Exclusive: Content’s Afm slate includes Jon Brewer’s Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story.
Content Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to the timely music documentary, Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story.
President of film Jamie Carmichael and executive vice-president of sales and distribution Jonathan Ford are introducing Jon Brewer’s film to the market this week.
While the film is expected to capitalise on global fascination for the late David Bowie himself, who died in January this year, the subject is his frequent collaborator and guitar virtuoso Ronson.
As a member of Bowie’s backing band The Spiders From Mars in the early 1970’s, Ronson contributed to some of the most iconic compositions, lyrics and recordings in contemporary music.
He recorded several solo albums and also earned a reputation as a sought-after session musician who played with Ian Hunter, Lou Reed and Morrissey and toured with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.
Beside Bowie:...
Content Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to the timely music documentary, Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story.
President of film Jamie Carmichael and executive vice-president of sales and distribution Jonathan Ford are introducing Jon Brewer’s film to the market this week.
While the film is expected to capitalise on global fascination for the late David Bowie himself, who died in January this year, the subject is his frequent collaborator and guitar virtuoso Ronson.
As a member of Bowie’s backing band The Spiders From Mars in the early 1970’s, Ronson contributed to some of the most iconic compositions, lyrics and recordings in contemporary music.
He recorded several solo albums and also earned a reputation as a sought-after session musician who played with Ian Hunter, Lou Reed and Morrissey and toured with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.
Beside Bowie:...
- 11/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Filmmaker Jon Brewer has unearthed a previously unreleased and unheard Nat King Cole track while researching new film Nat King Cole: Afraid Of The Dark.
The song will be unveiled shortly; Universal Music launches the film in the UK on April 14.
Brewer, who directs and produces, previously made Bb King: The Life Of Riley.
The Nat King Cole project is based on Cole’s private journals and interviews with the likes of his widow Maria Cole,
Aaron Neville, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett.
The song will be unveiled shortly; Universal Music launches the film in the UK on April 14.
Brewer, who directs and produces, previously made Bb King: The Life Of Riley.
The Nat King Cole project is based on Cole’s private journals and interviews with the likes of his widow Maria Cole,
Aaron Neville, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett.
- 3/21/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
On The Road (15)
(Walter Salles, 2012, Fra/UK/Us/Bra) Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Sturridge. 124 mins
It was the book that defined a generation, but On The Road has taken several more generations to get to the screen, which dissipates the energy somewhat. Added to which, Jack Kerouac's hip prose was never exactly movie-friendly. This is appropriately scenic, sweaty, druggy and ambisexual, but for all the forced bohemian zeal, the road feels rather long and flat. And what once passed for creative hedonism now looks more like male self-indulgence, which is never much fun to watch.
Ruby Sparks (15)
(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2012, Us) Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening. 104 mins
A dream girl leaps off a blocked writer's pages and into his life in this playful romcom, which takes its Pygmalion-meets-Charlie Kaufman premise into deeper realms than you'd expect. The facts that Kazan wrote the script,...
(Walter Salles, 2012, Fra/UK/Us/Bra) Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Sturridge. 124 mins
It was the book that defined a generation, but On The Road has taken several more generations to get to the screen, which dissipates the energy somewhat. Added to which, Jack Kerouac's hip prose was never exactly movie-friendly. This is appropriately scenic, sweaty, druggy and ambisexual, but for all the forced bohemian zeal, the road feels rather long and flat. And what once passed for creative hedonism now looks more like male self-indulgence, which is never much fun to watch.
Ruby Sparks (15)
(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2012, Us) Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening. 104 mins
A dream girl leaps off a blocked writer's pages and into his life in this playful romcom, which takes its Pygmalion-meets-Charlie Kaufman premise into deeper realms than you'd expect. The facts that Kazan wrote the script,...
- 10/12/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Not to be confused with the B.B. King feature film that Wendell Pierce is attached to star in (B.B. King And I)... First announced at the Berlinale in February, Gfm Films' feature-length blues documentary Bb King: The Life Of Riley, is narrated by Morgan Freeman, and includes interviews with the following and more: Bill Cosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Willis, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, and others. The film covers not only King’s life and musical career. Director Jon Brewer, who has worked closely with King, shot more than 200 hours of footage for the project, and had this to say in an interview with Guitarist magazine (the December...
- 9/17/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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