By Kurt Orzeck “The Loving Story,” first-time director Nancy Buirski’s documentary about interracial marriage, has been acquired by Icarus Films, TheWrap has learned. The movie — which is on the Oscar short list for Documentary Feature — will air Feb. 14 on HBO. Three months later, New York-based documentary-film distributor Icarus Films will distribute “The [...]

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the driest place in the world and surely one of the most desolate. But it has always proved fertile ground for the Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, who first filmed there 40 years ago and has now returned to make “Nostalgia for the Light,” a meditation on astronomy, [...]

Nostalgia for the Light opens March, 2011 at IFC Center in New York City

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) – JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised almost $700 million to equip the three biggest U.S. theater chains with digital screens and projectors that can show 3-D movies, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, a collaboration between Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Cinemark [...]