Amazon reportedly paid an estimated $40 million to acquire "Melania" and spent an additional $35 million on marketing.

The industry expected a modest niche debut, but the Melania Trump documentary quietly rolled into theaters and walked out with about $7 million in domestic ticket sales over its first weekend. That ...

You’d think a high-budget look into one of the most private women in the world would be a guaranteed Friday night hit. But ...

As Never Look Away, this year’s documentary about camerawoman Margaret Moth, reminds us, it wasn’t long ago that the main barrier to the world at large understanding the human cost of geopolitical ...

At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

Jane Rosenthal is taking the pulse of the nonfiction feature space — and it doesn’t look good. The mega-producer and Tribeca co-founder told Variety during a recent interview that she is “worried” ...

Perhaps the most definitive documentary yet detailing the impact of Cleveland political trailblazer Carl Stokes could hit ...

You could hear a pin drop at the Soho House Screening Room as outspoken political gadfly James Carville and filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer talked about their new movie, “Carville: Winning is Everything, ...

SUNY Cortland political scientist and author Robert Spitzer will share his thoughts on the politics of gun control with a wider audience when CNN screens the documentary film in which Spitzer appears, ...

The hosts of Deadline’s Doc Talk and ElectionLine podcasts are getting together for an unprecedented crossover episode. Think Law & Order: SVU meets Law & Order: Organized Crime; Angel meets Buffy the ...

"Fewer places are buying hard-hitting documentaries," the Tribeca co-founder and mega-producer said. When asked how the “business” of documentary films are going — citing how the Tribeca Festival is ...