“Amy,” the documentary about late singer Amy Winehouse, has won the Oscar for best documentary — prompting the producer to declare that the movie had been made with her fans in mind. “This is for the…
Sales activity for the first four days at the 36th American Film Market has matched the moderate weather in Santa Monica. Business could heat up in coming days, thanks to recent burst of high-profile…
Noomi Rapace is in talks to star in an Amy Winehouse biopic with Kirsten Sheridan directing. Lotus Entertainment will finance, produce and handle international sales at the American Film Market…
Cinema Eye has announced its annual list of “The Unforgettables” — the year’s most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects — Variety has learned exclusively. The list includes Amy Winehouse…
LONDON — Amy Winehouse movie "Amy" is set to become the third-highest grossing documentary of all time in the U.K., and the highest-grossing British documentary of all time at the local box office…
With his new documentary, “Amy,” Asif Kapadia wants to burnish Amy Winehouse’s legacy as one of the most influential vocalists and songwriters of the early aughts. It’s a restoration project with…
When singer Amy Winehouse died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning at age 27, most people knew her as an inglorious train wreck, having witnessed her steady descent into self-destruction as if in real time…
ROME – Segueing from it’s Cannes world preem, British director Asif Kapadia’s well-received Amy Winehouse docu “Amy” will open Italy’s Biografilm Festival, the unique event billed as a cinematic…
The Cannes Film Festival reminded Hollywood that it’s never too early to start campaigning for next year’s Academy Awards. The O-word first popped up during a presentation from Harvey Weinstein about…
The first full-length trailer for the Amy Winehouse documentary has been released a week after it wowed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival. “Always a bit upsetting in the end, isn’t it?” Winehouse…
"Amy," the upcoming documentary about Amy Winehouse, is an unflinching portrait of how drug and alcohol addiction combined with a series of enablers led to the death of the famous soul singer at the…
