"Downton Abbey" frequent helmer Andy Goddard is set to direct the film adaptation of Robert Greenfield's "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" for City Entertainment, KippSter Entertainment and The Gotham Group.
The story is set around the band's 1972 album "Exile On Main Street," a time when they were both at the height of their powers and also spinning out of control as relationship splits, tax issues and more thretened to engulf them.
Through all the madness, the Stones cut one of the most well-regarded rock 'n roll records ever made. Production on this project aims to kick off this winter with casting now underway for both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Source: Deadline...
The story is set around the band's 1972 album "Exile On Main Street," a time when they were both at the height of their powers and also spinning out of control as relationship splits, tax issues and more thretened to engulf them.
Through all the madness, the Stones cut one of the most well-regarded rock 'n roll records ever made. Production on this project aims to kick off this winter with casting now underway for both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Source: Deadline...
- 6/13/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Who will play Mick Jagger and Keith Richards? Andy Goddard, one of the lead directors on the popular and critically acclaimed series Downton Abbey, has been set to direct the feature film Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, based on the book by Robert Greenfield about the legendary rock group’s summer when they recorded the album on which the book is partially named. Greenfield also wrote the biography of Timothy Leary. Brandon…...
- 6/13/2016
- Deadline
A biopic of legendary impresario and rock promoter Bill Graham is set to roll for 20th Century Fox, after the studio acquired his autobiography, Bill Graham: My Life Inside Rock And Out, for adaptation. Shawn Levy will direct and produce the film, while David Graham, Alex Graham, and autobiography co-writer Robert Greenfield will co-produce.
Bill Graham died in 1991, aged 60, when his helicopter crashed in California, on his way back from a Huey Lewis And The News concert. His tragic end came at the culmination of a fascinating life which saw him escape the Holocaust and settle in the U.S, where he earned a degree in business. He began his career as an impresario and promoter in San Francisco by managing the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Eventually, he expanded his portfolio, and was instrumental in the success of artists such as Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
Shawn Levy...
Bill Graham died in 1991, aged 60, when his helicopter crashed in California, on his way back from a Huey Lewis And The News concert. His tragic end came at the culmination of a fascinating life which saw him escape the Holocaust and settle in the U.S, where he earned a degree in business. He began his career as an impresario and promoter in San Francisco by managing the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Eventually, he expanded his portfolio, and was instrumental in the success of artists such as Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
Shawn Levy...
- 2/18/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
20th Century Fox and filmmaker Shawn Levy are set to team on a biopic of legendary music promoter Bill Graham.
Having fled the holocaust as a child, he came to the U.S. where he pioneered the promotion of rock concerts into major events. His venues the Fillmore and Winterland brought the San Francisco music scene to prominence, and in the process helped define an era of rock in the 1960s with break out acts including the Grateful Dead, Santana, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.
He died in a helicopter accident in 1991 at the age of 60. Based on Graham's autobiography "My Life Inside Rock and Out" which he co-wrote with Robert Greenfield, Levy will produce the project.
Source: Deadline...
Having fled the holocaust as a child, he came to the U.S. where he pioneered the promotion of rock concerts into major events. His venues the Fillmore and Winterland brought the San Francisco music scene to prominence, and in the process helped define an era of rock in the 1960s with break out acts including the Grateful Dead, Santana, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.
He died in a helicopter accident in 1991 at the age of 60. Based on Graham's autobiography "My Life Inside Rock and Out" which he co-wrote with Robert Greenfield, Levy will produce the project.
Source: Deadline...
- 2/18/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: 20th Century Fox and director Shawn Levy will turn the life of legendary music promoter Bill Graham into a feature film. The studio has acquired Bill Graham: My Life Inside Rock and Out, the autobiography he wrote with Robert Greenfield. Levy will produce through his 21 Laps banner. David Graham, Alex Graham and Robert Greenfield will be the executive producers. Graham is best known for bringing the San Francisco music scene to prominence with his venues the…...
- 2/17/2016
- Deadline
Another Mark Millar’s comic book franchise is being adapted to the big screen.
Twentieth Century Fox hired Brandon and Phillip Murphy to pen “Superior,” a comic series about a boy with multiple sclerosis who was granted superpowers by an evil monkey alien demon.
The seven issue series was published from 2010 to 2102 through Icon Comics. It was written by Millar and illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu.
It will be the fourth big screen adaptation for Millar following “Wanted,” “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service.”
Tarquin Pack and Matthew Vaughn will be on board to produce “Superior.” Vaughn produced, directed and wrote “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service” movies. He is also writing the sequel to Kingsman.
The Murphy writing team is currently writing scripts for horror movie "Transference" and the adaptation of Robert Greenfield's book "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with Rolling Stones."
Source: Variet...
Twentieth Century Fox hired Brandon and Phillip Murphy to pen “Superior,” a comic series about a boy with multiple sclerosis who was granted superpowers by an evil monkey alien demon.
The seven issue series was published from 2010 to 2102 through Icon Comics. It was written by Millar and illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu.
It will be the fourth big screen adaptation for Millar following “Wanted,” “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service.”
Tarquin Pack and Matthew Vaughn will be on board to produce “Superior.” Vaughn produced, directed and wrote “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service” movies. He is also writing the sequel to Kingsman.
The Murphy writing team is currently writing scripts for horror movie "Transference" and the adaptation of Robert Greenfield's book "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with Rolling Stones."
Source: Variet...
- 1/6/2016
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Richard Branson's Virgin Produced label has acquired the film rights to Robert Greenfield’s 2008 book "Exile on Main Street" about the making of the Rolling Stones' album of the same name reports Deadline.
The plan is to turn it into a drama about the professional and personal relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the band recorded their classic in the south of France in the summer of 1971.
Brandon and Phil Murphy, who are currently penning a Steve McQueen biopic for Sony, are set to write the screenplay.
Branson's Virgin Records released three Stones albums back in the 1990's. Jason Felts, Joshua Maurer and David Stern will produce.
The plan is to turn it into a drama about the professional and personal relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the band recorded their classic in the south of France in the summer of 1971.
Brandon and Phil Murphy, who are currently penning a Steve McQueen biopic for Sony, are set to write the screenplay.
Branson's Virgin Records released three Stones albums back in the 1990's. Jason Felts, Joshua Maurer and David Stern will produce.
- 4/25/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Rebel Billionaire Richard Branson is as well known for his immense wealth as he is for his bold moves, expanding his Virgin business interests from music to megastores to airlines and even space travel. This wily and wild haired entrepreneur is a man who not only has the courage of his convictions, but also the major bankroll to back it up. And his latest brainchild is a movie about The Rolling Stone's problem-plagued recording of heralded album Exile on Main Street. Deadline reports Branson has purchased the rights to Robert Greenfield.s historical account Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones with aims to translate it into a narrative drama. The story takes place in 1971 at Keith Richards' seaside mansion in Southern France where the band recorded the album.which has since been declared one of the greatest rock records ever made. But...
- 4/24/2012
- cinemablend.com
The Rolling Stones are no strangers to film, be it powerful uses of their music in the films of Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Terry Gilliam, or their own presence in, among others, Gimme Shelter and Jean-Luc Godard‘s essay-like Sympathy for the Devil. But, though Mad Men flirted with a direct onscreen portrayal just a few weeks back, the project at hand might be their first onscreen appearance in a (slightly) fictional capacity.
Deadline reports that Richard Branson and his film arm, Virgin Produced, have landed film rights to Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, Robert Greenfield‘s recount of the recording process behind their legendary 1972 album, Exile on Main St. Like that tome, the untitled movie — set to be scripted by Phil and Brandon Murphy — shines a light (get over it) on “the professional and personal relationship between head Stones Mick Jagger...
Deadline reports that Richard Branson and his film arm, Virgin Produced, have landed film rights to Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, Robert Greenfield‘s recount of the recording process behind their legendary 1972 album, Exile on Main St. Like that tome, the untitled movie — set to be scripted by Phil and Brandon Murphy — shines a light (get over it) on “the professional and personal relationship between head Stones Mick Jagger...
- 4/23/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
While the Keith Richards-reported news that Keith Richards is helping to make a movie about Keith Richards has, surprisingly, yet to take more concrete shape, Deadline claims that another slightly fictionalized Rolling Stones film is in the works based on Robert Greenfield's 2008 account Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones. In descending order of the weight they were given in Greenfield's book, the story covers the era when the Stones holed up in the south of France, entertained a gaggle of '60s celebrities and assorted local characters, plowed through epic amounts of ...
- 4/23/2012
- avclub.com
Exile on Main St. is the most revered and emblematic of Rolling Stones albums, recorded mostly in Keith Richards’ basement in the south of France in 1971. The band had fled to France to escape Britain’s tax man, scattered through the country and descended on Richards’ drug-stocked bunker to record “under very chaotic circumstances,” as Richards wrote in his biography. The legendary sessions have been documented before in the heralded Mick Jagger-sanctioned 2010 documentary Stones in Exile, but Richard Branson now has plans to dramatize the album’s genesis as well. As reported by Deadline, Branson’s Virgin Produced will adapt Robert Greenfield’s book,...
- 4/23/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Myth looms large over the recording of The Rolling Stones' ambitious and now-seminal 1972 double album Exile on Main Street and tall tales of being holed up in a basement in France after fleeing Britain thanks to tax issues, with too-easy access to drugs and only some band members bothering to show up to record songs, has all the makings of the kind of human drama that filmmakers dream of.
Virgin Produced, Richard Branson's production company, has just purchased the rights to Robert Greenfield's book "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with The Rolling Stones" with plans to turn the story of the British bad boys putting together what's largely considered their best album, and of one rock's best albums period, into a drama. Full stop.
Virgin Produced, Richard Branson's production company, has just purchased the rights to Robert Greenfield's book "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with The Rolling Stones" with plans to turn the story of the British bad boys putting together what's largely considered their best album, and of one rock's best albums period, into a drama. Full stop.
- 4/23/2012
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
Richard Branson company to produce feature film based on Robert Greenfield's book about chaotic making of classic album
A book detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of The Rolling Stones is set to be turned into a film via Richard Branson's production company Virgin Produced, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Robert Greenfield's Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones examines the troubled genesis of the group's 10th UK album. The critically acclaimed record that includes the hits Rocks Off and Tumbling Dice, was made during recording sessions that were notoriously chaotic. The band, who had left Britain as tax exiles, decamped to the Villa Nellcôte in the south of France to record the double album. Drugs, alcohol and a stream of visiting celebrity friends (including William S Burroughs and Gram Parsons) were constant distractions, while the relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards...
A book detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of The Rolling Stones is set to be turned into a film via Richard Branson's production company Virgin Produced, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Robert Greenfield's Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones examines the troubled genesis of the group's 10th UK album. The critically acclaimed record that includes the hits Rocks Off and Tumbling Dice, was made during recording sessions that were notoriously chaotic. The band, who had left Britain as tax exiles, decamped to the Villa Nellcôte in the south of France to record the double album. Drugs, alcohol and a stream of visiting celebrity friends (including William S Burroughs and Gram Parsons) were constant distractions, while the relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards...
- 4/23/2012
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
The Sarasota Film Festival, wrapping today, has announced this year's round of awards and SarasotaPatch has the full list. We especially want to congratulate Dan Sallitt, whose The Unspeakable Act has won Best Film in the Independent Visions competition. As Dan tells the Ditmas Park Corner, the film centers on a girl who "has her own vision, which is totally at odds with society's vision of what she's supposed to do with her romantic and sexual urges." And, as we noted last month, The Unspeakable Act will screen in June at New York's BAMcinemaFest.
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
- 4/22/2012
- MUBI
The Rolling Stones have had plenty of time on the big screen -- with nearly a dozen documentary and concert films over the past 50-plus years. But soon, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and company will have the opportunity to watch the drama through someone else's eyes.
Richard Branson's Virgin Produced has acquired the rights to Robert Greenfield's 2008 book "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones," Deadline exclusively reported. And in rare form, the film will be a drama about the Stones, not documentary-style.
The film, like Greenfield's book, will focus on the relationship between Jagger and Richards during the recording of their "Exile on Main St" album, both in and out of the studio, in the south of France in the summer of 1971, according to Deadline.
The Stones recently explored the same era in the 2010 documentary film "Stones in Exile." The movie,...
Richard Branson's Virgin Produced has acquired the rights to Robert Greenfield's 2008 book "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones," Deadline exclusively reported. And in rare form, the film will be a drama about the Stones, not documentary-style.
The film, like Greenfield's book, will focus on the relationship between Jagger and Richards during the recording of their "Exile on Main St" album, both in and out of the studio, in the south of France in the summer of 1971, according to Deadline.
The Stones recently explored the same era in the 2010 documentary film "Stones in Exile." The movie,...
- 4/22/2012
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Huffington Post
While the making of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (which many consider to be one of their best, if not greatest album) has been chronicled numerous times both in print and film (most recently in Stephen Kijak's documentary "Stones In Exile"), the entire story of those rocky sessions and the background that led to the album has a feature film scope. Certainly, Richard Branson sees things that way as he's throwing his producing powers behind a narrative movie that will bring the tale of Exile On Main Street to the big screen.
Virgin Produced has snapped up the rights to Robert Greenfield’s "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" with plans to turn it into a drama about the band. As The Rolling Stones headed into the making of the album, they were a group in disarray. They had recently...
Virgin Produced has snapped up the rights to Robert Greenfield’s "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" with plans to turn it into a drama about the band. As The Rolling Stones headed into the making of the album, they were a group in disarray. They had recently...
- 4/22/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
According to Deadline, Virgin Produced, the film arm of the media-and-rocketship tycoon's empire, has acquired the movie rights to Robert Greenfield's 2008 book Exile on Mains Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones. The drama — not a documentary; there's already one of those in the works — will focus on the band's 1971 adventures in the south of France, when they they recorded Exile on Main Street.
- 4/21/2012
- by Andre Tartar
- Vulture
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