A straw poll of the average music fan on what the biggest British albums of all time are is likely to consist of: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd; (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis; probably 21 by Adele; maybe Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits; Queen’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1, perhaps; but most definitely, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. The latter of these has reached the grand old age of fifty, and so in way of celebration has been remastered and re-released in a sparkly new boxed set, which also includes a plethora of alternative recordings, outtakes and interviews, over four CDs and two DVDs and 100 minutes of extra footage. Imagine the 1995 release of The Beatles era defining anthology series, but focused purely on 1967. The release is also supported by a feature length documentary, directed by long time Beatles fan Alan G. Parker...
- 6/6/2017
- by Tom Webb
- The Cultural Post
Exclusive: Documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal album.
A new Beatles film marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band’s seminal album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is in post-production.
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…Sgt Pepper And Beyond, directed by Alan G. Parker (Hello Quo), will be sold internationally by former Im Global executive Tim Grohne’s Primal Screen.
The film picks up on The Beatles as they end their gruelling tour schedule in August 1966 (coincidentally following on from Ron Howard’s recent Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week) to return to the studio to record the landmark ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album.
As one of the biggest selling records of all time, described by Rolling Stone magazine simply as “The most important rock & roll album ever made…”, ‘Sgt Pepper’ (released in June 1967) marked a pivotal moment in the 60’s, cementing the advent of Psychedelia and the Summer of Love.
The album includes...
A new Beatles film marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band’s seminal album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is in post-production.
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…Sgt Pepper And Beyond, directed by Alan G. Parker (Hello Quo), will be sold internationally by former Im Global executive Tim Grohne’s Primal Screen.
The film picks up on The Beatles as they end their gruelling tour schedule in August 1966 (coincidentally following on from Ron Howard’s recent Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week) to return to the studio to record the landmark ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album.
As one of the biggest selling records of all time, described by Rolling Stone magazine simply as “The most important rock & roll album ever made…”, ‘Sgt Pepper’ (released in June 1967) marked a pivotal moment in the 60’s, cementing the advent of Psychedelia and the Summer of Love.
The album includes...
- 1/18/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sc Films boards 3D family-animation from Monty Python icon ahead of Afm.
Monty Python legend Terry Jones is set to direct family animation Sherlock Hound And The Case Of The Missing Santa Claus (3D), which Simon Crowe’s Sc Films has boarded ahead of the Afm.
Jones, who most recently directed Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale in UK comedy Absolutely Anything, is due to direct the feature with his producer-director son Bill Jones and his business partner Ben Timlett of UK production outfit Bill and Ben Productions, which is also producing.
Writers are Denis Higgins and Stephen Meier.
The Victorian-set story will feature canine sleuth Sherlock Hound on the hunt for Santa Claus after he goes missing.
Characters in the script include The Queen, a polar bear Father Christmas, Elves as penguins, Rudolph the Reindeer and evil feline Moriarty.
Currently in development, the production is aiming to shoot next spring for a Christmas 2018 release. Casting is due...
Monty Python legend Terry Jones is set to direct family animation Sherlock Hound And The Case Of The Missing Santa Claus (3D), which Simon Crowe’s Sc Films has boarded ahead of the Afm.
Jones, who most recently directed Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale in UK comedy Absolutely Anything, is due to direct the feature with his producer-director son Bill Jones and his business partner Ben Timlett of UK production outfit Bill and Ben Productions, which is also producing.
Writers are Denis Higgins and Stephen Meier.
The Victorian-set story will feature canine sleuth Sherlock Hound on the hunt for Santa Claus after he goes missing.
Characters in the script include The Queen, a polar bear Father Christmas, Elves as penguins, Rudolph the Reindeer and evil feline Moriarty.
Currently in development, the production is aiming to shoot next spring for a Christmas 2018 release. Casting is due...
- 10/23/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
London -- A no-holds-barred insight into the 50-year career of the legendary British rock band Status Quo, complete with sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, is to be touted to film buyers. The feature length documentary, Hello Quo, is directed by Alan G. Parker (Who Killed Nancy) and produced by Alexa Morris. Parker's resume also boasts feature documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers’ Cut) which earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 2010. K5, the German/Brit group, will tout the movie after snapping up the rights to the film that features interviews about Status Quo with
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- 7/17/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London-based distributor Trinity announced that they will be distributing A Liar’s Autobiography, a film based on the outlandish book by Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, who died in 1989, in UK cinemas in Spring 2012. They are also co-financiers of the production, which reunites members of the Monty Python team with the exception of Eric Idle.
Mark Sandell, co-director of Trinity and executive producer on ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’ said: “Trinity are immensely proud to be involved with this fantastic project, working not only alongside the Pythons, but also with Epix, Bill and Ben Productions and Brainstorm Media – to help bring the unique talents of this extraordinary man back to a global audience”.
Written roughly ten years before his death by cancer, A Liar’s Autobiography chronicles Chapman’s life as a founding member of one of the greatest comedy groups of all time. The film’s world television premiere will...
Mark Sandell, co-director of Trinity and executive producer on ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’ said: “Trinity are immensely proud to be involved with this fantastic project, working not only alongside the Pythons, but also with Epix, Bill and Ben Productions and Brainstorm Media – to help bring the unique talents of this extraordinary man back to a global audience”.
Written roughly ten years before his death by cancer, A Liar’s Autobiography chronicles Chapman’s life as a founding member of one of the greatest comedy groups of all time. The film’s world television premiere will...
- 6/28/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Film:
Based on book Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent, this documentary provides an examination of the brief life of the Sex Pistol bassist Sid Vicious and specifically the stabbing of his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon in room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel in lower Manhattan on 12 October 1979. After her death, Sid posted bail and died soon after of a drug overdose. Case closed. But here director Alan G. Parker presents some compelling arguments arguing against Vicious as the murderer. Numerous eyewitnesses present the night of the Nancy’s death attest Sid was splayed out on the bed, motionless from heroin. The murder weapon, a knife, was wiped clean, an action others thought Sid would not have the presence of mind to do. In addition, thousands of dollars were stolen from a stash Sid and Nancy kept. Why would Sid steal his own money?
Interspersed with creative animation, Who Killed Nancy?...
Based on book Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent, this documentary provides an examination of the brief life of the Sex Pistol bassist Sid Vicious and specifically the stabbing of his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon in room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel in lower Manhattan on 12 October 1979. After her death, Sid posted bail and died soon after of a drug overdose. Case closed. But here director Alan G. Parker presents some compelling arguments arguing against Vicious as the murderer. Numerous eyewitnesses present the night of the Nancy’s death attest Sid was splayed out on the bed, motionless from heroin. The murder weapon, a knife, was wiped clean, an action others thought Sid would not have the presence of mind to do. In addition, thousands of dollars were stolen from a stash Sid and Nancy kept. Why would Sid steal his own money?
Interspersed with creative animation, Who Killed Nancy?...
- 11/18/2010
- by Steve Brock
- Killer Films
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"$5 a Day" (2008)
Directed by Nigel Cole
Released by Image Entertainment
A refugee of the bankrupt Capitol Films, this dramedy starring Christopher Walken as a raconteur who claims he's able to live a full life on the titular Lincoln bill is finally seeing the light of day after premiering at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Alessandro Nivola co-stars as his son who drives him to New Mexico when he falls ill. Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet are along for the ride.
"2:22" (2008)
Directed by Phillip Guzman
Released by Inception Media Group
A quartet of thieves scheme to rob a boutique hotel on New Year's Eve, but find out that what's waiting for them on the inside is even colder than the snow-caked streets outside. Just as he did for his 2006 crime thriller "Played," star/co-writer Rossi called upon famous pals Gabriel Byrne and Val Kilmer...
"$5 a Day" (2008)
Directed by Nigel Cole
Released by Image Entertainment
A refugee of the bankrupt Capitol Films, this dramedy starring Christopher Walken as a raconteur who claims he's able to live a full life on the titular Lincoln bill is finally seeing the light of day after premiering at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Alessandro Nivola co-stars as his son who drives him to New Mexico when he falls ill. Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet are along for the ride.
"2:22" (2008)
Directed by Phillip Guzman
Released by Inception Media Group
A quartet of thieves scheme to rob a boutique hotel on New Year's Eve, but find out that what's waiting for them on the inside is even colder than the snow-caked streets outside. Just as he did for his 2006 crime thriller "Played," star/co-writer Rossi called upon famous pals Gabriel Byrne and Val Kilmer...
- 8/24/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Punk historian Alan G. Parker feared he'd upset the ghost of Sid Vicious when he started researching his new documentary "Who Killed Nancy?" because the ex-Sex Pistols star walked right through him. Parker visited the Bank Street home in New York where the tragic rock icon suffered a heroin overdose and died in 1979 and was allowed access to the bedroom where Vicious' body was found and he immediately felt unwelcome.
The documentarian explains, "I had been talking to the guy who now lives there for various research on Sid for books I've written. I got to the house and this guy Howie is a lovely little fellow and he invited me in and asked if I'd like to go into the bedroom where Sid died."
"I'd probably been in every building Sid entered in his short life. It was December and freezing in New York and I had a big...
The documentarian explains, "I had been talking to the guy who now lives there for various research on Sid for books I've written. I got to the house and this guy Howie is a lovely little fellow and he invited me in and asked if I'd like to go into the bedroom where Sid died."
"I'd probably been in every building Sid entered in his short life. It was December and freezing in New York and I had a big...
- 7/26/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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