When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the richest man in the United States, came to the Sundance Film Festival here this week, it wasn’t movies on his mind, it was education — your kids’ education.
A new documentary, “Waiting For Superman,” by director Davis Guggenheim (”An Inconvenient Truth“) looks at what Gates and Guggenheim say is a U.S. public school system [...]

On June 25, just hours after Michael Jackson died, Tim Patterson drove from his home in the Santa Clarita Valley to downtown Los Angeles with $60-million worth of film footage in his trunk. 
As he sped down Interstate 5 in his green Lexus convertible, Patterson carried virtually all of the 140 hours of rehearsal footage from [...]

An Open Letter to the Terminator Owners. From a Very Important Hollywood Mogul:
Dear Sirs/Ma’ams,
I am Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind Titan A.E., Parenthood (not the movie) (or the new series) (or the one where ‘hood’ was capitalized ’cause it was a pun), and myriad other legendary tales. I have heard through the ‘grapevine’ that the Terminatorfranchise is for sale, and I am prepared [...]

If anyone has profited from the free-enterprise system in the past 20 years, it’s Michael Moore. Since 1989, when his “Roger & Me” pioneered the docu-comedy form of nonfiction film, Moore’s movies, TV shows and best-selling books have given him an eight-figure net worth.
And in all of these, he is the improbable star: a heavyset [...]

Pop quiz: Which film has grossed more money? The hit Paul Rudd comedy “I Love You, Man” or the 47-minute-long documentary “Space Station 3D”?
Julia Roberts’ star vehicle “Duplicity” or the Humboldt squid’s big turn in “Deep Sea 3D”?
While movie studios struggle to create, produce and launch expensive movie franchises, humble nature and science films have [...]

Interviews with USC Professor Jeremy Kagan and MHZ Networks producer Glenn Luther about the challenges for modern documentary filmmakers.

A documentary, more than two years in the making, about President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign is gathering significant interest from international distributors just days after being picked up in the United States by HBO. A team of directors and editors backed by the actorEdward Norton is furiously editing the untitled project.

Remember Chicago, 1968? Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters stormed the Democratic convention, setting off a chain of explosive and violent confrontations with the police. Well, now history has a new look.
In the season premiere of Independent Lens, Chicago 10, director Brett Morgen recreates the wild antics of the infamous Chicago Conspiracy Trial through original animation [...]

ReelzChannel’s Nando Velasquez sat down with Larry Charles and Bill Maher to talk about their documentary, Religulous. Charles directed the movie, in which Maher travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion.
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