Key Art for Mixtape, streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Paramount+ announced that Mixtape, a new documentary exploring how the creation of mixtapes launched hip hop into mainstream culture, will premiere exclusively on the service Tuesday, August 1 in the U.S. and Canada and Wednesday, August 2 in the U.K., Australia, Latin America and Brazil, with further international markets to follow later in the year. Mixtape is the story of hip hop refusing to take no for an answer. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes. DJs were tastemakers, trendsetters and creators of the sound that became the biggest musical genre on the planet. The importance of mixtapes goes well beyond the tapes themselves. Mixtapes were a form of currency and a signifier that someone was “in the know” and had their ear to the streets. The culture was too strong to be stopped, and the artists were too...
- 7/15/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Polygram Entertainment has unveiled a quartet of music documentaries in development on the Bee Gees, the Go-Go’s, hip-hop jewelry and the origins of mixtapes, Variety has learned exclusively.
Polygram, which was revived in 2017 by Universal Music Group, rolled out details of the projects Saturday afternoon during a pre-Grammys showcase in downtown Los Angeles. Members of the Go-Go’s were in attendance along with Umg executives Michele Anthony and David Blackman and veteran film producer Frank Marshall, who’s handling the Bee Gees documentary.
Since 2017, Polygram has co-distributed Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” and developed several notable upcoming projects: a Luciano Pavarotti documentary directed by Howard, a Velvet Underground documentary directed by Todd Haynes and “Hitsville: The Making of Motown.”
The Bee Gees documentary feature is authorized by Barry Gibb and the families of his late brothers Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb. The...
Polygram, which was revived in 2017 by Universal Music Group, rolled out details of the projects Saturday afternoon during a pre-Grammys showcase in downtown Los Angeles. Members of the Go-Go’s were in attendance along with Umg executives Michele Anthony and David Blackman and veteran film producer Frank Marshall, who’s handling the Bee Gees documentary.
Since 2017, Polygram has co-distributed Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” and developed several notable upcoming projects: a Luciano Pavarotti documentary directed by Howard, a Velvet Underground documentary directed by Todd Haynes and “Hitsville: The Making of Motown.”
The Bee Gees documentary feature is authorized by Barry Gibb and the families of his late brothers Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb. The...
- 2/9/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Review by Peter BelsitoBobbito Garcia, author, basketball maven, D.J. and more, is the focus of the documentary ‘Rock Rubber 45s’ and he also directed the film.
This film has two sides.
It is a cultural epoch telling from the inside the stories of new York City’s youth cultures during a certain period 20 years ago.
It also follows an amazing character whose life story is intimately bound with those cultures and that time and place.
A documentary (directed by its subject) of a strange and wonderful character. The subject of the film Bobbito Garcia exists in a variety popular new York City cultures of 20 years ago. Hip hop music and clubs, street and high school basketball, fashion (shoes here). It does this by chronicling his life as a DJ Mc in underground very popular clubs, his popular radio show and his fashion creations (sneaker shoes and the culture they...
This film has two sides.
It is a cultural epoch telling from the inside the stories of new York City’s youth cultures during a certain period 20 years ago.
It also follows an amazing character whose life story is intimately bound with those cultures and that time and place.
A documentary (directed by its subject) of a strange and wonderful character. The subject of the film Bobbito Garcia exists in a variety popular new York City cultures of 20 years ago. Hip hop music and clubs, street and high school basketball, fashion (shoes here). It does this by chronicling his life as a DJ Mc in underground very popular clubs, his popular radio show and his fashion creations (sneaker shoes and the culture they...
- 7/25/2018
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
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