opera houses across the United States are mourning the loss of Supreme Court Justice and opera lover Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, who died on Friday at 87 years old, adored the opera scene after her aunt took her to a high school performance of La Gioconda, she said in a Sirus XM interview. Since that first taste of…

In December 2018, marking Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court, Focus Features released On the Basis of Sex, a biopic of the trailblazing Justice. Following Ginsburg’s death from cancer at age 87, she was mourned by Felicity Jones, who played her in the movie, and the rest of On the Basis Of Sex…

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reflected on the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, telling reporters that she “stood for all of us” as she pursued “the highest American ideas of equality and justice under the law.” Biden also said that a vote on her successor should not take place until after the election. “The…

(Updated with more details from tonight’s show) "That is very sad news," said Bill Maher tonight as the nation and the world learned of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In front of a coronavirus socially distanced live audience on Friday, the Real Time host and his panel were informed of the…

President Donald Trump got off the stage after a rally in Bemidji, MN and, after a reporter asked him about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he said that he had not heard the news. “She just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say…

Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who directed RBG, the feature-length documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reacted Friday to Ginsburg’s death Friday at age 87. “Like so many Americans, we are crushed by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” West and Cohen said in a joint statement. “Even had…

America lost a pioneering champion for human rights today when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87. Click on the image above to see a photo gallery on her incomparable career. Ginsburg was the first nominee to the high court by President Bill Clinton, who was less than five months into his first term…