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Turns out that lawsuit over the Katie Couric-backed documentary Under the Gun was firing blanks. A Virginia District Court judge today dismissed the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s action claimed that the gun advocacy group’s members were shown in the documentary apparently to be stumped for several seconds when Couric asks how to keep felons and terrorists from getting guns without background checks. "The Defendants manipulated the footage in service of an agenda,&#8221…...

A Virginia judge has just shot down a $13 million lawsuit against Katie Couric, Stephanie Soechtig, Epix and others associated with the documentary Under the Gun.

The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, provoked controversy because of one scene in particular. In it, Couric asks gun rights advocates, "If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?"

Under the Gun shows those being interviewed in nine seconds of silence.

In response, the Virginia Citizens Defense League attempted to make the case that this pregnant pause was defamatory. In <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/katie-couric-under-gun-director-928482"...

CBS has ordered a drama pilot about a team of investigators who specialize in hate crimes, TheWrap has learned. The untitled project will follow an elite team of investigators for the Northeast Regional U.S. Hate Crimes Unit, who solve a myriad of crimes against humanity as they confront their own biases. Noted journalist Katie Couric, who recently produced the gun control documentary “Under the Gun,” will serve as an executive producer on the pilot, along with David Marshall Grant and Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin through their Secret Hideout banner. Jenny Lumet will write and executive produce the pilot.

Katie Couric is standing her ground in the $12 million-plus defamation lawsuit the former CBS anchor and others were hit with in September over their anti-gun documentary Under the Gun. On Tuesday, Couric and director Stephanie Soechtig field a motion of dismissal against the legal move by members of Virginia Citizens Defense League. “A careful reading of their Complaint reveals that, beyond its vituperative rhetoric about the film and its producers, it strains to try…...

In court papers lodged Tuesday, Katie Couric contends that a gun rights group has read too much into pregnant silence in Under the Gun. She's now moved for dismissal of a $13 million lawsuit with the argument that eight seconds from the 120-minute documentary are incapable of defamatory meaning.

In September, the Virginia Citizens Defense League brought the lawsuit against Couric, Under the Gun director Stephanie Soechtig, Epix and others associated with the documentary.

The controversial scene shows Couric asking Vcdl members, "If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?"

The plaintiffs are...

People editorial director Jess Cagle was honored with the Brady Center’s annual “Bear Award” for his commitment to gun control advocacy Tuesday night.

The Brady Center is a nonprofit organization aimed at dramatically reducing gun related deaths and injuries in America. Best known for working to pass the Brady Law in 1993, which mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States, and for its 2001 merger with the Million Mom March, the Brady Center hopes to cut American gun deaths in half by 2025. Currently, the organization is working to close loopholes by extending background checks to gun shows and internet sales.

A total of 145 feature documentaries were submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 89th Academy Awards.

Out of those films the members of the Academy’s documentary branch will select a shortlist of 15 features that will be announced in December, and the five nominations will be announced on January 24.

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Among the titles included in the list are Ava DuVernay’s “13th,” the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, Raoul Peck’s Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winner “I Am Not Your Negro,” the visually stunning “Voyage of Time: The Imax Experience” by Terrence Malik and Otto Bell’s “The Eagle Huntress.”

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This year Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees’ film “Amy” about British singer Amy Winehouse...

In his Oscar-winning documentary “Bowling for Columbine” (2002), Michael Moore confronts Charlton Heston and Kmart executives, Michigan militiamen and the producer of “Cops,” but his quixotic search is for the structure itself, the undercarriage of American violence. Though his starting point is the 1999 massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School, in which two students murdered one teacher, 12 classmates, and injured 21 others, Moore spins a dense web of historical connections and geopolitical comparisons: A montage of American imperialism from the overthrow of Mohammed Mossedegh to the rise of Osama bin Laden, set to “What a Wonderful World”; interviews with ordinary Canadians baffled by the American obsession with crime. “Bowling for Columbine” is, in short, the filmmaker’s most chilling and prescient polemic, framing the United States’ gun epidemic as the logical consequence of our “culture of fear,” and its concomitant economy of terror.

Nearly 14 years on from Moore’s Oscar acceptance speech,...

One week after La La Land won the Toronto People’s Choice Award – a key indicator of a film’s likelihood of securing an Oscar nomination for Best Picture – another major awards season clue has come to us in the form of the Doc NYC's Short List. Doc NYC is the largest documentary film festival in the country and it has hosted specially curated non-fiction in the city since 2010, but don’t let its infancy fool you. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. And by anywhere, I specifically mean the Academy’s own shortlist for Best Documentary Feature; in the last five years, the ultimate winner of the prize and a bulk of runners-up have played the fest.

This year, the crop of fifteen films headed to Doc NYC include Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s marvelous collision of media and politics Weiner, Roger Ross Williams’ tear-jerker Life,...

That wailing you hear is all the best-documentary aspirants who did Not make the Doc NYC “Short List.” It’s considered one of several key steps for landing on the Academy doc branch’s eventual short list – which, like the Doc NYC list, also numbers 15.

The stats are impressive: In each of the past three years, the Doc NYC Short List had nine or 10 titles that overlapped with the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last five years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: “Amy” (2015), “Citizenfour” (2014), “20 Feet From Stardom” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), and “Undefeated” (2011).

With such a wide field of contenders, respected festivals wield even more than their usual influence in turning movies into must-sees. Oscar documentary branch voters have to see more than 130 movies released theatrically in 2016; inevitably, the movies nabbing the best reviews and most attention move to the top of the queue.

That wailing you hear is all the best-documentary aspirants who did Not make the Doc NYC “Short List.” It’s considered one of several key steps for landing on the Academy doc branch’s eventual short list – which, like the Doc NYC list, also numbers 15.

The stats are impressive: In each of the past three years, the Doc NYC Short List had nine or 10 titles that overlapped with the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last five years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: “Amy” (2015), “Citizenfour” (2014), “20 Feet From Stardom” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), and “Undefeated” (2011).

With such a wide field of contenders, respected festivals wield even more than their usual influence in turning movies into must-sees. Oscar documentary branch voters have to see more than 130 movies released theatrically in 2016; inevitably, the movies nabbing the best reviews and most attention move to the top of the queue.

While best documentary conversations start to take shape in January at the Sundance Film Festival, making the transition from rapturous festival play to awards-season contender is a harrowing road. A documentary must be truly extraordinary to make the final Oscar five.

The number of Sundance docs with awards potential is breathtaking: Breaking out of Sundance 2016 were U.S. Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” (IFC), an entertaining portrait of a politician brought down by his weakness for sexting, which turned into a summer hit; U.S. Documentary Directing Award winner “Life, Animated” (The Orchard), a moving portrait of an autistic child who grows up with Disney movies; and HBO’s Audience Award winner “Jim: The James Foley Story.”

Scoring great reviews were Ezra Edelman’s five-part movie “O.J.: Made in America” (Espn), an exhaustive examination of O.J. Simpson and race relations in Los Angeles from the ’60s through the Trial of...

Katie Couric is named in a defamation lawsuit filed by a Virginia gun rights group that is alleging that the Under the Gun documentary was edited to show them in a negative light. Katie Couric Sued Couric is being sued alongside Under the Gun director Stephanie Soechtig, Atlas films and Epix. The basis of the $13 […]

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Katie Couric is being forced to lawyer up after being slapped with a $12-million defamation lawsuit by Virginia gun rights activists who claim she misrepresented them in her recent documentary “Under the Gun”, reports USA Today. In the doc, Couric asks members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League how they would propose keeping guns out of […]...

Update, 3:15 Pm: Hit with a more than $12 million defamation lawsuit today, the director of the Katie Couric-fronted and -produced anti-firearms documentary Under The Gun responded this afternoon. And even though she’s admitted in the past to selectively editing footage, Stephanie Soechtig is not backing down. “It's ironic that people who so passionately defend the Second Amendment want to trample the rights guaranteed to a filmmaker under the First," said Stefan…...

Update, 3:15 Pm: Hit with a more than $12 million defamation lawsuit today, the director of the Katie Couric-fronted and -produced anti-firearms documentary Under The Gun responded this afternoon. And even though she’s admitted in the past to selectively editing footage, Stephanie Soechtig is not backing down. “It's ironic that people who so passionately defend the Second Amendment want to trample the rights guaranteed to a filmmaker under the First," said Stefan…...

The Virginia Citizens Defense League is taking aim at Katie Couric in a court of law. The Vcdl slapped Couric with a $12 million lawsuit on Tuesday, claiming that members of the group were defamed by editing in the documentary “Under the Gun” that made it apppear they were stumped on the issue of background checks for gun purchases. The defamation suit, which also names Epix, filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and Atlas Films, seeks a bundle in damages — $12 million in compensatory damages, and $350,000 in punitive damages from each defendant. Also Read: Katie Couric Hopes Gun Doc Controversy Sparks Bigger Conversation “The film contains false.

Can silence in a certain context be held up as a defamatory statement? The Virginia Citizens Defense League is hoping the answer is affirmative in a $13 million lawsuit against Katie Couric, Stephanie Soechtig and Epix over the documentary film Under the Gun. In the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Couric asks, "If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?" Under the Gun portrays Vcdl members Daniel Hawes and Patricia Webb in about nine seconds of silence in response to Couric's question, but

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Katie Couric and Epix are being sued for more than $12 million over "manipulated and misleading footage that appears" in gun control advocacy film Under the Gun. According to the lawsuit obtained by Deadline, members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League are suing Couric, Epix (as Studio 3 Partners LLC), Atlas Films and the film's director, Stephanie Soechtig, for manipulating footage that appeared in the 2016 Sundance film. The suit states that "the film contains false footage purporting to show members of the [Vcdl] sitting silently, stumped, and avoiding eye contact for nearly nine seconds after Couric asked, 'If there are no background checks for gun purchasers,...

Katie Couric and Epix are being sued for more than $12 million over "manipulated and misleading footage that appears" in gun control advocacy film Under the Gun.

According to the lawsuit obtained by Deadline, members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League are suing Couric, Epix (as Studio 3 Partners LLC), Atlas Films and the film's director, Stephanie Soechtig, for manipulating footage that appeared in the 2016 Sundance film.

The suit states that "the film contains false footage purporting to show members of the [Vcdl] sitting silently, stumped, and avoiding eye contact for nearly nine seconds after Couric asked, 'If there are no background checks for gun purchasers,...

Katie Couric is teaming up with National Geographic Channel to develop a two-hour documentary, “Gender Revolution” (working title), to be premiered globally upon the release of National Geographic Magazine’s January cover story on gender.

The film will be an in-depth and unflinching look at the role of genetics, brain chemistry and modern culture on gender fluidity.

“It seems that every day, there’s a new story and a new vocabulary around gender that’s challenging our long-held attitudes and preconceptions about what makes us who we are,” said Couric. “‘Gender Revolution’ will go beyond the headlines to examine the why, the how and what it all means, with intimate stories of the people who are at the forefront of this new frontier. We’ll also explore how it’s impacting almost every aspect of our lives, from bathrooms to boardrooms, and from colleges to competitive sports. Think of it...

Epix is getting into the scripted business right at the peak of “Peak TV.” But for channel president and CEO Mark Greenberg, the move into original series is the culmination of a plan first put into place nine years ago.

From the beginning, he told IndieWire, “Part of the game plan was original series.” But first, the premium service, a joint venture between Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM, had to reach critical mass. A deal with Time Warner Cable two years ago upped Epix’s availability to 50 million homes, giving the channel reason to expand its brand.

Under programming head Jocelyn Diaz (who joined in 2015), Epix is kicking off its scripted lineup this fall with the spy thriller “Berlin Station” and the political satire “Graves.” A TV adaptation of “Get Shorty” will follow in 2017. Epix also continues to air specials and documentaries, including the new series “America Divided,” a discussion about inequality in the U.

Director Stephanie Soechtig is fighting back against allegations of deceptive editing in her two most recent documentaries, both of which were executive produced by Katie Couric.

Soechtig challenged an accusation made this week that her 2014 documentary “Fed Up” omitted relevant interview footage in its portrayal of obesity researcher and University of Alabama at Birmingham professor David Allison. Allison told the Washington Free Beacon that the documentary showed him stumbling over his words and saying he wanted to re-phrase an answer to a question, only to cut away from the interview and not include his response.

In an interview with IndieWire, Soechtig asserted that Allison had already dodged the question Couric had put to him about whether calories from sugary drinks contribute to U.S. obesity more than other calories multiple times, and that the response he gave that was left out of the film was another non-answer from their exchange.

“We did nothing wrong,” Soechtig said.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s media relations department told IndieWire in a statement that it did not have a transcript of the interview and couldn’t give the verbatim response Allison provided, but could offer a response to a question which is similar to what Allison said in the interview. “The question is, what would be the ideal science behind showing that calories taken in in the form of sugary beverages contribute more to obesity than do equivalent calories taken in in other forms?” Allison said in the statement. “One way to address this would be to randomly assign some people to consume calories in the form of sugary beverages and other people to consume them in solid form and see if one group gained more weight over time than another. This has been done in one study of 15 subjects followed for 8 weeks. The authors found that ‘there was no difference between the change in body weight in the two conditions.'”

Allison has previously self-disclosed financial ties to the American Beverage Association and Coca-Cola, and in 2011 declined to be interviewed for an ABC News investigative piece entitled “Is Big Food’s Big Money Influencing the Science of Nutrition?” The piece accused Allison of being part of an effort by corporations to influence scientists by funding their research and paying them handsome fees for speaking engagements and consulting services.

Allison’s complaint about the editing of “Fed Up” came roughly two weeks after Couric came under attack for editing decisions in the 2016 gun law documentary she executive produced, “Under the Gun,” also directed by Soechtig. In the film, Couric asks members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League about whether any gun purchases should require background checks. After a long pause, the film cuts away to another scene in the documentary.

Again, Soechtig said that the answer to Couric’s question that was immediately given–with no pause–but omitted in the film was “redundant” with responses that had already been included. “Their views were expressed repeatedly throughout the film, so we’d already established how they feel about background checks, and for that reason I didn’t feel like we were misrepresenting them,” Soechtig said.

Couric issued a statement on May 30 saying, “I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League.” Soechtig said people were using Couric as a scapegoat. “I’m the director of both of these films and I make the final decision about what is and what is not in the final cut,” Soechtig said. “It was my decision and I stand by it.”

What’s Soechtig’s response to claims “Under the Gun” intentionally tried to make members of the Vcdl look bad?

“The Vcdl is a group of extremists who think that domestic abusers should have guns and that guns should be allowed in schools and bars,” she said. “If I wanted to make them look bad I would have only focused on this radical ideology, but I wanted to advance the conversation and give them an opportunity to explain their beliefs.”

Soechtig added that the outcry over editing in “Under the Gun” reflects the concern on the part of the NRA and related special interest groups that the success of “Fed Up” in altering Americans’ views on obesity might lead to a similar consensus about the need to enforce and extend background checks for guns.

“There are forces in this country that are going to attack any woman who stands up to them and says ‘Unfettered access to guns is dangerous’ or ‘Corporate interests controlling our food supply is dangerous,’” she said. “There are special interest groups that have launched a campaign trying to smear my reputation but I really trust that people will see this for what it is.”

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Debra Messing has apologized for posting an ill-timed selfie in the wake of the UCLA campus shooting.

The actress posted a photo on Twitter of herself watching the news coverage of the murder-suicide on Wednesday, and, in the picture, she is wearing an orange T-shirt with the slogan "Under the Gun."

Messing's tweet – which has since been deleted – read, "Horrendous Watching news about shooting at UCLA with casualties while taking selfie to bring awareness to gun violence."

Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users began to accuse her of being insensitive over the event unfolding. She quickly removed the photo...

Katie Couric has apologised for "misleading" portion of editing in documentary "Under The Gun".

After gun rights activists accused Couric and director Stephanie Soechtig of "selective editing" in the project, the veteran broadcast journalist issued a statement on Monday night (May 30) in which she apologised for any misrepresentation

The Epix Original documentary which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (16), and was aired on channel Epix on 14 May (16), focuses on the effects of gun violence in the United States.

Controversy flared after members of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League (Vcdl), who were interviewed for the film took issue with a section where Couric asks the members about background checks on gun ownership.

In the version screened, a long pause followed, which implied the members were stuck for an answer, but the transcript shows they responded right away.

In her statement which was posted on the Under the Gun website,...

Katie Couric is comfortable in her own skin. During a revealing interview with People and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle, the TV journalist, 59 participated in a rapid-fire Q&A game called The Cagle Exercise - and the results were illuminating! Asked to share something she's learned to love, Couric said, "my cellulite." She also had plenty of other memorable answers: For more from The Jess Cagle Interview with Katie Couric, check out People.com all this weekIt may be heresy, but "blank" is overrated: "It may be heresy, but Alexander Hamilton is overrated. Not the musical, the man." I...

Katie Couric is comfortable in her own skin. During a revealing interview with People and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle, the TV journalist, 59 participated in a rapid-fire Q&A game called The Cagle Exercise - and the results were illuminating! Asked to share something she's learned to love, Couric said, "my cellulite." She also had plenty of other memorable answers: For more from The Jess Cagle Interview with Katie Couric, check out People.com all this weekIt may be heresy, but "blank" is overrated: "It may be heresy, but Alexander Hamilton is overrated. Not the musical, the man." I...

The cable network behind the Katie Couric-produced documentary Under the Gun has pulled the film from its website a day after Couric apologized and admitted it contained a misleading edit of gun proponents’ remarks. Pro-gun blog BearingArms.com first noticed that attempting to watch the film now brings up a message saying “This movie is not currently playing on Epix.” […]...

Katie Couric has issued an official statement apologizing for what she calls an instance of "misleading" editing in her new documentary Under the Gun.

"As Executive Producer of Under the Gun, a documentary film that explores the epidemic of gun violence, I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (Vcdl)," Couric, responding to uproar from several pro-gun organizations, said in a statement on the documentary's website.

Couric said that the moment in question was a lengthy pause following a question to the group regarding "the ability of convicted...

Katie Couric has issued an official statement apologizing for what she calls an instance of "misleading" editing in her new documentary Under the Gun. "As Executive Producer of Under the Gun, a documentary film that explores the epidemic of gun violence, I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (Vcdl)," Couric, responding to uproar from several pro-gun organizations, said in a statement on the documentary's website. Couric said that the moment in question was a lengthy pause following a question to the group regarding "the ability of convicted...

Katie Couric says she takes “responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange” she had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League in Under The Gun, a documentary that aired earlier this month on Epix. Couric tweeted tonight that she took a second look at the editing process and decided she need to address the issue. After speaking with Under the Gun director and reviewing editing process, I wanted to respond https://t.co/zLbh4Wv7XN — Katie Couric…...

Katie Couric on Monday released a statement saying she regrets the "misleading" editing on the documentary Under the Gun following a storm of criticism from gun rights activists. Pro-gun blogs and pundits took issue with selective editing by director Stephanie Soechtig on the doc, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and focuses on the effects of gun violence in the U.S. The specific controversy arose in a section where Couric interviews members of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League (Vcdl). In the film, Couric asks the members about background checks on gun ownership, specifically related to

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Under fire for adding a long pause to the remarks of a gun enthusiast in her documentary “Under the Gun,” Katie Couric expressed “regret” on Monday for what she admitted was a “misleading” change to an interview that changed its meaning. In a blog posted on the movie’s website Couric wrote: “As Executive Producer of ‘Under the Gun,’ a documentary film that explores the epidemic of gun violence, I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (Vcdl). My question to the Vcdl regarding the ability of convicted felons and those.

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]

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The National Review and the New York Post are leading the charge for Yahoo to fire its global news anchor Katie Couric over the controversial editing of her recent gun-control documentary “Under the Gun.” In an opinion piece in The National Review that was picked up by the New York Post and led the paper’s homepage on Friday, attorney David French said that Couric “has lost her credibility.” An eight-second pause inserted into an interview she did with gun rights activists in the documentary “Under the Gun” has drawn criticism, as many believe it was intentionally added to make the activists seem.

Katie Couric is upset that an eight-second pause inserted into an interview she did with gun rights activists in the documentary “Under the Gun” has drawn criticism, calling the edit an “unnecessary mistake,” according to an individual with knowledge of her thinking. The individual spoke to TheWrap and said that director Stephanie Soechtig inserted the pause, which critics are calling an example of “deceptive” and “appalling journalism.” “This was an unnecessary mistake,” the individual told TheWrap. “It did not represent editing someone’s sentences, there was no factual error, this is not a mistake that is a substantive mistake. It could have been avoided,...

Director Stephanie Soechtig, collaborator Katie Couric and Epix have issued statements in response to criticism over the way the pro-gun control documentary Under the Gun was edited. The uproar started over a scene in which Couric, who co-produced and narrated the documentary, asks members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and…...

Director Stephanie Soechtig, collaborator Katie Couric and Epix have issued statements in response to criticism over the way the pro-gun control documentary Under the Gun was edited. The uproar started over a scene in which Couric, who co-produced and narrated the documentary, asks members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and…...

Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig are speaking out about the considerable amount of heat they've gotten from the gun lobby since Epix premiered their latest documentary collaboration, Under the Gun. The feature, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, focuses on the effects of gun violence in the U.S. — and while the term "gun control" is deliberately avoided, it does not have a particularly pro-gun narrative. That's why several groups, including the National Rifle Association, have cried foul over a controversial edit where several documentary subjects appear stumped by a question. "If there are no background checks

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Katie Couric is passionate about putting an end to gun violence.

At the premiere of her new documentary Under the Gun, the long-time journalist told reporters: "I've covered these mass shootings for many many, many years. Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook. For me, Sandy Hook was a moment where the entire country said, 'Something has to stop.' "

"After nothing got done following Sandy Hook, I just couldn't understand how 90 percent of the population favored universal background checks, and yet our elected officials couldn't get that done. And I wanted to understand why, and that's why I made this film,...

Katie Couric is passionate about putting an end to gun violence. At the premiere of her new documentary Under the Gun, the long-time journalist told reporters: "I've covered these mass shootings for many many, many years. Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook. For me, Sandy Hook was a moment where the entire country said, 'Something has to stop.' " "After nothing got done following Sandy Hook, I just couldn't understand how 90 percent of the population favored universal background checks, and yet our elected officials couldn't get that done. And I wanted to understand why, and that's why I made this film,...

The case for gun control in Stephanie Soechtig and Katie Couric's latest documentary collaboration, Under the Gun, is aggressively laid out — but it's not an expression that you'll hear either push. After years of non-starter debates about the role readily available arms play in domestic killings and terrorism, a fact many cannot reconcile with the Second Amendment, Couric suggests that it's time to make the dialogue about something most everyone can agree on: the scary reality of gun violence in America. Covering mass shootings throughout her career, starting with Columbine in 1999, Couric admits that even journalists are

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It may not be possible anymore to conduct civil discourse with Americans on guns. But Katie Couric hopes to change that. The former "CBS Evening News" and "Today" anchor, now Yahoo's global news anchor, is behind the Epix documentary "Under the Gun," which aims at combating misconceptions about responsible gun ownership and background checks. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has its TV debut on Sunday, comes during a presidential election season in which gun control hasn't been a major campaign issue — at least, not yet. "I've interviewed a number of the candidates, all 27,000 of them initially. The gun debate wasn't a part of the conversation," Couric told us recently, on stage at a panel discussion for "Under the Gun." "We've seen Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about it, which is a welcome thing, it has its place in the conversation. It will be very...

Plus: Production begins on Battle Of The Sexes; Cac reports record ad revenues in 2015; FilmRise acquires National Bird; and more

Roughly 69% of the audience for David O Russell’s Joy in the Us was aged 50 and over, while the demographic captured 70% of the audience for The Theory Of Everything.

The data came out of a CinemaCon panel on Wednesday called Movies For Grown-Ups: Films For An older, Loyal And Growing Theatre-Going Audience.

The session include a comment by Russ Collins of Art House Convergence that the group will cease advertising in newspapers later this year because “it’s so ineffective” in the tech-savvy age.

The Us cinema advertising industry reported record revenues in 2015 of $716.4m, according to the Cinema Advertising Council. The result marked a 13.4% year-on-year climb from $631.9m and was announced at CinemaCon on Wednesday.Little Miss Sunshine co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have begun production for Fox Searchlight on Battle Of the Sexes. [link...

Plus: Production begins on Battle Of The Sexes; Cac reports record ad revenues in 2015; FilmRise acquires National Bird; and more

Roughly 69% of the audience for David O Russell’s Joy in the Us was aged 50 and over, while the demographic captured 70% of the audience for The Theory Of Everything.

The date came out of a CinemaCon panel on Wednesday called Movies For Grown-Ups: Films For An older, Loyal And Growing Theatre-Going Audience.

The session include a comment by Russ Collins of Art House Convergence that the group will cease advertising in newspapers later this year because “it’s so ineffective.”

The Us cinema advertising industry reported record revenues in 2015 of $716.4m, according to the Cinema Advertising Council. The result marked a 13.4% year-on-year climb from $631.9m and was announced at CinemaCon on Wednesday.Little Miss Sunshine co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have begun production for Fox Searchlight on Battle Of the Sexes. Steve Carell and [link...

Plus: Rlj Entertainment picks up Kickboxer: Vengeance; CinemaCon honour for Bryce Dallas Howard; and more…

Focus Features will release Jeff Nichols’ upcoming drama Loving in the Us in an exclusive release on November 4 followed by wide expansion a week later.

Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage in the 1950s led to banishment, prison, and finally Supreme Court vindication.

Focus paid $9m for Loving for North America and most of the world in Berlin after CAA showed early footage. Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon, Edgerton, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, and Kirsten Dunst opens this week in the Us via Warner Bros.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise that made him famous. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath. The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, [link...

Plus: Rlj Entertainment picks up Kickboxer: Vengeance; CinemaCon honour for Bryce Dallas Howard; and more…

Focus features will release Jeff Nichols’ upcoming race drama Loving in the Us in an exclusiverelease on November 4 followed by wide expansion a week late.

Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage in the 1950s led to banishment, prison and finally a Supreme Court triumph.

Focus pounced on worldwide rights in a $9m deal in Berlin after CAA showed footage. Nichols’ sci-fi drama Midnight Special starring Michael Shannon, Edgerton, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, and Kirsten Dunst opens this week in the Us via Warner Bros.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise that made him famous. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath. The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, [link...

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Rlj Entertainment has acquired all Us rights to Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a return to the franchise. John Stockwell directs from a screenplay by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath.

The cast includes newcomer Alain Moussi, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre, and Cain Velasquez. Logothetis produced with Nicholas Celozzi, Ted Field, Allen Knudson, Samuel Cory Timpson and Rob Hickman, who arranged the majority of the financing.

Rlj brokered the deal with Logothetis, Field, Brian O-Shea, and Mike Weber on behalf of the film. Kickboxer: Vengeance will open in theatres and on VOD later this year.

Bryce Dallas Howard will receive the CinemaCon Award For Excellence In Acting in Las Vegas on April 14. The official convention of The National Association Of Theatre Owners takes place from April 11-14 at Caesars Palace. Howard’s next film is the August 12 release of Peter’s Dragon...

“We wanted this feeling of those empty chairs signified how many people would be lost to gun violence in the course of watching this movie,” said Katie Couric about her new documentary Under The Gun, which examines the battle between those who favor stricter gun laws and staunch Second Amendment supporters. The film marks the second time for Couric and Under The Gun director Stephanie Soechtig at Sundance; their previous title in Park City was the 2014 doc Fed Up, which…...