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A new documentary about Hillary Clinton’s epic loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election will debut at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2020. Hillary Clinton is expected to attend the world premiere of the film, entitled Hillary, which will reportedly feature never-before-seen campaign footage.

The estate of Michael Jackson on Thursday sued HBO over a documentary about two men who accuse the late pop superstar of molesting them when they were boys, saying the film violates a 1992 contract to air a Jackson concert.

Wade Robson, who says Jackson abused him from ages 7 to 14, and James Safechuck came forward as adults with their abuse allegations after Jackson’s death in 2009.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) plans to travel to Sundance in January to see herself in a documentary.

Celebrities were out in full force Saturday for the Respect Rally at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, one of numerous Women’s March events happening across the country on the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler tweeted a joke mocking President Donald Trump’s unborn grandchild Monday afternoon, but appeared to misspell the word “genes,” leading Trump’s sons to reply with the correct spelling.

Actor Robert Redford defended the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in an open letter this week, amid President Donald Trump’s budget proposal calling for funding cuts to the federal agency.

Rapper-turned-film producer Jay Z praised the left-wing Women’s March on Washington, telling an audience at the Sundance Film Festival that the anti-Trump protests are evidence of the left’s “power” in America.

Actor Peter Dinklage praised the Chelsea Handler-led anti-Donald Trump Women’s March at the Sundance Film Festival this week, saying in an interview that the festival was the perfect place for the march because most everybody there agrees on politics.

Stand-up comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani says he has heard that the election of Donald Trump is making it hard for film studios to get “certain types” of films funded.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump can save themselves a visit to Chelsea Handler’s talk show, because she won’t speak to them — even if the president himself requested an interview.

A cyber attack on the Sundance Film Festival that forced the closure of the festival’s box office on Saturday is now being reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a report.

Pop singer Madonna has issued a defense of a comment she made at the anti-Donald Trump Women’s March on Washington on Saturday — during which she said she had thought often of “blowing up the White House’ — saying the quote had been taken “wildly out of context.”

Singers Katy Perry and Cher will be among the thousands of women expected to travel to the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte says it’s unfair that Nate Parker’s shining moment with his film The Birth of a Nation is being overshadowed by a 17-year-old rape case. But the iconic performer and activist adds that he’s not clear about the facts and wants to look more into the story that’s been dominating entertainment headlines.

As Nate Parker prepares for the wide release of his highly-anticipated breakout slave rebellion drama The Birth of a Nation, an old rape case brought against him 17 years ago while he was a student at Penn State could complicate Fox Searchlight’s ambitious plans for the film, which is already expected to be a major contender at next year’s Academy Awards.

The Birth of a Nation — the slave rebellion drama that electrified Sundance earlier this year — got its first full trailer on Tuesday.

Award-winning Sundance documentary Weiner — which chronicles disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s scandal-plagued 2013 New York mayoral bid — opened atop the specialty box office this weekend, even as its subjects, Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, have reportedly not yet seen the film.

The first trailer for the prize-winning, politically-charged documentary Weiner, about disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York mayoral bid, was released online Monday.

The pro-abortion documentary “Trapped” — which debuted to a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival last month — has snagged a distribution deal with four outlets including PBS’ Independent Lens, which will air the film this summer as the Supreme Court readies a key decision on abortion legislation.

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis has coined the name of a new test that might measure the quality of diversity in a film — the DuVernay Test, a kind-of race-based variant of the Bechdel Test, which measures gender equality in film.

Four abortion providers received a standing ovation from an audience at the Sundance Film Festival this week after the group secretly attended the premiere of the pro-abortion documentary “Trapped.”

When Katie Couric’s gun control documentary, Under the Gun, debuted at Sundance on January 24, one thing was clear: Couric forewent any attempts at political balance.

HBO Documentary Films has acquired “Jim: The James Foley Story,” a documentary about the kidnapped American journalist’s infamous murder at the hands of ISIS in 2014, the network announced Tuesday.

The latest trailer for tense drama/thriller Partisan is here. Vincent Cassel stars as Gregori, the leader of a “community” (more like a cult) that trains up young children to do dangerous errands for the group, including assassinations. Here’s the official

The upcoming horror film The Witch got its first trailer this week – and man, it is just really, really creepy, in ways that most horror films try to be but aren’t.

Actor Emile Hirsch was sentenced Monday to 15 days in jail for assaulting a female Paramount executive during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January.

The Sundance hit Zipper got its first trailer this week.

A new study commissioned by both the Sundance Institute and Women in Film found the gender gap between directors to be at its widest in top-grossing films.

Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind an upcoming HBO Scientology exposé, called actor and prominent adherent Tom Cruise “irresponsible” for refusing to address allegations of mental and physical abuse within the controversial church.

The HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief debuted to a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Sunday.

The Sundance Film Festival begins this week and you know what that means: a coming onslaught of oppressive, non-stop coverage from the entertainment media about dozens of films no one will ever see … ever. Deadline published a fine illustration