Never mind collective apathy, political docs have won out in 2016, though not by record-breaking numbers. On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump supporters and dissenters can unite under the anti-Hillary documentary Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D'Souza…
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.FLEMING: It’s high time for Oscar voting, but I'd like to start with an unusual appeal: Everybody, go see Michael Moore’s new…
Looks like relatively few Specialty-goers took refuge in theaters from the East Coast cold this weekend, though some politicos took time off from campaign-watching to check out the new Michael Moore film Where To Invade Next, which bowed in a few hundred theaters. It is the highest grossing documentary of the year and…
After teasing late last year a bus tour to promote his new film Where To Invade Next, Michael Moore announced last week that he was being hospitalized with pneumonia and asked his fans to take to social media to promote the title’s release this weekend (he’s apparently now resting at home). Tom Quinn, who is leading…
No, you didn’t misread that headline. Michael Moore really was on Fox News tonight, and he played up the laughs onThe Kelly File. Megan Kelly struggled to get words in edge-wise as the filmmaker/activist opined about her feud with Donald Trump, the candidate skipping this week’s Fox News GOP debate, Hillary Clinton…
Michael Moore was the last to appear at Deadline’s big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, on November 7th to talk about his latest documentary, Where To Invade Next, in front of the AMPAS and key guild members attending the all-day Oscar primer at the DGA Theatre. So it is appropriate that our…
Two anticipated titles that will spend a short time in limited release beginning Christmas weekend are making their debuts in theaters. Fans of 70mm film will get their chance to see Quentin Tarantino’s latest, The Hateful Eight exclusively in the format as the title heads out to an initial 44 cities. It will head…
After a string of movies with rather pointed and searing indictments of everything from General Motors to health care, Michael Moore is back with his first movie in six years that — believe it or not — represents a side of him we haven’t seen in movies before: a kinder and gentler Moore. The Oscar- and Palme…
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Moore’s latest film Where To Invade Next, which was to have begun its national rollout in two weeks on December 23, will now open in a few hundred theaters beginning February 12 — three days after the New Hampshire primary. The documentary, Moore’s first in six years, will be distributed by the…
Michael Moore is back with Where To Invade Next, his new doc that’s been storming the festival circuit this year. Framed as a wry travelogue, the film satirizes U.S. foreign policy with visits to several countries, including France, Finland, and Italy, examining how they deal with economic and social ills experienced…
An appeal by Where To Invade Next director Michael Moore to overturn the MPAA’s R-rating for the filmmaker’s latest documentary was upheld today by the CARA Appeals Board, which decides such matters. Moore’s docu platforms in theaters December 23 from the new distribution outfit created by former Radius-TWC toppers…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is out with its finalists for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, and it includes films about a singers, actors, heroes and a number of hot-button issues.
Among the pics on the shortlist are the Amy Winehouse docu Amy; What Happened, Miss Simone?, about singer Nina…