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Theaters are brimming over with an army of well-reviewed and buzzy indie films. But, in an unusual state of affairs, pretty much all of them are in wide release, meaning Terrifier 3, Piece by Piece, Saturday Night and The Apprentice, as well as animated My Hero Academia: You’re Next. Limited openings are few — a trio of quality documentaries, A24’s We Live In Time, a couple of Academy runs and a faith-based Mormon film on Brigham Young’s ascendance. There also are a half-dozen Indian films in limited to moderate release.

Starting with Kino Lorber’s doc Daytime Revolution. It opened Wednesday in 60+ theaters for a one-day event screening timed to John Lennon’s 84th birthday and now playing at NYC’s Quad Cinema. Directed by Emmy- and IDA Award-winning filmmaker Erik Nelson, and with creative consultation from Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon, it chronicles the week in 1972 when...

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up select North American rights to Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid following its recent world premiere in Telluride and will mount an awards campaign.

The distributor plans an October 11 theatrical release in New York for the film about renowned Democratic consultant James Carville – the same day Briarcliff Entertainment releases Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump origins story The Apprentice.

Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid will open in Los Angeles and other markets on October 25. As previously announced, CNN Films will broadcast the film on CNN on October 5. The 2024 US election takes place on November 5.

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Greenwich Entertainment has acquired select North American distribution rights to “Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid,” directed by Matt Tyrnauer.

The documentary premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, and CNN Films will broadcast “Carville” on Oct. 5 on the network. Greenwich will release “Carville” in select theaters across the country starting in New York on Oct. 11 and in Los Angeles Oct. 25, among other cities.

According to the official synopsis, the new documentary, “about famed Democratic political consultant James Carville, chronicles an 18-month period in which Carville spearheaded efforts to persuade President Joe Biden not to run for re-election in 2024.”

Carville famously coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid,” during Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, and was the subject of another documentary, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ 1993 film “The War Room.”

The documentary portrays the strategist “not only in his political element, but also in his personal life — spending time at his New Orleans home with his wife,...

Ahead of its premiere at Telluride, Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, a new documentary on famed Democratic political consultant James Carville, has been acquired by CNN Films, Deadline can confirm.

The company specifically picked up television and SVOD rights for the U.S. and Canada. Directed by Matt Tyrnauer (Where’s My Roy Cohn?), the film will premiere on CNN at 7 p.m. Et on Saturday, Oct. 5, also streaming on Max later this fall and receiving an Oscar-qualifying theatrical release.

Carville marks CNN Films’ third acquisition this year, following Luther: Never Too Much and the anticipated Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which the company jointly sought out with DC Studios, Warner Bros. Motion Pictures, HBO, and Max.

Hailing from Altimeter Films, Winning Is Everything, Stupid chronicles an 18-month period in which Carville spearheaded efforts to persuade President Joe Biden not to run for re-election in 2024. Carville, famously known for coining the phrase “It’s the economy,...

Matt Tyrnauer’s Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, one of the buzziest documentaries set to premiere at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival, has been acquired by CNN Films for television and SVOD. It will debut on CNN on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. Et, and will stream on Max later this fall, when it separately will receive an Oscar-qualifying run and theatrical release.

Carville, which was produced by Altimeter Films, chronicles an 18-month period during which its subject, legendary Democratic political strategist James Carville, was at the forefront of the charge to convince incumbent president Joe Biden to not seek re-election in 2024. The inimitable “Ragin’ Cajun” famously declared “It’s the economy, stupid” while running Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.

The film also looks back at Carville’s rise from the bayou to the Beltway; includes footage of him at home in New Orleans with his wife, Republican strategist Mary Matalin,...

Why can't the Republicans find a 2012 frontrunner? In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz writes on the sorry state of the Gop field-and why nobody's emerged as a credible threat to Obama.

Newt Gingrich moved slowly through the halls as excited onlookers kept stopping him for photos and thrusting paper at him for autographs, each trying to briefly bask in his celebrity.

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He had spent the day whacking President Obama on everything from energy to Egypt, but when I asked about his real agenda at the popular Conservative Political Action Conference-floating an actual candidacy-he turned cautious. "You have to decide whether it's something you feel compelled to do," the former House speaker said, "and if it's absolutely your duty to do it." In short, he wants to be wanted by a party that isn't sure who or what it wants.

As all manner of pols,...