William Fichtner, Emily Hall and Caroline Concannon have joined the cast of the Michael Mailer Films and Tremendous Entertainment film Cutman.
10.03.2024 - 02:43 / deadline.com
Many documentary filmmakers want their work on the big screen and not small. So, what gives? Why isn’t that happening?
One could argue that we haven’t seen a doc boom in cinemas since 2018 which served up such breakouts as Won’t You Be My Neighbor ($22.8M), Three Identical Strangers ($12.3M) and RBG ($14M). The pandemic is partially to blame as audiences have savored non-fiction stories on streaming, i.e. the Netflix series, Tiger King.
“It’s not that it doesn’t work theatrically,” explained Lionsgate EVP Acquisitions and Co-Productions, Charlotte Koh who was part of the SXSW session “How to Tell True Stories: Narrative vs. Documentary”.
“It’s becoming more competitive to get people’s attention because there is so much documentary product out there that can be watched through streamers and other ways,” Koh added.
Also on the panel moderated by Variety documentary journalist Addie Morfoot were Bryan Mooser, the EP of the docu Diane Warren: Relentless, which is world premiering at the fest, and Prentice Penny, whose company A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment produced the Hulu docu-series, Black Twitter; another SXSW debut this year.
“There are films that break through very rarely in theatrical, it does happen,” said Mooser about big screen docs, “It goes back to what works theatrically. Like Free Solo, um, can I count the Eras Tour as a documentary?”
“Yes!” interjected Koh.
If any subset of documentaries can do well theatrically of late, it’s music documentaries, proof of “what works in the communal space — that’s why the Eras Tour works so well,” emphasized Koh.
Even though the AMC circuit release, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour with a domestic gross north of $180M is a unicorn among concert films, Renaissance: A
William Fichtner, Emily Hall and Caroline Concannon have joined the cast of the Michael Mailer Films and Tremendous Entertainment film Cutman.
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The second day of Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival kicked off with a bang on Friday as established writer-directors Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), Mounia Akl (Costa Brava Lebanon) and Stacey Gregg (Ballywalter) all discussed at length the process of how they achieve their best work and how they balance the writer-director relationship.
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NBCUniversal is adding a set of features to Peacock as it gets set for the streaming outlet’s live coverage of the Paris Olympics this summer.
National CineMedia, which exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy last summer, drew cheers from investors Monday after an encouraging fourth-quarter earnings report.
Faye Bradley Actor Louis Koo is a household name in Hong Kong but off-screen, he’s an influential entertainment industry investor, producer and entrepreneur. Rising to prominence during the “golden age” of Hong Kong cinema, Koo built a respected career over the decades but less flashy are his businesses and investments. One Cool Group is one such revenue stream.
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We’re getting the first look at André Holland as Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton in Apple’s upcoming limited series The Big Cigar (See photo above). The six-episode limited drama series is set to premiere globally May 17 with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday through June 14, on Apple TV+.
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After the rolling laughs, hoots, hollers, whistling and clapping at tonight’s world premiere of Road House at SXSW, Amazon MGM Studios may want to think again before putting this Jake Gyllenhaal–Conor McGregor rock ’em sock ’em beefcakes pugilist movie on Prime Video. It doesn’t take an elbow to the head to wake up to the fact that Road House clearly needs to make a destination to cinemas.
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