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I just paid to go see Melania so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. Amazon MGM Studios withheld this so-called documentary/infomercial from the prying eyes of critics with not even a Thursday preview. It is a move that doesn’t give one comfort that…

Melania, Amazon MGM Studios’ documentary about Melania Trump, is billed as a behind-the-scenes look at the once-and-future first lady in the 20 days leading up to the inauguration last year. While much has been written about what Melania is, in watching the movie a viewer will very quickly…

Scottish Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins isn't afraid to think big. "It’s always good to aim high," he tells Deadline. "I mean, we can nibble at life and take it gingerly or we can gorge." He gorges on nonfiction cinema in his 16-hour series The Story of Documentary Film, an encyclopedic…

Three incarcerated men who feature prominently in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution have been moved into solitary confinement without explanation, according to filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman and an attorney with knowledge of the men's cases. Alabama prison…

At the splashy Kennedy Center premiere Thursday for Melania, the Amazon MGM Studios documentary opening this weekend, the movie’s director, Brett Ratner, and First Lady Melania Trump defended the cost of the project, reportedly $40 million to make and another $35 million to market. “I think it…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated documentary Viva Verdi! has joined the Jolt streaming platform, making the film directed by Yvonne Russo available to an audience across the U.S. Emmy-winning composer Nicholas Pike's aria from the film, "Sweet Dreams of Joy," earned an Oscar nomination for…

EXCLUSIVE: Mosaic has signed Mariana van Zeller, the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning investigative journalist, producer, filmmaker, and co-founder of Muck Media, for representation in all areas, as she expands her work across television, film, and new media. Regarded as one of the foremost…

EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical rights to Space Cowboy, an eye-popping documentary about skydiving stunt coordinator and free fall cinematographer Joe Jennings, a man known for driving cars out of airplanes to capture one-of-a-kind footage. The film directed by Marah…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Gianfranco Rosi's award-winning documentary Pompei: Below the Clouds will be coming to U.S. theaters and to MUBI's streaming platform in March. The film, shot in lustrous black and white by Rosi, explores life in the city in southern Italy where Mount Vesuvius, an active…

EXCLUSIVE: Most filmmakers hope to come out of Sundance with a distribution deal or perhaps an award. The directors of feature documentary Nuisance Bear will leave town with a marriage license. Jack Weisman popped the question to fellow filmmaker Gabriela Osio Vanden in the middle Main Street in…

EXCLUSIVE: Mubi is going all in on Julia Loktev's acclaimed nonfiction epic My Undesirable Friends. The global distributor, streaming service and production company announced it is acquiring both part one of Loktev's film, titled My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, as well as…

UPDATED with latest: It’s a new calendar year, and film awards season is in full swing — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead, starting with Saturday’s Palm Springs Film Festival awards gala and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards…