Exclusive: Production is underway on a concert documentary about legendary rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, built around one-of-a-kind performance footage of Ccr that sat in a London vault for five decades.
Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges will narrate Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, a production of Craft Recordings, Concord Originals and Marathan Films. Bob Smeaton, the filmmaker behind Grammy-winning documentaries on The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, is directing the Creedence doc.
“As a kid growing up in the U.K. during the late ’60s, early ’70s, Creedence were a band that I was only really aware of through their hit singles,” Smeaton said in a statement. “Therefore, making this film was an education for me, I was able to see and hear why they are worthy of their status as one of the greatest bands of all time. I knew they were good, I never knew they were that good.
Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges will narrate Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, a production of Craft Recordings, Concord Originals and Marathan Films. Bob Smeaton, the filmmaker behind Grammy-winning documentaries on The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, is directing the Creedence doc.
“As a kid growing up in the U.K. during the late ’60s, early ’70s, Creedence were a band that I was only really aware of through their hit singles,” Smeaton said in a statement. “Therefore, making this film was an education for me, I was able to see and hear why they are worthy of their status as one of the greatest bands of all time. I knew they were good, I never knew they were that good.
- 4/28/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
In what has been one hell of an election year, Jon Stewart is cutting through all of it with his biting political comedy Irresistible starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne and Chris Cooper. The Focus Features film was originally set to hit theaters on May 29, but like all films impacted by the pandemic, it pivoted to PVOD and drops today.
Written by Stewart, Irresistible follows a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired Marine colonel (Cooper) run for mayor against a Republican rival (Byrne) in a small Wisconsin town. This marks a reunion of sorts for Stewart and Carell, who was a recurring correspondent on The Daily Show between 1999 and 2005. The film is also Stewart’s latest outing as a feature film director. His first pic, Rosewater, was released in 2014 and told the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who was accused and brutally interrogated by Iranian forces for being a spy.
Written by Stewart, Irresistible follows a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired Marine colonel (Cooper) run for mayor against a Republican rival (Byrne) in a small Wisconsin town. This marks a reunion of sorts for Stewart and Carell, who was a recurring correspondent on The Daily Show between 1999 and 2005. The film is also Stewart’s latest outing as a feature film director. His first pic, Rosewater, was released in 2014 and told the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who was accused and brutally interrogated by Iranian forces for being a spy.
- 6/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: There is a certain generation that basks in the ’90s Blind Melon tune “No Rain” and Oscilloscope Laboratories is looking to shed light on that era via the forthcoming documentary All I Can Say. The indie film company co-founded by Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch has acquired the North American rights to the docu from the late Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon. Oscilloscope is set to release the film later this year.
Shot firsthand by Hoon over the course of five years up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28 in 1995, All I Can Say made its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. Hoon used his camera as a diary and he meticulously documented facets of his life including his family, his creative process, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction. From the birth of Hoon’s daughter to...
Shot firsthand by Hoon over the course of five years up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28 in 1995, All I Can Say made its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. Hoon used his camera as a diary and he meticulously documented facets of his life including his family, his creative process, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction. From the birth of Hoon’s daughter to...
- 5/5/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Live Nation Productions and Double E Entertainment have signed on as executive producers of “All I Can Say,” the documentary film featuring footage shot entirely by the late Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon.
The film’s title is taken from the opening lines of Blind Melon’s instantly recognizable 1993 smash, “No Rain.” Culled from Hoon’s archives, the footage is carefully crafted by Grammy-winning director Danny Clinch, along with co-directors Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessy. The film follows Hoon’s career in the band as shot through his own lens, right up until a few hours before he died of a drug overdose at the age of 28.
The film “provides an inside look into his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction,” according to an official release.
In the days before iPhones, Hoon was ahead of his time, Clinch recently told Variety.
The film’s title is taken from the opening lines of Blind Melon’s instantly recognizable 1993 smash, “No Rain.” Culled from Hoon’s archives, the footage is carefully crafted by Grammy-winning director Danny Clinch, along with co-directors Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessy. The film follows Hoon’s career in the band as shot through his own lens, right up until a few hours before he died of a drug overdose at the age of 28.
The film “provides an inside look into his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction,” according to an official release.
In the days before iPhones, Hoon was ahead of his time, Clinch recently told Variety.
- 11/22/2019
- by Michele Amabile Angermiller
- Variety Film + TV
Double E Pictures founder and CEO Eric Eisner and Live Nation Productions have boarded All I Can Say, a documentary about Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon, who died from complications due to a drug overdose in 1995 at 28 years old.
The film about the "No Rain" singer is co-directed by Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessey and is produced by Gould, Lindha Narvaez and Samuel Gursky. Eisner, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Clinch and John Beug executive produced.
All I Can Say recounts the final five years of Hoon's life, as the lead singer of Blind Melon, until a ...
The film about the "No Rain" singer is co-directed by Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessey and is produced by Gould, Lindha Narvaez and Samuel Gursky. Eisner, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Clinch and John Beug executive produced.
All I Can Say recounts the final five years of Hoon's life, as the lead singer of Blind Melon, until a ...
- 11/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Double E Pictures founder and CEO Eric Eisner and Live Nation Productions have boarded All I Can Say, a documentary about Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon, who died from complications due to a drug overdose in 1995 at 28 years old.
The film about the "No Rain" singer is co-directed by Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessey and is produced by Gould, Lindha Narvaez and Samuel Gursky. Eisner, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Clinch and John Beug executive produced.
All I Can Say recounts the final five years of Hoon's life, as the lead singer of Blind Melon, until a ...
The film about the "No Rain" singer is co-directed by Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessey and is produced by Gould, Lindha Narvaez and Samuel Gursky. Eisner, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Clinch and John Beug executive produced.
All I Can Say recounts the final five years of Hoon's life, as the lead singer of Blind Melon, until a ...
- 11/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Gunpowder & Sky Distribution has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to April Mullen’s “Below Her Mouth.” Shot entirely with a female crew, the film tells the story of an unexpected romance between two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2016, and it went on to screen at Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, and Goteborg Film Festival. It will also play at BFI Flare: London’s Lgbt festival in March.
Gunpowder & Sky Distribution will release the film on April 28, 2017, theatrically and across all major On Demand platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, Microsoft Movies & TV, Verizon FiOS, and DirecTV.
– Gunpowder & Sky Distribution has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to April Mullen’s “Below Her Mouth.” Shot entirely with a female crew, the film tells the story of an unexpected romance between two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2016, and it went on to screen at Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, and Goteborg Film Festival. It will also play at BFI Flare: London’s Lgbt festival in March.
Gunpowder & Sky Distribution will release the film on April 28, 2017, theatrically and across all major On Demand platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, Microsoft Movies & TV, Verizon FiOS, and DirecTV.
- 3/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Abramorama will handle the North American theatrical distribution of John Scheinfeld's documentary Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. With interviews by Wynton Marsalis, President Bill Clinton, Sonny Rollins, Dr. Cornel West and Common, Trane played to good notices at Telluride, Toronto and Doc NYC, among other fests. Chasing Trane is produced by Spencer Proffer, John Beug, Scott Pascucci and Dave Harding, and is set for a theatrical release in New York on…...
- 3/16/2017
- Deadline
The story of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, one of the last major innovators in American music, will be told through the stories of people he influenced in the next documentary from the director-writer of Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?). Director-writer-producer John Scheinfeld — whose credits include The U.S. vs. John Lennon and Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of "Smile" with David Leaf — began pre-production on the film in November. Spencer Proffer is producing through his Meteor 17 company; longtime music video executive John Beug and Concord
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- 12/9/2014
- by Phil Gallo, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The new "Doors" doc, "When You're Strange", will be released to theatres April 9.
Narrated by actor Johnny Depp, the feature is written/directed by Tom Dicillo and produced by Dick Wolf, Rhino's John Beug, band manager Jeff Jampol and Wolf Films' Peter Jankowski.
Made with the support of surviving band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and the Jim Morrison estate, the doc is considered by Manzarek to be the 'antidote' to director Oliver Stone's previous bio-pic about the band starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
"Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes", said Depp. "As a rock 'n' roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn't get any better than this".
The film uses material lensed between 1965 up to Morrison's death in 1971, including footage from Morrison and...
Narrated by actor Johnny Depp, the feature is written/directed by Tom Dicillo and produced by Dick Wolf, Rhino's John Beug, band manager Jeff Jampol and Wolf Films' Peter Jankowski.
Made with the support of surviving band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and the Jim Morrison estate, the doc is considered by Manzarek to be the 'antidote' to director Oliver Stone's previous bio-pic about the band starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
"Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes", said Depp. "As a rock 'n' roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn't get any better than this".
The film uses material lensed between 1965 up to Morrison's death in 1971, including footage from Morrison and...
- 4/5/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The new "Doors" documentary When You're Strange, will be released to theatres April 9. Narrated by actor Johnny Depp, the feature is written/directed by Tom Dicillo and produced by Dick Wolf, Rhino's John Beug, Jeff Jampol, (the band's manager) and Wolf Films' Peter Jankowski. Made with the support of surviving band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and the Jim Morrison estate, the doc is considered by Manzarek to be the 'antidote' to director Oliver Stone's previous bio-pic about the band starring Val Kilmer as Morrison. "Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes", said Depp. "As a rock 'n' roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn't get any better than this". The feature incoporates film shot between 1965 up to Morrison's death in 1971, including footage from Morrison...
- 2/24/2010
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
The new "Doors" documentary "When You're Strange", will be released to theatres April 9. Narrated by actor Johnny Depp, the feature is written/directed by Tom Dicillo and produced by Dick Wolf, Rhino's John Beug, Jeff Jampol, (the band's manager) and Wolf Films' Peter Jankowski.
Made with the support of surviving band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and the Jim Morrison estate, the doc is considered by Manzarek to be the 'antidote' to director Oliver Stone's previous bio-pic about the band starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
"Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes", said Depp. "As a rock 'n' roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn't get any better than this".
The film uses footage shot between 1965 up to Morrison's death in 1971, including footage from Morrison...
Made with the support of surviving band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and the Jim Morrison estate, the doc is considered by Manzarek to be the 'antidote' to director Oliver Stone's previous bio-pic about the band starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
"Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes", said Depp. "As a rock 'n' roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn't get any better than this".
The film uses footage shot between 1965 up to Morrison's death in 1971, including footage from Morrison...
- 2/18/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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