A majority of The Beatles’ songs were relatively short because that’s what fits better for radio play. Besides ‘Hey Jude’, most of their hits were three or four minutes. In one of his more experimental modes, Paul McCartney developed a 15-minute song that he got The Beatles to play with him. It’s still never been released, but the former Beatle said it could see the light someday.
Paul McCartney made a 15-minute song with The Beatles called ‘Carnival of Light’ Paul McCartney | G Greenwell and A MacDonald /Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images
There are many rumored, unreleased songs from The Beatles that fans have been scouring for. One of these mythical tracks is “Carnival of Light”, an “avant-garde” 15-minute instrumental track created by McCartney. The song emerged when David Vaughan, a friend of McCartney’s, asked him to record music for an event called The Million Volt...
Paul McCartney made a 15-minute song with The Beatles called ‘Carnival of Light’ Paul McCartney | G Greenwell and A MacDonald /Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images
There are many rumored, unreleased songs from The Beatles that fans have been scouring for. One of these mythical tracks is “Carnival of Light”, an “avant-garde” 15-minute instrumental track created by McCartney. The song emerged when David Vaughan, a friend of McCartney’s, asked him to record music for an event called The Million Volt...
- 6/9/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features drummer David Kemper.
In April 1998, Bob Dylan and his band headed down to South America to open up for the Rolling Stones at soccer stadiums.
In April 1998, Bob Dylan and his band headed down to South America to open up for the Rolling Stones at soccer stadiums.
- 9/9/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Wall Street hasn’t been kind to Hollywood entertainment giants this year — but that may be about to change.
Disney, once thought of as a stock-market pace car setting the tempo for the rest of the industry, has been one of the Dow Jones industrial average’s biggest dogs in 2022, with share prices dropping 28 since the start of the year. (The stock closed at 112.32 on Thursday.)
The overall market has taken a beating this year: The S&P 500 has slumped 20, the tech-laden Nasdaq is down 27, and the Dow has tanked 14. But Hollywood conglomerates have fared even worse: Paramount Global shares have dropped 29, Lionsgate fell 45, while Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix shares have been stunningly sliced by more than half. Fox, which has declined a relatively modest 12, has ironically been the one Hollywood stock to break out from the pack simply because the Murdoch-led media empire has focused on terrestrial and...
Disney, once thought of as a stock-market pace car setting the tempo for the rest of the industry, has been one of the Dow Jones industrial average’s biggest dogs in 2022, with share prices dropping 28 since the start of the year. (The stock closed at 112.32 on Thursday.)
The overall market has taken a beating this year: The S&P 500 has slumped 20, the tech-laden Nasdaq is down 27, and the Dow has tanked 14. But Hollywood conglomerates have fared even worse: Paramount Global shares have dropped 29, Lionsgate fell 45, while Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix shares have been stunningly sliced by more than half. Fox, which has declined a relatively modest 12, has ironically been the one Hollywood stock to break out from the pack simply because the Murdoch-led media empire has focused on terrestrial and...
- 9/9/2022
- by Joe Bel Bruno
- The Wrap
We all know that John Mayer is in this picture but there are two other key members of this photo you should be aware of. The first is Bob Weir (second to the right). Those who know the music industry may know that he’s a founding member of The Grateful Dead. Another key member? Bob Weir’s daughter Monet Weir. Recently Weir and some of her sorority sisters shared pictures of Red Dress Gala of the Alpha Phi sorority at Chapman University. It was a charity event and none other than John Mayer was in attendance. Needless to say the sorority
John Mayer Crashes Chapman University Alpha Phi Red Dress Gala...
John Mayer Crashes Chapman University Alpha Phi Red Dress Gala...
- 3/7/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Festival brass on Wednesday added two Documentary Premieres as well as a pair of favourites from the vaults – Desert Hearts and Reservoir Dogs.
Documentary Premieres are Haitian activism story Bending The Arc from Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos, and Long Strange Trip, about The Grateful Dead, from Happy Valley and The Tillman Story director Amir Bar-Lev.
Desert Hearts and Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance in 1986 and 1992, respectively. Quentin Tarantino and Reservoir Dogs producer Lawrence Bender will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
The archive films are selections from the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA, a joint venture between UCLA Film & Television Archive and Sundance Institute established in 1997 that has grown to more than 4,000 holdings representing close to 2,300 titles.
The four additions boost the 2017 roster to 118 feature films representing 32 countries and 37 first-time filmmakers, including 20 in competition.
Entries were selected from 13,782 submissions including 4,068 features and 8,985 shorts. Of the feature submissions, 2,005 were from the Us and 2,063 were international. One hundred...
Documentary Premieres are Haitian activism story Bending The Arc from Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos, and Long Strange Trip, about The Grateful Dead, from Happy Valley and The Tillman Story director Amir Bar-Lev.
Desert Hearts and Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance in 1986 and 1992, respectively. Quentin Tarantino and Reservoir Dogs producer Lawrence Bender will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
The archive films are selections from the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA, a joint venture between UCLA Film & Television Archive and Sundance Institute established in 1997 that has grown to more than 4,000 holdings representing close to 2,300 titles.
The four additions boost the 2017 roster to 118 feature films representing 32 countries and 37 first-time filmmakers, including 20 in competition.
Entries were selected from 13,782 submissions including 4,068 features and 8,985 shorts. Of the feature submissions, 2,005 were from the Us and 2,063 were international. One hundred...
- 12/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
There’s a lot to comment about in the comics and popular culture community this week – Rebirth, Civil War II, who screwed over whom but did they really… the usual stuff that promotes our fannish wrath and strokes our inner-nine-year-old. But I don’t feel like it. Sure, I could fake it but you’d see through that in a heartbeat.
In this space yesterday, Joe Corallo eloquently and soulfully expressed his views regarding Sunday morning’s Pulse massacre in Orlando Florida. Joe deftly tied the story in to our comics community, and as a writer and as his editor I applaud his effort. Crom knows I couldn’t top that even if I tried, and there’s absolutely no need to try. So, instead, I’m going to tell you about how a couple of our pop culture icons handled it.
Sunday night, John Oliver attached a two-minute opening to his political comedy news show. Oliver had a problem I wouldn’t wish upon any broadcaster, although most of us have faced lesser versions of it from time to time. Everybody woke up Sunday morning to the news out of from Orlando, and the news junkies among us (ahem) spent the better part of the day watching and listening to the coverage – particularly Brian Williams’ amazing marathon anchoring job at MSNBC. And several million of us pretty much go to bed after watching Oliver’s Last Week Tonight. There are plenty of people who labor in that field; John Oliver’s show was the first one up.
He expressed his outrage, to be sure. What he said kinda sorta seemed like an apology for doing the subsequent comedy show, but if you pay attention to what he said you’ll see that was not the case. In fact, he made what I regard as the most gratifying statement I’d heard on the subject: “I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club at the theme park capital of the world as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America.” Indeed.
Monday, Rolling Stone magazine covered Bob Weir’s comments at Sunday’s Bonnaroo Festival, held in Manchester, Tennessee. The Grateful Dead’s guitarist/vocalist said the anti-lgbtq rhetoric coming from some prominent members of the Republican party mirrors the language of groups such as Isis. Weir noted Georgia Rep. Rick W. Allen’s comments from the state legislature, quoting Romans 1:18-32 and Revelations 22:18-19 – the bits about how lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered and queers (Lgbtq) are “worthy of death.” Not a steroid-raging young lunatic who had enough cash to buy a Sig Sauer McX assault rifle, but a member of the state house of representatives presumably elected by the people in his district. You know, a position of honor.
Weir went on to quote Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick quoting Galatians 6:7. “This morning, the lieutenant governor of Texas using Galatians 6:7 to justify his comment regarding the Lgbtq community: ‘Well, they’re reaping what they’ve sown.’”
Explain to me again the difference between fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians and exactly who we should ban from our nation’s shores in order to protect the security of all Americans.
This latter bit comes from the mouth of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, who, after the Sunday morning massacre, doubled down on his position that Muslims should be banned (somehow) from entering this country. Not that such an act would have stopped the Pulse gunman: this asshole was born in America – in fact, he was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, the same place where Donald Trump was born.
How do we put an end to this madness? Well, of course we must speak up and we must speak out. We cannot stand by idly while our elected psychopaths call for the building of new and improved ovens.
More important, as people involved in our popular culture, both as financial supporters and as creators, we must speak out within the framework of our media and back those who do so. It is our obligation as human beings, and it is most certainly our role as Americans.
Do you need proof of that? Okay, friends. Here it is.
Truth. Justice. And the American Way.
In this space yesterday, Joe Corallo eloquently and soulfully expressed his views regarding Sunday morning’s Pulse massacre in Orlando Florida. Joe deftly tied the story in to our comics community, and as a writer and as his editor I applaud his effort. Crom knows I couldn’t top that even if I tried, and there’s absolutely no need to try. So, instead, I’m going to tell you about how a couple of our pop culture icons handled it.
Sunday night, John Oliver attached a two-minute opening to his political comedy news show. Oliver had a problem I wouldn’t wish upon any broadcaster, although most of us have faced lesser versions of it from time to time. Everybody woke up Sunday morning to the news out of from Orlando, and the news junkies among us (ahem) spent the better part of the day watching and listening to the coverage – particularly Brian Williams’ amazing marathon anchoring job at MSNBC. And several million of us pretty much go to bed after watching Oliver’s Last Week Tonight. There are plenty of people who labor in that field; John Oliver’s show was the first one up.
He expressed his outrage, to be sure. What he said kinda sorta seemed like an apology for doing the subsequent comedy show, but if you pay attention to what he said you’ll see that was not the case. In fact, he made what I regard as the most gratifying statement I’d heard on the subject: “I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club at the theme park capital of the world as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America.” Indeed.
Monday, Rolling Stone magazine covered Bob Weir’s comments at Sunday’s Bonnaroo Festival, held in Manchester, Tennessee. The Grateful Dead’s guitarist/vocalist said the anti-lgbtq rhetoric coming from some prominent members of the Republican party mirrors the language of groups such as Isis. Weir noted Georgia Rep. Rick W. Allen’s comments from the state legislature, quoting Romans 1:18-32 and Revelations 22:18-19 – the bits about how lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered and queers (Lgbtq) are “worthy of death.” Not a steroid-raging young lunatic who had enough cash to buy a Sig Sauer McX assault rifle, but a member of the state house of representatives presumably elected by the people in his district. You know, a position of honor.
Weir went on to quote Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick quoting Galatians 6:7. “This morning, the lieutenant governor of Texas using Galatians 6:7 to justify his comment regarding the Lgbtq community: ‘Well, they’re reaping what they’ve sown.’”
Explain to me again the difference between fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians and exactly who we should ban from our nation’s shores in order to protect the security of all Americans.
This latter bit comes from the mouth of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, who, after the Sunday morning massacre, doubled down on his position that Muslims should be banned (somehow) from entering this country. Not that such an act would have stopped the Pulse gunman: this asshole was born in America – in fact, he was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, the same place where Donald Trump was born.
How do we put an end to this madness? Well, of course we must speak up and we must speak out. We cannot stand by idly while our elected psychopaths call for the building of new and improved ovens.
More important, as people involved in our popular culture, both as financial supporters and as creators, we must speak out within the framework of our media and back those who do so. It is our obligation as human beings, and it is most certainly our role as Americans.
Do you need proof of that? Okay, friends. Here it is.
Truth. Justice. And the American Way.
- 6/15/2016
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
This year's Tribeca Film Festival has hosted projects involving Tom Hanks, photographer Mick Rock, Ricky Gervais, Kevin Spacey — and, oh yes, the Grateful Dead. Premiering at the downtown New York film fest this week, Grateful Dead: Truckin' is a slice of concert footage from one of the reunited band's "Fare Thee Well" shows last summer.
Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...
Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...
- 4/20/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Amazon is embarking on a long, strange trip — well, not that long really. Amazon Studios is developing a limited bio-series about the Grateful Dead, based on a book penned by one if its longtime roadies. The legendary band’s singer, guitarist and co-founder Bob Weir is executive producing along with Steve Parish, who penned the source memoir Home Before Daylight: My Life On The Road With The Grateful Dead. Weir will oversee all aspects of music for the untitled series…...
- 12/15/2015
- Deadline TV
What a long, strange trip this will be.
Amazon Studios is developing a limited bio series about The Grateful Dead, it announced on Tuesday.
RelatedTVLine’s 10 Best Drama Series of 2015
The project will be based on roadie Steve Parish’s memoir, Home Before Daylight: My Life On the Road with the Grateful Dead.
Parish will serve as executive producer on the potential series, alongside Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, who will also oversee all aspects of music for the series.
RelatedMargaret Cho to Star in Pot-Centric Comedy Pilot Highland for Amazon
No writer is attached to the project at present,...
Amazon Studios is developing a limited bio series about The Grateful Dead, it announced on Tuesday.
RelatedTVLine’s 10 Best Drama Series of 2015
The project will be based on roadie Steve Parish’s memoir, Home Before Daylight: My Life On the Road with the Grateful Dead.
Parish will serve as executive producer on the potential series, alongside Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, who will also oversee all aspects of music for the series.
RelatedMargaret Cho to Star in Pot-Centric Comedy Pilot Highland for Amazon
No writer is attached to the project at present,...
- 12/15/2015
- TVLine.com
The Grateful Dead’s run of five sold-out shows earlier this summer, billed as Fare Thee Well and featuring Phish’s Trey Anastasio, was not a final farewell after all. As previously reported by Billboard, three of the Dead’s "core four" players — guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — plan to continue the party, with John Mayer on guitar. Their first performance as Dead & Company is set for Halloween night (Oct. 31) at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where the Grateful Dead had played more than 50 times since its formation in 1965. Joining the
read more...
read more...
- 8/5/2015
- by Shirley Halperin, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
America celebrated its 239th birthday yesterday. In Chicago, another American institution reached a milestone, as the Grateful Dead turned 50 and played their penultimate show as a band. The occasion brought out many tributes. A record number of people filed into Soldier Field. New York's Empire State Building rocked Dead colors, something that has "never been done before for a rock band of this magnitude." And celebrities showed up in droves, including Katy Perry, John Mayer, Woody Harrelson, Chloe Sevigny, Liz Phair and Al Franken. Even President Obama took note of the occasion. The Grateful Dead played a show in support of the president's first campaign in 2008,
read more...
read more...
- 7/5/2015
- by Elias Leight, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago (AP) — The Grateful Dead is closing the lid on its storied half-century of concerts this weekend in Chicago, where a museum has captured the band's prankster heart by displaying its artifacts, skeletons-and-roses iconography included, in the shadow of a world-famous dinosaur. Soldier Field, which was the last place legendary guitarist Jerry Garcia played with the band before his death in 1995, is hosting the final three shows of the short "Fare Thee Well" tour in what the remaining core members — rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and percussionists Mickey Hart and
read more...
read more...
- 7/3/2015
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Grateful Dead is finishing up its 50-year career as one of the most well-known rock bands of the past century. However, not all of the band’s fans can get to its final concerts in Santa Clara, California or Chicago, Illinois. To rectify this, the Grateful Dead is making these events available via YouTube.
In conjunction with Live Alliance, YouTube will sell access to live streams of the Grateful Dead’s last five shows. Fans who want to tune in can pay $19.95 each for the Santa Clara broadcasts on June 27 and 28, and $29.95 each for the Chicago events on July 3, 4, and 5. Viewers will be able to watch the broadcasts on any device which supports the YouTube site or app.
YouTube is renowned for being a top destination for music fans. After all, the most-searched word on the site in 2014 was music and artists routinely attract hordes of new subscribers and...
In conjunction with Live Alliance, YouTube will sell access to live streams of the Grateful Dead’s last five shows. Fans who want to tune in can pay $19.95 each for the Santa Clara broadcasts on June 27 and 28, and $29.95 each for the Chicago events on July 3, 4, and 5. Viewers will be able to watch the broadcasts on any device which supports the YouTube site or app.
YouTube is renowned for being a top destination for music fans. After all, the most-searched word on the site in 2014 was music and artists routinely attract hordes of new subscribers and...
- 6/23/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Want to keep up with all the great new content arriving on Netflix? Then you're in luck, as we'll be bringing you a round-up of the best TV shows, films, documentaries and stand-up arriving on Netflix UK every week.
Here are the latest additions to Netflix over the coming week:
Catfish
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's acclaimed and unsettling documentary delves into the perils of that very modern phenomenon - online dating.
The film is renowned for its shocking twists, and went on to inspire a spinoff reality TV series. Watch Catfish from May 20.
World War Z
This Brad Pitt-starring action film takes the zombie genre to a new level with epically huge swarms of the undead threatening to consume the entire world.
Arriving on Netflix on May 21, the movie follows a former Un investigator who is called upon to research a solution to the zombie pandemic. But...
Here are the latest additions to Netflix over the coming week:
Catfish
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's acclaimed and unsettling documentary delves into the perils of that very modern phenomenon - online dating.
The film is renowned for its shocking twists, and went on to inspire a spinoff reality TV series. Watch Catfish from May 20.
World War Z
This Brad Pitt-starring action film takes the zombie genre to a new level with epically huge swarms of the undead threatening to consume the entire world.
Arriving on Netflix on May 21, the movie follows a former Un investigator who is called upon to research a solution to the zombie pandemic. But...
- 5/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Read More: Meet the 2014 Tribeca Filmmakers #30: Mike Fleiss Takes a Wild Ride into the Life of The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir in 'The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir' If you're unable to make it to the "Fare Thee Well" concerts marking both the 50th Anniversary of acclaimed rock band The Grateful Dead and the band's last few concerts together, fear not. Netflix is celebrating the milestone anniversary, too, with an original documentary feature chronicling the life of band member John Weir. "The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir" is directed by Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor," "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne"), produced by Marc Weingarten ("God Bless Ozzy Osbourne") and Ep'd by Martin Hilton ("The Bachelor") and Justin Kreutzmann ("In the Attic with Pete Townshend and Friends"). It follows Weir's life and journey as a member of The Grateful Dead with interviews from family,...
- 5/8/2015
- by Becca Nadler
- Indiewire
The Grateful Dead is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. But before the band's surviving members reunite at Soldier Field this summer (and maybe for a tour with John Mayer and Phish's Trey Anastasio), thier founding member, Bob Weir, will release a career retrospective in the form of a Netflix documentary. The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir promises a look at the the band's history, how Weir went from a 16-year-old kid with a guitar to a rock-and-roll legend, and Weir's relationship with Jerry Garcia. It'll also include archival footage that fans, somehow, have never seen. In other words, it's essential viewing for any Deadhead. The doc hits Netflix May 22.
- 5/7/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
A source familiar with The Grateful Dead confirms to Billboard that the band has been at least "considering" a gig in Santa Clara, Calif., the weekend before the Fare The Well concerts in Chicago July 4 weekend that were billed as the final Dead shows. A report on the fan blog hypemusicfestivals.com first put out the "rumor" that the Dead would soon be announcing two more shows the weekend before Fare Thee Well in Chicago, which would be June 27-28. Read more: Grateful Dead to Reunite, Jam with Trey Anastasio for Final Shows Billboard's own
read more...
read more...
- 3/14/2015
- by Ray Waddell, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Deadheads, rejoice. The four living original members of The Grateful Dead - Bob Weir, 67; Phil Lesh, 74; Mickey Hart, 71; and Bill Kreutzmann, 68 - have announced three 50th-anniversary shows, set for July 3, 4 and 5 at Chicago's Soldier Field. The three-day concert will also serve as a send-off for the veteran rockers. "These will be the last shows with the four of us together," Weir told Billboard. Furthermore, their goodbye venue also has some sentimental value. The band's last performance with Jerry Garcia was at the same stadium only a month before the lead guitarist's August 1995 death. Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, 50, will join the original Dead members,...
- 1/19/2015
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
Earlier this year, we heard rumblings that Martin Scorsese might be working on a film about legendary punk rock band The Ramones, but there's yet to be any official confirmation that will happen. However, another iconic rock band will have Scorsese's attention as THR reports he is executive producing a documentary about the psychedelic rock group The Grateful Dead. The documentary will arrive just in time for the 50th anniversary of the band once led by the late Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, and it will cover the entire career of the beloved band. Sounds like the ultimate must-see for the Deadheads out there. The documentary still doesn't have a title, but it does have one hell of a director in Amir Bar-Lev, the man behind the acclaimed 2010 documentary The Tillman Story. The filmmaker has been trying to get this doc off the ground for about 10 years now, and it's finally coming together,...
- 10/24/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Martin Scorsese will serve as executive producer on a Grateful Dead documentary.
Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story) is directing the film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band.
The untitled film will feature never-before-seen footage, vintage interviews and "candid moments unearthed from the Grateful Dead's vast vaults".
Surviving band members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have been interviewed for the documentary.
"The Grateful Dead were more than just a band," said Scorsese. "They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans.
"I'm very happy that this picture is being made, and proud to be involved."
The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2015.
Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story) is directing the film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band.
The untitled film will feature never-before-seen footage, vintage interviews and "candid moments unearthed from the Grateful Dead's vast vaults".
Surviving band members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have been interviewed for the documentary.
"The Grateful Dead were more than just a band," said Scorsese. "They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans.
"I'm very happy that this picture is being made, and proud to be involved."
The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2015.
- 10/24/2014
- Digital Spy
Get ready, Deadheads. The Grateful Dead turn 50 next year and to celebrate, they're getting a new documentary from executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Amir Bar-Lev (Happy Valley). The still-untitled doc will feature never-before-seen footage from various performances, archived interviews and behind-the-scene moments as well as new talks with surviving members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir. It'll also feature the eccentric characters from the "Dead universe." Band archivist David Lemieux will serve as the music supervisor. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Bar-Lev noted that he'd first set out to make a film about the Grateful Dead 10 years ago.
- 10/24/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's first shows together in 1965, first as the Warlocks before adopting their household moniker, the legendary jam band have a number of projects on the horizon to celebrate the occasion. Chief among them: An official, career-spanning documentary produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Amir Bar-Lev that will be stuffed with never-before-seen archival footage plucked from the Dead's vaults, live performances and new interviews with band members and "other characters and pranksters from the Dead universe."
"The Grateful Dead were more than just a band.
"The Grateful Dead were more than just a band.
- 10/23/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Rhythm guitarist Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead fame has had an exciting life to say the least, even for the likes of a rock star. The musician's life has had so many notable moments that filmmaker Mike Fleiss had a difficult time pinpointing which areas to focus on in his film "The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir," with the many faces of Weir (artist, rebel, family man) being exposed as profoundly as can be in a 90-minute documentary. Tell us about yourself. I'm a producer and director in Los Angeles. I'm a reality TV veteran, having created "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," among other shows. I also produced the "Hostel" series of films as well as the fist two "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remakes. My last documentary "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne" premiered at Tribeca in 2011. What was your biggest challenge in completing this project? Bob was...
- 4/15/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
The 13th Tribeca Film Festival has announced its complete lineup for next month’s New York celebration, which runs April 16-27. Culled from more than 6,000 submissions, Tribeca 2014 includes 55 world premieres, 37 first-time filmmakers, and 22 female directors. Half the slate had been announced on Tuesday, with Spotlight, Midnight, and Storyscapes films unveiled today, as well as special screenings. “Spotlight and special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s program, both in range of styles and stories,” said Genna Terranova, Tribeca’s director of programming. “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we...
- 3/6/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
One of my most diversified year-end lists yet -- rock, electronica, jamband, prog, pop, R&B. I didn't really think I'd even find 10 albums that could hold my attention start to finish, and believe me, I tried to listen to most of my fellow critics' top ten titles and could barely get through most of their selections top to bottom. Okay, so there may have been some overlapping, but very little. Here are my top tens of favorite CDs and singles in some kind of non-numerical order. (Well, actually, the number of plays on my iTunes player.)
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
- 12/24/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
One of my most diversified year-end lists yet -- rock, electronica, jamband, prog, pop, R&B. I didn't really think I'd even find 10 albums that could hold my attention start to finish, and believe me, I tried to listen to most of my fellow critics' top ten titles and could barely get through most of their selections top to bottom. Okay, so there may have been some overlapping, but very little. Here are my top tens of favorite CDs and singles in some kind of non-numerical order. (Well, actually, the number of plays on my iTunes player.)
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)
A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.
- 12/24/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Kylie Jenner, the youngest member of the Kardashian brood, doesn't remember a life before fame. What else in pop culture does she not remember?
Jenner pointed out that she had no clear memory of the time before her family became synonymous with reality television when talking to Us Weekly on Wednesday (Nov. 13). "It's kind of like I grew up into it. It's kind of like I don't know any different," Jenner said.
That makes sense. But what else does the young Miss Jenner not remember? Here are 16 pop-culture things that pre-date 16-year-old Kylie.
Warning: You are going to feel old reading this.
1. "Clueless"
The movie that may best describe the lifestyle Kylie was born and raised in was released in 1995, two years before the girl's birth.
2. Ellen DeGeneres not being gay
While obviously Ellen DeGeneres was gay before 1997, she didn't make that entirely public knowledge before coming out on her...
Jenner pointed out that she had no clear memory of the time before her family became synonymous with reality television when talking to Us Weekly on Wednesday (Nov. 13). "It's kind of like I grew up into it. It's kind of like I don't know any different," Jenner said.
That makes sense. But what else does the young Miss Jenner not remember? Here are 16 pop-culture things that pre-date 16-year-old Kylie.
Warning: You are going to feel old reading this.
1. "Clueless"
The movie that may best describe the lifestyle Kylie was born and raised in was released in 1995, two years before the girl's birth.
2. Ellen DeGeneres not being gay
While obviously Ellen DeGeneres was gay before 1997, she didn't make that entirely public knowledge before coming out on her...
- 11/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
I’ll be honest. Trick ‘R Treat is a cult horror movie that completely passed me by. The film, cobbling together four short “tales of terror” into a cohesive horror anthology of yore, has been a favorite Halloween movie since it arrived in theatres in 2007.
It’s only risen in stature and popularity since, and it seemed like that groundswell movement reached its crescendo last night at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood for the finale of American Cinematheque and Amity’s Beyond Fest, one of the best film festivals in recent memory. The folks at Legendary teamed with the theatre to throw a bash, and provide a free screening for ardent fans of the picture. Tickets were snapped up within hours online, and the line to get in gave me a mini Comic-Con flashback. A lot of fervor for a Monday night screening, but I doubt anyone in the audience left disappointed.
It’s only risen in stature and popularity since, and it seemed like that groundswell movement reached its crescendo last night at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood for the finale of American Cinematheque and Amity’s Beyond Fest, one of the best film festivals in recent memory. The folks at Legendary teamed with the theatre to throw a bash, and provide a free screening for ardent fans of the picture. Tickets were snapped up within hours online, and the line to get in gave me a mini Comic-Con flashback. A lot of fervor for a Monday night screening, but I doubt anyone in the audience left disappointed.
- 10/29/2013
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Excuse me if this week’s profundity seems a bit more extemporaneous than usual. It’s been one of those weeks, and at 3:00 yesterday morning Roscoe The Cat literally saved my life and I’m still twitching over that one.
I listen to music all the time. Literally, all the time. I have a very wide range in taste, but most of what I listen to falls under the exceptionally broad category of “kick ass rock’n’blues.” It’s a phrase I use on Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind, my weekly radio indulgence on (ahem) www.getthepointradio.com. Right now, I’m listening to Sterling Koch’s 2010 effort, Steel Guitar Blues. Kick ass music energizes me and takes the pressures of the day and it puts them over there, wherever there is. Music is my drug of choice.
A lot of my friends in the comics racket...
I listen to music all the time. Literally, all the time. I have a very wide range in taste, but most of what I listen to falls under the exceptionally broad category of “kick ass rock’n’blues.” It’s a phrase I use on Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind, my weekly radio indulgence on (ahem) www.getthepointradio.com. Right now, I’m listening to Sterling Koch’s 2010 effort, Steel Guitar Blues. Kick ass music energizes me and takes the pressures of the day and it puts them over there, wherever there is. Music is my drug of choice.
A lot of my friends in the comics racket...
- 8/21/2013
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
The Grateful Dead are a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing they aren't is an immersive, online experience capable of sucking away your money and free time without forcing you to leave your computer chair. Yet. Curious Sense, the same company responsible for Reo Speedwagon's "hidden object" game, Find Your Own Way Home (you thought I was kidding, didn't you?), will be creating a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called The Epic Tour that will allow thousands of tech-savvy hippies to vicariously relieve the famous Dead shows that their older, less-tech-savvy relatives rant about every Christmas. ("Mom, I don't want to talk to Uncle Moonbeam! He keeps talking about long strange trips and orange sunshine, whatever that is!) Curious Sense CEO Adam Blumenthal: "Players will explore a Grateful Dead-themed world comprised of many types of games, [...]...
- 12/20/2011
- Nerve
The Grateful Dead are an incredible phenomenon of pop culture. They have a more devoted fanbase than anyone else I can think of (yes, even "Twilight" pales in comparison) and even the loss of Jerry Garcia didn't really dim the music or the enthusiasm for their live performances.But the Dead haven't gotten their due on the big screen, largely because the band has been reluctant to ever give up their music rights. After all, they had their own "movie" directed by Garcia himself. What more did a Deadhead need?Well, apparently a "a film that captures that psychedelic Haight-Ashbury hippie spirit of the late 60s and early 70s." According to Deadline, ICM has been given unlimited access to the Dead catalog in the hopes of making a musical film that celebrates the Grateful Dead. It won't be a biopic, persay, but a film that is just a journey through...
- 11/28/2011
- LRMonline.com
The Grateful Dead are an incredible phenomenon of pop culture. They have a more devoted fanbase than anyone else I can think of (yes, even "Twilight" pales in comparison) and even the loss of Jerry Garcia didn't really dim the music or the enthusiasm for their live performances.But the Dead haven't gotten their due on the big screen, largely because the band has been reluctant to ever give up their music rights. After all, they had their own "movie" directed by Garcia himself. What more did a Deadhead need?Well, apparently a "a film that captures that psychedelic Haight-Ashbury hippie spirit of the late 60s and early 70s." According to Deadline, ICM has been given unlimited access to the Dead catalog in the hopes of making a musical film that celebrates the Grateful Dead. It won't be a biopic, persay, but a film that is just a journey through...
- 11/28/2011
- LRMonline.com
After putting together a deal that allowed for the use of no less than 20 tunes for The Beatles inspired musical Across the Universe from Julie Taymor, Deadline reports literary agent Bruce Kaufman is putting together a similar deal with access to the entire musical catalog of The Grateful Dead for another narrative feature film structured around the iconic band's music. Kaufman is working closely with trusted colleagues of the band including archivist David Lemiux and Mark Pinkus, the general manager of Grateful Dead Properties at Rhino Entertainment who has exclusive management of the band's intellectual property. There's no word on what kind of story might be woven with the band's music, but I'm hoping it's pieced together a little better than Taymor's venture with The Beatles' music. While the covers of each song were fantastic and well worth a purchase of the soundtrack, the story that brought them all...
- 11/23/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
For those who have been waiting for another Grateful Dead movie, it looks like you won’t have to wait much longer. According to Deadline, ICM has officially gained access to the 1960′s jam band’s music catalog, which will be orchestrated into a narrative-style feature film.
The untitled feature film will be led by ICM agent Bruce Kaufman, who was also in charge of orchestrating 2007′s Across the Universe. The Grateful Dead project will be in the same vain as Universe, which will include re-recorded Dead songs for the feature film. Kaufman is currently working with The Grateful Dead team including, band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, General Manager of the Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment.
Lead guitarist and frontman Jerry Garcia passed away shortly after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, which resulted in the...
The untitled feature film will be led by ICM agent Bruce Kaufman, who was also in charge of orchestrating 2007′s Across the Universe. The Grateful Dead project will be in the same vain as Universe, which will include re-recorded Dead songs for the feature film. Kaufman is currently working with The Grateful Dead team including, band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, General Manager of the Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment.
Lead guitarist and frontman Jerry Garcia passed away shortly after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, which resulted in the...
- 11/21/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Deadheads rejoice! Up until now, all attempts to make a moving about The Grateful Dead have met a major hurdle in gaining use of the music. Deadline reports that ICM has been given unprecedented access to the band’s music catalog and will package a narrative-style feature film built around those tunes.
The project has been rolling forward with the help of ICM lit agent Bruce Kaufman. He was able to gain rights for Beatles songs to be used in Across the Universe. Kaufman is working with The Grateful Dead team that includes band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, Gm of Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment. Rhino was granted exclusive management of The Grateful Dead’s intellectual property back in 2006. The film will not be a biopic. Instead the plan is to capture the psychedelic Haight-Ashbury vibe of the late 60s and early 70s,...
The project has been rolling forward with the help of ICM lit agent Bruce Kaufman. He was able to gain rights for Beatles songs to be used in Across the Universe. Kaufman is working with The Grateful Dead team that includes band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, Gm of Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment. Rhino was granted exclusive management of The Grateful Dead’s intellectual property back in 2006. The film will not be a biopic. Instead the plan is to capture the psychedelic Haight-Ashbury vibe of the late 60s and early 70s,...
- 11/18/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: A number of films about the Grateful Dead have cropped up, but the challenge has always been to get music rights. Now, ICM has the opposite situation. The agency has been granted unprecedented access to the seminal band’s music catalog and will package a narrative-style feature film built around those tunes. ICM lit agent Bruce Kaufman is leading the charge. He has done this before, including brokering the use of 20 re-recorded songs from The Beatles for Across the Universe. He’s working closely with The Grateful Dead team that includes band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, Gm of Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment. The band granted Rhino exclusive management of The Grateful Dead’s intellectual property back in 2006. Formed in 1965, the San Francisco-based band broke up in 1995 after frontman/guitarist Jerry Garcia passed away shortly after the band was inducted into the...
- 11/18/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Filed under: Movie News
The Grateful Dead are among a handful of legendary rock groups -- Led Zeppelin and the Beatles also belong in this category -- whose music is almost impossible to license in a film. Unless you have a massive budget to spend on music rights (cough, Cameron Crowe), the likelihood of using 'Hey Jude' or 'Misty Mountain Hop' in your movie are close to zero. However, the Grateful Dead may no longer have this problem. According to Deadline, ICM has been given access to the band's catalog and will produce a feature film built around their music. ICM's Bruce Kaufman, who did something similar with the Beatles for 'Across the Universe,' will be heading up the project.
Continue Reading...
The Grateful Dead are among a handful of legendary rock groups -- Led Zeppelin and the Beatles also belong in this category -- whose music is almost impossible to license in a film. Unless you have a massive budget to spend on music rights (cough, Cameron Crowe), the likelihood of using 'Hey Jude' or 'Misty Mountain Hop' in your movie are close to zero. However, the Grateful Dead may no longer have this problem. According to Deadline, ICM has been given access to the band's catalog and will produce a feature film built around their music. ICM's Bruce Kaufman, who did something similar with the Beatles for 'Across the Universe,' will be heading up the project.
Continue Reading...
- 11/18/2011
- by Moviefone Staff
- Moviefone
By Mike Ayers
New York (Reuters) - The Grateful Dead revisit their historic 1972 tour of Europe with the release this week of "Europe '72 Vol.2, " featuring live versions of more of the band's classic songs and new material.
Reuters talked with guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir about the album, and how the 1972 tour became such a seminal moment in the band's long career.
Q: I read that the original multi-tracks (from 1972) were lost, but maybe they weren't? What's the story behind those?
A: "They were stacked up in some corner. I don't think anyone in our organization for a few decades had any notion that there'd be a whole lot of use for them. So they weren't on anybody's mind. The record was made as far as we were concerned. It took a lot of work, sorting out what we were going to do, and then polishing it up."
Q: The...
New York (Reuters) - The Grateful Dead revisit their historic 1972 tour of Europe with the release this week of "Europe '72 Vol.2, " featuring live versions of more of the band's classic songs and new material.
Reuters talked with guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir about the album, and how the 1972 tour became such a seminal moment in the band's long career.
Q: I read that the original multi-tracks (from 1972) were lost, but maybe they weren't? What's the story behind those?
A: "They were stacked up in some corner. I don't think anyone in our organization for a few decades had any notion that there'd be a whole lot of use for them. So they weren't on anybody's mind. The record was made as far as we were concerned. It took a lot of work, sorting out what we were going to do, and then polishing it up."
Q: The...
- 9/21/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
By Mike Ayers
New York (Reuters) - The Grateful Dead's long strange trip keeps on truckin' this month. After 39 years, the Dead's seminal live album "Europe '72" has a proper follow up culled from that same tour.
Simply dubbed "Europe '72 Vol. 2" and due out September 20th, the collection highlights more material from the band's historic run in April and May of 1972. Guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir told Reuters that the band's fruitful live performances during that time stemmed from their dedication to practicing as a group and the lack of jet lag.
"The first couple of times we went over there, we felt kind of like a novelty act," Weir said of shows prior to the 1972 European tour. "We went over there and did one-offs, and we were thoroughly jet lagged; we never really had a chance to settle in and pound it out, like we were used to doing.
New York (Reuters) - The Grateful Dead's long strange trip keeps on truckin' this month. After 39 years, the Dead's seminal live album "Europe '72" has a proper follow up culled from that same tour.
Simply dubbed "Europe '72 Vol. 2" and due out September 20th, the collection highlights more material from the band's historic run in April and May of 1972. Guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir told Reuters that the band's fruitful live performances during that time stemmed from their dedication to practicing as a group and the lack of jet lag.
"The first couple of times we went over there, we felt kind of like a novelty act," Weir said of shows prior to the 1972 European tour. "We went over there and did one-offs, and we were thoroughly jet lagged; we never really had a chance to settle in and pound it out, like we were used to doing.
- 9/19/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Chicago – If you’re not familiar with the name J.K. Simmons, you almost certainly know his face or maybe even just his voice. From “Oz” to “Juno” to “The Closer” to “Portal 2” and even the M&Ms commercials, the very-talented actor has been everywhere in the last few decades. The great character actor recently took time out of his busy schedule to give a call to HollywoodChicago.com on the eve of the release of his excellent drama “The Music Never Stopped” on DVD. The sentimental story of a man bonding with his brain-damaged son (Lou Taylor Pucci) through the music of his generation (The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, etc.) wasn’t given nearly the theatrical run it should but will hopefully find a strong life on DVD.
HollywoodChicago,com: One of the more interesting elements of the film is that it seems to me to be a personal story...
HollywoodChicago,com: One of the more interesting elements of the film is that it seems to me to be a personal story...
- 8/4/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
John Landis isn’t the only one with deep-seated love of the classics.
This comes directly from John Landis himself. It’s been out there for a couple months it seems, but this is the first I’m seeing it: Jerry Garcia, legendary leader of The Grateful Dead, espouses his love for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. It runs nearly 8 full minutes. As Mr. Landis put it, this is just wonderful:
I’m not the biggest Dead fan, but I’ll say this: Jerry completely nails the film. It really is a cheat to call Abbott Costello Meet Frankenstein a comedy, really. The movie’s a horror film, too. It treats the monsters absolutely real and never softens the fact that they’re monsters for a cheap joke. It’s legitimately spooky and I love it for this reason.
Here’s John Landis offering his own thoughts on the movie:...
This comes directly from John Landis himself. It’s been out there for a couple months it seems, but this is the first I’m seeing it: Jerry Garcia, legendary leader of The Grateful Dead, espouses his love for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. It runs nearly 8 full minutes. As Mr. Landis put it, this is just wonderful:
I’m not the biggest Dead fan, but I’ll say this: Jerry completely nails the film. It really is a cheat to call Abbott Costello Meet Frankenstein a comedy, really. The movie’s a horror film, too. It treats the monsters absolutely real and never softens the fact that they’re monsters for a cheap joke. It’s legitimately spooky and I love it for this reason.
Here’s John Landis offering his own thoughts on the movie:...
- 8/3/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
On Oct. 21, 1974, Californian Clifford Travis Bean filed a U.S. patent with the intention of making a guitar from "extruded aluminum." His goal, read the patent, was to create an instrument that resulted in "stable and versatile tones." Nearly four decades later, it's safe to say that Bean, who died last Friday at the age of 63, was successful in his stated aims.
In the five years following his filed patent, Bean produced some 3,600 instruments that are not only by and large still in use today but also still influencing new generations of guitar makers and players. His heavy, unmistakable aluminum-necked guitars have an unwavering reputation for tone, sustain and musical flexibility. Though they're most popular now at the intersection of heavy metal and indie rock, they've been used over the years by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Earlier this week, I asked one longtime Bean adherent,...
In the five years following his filed patent, Bean produced some 3,600 instruments that are not only by and large still in use today but also still influencing new generations of guitar makers and players. His heavy, unmistakable aluminum-necked guitars have an unwavering reputation for tone, sustain and musical flexibility. Though they're most popular now at the intersection of heavy metal and indie rock, they've been used over the years by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Earlier this week, I asked one longtime Bean adherent,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
Review of The Music Never Stopped - Finally, J.K. Simmons gets a leading role 2.5 stars out of 5 The Grateful Dead are an oddly polarizing band, precisely because they were so important to the legions of fans who worshipped them. If you loved the band, you did so almost unconditionally. If you didn't, you were probably at a loss to understand what the big deal was for all the longhairs, and you might well have made a joke or three at either the band's or the band's fans' expense. But the Deadheads understand a thing or two. Jerry Garcia and his comrades were brilliant songwriters and extraordinary musicians, and their live shows were always amazing, if not epic experiences (admittedly, plenty of people found them so because of chemical enhancement). Additionally, the community that followed them was just that—a community, providing a welcoming space for anyone who wanted to be a part of it.
- 3/31/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Shameless loves to kick off episodes with Fiona having sex. But, hey, whatever grabs the audience!
While Fiona and Steve are having a little wake up intercourse on "Killer Carl," the lights go out. Surprisingly, it wasn’t Carl’s fault this time; Fiona didn't pay the bill. Carl, however, did not get off easily for the rest of the episode.
In case Carl’s affinity for torturing pets and melting action figures together didn’t tip you off to his troubled nature, we found out that he is the school bully. Between peeing in plants, slamming doors on kids’ hands, and the seven “unsatisfactory” marks on his report card, the school is ready to kick him out. Fiona goes to the school to plead his case, but the faculty is sick of seeing all of the Gallagher kids go through their hallways with no guidance or structure.
Failing to find any pretend father figure,...
While Fiona and Steve are having a little wake up intercourse on "Killer Carl," the lights go out. Surprisingly, it wasn’t Carl’s fault this time; Fiona didn't pay the bill. Carl, however, did not get off easily for the rest of the episode.
In case Carl’s affinity for torturing pets and melting action figures together didn’t tip you off to his troubled nature, we found out that he is the school bully. Between peeing in plants, slamming doors on kids’ hands, and the seven “unsatisfactory” marks on his report card, the school is ready to kick him out. Fiona goes to the school to plead his case, but the faculty is sick of seeing all of the Gallagher kids go through their hallways with no guidance or structure.
Failing to find any pretend father figure,...
- 2/14/2011
- by leigh.raines@gmail.com (Leigh Raines)
- TVfanatic
Today, I love Lil Wayne. A lot. This is why. (500DaysofWeezy)
The UK is scrapping the UK Film Council. Fuck 'em. Stop the motherfuckers. This is why. (The Playlist)
Documentary filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev is directing a biopic about Jerry Garcia, focusing on Garcia's early life before he joined The Grateful Dead, i.e., before anyone cared. (The Wrap)
Michael Bay is producing a low-budget film about an alien abduction. Man, I don't care. And what's low-budget for Michael Bay? $90 million. What's he trying to do? Rip off District 9? Get your own concept, jackass. (THR)
So, I'm actually kind of sick of The Old Spice guy now. I didn't realize that a commercial spokesperson could create a backlash, but here it comes. And just in time: He's been cast in Horrible Bosses. (Cinemablend)
Warning: Unnecessarily inflammatory remarks made about a national treasure ahead: Bob Barker -- that bitch -- is...
The UK is scrapping the UK Film Council. Fuck 'em. Stop the motherfuckers. This is why. (The Playlist)
Documentary filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev is directing a biopic about Jerry Garcia, focusing on Garcia's early life before he joined The Grateful Dead, i.e., before anyone cared. (The Wrap)
Michael Bay is producing a low-budget film about an alien abduction. Man, I don't care. And what's low-budget for Michael Bay? $90 million. What's he trying to do? Rip off District 9? Get your own concept, jackass. (THR)
So, I'm actually kind of sick of The Old Spice guy now. I didn't realize that a commercial spokesperson could create a backlash, but here it comes. And just in time: He's been cast in Horrible Bosses. (Cinemablend)
Warning: Unnecessarily inflammatory remarks made about a national treasure ahead: Bob Barker -- that bitch -- is...
- 7/29/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
The Grateful Dead's late lead singer Jerry Garcia will have his story immortalized onscreen.
Based on the Robert Greenfield book "Dark Star," a history of Garcia told by family, friends and colleagues, the film will document the frontman's early life before joining the band that made him a household name. Amir Bar-Lev, director of the documentary "The Tillman Story," will direct, reports Variety.
While there have been a few Grateful Dead documentaries, this will...
Based on the Robert Greenfield book "Dark Star," a history of Garcia told by family, friends and colleagues, the film will document the frontman's early life before joining the band that made him a household name. Amir Bar-Lev, director of the documentary "The Tillman Story," will direct, reports Variety.
While there have been a few Grateful Dead documentaries, this will...
- 7/22/2010
- Extra
This is one of those rare stories where my personal and professional interests collide: growing up, the music of The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band was frequently heard echoing through my home. There have been plenty of documentaries and concert films about the Dead, but never a proper biopic. That's all about to change, thanks to a script from Topper Lilien, who worked with Robert Greenfield's book "Dark Star" in crafting a story about Dead co-founder and lead singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia. The film, which Variety confirms will be directed by "The Tillman Story" helmer Amir Bar-Lev, will reportedly cover Garcia's early years, the events that led him to the Dead.
If the story had more of a lifelong focus, I'd be forced to pitch Jeff Bridges for the lead role. I mean seriously... is there anyone on this planet more perfectly suited to portray the lovable rock star than The Dude?...
If the story had more of a lifelong focus, I'd be forced to pitch Jeff Bridges for the lead role. I mean seriously... is there anyone on this planet more perfectly suited to portray the lovable rock star than The Dude?...
- 7/22/2010
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
The Famous Monsters Convention is quickly approaching (and if you haven’t bought your tickets yet, what in Sam Hill are you waiting for? Go here!) and while your convention needs will be met July 9-11, if you’re a hardcore convention fanatic, you’re probably already looking for the next con to attend. Well look no further, my friend! From July 30 to Aug. 1, Rock Con will be hitting up New Jersey.
From the press release: “E. Rutherford, NJ: Rock Con: Weekend Of 100 Rock Stars Celebrity FanFest event comes to the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel Conference Center in East Rutherford, NJ on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 30th – August 1st weekend with theme reunions and guest appearances, including a roster of Rockin’ Horror Stars.
Already scheduled to appear are:
~Gerrit Graham played “Beef” in Brian DePalma’s rock horror musical film Phantom of the Paradise. He also composed with Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead.
From the press release: “E. Rutherford, NJ: Rock Con: Weekend Of 100 Rock Stars Celebrity FanFest event comes to the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel Conference Center in East Rutherford, NJ on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 30th – August 1st weekend with theme reunions and guest appearances, including a roster of Rockin’ Horror Stars.
Already scheduled to appear are:
~Gerrit Graham played “Beef” in Brian DePalma’s rock horror musical film Phantom of the Paradise. He also composed with Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead.
- 6/7/2010
- by Ashleigh
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
This Friday, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning will hit the big screen as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in a dramatized telling of classic girl-rock band, The Runaways. I haven't had the opportunity to see it yet, but I hear that's it pretty good, and mostly Fanning's show. It's opening in limited release this weekend so not everyone will be able to catch it, but I intend to.
The Runaways certainly aren't the first band to get a biopic, nor will they be the last. So I'd like to now submit a few others for Hollywood's approval, bands and/or musicians with fascinating stories that could and should be done great justice with a big screen telling.
Grateful Dead
So what if I'm letting my freak flag fly with this pick? The Grateful Dead offer a fascinating story, from their early roots in San Francisco's 1960s scene all the way...
The Runaways certainly aren't the first band to get a biopic, nor will they be the last. So I'd like to now submit a few others for Hollywood's approval, bands and/or musicians with fascinating stories that could and should be done great justice with a big screen telling.
Grateful Dead
So what if I'm letting my freak flag fly with this pick? The Grateful Dead offer a fascinating story, from their early roots in San Francisco's 1960s scene all the way...
- 3/16/2010
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
Dear Website Visitor, Please answer the following questions as they apply to you. Answering yes to one qualifies you to continue on to the next: 1. Can you read? 2. Do you love The Grateful Dead? 3. No, like really, really love The Grateful Dead? 4. As in, do you love them enough that you’d want to potentially spend the rest of your professional life sorting, cataloging and archiving Grateful Dead music and related literature, manuscripts and relics into one of the country’s most impressive Grateful Dead library collections? 5. Do you have a master’s degree in archives management?...
- 11/11/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.