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Despite Lack Of Docus On Big Screen, Non-Fiction Is Alive Theatrically As Concert Pics & Feature Source Material: Lionsgate EVP & Producers Deliberate At SXSW
Many documentary filmmakers want their work on the big screen and not small. So, what gives? Why isn’t that happening? One could argue that we haven’t seen a doc boom in cinemas since 2018 which served up such breakouts as Won’t You Be My Neighbor ($22.8M), Three Identical Strangers ($12.3M) and RBG ($14M). The pandemic […]
“It’s not that it doesn’t work theatrically,” explained Lionsgate EVP Acquisitions and Co-Production, Charlotte Koh who was part of the SXSW session “How to Tell True Stories: Narrative vs. Documentary”. Read, the Mark Wahlberg Lionsgate movie Arthur the King, as well as the studio’s WWII set The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare from Guy Ritchie and even the Kingdom Story feature, Ordinary Angels. Koh worked on a movie with Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone called Fancy Dance and “we had to rely on a bunch of experts to make sure that the cultural language and the tribal portrayal was accurate.”
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