Who hasn't heard about–and possibly laughed at–the scandalous mess surrounding politician Anthony Weiner and his penchant for tweeting personal photos? However, when Weiner began campaigning to be Mayor of New York, filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg saw an opportunity to make a documentary about redemption…

Documentary competition is stiff for the five available Oscar noms this year, with several of the strongest contenders breaking out of Sundance, setting the stage for a tense race as far back as January. Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's Weiner (IFC) won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the festival—the film follows…

A Showtime rep tells Deadline the network is in discussions with team behind Weiner about possibly adding a postscript to the award-winning documentary, after Anthony Weiner’s wife this morning announced she was separating from her husband. Hillary Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin issued her statement this morning…

“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” Hillary Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin said in a statement this morning, taking top spot in the TV news cycle. That came hours after the New York Post published a front-page story about her…

Box office numbers for the Specialties were slow in coming Sunday, with only some holdovers reporting their Friday to Sunday grosses over the holiday weekend. Last weekend's top opener, Weiner from Sundance Selects, continued to show zest in its second frame as it expanded into just over two dozen locations, while…

Sundance Film Festival 2016 documentary winner Weiner topped the weekend's new Specialty releases, and boasts the highest per theater average debut among non-fiction releases this year. The Sundance Selects release grossed $85,525 from five New York and Los Angeles locations this weekend. Sony Classics bowed Toronto…

Actress-filmmaker Rebecca Miller wrote the character Julianne Moore plays in Maggie's Plan with her in mind. Moore, who stars along with Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke, won the Best Actress Oscar last year for Still Alice, which Sony Pictures Classics released. The company is taking Maggie's Plan out this weekend…

“The punchline is true about me: I did the dumb thing. But I did a lot of good things too.” Sometime in the near future, if it hasn’t happened already, Anthony Weiner’s case will be included in a Politics 101 textbook. Maybe he’ll get a whole chapter — because when a rising political star crashes this hard because of…

UPDATE with more details: Nate Parker’s slave rebellion drama The Birth Of A Nation swept the Grand Jury and Audience Award prizes in the U.S. Dramatic competition Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival awards. The ceremony wrapped the 1o-day fest which was stamped for good by Parker’s debut feature film, which b…

The BFI published figures Thursday showing strong performances for UK indies in what overall was a record year for the British box office. Local independent films had 11% market share, the third highest since records began. They were led by StudioCanal's Legend, starring Tom Hardy, with £18.4M, followed by Fox's The Se…

The Sundance Institute has today announced that Morris From America producers Sara Murphy and Adele Romanski, and Julie Goldman, executive producer of the documentary Weiner and producer of Life, Animated, have received the 2016 Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer's Award. Through the Sundance Institute Feature…

If you were looking for damning footage or other brickbats to toss at Hillary Clinton, the highly anticipated documentary Weiner – about the disgraced politician, who’s married to Clinton’s closest aide – proved a disappointment in its premiere Sundance screening today. Despite the heavy presence of Anthony Weiner’s…