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Peter Bart: From Tiger King To Michael Jordan And Obamas, Documentaries Steal Spotlight From Shuttered Movie Biz
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deadline.comBy Peter Bart Editor-At-Large The individual sitting across from me was a veteran filmmaker who was tormented by a tough decision. “The story I want to tell should be made as a doc, not a feature film,” he told me. “But let’s get real: Movies occupy center stage while documentaries sit in the balcony.” He ended up shooting a feature (more on that later), but in today’s Hollywood, he would have reached the opposite conclusion.
That’s because documentaries at the moment are stealing both the audiences and the conversation, and, along the way, acquiring some of the bad habits of the fiction film business — fights over budgets, credits and release dates.
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