Exclusive: Margaret Yen has joined This Machine as Senior Vice President of Music.
At the production company founded by Emmy-winning documentarian R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry), she’ll work alongside senior execs Trevor Smith and Elise Pearlstein, overseeing and growing Cutler’s slate of music-driven projects.
This Machine (an Industrial Media Company) launched in October of last year. In the time since, it has put together a diverse slate of projects, including Big Vape and an Untitled Martha Stewart Documentary for Netflix, and Murf the Surf for Epix.
Yen’s hiring at This Machine comes on the heels of her collaborations with Cutler on a number of documentary films and series, including 30 Days and Sundance Award winner The September Issue, among others.
“We could not be more excited to welcome Margaret to This Machine,” said Cutler. “She’s a brilliant producer and a great executive, and her taste,...
At the production company founded by Emmy-winning documentarian R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry), she’ll work alongside senior execs Trevor Smith and Elise Pearlstein, overseeing and growing Cutler’s slate of music-driven projects.
This Machine (an Industrial Media Company) launched in October of last year. In the time since, it has put together a diverse slate of projects, including Big Vape and an Untitled Martha Stewart Documentary for Netflix, and Murf the Surf for Epix.
Yen’s hiring at This Machine comes on the heels of her collaborations with Cutler on a number of documentary films and series, including 30 Days and Sundance Award winner The September Issue, among others.
“We could not be more excited to welcome Margaret to This Machine,” said Cutler. “She’s a brilliant producer and a great executive, and her taste,...
- 8/10/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Thin Lizzy will pack 74 previous unreleased tracks into a new box set, Rock Legends, set to arrive October 23rd via Umc.
The six-cd/one-dvd collection, which is available to preorder, spans the band’s whole career and comprises a mix of demos, radio sessions, live recordings and rare single edits. The set is based around a collection of newly discovered tapes, and the tracklist was compiled by Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham and band expert Nick Sharp.
The first disc of the Rock Legends set will boast the single edits...
The six-cd/one-dvd collection, which is available to preorder, spans the band’s whole career and comprises a mix of demos, radio sessions, live recordings and rare single edits. The set is based around a collection of newly discovered tapes, and the tracklist was compiled by Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham and band expert Nick Sharp.
The first disc of the Rock Legends set will boast the single edits...
- 8/20/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The next feature-length film from BMG will be the first-ever career-spanning documentary on legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio.
Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential hard rock vocalists of all time, Dio fronted Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Elf, Heaven & Hell and his own eponymous band over the course of a 40-plus year-long career. He died from cancer in 2010 at the age of 67.
The forthcoming film is the first documentary about Dio to be fully authorized by the artist’s estate. BMG is both financier and executive producer of the film, with all rights available worldwide.
The Dio doc is the latest project in BMG’s fast-growing line of music-related films and television projects, including the Sundance Film Festival selections “David Crosby: Remember My Name” — which was nominated for a Grammy — and the Joan Jett documentary, “Bad Reputation.” Other titles include “The Show’s the Thing,” a...
Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential hard rock vocalists of all time, Dio fronted Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Elf, Heaven & Hell and his own eponymous band over the course of a 40-plus year-long career. He died from cancer in 2010 at the age of 67.
The forthcoming film is the first documentary about Dio to be fully authorized by the artist’s estate. BMG is both financier and executive producer of the film, with all rights available worldwide.
The Dio doc is the latest project in BMG’s fast-growing line of music-related films and television projects, including the Sundance Film Festival selections “David Crosby: Remember My Name” — which was nominated for a Grammy — and the Joan Jett documentary, “Bad Reputation.” Other titles include “The Show’s the Thing,” a...
- 2/18/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Eli Horowitz, creator and showrunner of the Julia Roberts-led Amazon series “Homecoming,” will be the president of the Ugc Writers Campus at annual series showcase Series Mania.
The Campus is a week-long writing workshop for emerging TV drama writers from Europe. Twenty screenwriters were chosen from more than 100 applicants. The workshop will be run under the editorial supervision of Series Mania founder Laurence Herszberg. Screenwriter Jeppe Gjervig Gram (“Borgen”) and screenwriter and story editor Nicola Lusuardi (“1994”) are the other tutors.
The selected screenwriters and projects include: Richard Brabin’s “At Sea” (U.K.); Marta Irene Rosato’s “Bad Reputation” (Italy); Judit Anna Banhazi’s “Christabel” (Hungary); Bar Farjun and Shachar Rosenfeld’s “The Instructors” (Israel); Alain Moreau’s “Agnes & Luis” (France); Daniela Luciani and Ilaria Coppolecchia’s “Lamb of God” (Italy); Elena Lyubarskaya and Katerina Gerothanasi’s “Moving On” (Russia and Greece); Thomas Lehout and Juliette Barry’s...
The Campus is a week-long writing workshop for emerging TV drama writers from Europe. Twenty screenwriters were chosen from more than 100 applicants. The workshop will be run under the editorial supervision of Series Mania founder Laurence Herszberg. Screenwriter Jeppe Gjervig Gram (“Borgen”) and screenwriter and story editor Nicola Lusuardi (“1994”) are the other tutors.
The selected screenwriters and projects include: Richard Brabin’s “At Sea” (U.K.); Marta Irene Rosato’s “Bad Reputation” (Italy); Judit Anna Banhazi’s “Christabel” (Hungary); Bar Farjun and Shachar Rosenfeld’s “The Instructors” (Israel); Alain Moreau’s “Agnes & Luis” (France); Daniela Luciani and Ilaria Coppolecchia’s “Lamb of God” (Italy); Elena Lyubarskaya and Katerina Gerothanasi’s “Moving On” (Russia and Greece); Thomas Lehout and Juliette Barry’s...
- 2/17/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Green Day find themselves trapped in a tangled web of screens in the video for their new song, “Oh Yeah!” from their upcoming album, Father of All…, out February 7th via Reprise/Warner Records.
Directed by Malia James, the clip opens with drummer Tré Cool introducing a low-budget YouTube tutorial on how to play “Oh Yeah!” which, it turns out, is being watched by a man in his car who accidentally hits frontman Billie Joe Armstrong while pulling into a grocery store parking lot.
Rather than check in on Armstrong,...
Directed by Malia James, the clip opens with drummer Tré Cool introducing a low-budget YouTube tutorial on how to play “Oh Yeah!” which, it turns out, is being watched by a man in his car who accidentally hits frontman Billie Joe Armstrong while pulling into a grocery store parking lot.
Rather than check in on Armstrong,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Zombies, aliens, mysterious diseases, and natural disasters: these are the elements that most frequently drive the post-apocalyptic narratives dominating our movies, TV shows, and video games. It can seem monotonous, as their similarities begin to blend together, but Jovanka Vuckovic’s feature debut, Riot Girls, succeeds in separating itself from the mould, with a hard rock survival tale that feels like something The CW could produce at their full potential.
Riot Girls is introduced cleverly through a comic strip, walking the audience through the aftermath of a mysterious disease that decimated the fictional mid-’90s town of Potter’s Bluff, with all parents succumbing to the disease. What’s left of the town is split in two: a battleground between the town’s children.
Death to the patriarchy is something we often express a desire for, and when it finally comes, we imagine that an anarchic town would thrive under its freedom,...
Riot Girls is introduced cleverly through a comic strip, walking the audience through the aftermath of a mysterious disease that decimated the fictional mid-’90s town of Potter’s Bluff, with all parents succumbing to the disease. What’s left of the town is split in two: a battleground between the town’s children.
Death to the patriarchy is something we often express a desire for, and when it finally comes, we imagine that an anarchic town would thrive under its freedom,...
- 9/10/2019
- by Sara Clements
- DailyDead
For her seventh season of performing the Sunday Night Football theme song “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” Carrie Underwood brought along some rock star firepower: Joan Jett, on whose 1988 hit “I Hate Myself for Loving You” the Snf theme is based.
Take it away, @carrieunderwood! #PITvsNE pic.twitter.com/RYPOfsCIY6
— Snf on NBC (@SNFonNBC) September 9, 2019
Shot at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons, the clip — tailored for the Snf season opener of the Pittsburgh Steelers at the New England Patriots — captures Underwood and Jett on a brightly lit stage,...
Take it away, @carrieunderwood! #PITvsNE pic.twitter.com/RYPOfsCIY6
— Snf on NBC (@SNFonNBC) September 9, 2019
Shot at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons, the clip — tailored for the Snf season opener of the Pittsburgh Steelers at the New England Patriots — captures Underwood and Jett on a brightly lit stage,...
- 9/9/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Carrie Underwood brought the house down at Nashville's Cma Fest on June 7, and she's about to do it again on TV. During ABC's Sunday airing of the festival's performances, viewers will get to rewatch the 36-year-old singer surprise fans by bringing out special guest Joan Jett of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts for a fiery rock-country set. The two sang some of Jett's best hits, including "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock & Roll," "Crimson and Clover," "I Hate Myself For Loving You," and "Fresh Start."
Back in June, Underwood took to Instagram to share her excitement over working with the rock icon. "Dreams come true at #CMAFest ! This was mine," she wrote. "Just to be in the same room as @joanjett is really cool . . . to share the stage with her is indescribable! She truly is a legend and is probably the coolest person I have ever met. I was so proud...
Back in June, Underwood took to Instagram to share her excitement over working with the rock icon. "Dreams come true at #CMAFest ! This was mine," she wrote. "Just to be in the same room as @joanjett is really cool . . . to share the stage with her is indescribable! She truly is a legend and is probably the coolest person I have ever met. I was so proud...
- 8/4/2019
- by Brea Cubit
- Popsugar.com
Cma Fest has already announced its dates for 2020 — June 4th through 7th, if you’re curious — but country-music fans can relive this past June’s massive festival in Nashville with ABC’s three-hour concert special, hosted by Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini. Premiering, Sunday, August 4th, at 8:00 p.m. Et, Cma Fest compiles performances by Dan + Shay, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, and the ubiquitous Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus and Keith Urban. Here’s highlights we think you just can’t miss.
Carrie Underwood and Joan Jett,...
Carrie Underwood and Joan Jett,...
- 8/3/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
What does the Devil have in common with a pair of physicists? What about a mobster and a glee club or a duck and a ballerina? The answer is they all have the same taste in music.
When it comes to song selection, TV shows tend to think alike. It might be because they want all to feature the latest hits of the year.
19 Scenes Elevated by Song Choice
They may also be trying to create a certain mood during a scene, and some songs are so great at capturing that particular emotion, everybody starts using the same song for the same reason.
Below are just some examples of songs we just can't get out of our heads because we hear them on so many different shows.
1. "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Gossip Girl Only Blair Waldorf could make an upbeat song about home and love...
When it comes to song selection, TV shows tend to think alike. It might be because they want all to feature the latest hits of the year.
19 Scenes Elevated by Song Choice
They may also be trying to create a certain mood during a scene, and some songs are so great at capturing that particular emotion, everybody starts using the same song for the same reason.
Below are just some examples of songs we just can't get out of our heads because we hear them on so many different shows.
1. "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Gossip Girl Only Blair Waldorf could make an upbeat song about home and love...
- 7/15/2019
- by Becca Newton
- TVfanatic
Rock-star cameos at Cma Fest can go either way — in 2013, Lenny Kravitz struggled to win over the crowd — but Friday night’s surprise appearance by Joan Jett was a success. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member appeared at the midpoint of Carrie Underwood’s night-ending set to join the country singer on a medley of Jett classics, including “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” a song whose melody Underwood sang for three seasons as the theme of Sunday Night Football.
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- 6/8/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Tim Bergling’s struggles were laid disturbingly bare in the film Avicii: True Stories – the story of a superstar DJ-cum-pop star whose fame and breakneck touring regimen left him a physical and emotional wreck. His relentless drive, meteoric rise, elfin beauty and substance abuse issues brought to mind Kurt Cobain. And his apparent suicide, following a decision to quit touring in the interest of self-preservation, was similarly crushing to a huge fan community.
The press release suggests Tim was near-complete before Bergling’s death, and his co-producers have taken pains...
The press release suggests Tim was near-complete before Bergling’s death, and his co-producers have taken pains...
- 6/6/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
The track list for DJ/producer Avicii’s posthumous album, Tim, has been unveiled, Billboard reports. The 12-song set includes recently released single “Sos,” which features Aloe Blacc, who also sang on and cowrote the late Tim Bergling’s megahit “Wake Me Up.”
The LP will also feature previous collaborator Chris Martin. Martin worked with Avicii on Coldplay’s “A Sky Full of Stars” from the band’s 2014 album, Ghost Stories. Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds sings on “Heart Upon My Sleeve” and electro-pop group Arizona appears on “Hold the Line.
The LP will also feature previous collaborator Chris Martin. Martin worked with Avicii on Coldplay’s “A Sky Full of Stars” from the band’s 2014 album, Ghost Stories. Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds sings on “Heart Upon My Sleeve” and electro-pop group Arizona appears on “Hold the Line.
- 5/24/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Wrestlemania 35 made history on Sunday night, with Ronda Rousey, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair helming the traditionally all-male show, marking the first all-female lineup in the event’s history.
The nearly seven-hour event at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium made history by featuring Lynch, Rousey and Flair as the headliners of the show. The event culminated with Lynch pinning down Rousey, and while the ending wasn’t exactly well-received (many fans referred to the ending as “botched,” pointing out that Rousey’s shoulder was off the mat and that the...
The nearly seven-hour event at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium made history by featuring Lynch, Rousey and Flair as the headliners of the show. The event culminated with Lynch pinning down Rousey, and while the ending wasn’t exactly well-received (many fans referred to the ending as “botched,” pointing out that Rousey’s shoulder was off the mat and that the...
- 4/8/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The Broadcast Film Critics and the Broadcast Television Journalists associations had a good feeling about “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” on Saturday at their third annual Critics’ Choice documentary honors event. They bestowed the evening’s top prizes, both Best Documentary and Best Director — as well as Best Editing — to Morgan Neville‘s moving portrait of beloved children’s show TV host Fred Rogers.
According to Box Office Mojo, the winner is the highest-grossing doc of the year so far, raking in $23 million.
Among the other winners at the Brooklyn-based event hosted by Bill Nye the Science Guy:
Best Sports Documentary: “Free Solo,” about the first free solo climb of El Capitan at National Yosemite Park.
Best Limited Documentary Series: “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling”
Best Ongoing Documentary Series: “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”
Best Political Documentary: “Rbg,” about Supreme Court Justic Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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According to Box Office Mojo, the winner is the highest-grossing doc of the year so far, raking in $23 million.
Among the other winners at the Brooklyn-based event hosted by Bill Nye the Science Guy:
Best Sports Documentary: “Free Solo,” about the first free solo climb of El Capitan at National Yosemite Park.
Best Limited Documentary Series: “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling”
Best Ongoing Documentary Series: “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”
Best Political Documentary: “Rbg,” about Supreme Court Justic Ruth Bader Ginsberg
SEECheck out the...
- 11/11/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Ever since the Fred Rogers documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” brought audiences to tears at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it has been the frontrunner for the Best Documentary Oscar. Sure enough, the Focus Features release, the highest-grossing biodoc of all time, took home Best Documentary and Director for Morgan Neville as well as Best Editing at the Third Annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards on Saturday, November 10.
Its closest competitor, NatGeo’s vertiginous climbing movie “Free Solo,” also took home three Critics’ Choice documentary awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (Btja). Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, “Free Solo” won Best Sports Documentary, Best Innovative Documentary, and Best Cinematography.
During the awards show hosted by Bill Nye at Bric in Brooklyn, filmmaker Michael Moore gave a rousing political speech as he accepted the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award,...
Its closest competitor, NatGeo’s vertiginous climbing movie “Free Solo,” also took home three Critics’ Choice documentary awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (Btja). Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, “Free Solo” won Best Sports Documentary, Best Innovative Documentary, and Best Cinematography.
During the awards show hosted by Bill Nye at Bric in Brooklyn, filmmaker Michael Moore gave a rousing political speech as he accepted the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award,...
- 11/11/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Ever since the Fred Rogers documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” brought audiences to tears at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it has been the frontrunner for the Best Documentary Oscar. Sure enough, the Focus Features release, the highest-grossing biodoc of all time, took home Best Documentary and Director for Morgan Neville as well as Best Editing at the Third Annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards on Saturday, November 10.
Its closest competitor, NatGeo’s vertiginous climbing movie “Free Solo,” also took home three Critics’ Choice documentary awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (Btja). Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, “Free Solo” won Best Sports Documentary, Best Innovative Documentary, and Best Cinematography.
During the awards show hosted by Bill Nye at Bric in Brooklyn, filmmaker Michael Moore gave a rousing political speech as he accepted the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award,...
Its closest competitor, NatGeo’s vertiginous climbing movie “Free Solo,” also took home three Critics’ Choice documentary awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (Btja). Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, “Free Solo” won Best Sports Documentary, Best Innovative Documentary, and Best Cinematography.
During the awards show hosted by Bill Nye at Bric in Brooklyn, filmmaker Michael Moore gave a rousing political speech as he accepted the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award,...
- 11/11/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” has been named the best documentary of 2018 at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, which were handed out on Saturday evening at Bric in Brooklyn, New York.
The film about “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” star Fred Rogers won in a category whose other nominees were “Crime + Punishment,” “Dark Money,” “Free Solo,” “Hal,” “Hitler’s Hollywood,” “Minding the Gap,” “Rbg,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “Wild Wild Country.”
Michael Moore received a lifetime achievement award from Robert De Niro, who called him “an American hero.” Moore new film, “Fahrenheit 11/9,” was not nominated in the Best Documentary category, instead receiving a mention only in Best Political Documentary, where it lost to “Rbg.”
Also Read: 'Minding the Gap' Leads All Films in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
“Quincy” won the award for best music documentary, while “Free Solo” won for best sports documentary and most innovative documentary.
The film about “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” star Fred Rogers won in a category whose other nominees were “Crime + Punishment,” “Dark Money,” “Free Solo,” “Hal,” “Hitler’s Hollywood,” “Minding the Gap,” “Rbg,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “Wild Wild Country.”
Michael Moore received a lifetime achievement award from Robert De Niro, who called him “an American hero.” Moore new film, “Fahrenheit 11/9,” was not nominated in the Best Documentary category, instead receiving a mention only in Best Political Documentary, where it lost to “Rbg.”
Also Read: 'Minding the Gap' Leads All Films in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
“Quincy” won the award for best music documentary, while “Free Solo” won for best sports documentary and most innovative documentary.
- 11/11/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Joan Jett celebrated the remarkable number of women running for office in 2018 in the new video for her song “Fresh Start.” The track appears on the soundtrack to Jett’s autobiographical documentary, Bad Reputation.
The clip fittingly arrives on Election Day and comprises a clever montage of archival footage combined with shots of volunteers, upstart candidates, seasoned political veterans and other prominent feminists. Accompanying the clips are empowering messages like “Women will not be silenced no matter what party they are in,” “If you’re not at the table you...
The clip fittingly arrives on Election Day and comprises a clever montage of archival footage combined with shots of volunteers, upstart candidates, seasoned political veterans and other prominent feminists. Accompanying the clips are empowering messages like “Women will not be silenced no matter what party they are in,” “If you’re not at the table you...
- 11/7/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The proto-punk icon comes over as generous and self-aware in Kevin Kerslake’s documentary, which ropes in starry friends like Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop
It is an odd but all-too-common phenomenon that cinematic biographies about musical stars often leave the viewer liking the subject less as a person, sometimes in direct proportion to how much he or she liked the subject’s work beforehand. It’s pleasing to report that’s not the case with Bad Reputation, a career-long retrospective devoted to rock star Joan Jett, who comes across here every bit as funny, smart, self-aware and generous as you could hope for. Ageing gracefully now that she’s into her seventh decade, Jett reflects with honesty on her career highs and lows, from her early days as a founder member of proto-punk girl-group the Runaways to the solo-star years of her hits I Love Rock ’n’ Roll and...
It is an odd but all-too-common phenomenon that cinematic biographies about musical stars often leave the viewer liking the subject less as a person, sometimes in direct proportion to how much he or she liked the subject’s work beforehand. It’s pleasing to report that’s not the case with Bad Reputation, a career-long retrospective devoted to rock star Joan Jett, who comes across here every bit as funny, smart, self-aware and generous as you could hope for. Ageing gracefully now that she’s into her seventh decade, Jett reflects with honesty on her career highs and lows, from her early days as a founder member of proto-punk girl-group the Runaways to the solo-star years of her hits I Love Rock ’n’ Roll and...
- 10/25/2018
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Nicknamed the godmother of Punk Rock, Joan Jett shot to fame as a founding member of The Runaways, a rock band made up of Jett, Sandy West, Jackie Fox, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie, a group of precocious and in-your-face teenage girls who were set to take the late 70s rock world by storm. In his new film Bad Reputation, music video director turned documentarian Kevin Kerslake attempts to shine a light on the legend of Jett and the ups and downs she suffered throughout her rocky career, and how she came back from the brink to become one of the most iconic female rock stars of all time.
Discovered at 15, Joan Jett cut an impressive figure amongst the remnants of the deeply uncool hippy era when she and the rest of The Runways broke onto a scene which didn’t know what to do with them. Exploding onto the...
Discovered at 15, Joan Jett cut an impressive figure amongst the remnants of the deeply uncool hippy era when she and the rest of The Runways broke onto a scene which didn’t know what to do with them. Exploding onto the...
- 10/25/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tk Rock Documentaries You Can Stream Right Now
The best rock documentaries, or rock docs, or rockumentaries if you prefer, provide and unvarnished look at an already iconic performer or band. They peel back the layers of their on-stage persona while also offering intimate, magnetic performances that go beyond just the over-produced concert film. It has been a staple for so long that the parody film “This is Spinal Tap” might be the genre’s finest example. The latest in this vein is this weekend’s “Bad Reputation,” about the career of guitarist Joan Jett. So if after seeing that you’re in the mood for other rock documentaries, these are among the best and are all available for streaming now.
Don’t Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker invented the rockumentary with this fly-on-the-wall film. You know the iconic music video of Bob Dylan laconically dropping cue cards as the lyrics...
The best rock documentaries, or rock docs, or rockumentaries if you prefer, provide and unvarnished look at an already iconic performer or band. They peel back the layers of their on-stage persona while also offering intimate, magnetic performances that go beyond just the over-produced concert film. It has been a staple for so long that the parody film “This is Spinal Tap” might be the genre’s finest example. The latest in this vein is this weekend’s “Bad Reputation,” about the career of guitarist Joan Jett. So if after seeing that you’re in the mood for other rock documentaries, these are among the best and are all available for streaming now.
Don’t Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker invented the rockumentary with this fly-on-the-wall film. You know the iconic music video of Bob Dylan laconically dropping cue cards as the lyrics...
- 9/29/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Director, producer, actor and Sundance founder Robert Redford is apparently closing out one area of his impressive resume with the opening of The Old Man & the Gun, which played at the recent Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Also starring Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek, the title by writer-director David Lowery opens in limited release this weekend en route to hundreds of locations next month via Fox Searchlight. Fellow Telluride and Toronto title, Free Solo, from Meru filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, also makes its bow in a busy weekend of new Specialty roll outs with a film that records of feat of human endurance from National Geographic Documentary Film and Greenwich Entertainment.
The Orchard is opening All About Nina, the feature directorial debut of Raising Victor Vargas writer, Eva Vives in New York and L.A. ahead of an expansion to hundreds of theaters. Neon is launching...
The Orchard is opening All About Nina, the feature directorial debut of Raising Victor Vargas writer, Eva Vives in New York and L.A. ahead of an expansion to hundreds of theaters. Neon is launching...
- 9/28/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Over the course of 90 minutes, the new documentary Bad Reputation chronicles Joan Jett’s roller-coaster life: The high of the Runaways, followed by a messy breakup. D.I.Y. success matched with a major label looking to crush her. Waning popularity paired with a Warped Tour reinvention. Through it all, she’s kept her game face and pushed forward, and in the film, a diverse group of talking heads, including Debbie Harry, Miley Cyrus, Michael J. Fox and Kristen Stewart, praise her contributions to rock & roll. The doc shows how...
- 9/27/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
"Bad Reputation", is the new documentary directed by Kevin Kerslake, about rock singer 'Joan Jett', starring Billie Joe Armstrong, Rodney Bingenheimer and Carianne Brinkman, opening September 28, 2018:
Joan Marie Larkin, aka 'Joan Jett', is noted for her work in the band "Joan Jett & the Blackhearts" and "The Runaways", recording and releasing the song "Cherry Bomb". The Blackhearts' version of the song "I Love Rock 'n Roll" was number-one on the 'Billboard Hot 100' for seven weeks in 1982.
Jett's other hit songs include "Bad Reputation", "Crimson and Clover", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)", "Light of Day", "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and "Dirty Deeds".
Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, with three albums certified Platinum, described as the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' and 'Godmother of Punk'.
In 2015, "Joan Jett & the Blackhearts" were inducted into the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'.'
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Joan Marie Larkin, aka 'Joan Jett', is noted for her work in the band "Joan Jett & the Blackhearts" and "The Runaways", recording and releasing the song "Cherry Bomb". The Blackhearts' version of the song "I Love Rock 'n Roll" was number-one on the 'Billboard Hot 100' for seven weeks in 1982.
Jett's other hit songs include "Bad Reputation", "Crimson and Clover", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)", "Light of Day", "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and "Dirty Deeds".
Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, with three albums certified Platinum, described as the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' and 'Godmother of Punk'.
In 2015, "Joan Jett & the Blackhearts" were inducted into the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'.'
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- 9/26/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
By Glenn Dunks
Biographical documentaries about dead musicians often fall into two camps: the reverential and the tragic. Films that focus too much on the latter like Amy or Whitney pale in comparison to something like Liz Garbus’ What Happened Miss Simone?, a film that knew that to understand your subject's tragedy you first have to understand the many facets of the artist in question.
This week, however, we get two biographical documentaries about important and influential musicians who are still (thankfully) very much with us, but which nonetheless tell their subjects’ stories in wildly different ways. Bad Reputation is clearly the more traditional of the pair, a fairly standard bio-doc that charts the life and career of Joan Jett, while Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is more a work of artistic Jenga that roams and rummages through its subject’s life with the anarchistic spirit of her music.
What strikes me...
Biographical documentaries about dead musicians often fall into two camps: the reverential and the tragic. Films that focus too much on the latter like Amy or Whitney pale in comparison to something like Liz Garbus’ What Happened Miss Simone?, a film that knew that to understand your subject's tragedy you first have to understand the many facets of the artist in question.
This week, however, we get two biographical documentaries about important and influential musicians who are still (thankfully) very much with us, but which nonetheless tell their subjects’ stories in wildly different ways. Bad Reputation is clearly the more traditional of the pair, a fairly standard bio-doc that charts the life and career of Joan Jett, while Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is more a work of artistic Jenga that roams and rummages through its subject’s life with the anarchistic spirit of her music.
What strikes me...
- 9/25/2018
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Bad Reputation, the new documentary chronicling the wild life of Joan Jett, hits theaters nationwide September 28th.
Best known for timeless hits like “I Love Rock’N’Roll,” Joan Jett is one of the greatest guitarists to have walked the earth — and she is no stranger to the silver screen. She landed her first movie role opposite Michael J. Fox in the 1987 musical drama, Light of Day, and went on to play herself in many others. In 2010 her former band of teenage drama queens, The Runaways, got the Hollywood treatment...
Best known for timeless hits like “I Love Rock’N’Roll,” Joan Jett is one of the greatest guitarists to have walked the earth — and she is no stranger to the silver screen. She landed her first movie role opposite Michael J. Fox in the 1987 musical drama, Light of Day, and went on to play herself in many others. In 2010 her former band of teenage drama queens, The Runaways, got the Hollywood treatment...
- 9/13/2018
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Joan Jett plays a classic hard-rocking riff on “Fresh Start,” a song from the soundtrack to her upcoming autobiographical documentary Bad Reputation, as she sings about wanting to start over anew.
“So you say you’re not satisfied and you want a bigger piece of pie,” she sings, “take my advice don’t hesitate, before you know it, it will be too late.” The soundtrack – which features hits from throughout Jett’s career including her time in the Runaways and music she recorded with Bikini Kill, Miley Cyrus and Laura Jane Grace...
“So you say you’re not satisfied and you want a bigger piece of pie,” she sings, “take my advice don’t hesitate, before you know it, it will be too late.” The soundtrack – which features hits from throughout Jett’s career including her time in the Runaways and music she recorded with Bikini Kill, Miley Cyrus and Laura Jane Grace...
- 9/11/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Ronda Rousey destroyed Two chicks at the same time Monday night -- punishing WWE Raw champ Alexa Bliss and then making Alicia Fox tap out!! It all went down in Jacksonville, Florida -- where Ronda wrestled her first ever match on Monday Night Raw. She came out to her theme song, "Bad Reputation," by Joan Jett and the crowd went nuts. Bliss and Fox were inside the ring -- talking A Lot of trash after...
- 8/7/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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- 7/28/2018
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Calling all rock’n’roll and documentary fans because you’ll definitely want to give a damn about this one: the upcoming Joan Jett documentary “Bad Reputation.” The film dives headfirst into showing how Jett broke barriers in the 70’s and still today makes waves with her music.
Sitting in the director’s chair for this is the acclaimed music video and concert film director Kevin Kerslake. Kerslake’s previous work includes Nirvana’s “Live!
Continue reading ‘Bad Reputation’ Trailer: Documentary Explores How Iconic Rocker Joan Jett Broke Barriers at The Playlist.
Sitting in the director’s chair for this is the acclaimed music video and concert film director Kevin Kerslake. Kerslake’s previous work includes Nirvana’s “Live!
Continue reading ‘Bad Reputation’ Trailer: Documentary Explores How Iconic Rocker Joan Jett Broke Barriers at The Playlist.
- 7/25/2018
- by Erica Bahrenburg
- The Playlist
"I'm lucky I'm still here... We had to fight on!" Magnolia Pictures has debuted the first official trailer for a documentary titled Bad Reputation, a profile of rock star Joan Jett of The Runaways (and much more). This first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and also played at other festivals including Montclair, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne, and a few others this year. Made by an extreme sports junkie and music video director who has moved into feature documentaries, the film is a bit more than just a look back at Joan Jett's life. The film "gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene, and their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage." Hell yes. This looks badass, no doubt, and I'm curious to see how much Jett dishes on everything and everyone in the punk scene back then.
- 7/24/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As much as we may love Kristen Stewart’s brooding take on Joan Jett from 2010’s eponymous The Runaways biopic, nothing compares to the real deal. The authorized documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and charts Jett’s rise to rock ‘n roll royalty, including the rampant sexism she and her band experienced. In addition to interviews with Jett and her frequent producer and songwriter Kenny Laguna, “Bad Reputation” also features an eclectic mix of her admirers, such as Billie Joe Armstrong, Miley Cyrus, Debbie Harry, Nikki Haley, Iggy Pop, Kristen Stewart, and Pete Townshend.
Directed by Kevin Kerslake (“As I Am: The Life and Times of DJ Am”) and written by Joel Marcus, the film promises a wealth of archival footage and a wild jaunt through the blossoming ’70s punk scene. As Magnolia’s official synopsis reads: “The theme is clear: even though people tried...
Directed by Kevin Kerslake (“As I Am: The Life and Times of DJ Am”) and written by Joel Marcus, the film promises a wealth of archival footage and a wild jaunt through the blossoming ’70s punk scene. As Magnolia’s official synopsis reads: “The theme is clear: even though people tried...
- 7/24/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Joan Jett’s hard-won path to fame is the focus of new documentary, Bad Reputation. The film hits theaters, on demand services, iTunes and Amazon September 28th.
The clip opens with Jett remembering her first guitar – a Christmas present she requested at age 13 – and the surprise she felt when she was judged for wanting to learn to play. “I went and took a lesson and the guy said, ‘Girls don’t play rock and roll.’ And I said, ‘Bull.'”
Jett goes on to discuss the challenge of breaking down rock’s dug-in boys’ club,...
The clip opens with Jett remembering her first guitar – a Christmas present she requested at age 13 – and the surprise she felt when she was judged for wanting to learn to play. “I went and took a lesson and the guy said, ‘Girls don’t play rock and roll.’ And I said, ‘Bull.'”
Jett goes on to discuss the challenge of breaking down rock’s dug-in boys’ club,...
- 7/24/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
BMG has partnered with executive producers Daryl Hall and Jonathan Wolfson to secure worldwide rights for Hall’s Webby Award-winning TV series, “Live from Daryl’s House” and will begin producing new segments beginning this fall, the company announced today. The agreement includes worldwide rights to the complete run of 82 episodes filmed from 2007-2016, and the company is seeking distribution partners for the new episodes. Good Cop Bad Cop Productions’ Hall and Wolfson as well as BMG’s Joe Thomas and Bob Frank in executive producer roles, while Sound Off Productions’ Domenic Cotter will remain as producer.
Hall said, “I’m really excited to work with BMG, who are enthusiastic about taking this show to the next level with me. Fans have been asking me when we are returning, so I am pleased to say that we are headed into production in the fall.”
BMG administers most of the biggest...
Hall said, “I’m really excited to work with BMG, who are enthusiastic about taking this show to the next level with me. Fans have been asking me when we are returning, so I am pleased to say that we are headed into production in the fall.”
BMG administers most of the biggest...
- 7/16/2018
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
Taylor Swift has just started her European leg of her Reputation World Tour. To no surprised it’s been filled with empowering women pop bangers and over-the-top theatrics. So it goes without saying that Swift’s tour look matched up with her “Bad Reputation” persona. At her concert at the Manchester Etihad Stadium, the pop star is seen wearing a […]
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- 6/15/2018
- by Tatyana Samonte Escano
- Uinterview
The 7th annual edition of the Oak Cliff Film Festival has announced its lineup and the programming for this event continues to be some of the most adventurous and interesting of any film fests in the Southwest. Hosted at the historic Texas Theatre in the Oak Cliff neighborhood in south Dallas, Ocff strives to not only bring some of the biggest festival hits to the Dfw area, but also programs plenty of amazing and unique cinema experiences to enhance the magic for filmgoers and 2018 is no exception. Opening with Joan Jett documentary, Bad Reputation, Ocff has some of the most punk rock programming in the country and follows that through with repertory screenings like Penelope Spheeris' legendary punk western, Dudes. Also on the docket...
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- 5/15/2018
- Screen Anarchy
On episode 21 of Grey's Anatomy, titled "Bad Reputation," Jackson and Catherine dealt with the fallout after the news of Harper Avery's sexual misconduct became public. While Jackson came up with a solution that involved dissolving the foundation and rebuilding it under Catherine's name, a few of the other doctors faced challenges of their own. Alex learned his mentally-ill mother stopped cashing the checks he sends her, leading him to believe she might be dead or worse. Owen met his foster son Leo's mother, Betty, a teenage drug addict with whom Amelia immediately bonded. So, reformed bad boy Alex is about to reunite with his mother, which will undoubtedly reopen a lot of childhood wounds that haven't entirely healed, and Amelia, who has huge commitment issues, decided to take in Betty and live under the same roof as Owen and Leo. Both of these situations are potential powder kegs that could...
- 4/27/2018
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Pills don’t come much bitterer than the cure prescribed for what ailed Grey Sloan in Thursday’s Grey’s Anatomy — in other words, the Harper Avery scandal. And, as the hospital’s powers that be grappled with ways to keep it off the critical list, Alex suffered a (metaphorical) heart attack when former fling Nurse Olivia returned — with her son! — and Arizona was diagnosed with heartache over Sofia’s struggles at school. How’d it all shake out? Was anything resolved by the end of “Bad Reputation”? Read on and find out.
‘We Are In A Category 5 Storm Here’ | As the episode began,...
‘We Are In A Category 5 Storm Here’ | As the episode began,...
- 4/27/2018
- TVLine.com
With last week’s bombshell news that the revered Harper Avery has several accusations of sexual harassment against him, the latest episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” will be all about trying to right an old wrong.
Star Kevin McKidd, who also directed the episode, titled “Bad Reputation,” said that Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) in particular has a lot to grapple with.
“It’s his grandfather who has been accused, so it brings up … many, many intense feelings for him because it’s his own grandfather who he loves,” McKidd, who plays Dr. Owen Hunt, told TheWrap ahead of Thursday’s show. “But he’s passed away, and all of this posthumously has come out about the way he conducted his life.”
Also Read: 'Grey's Anatomy' Renewed for Season 15 at ABC
If you need a quick refresher on last week’s episode: the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial discovered that Harper Avery routinely sexually harassed women he worked with, and Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) helped to pay the women in exchange for silence. At its close, the story is all over the news and the doctors are left struggling with how to deal with the scandal, and how to atone for Harper Avery’s sins.
McKidd explained that because Jackson is in charge of the Harper Avery estate, the responsibility of dealing with the scandal is upon his shoulders.
“He has a responsibility to try to right the wrongs of his grandfather,” McKidd said. “And he doesn’t quite know how to cope and how to strategize and how to do the right thing. And — what is the right thing?”
Also Read: 'Grey's Anatomy': Geena Davis Will Reprise Her Role As Dr Nicole Herman
“This is a huge hospital and a network of other hospitals, and this behavior was going on for many, many years, and was left unchecked,” McKidd continued. “And how do you clean up that mess correctly to honor everybody involved, all the victims? And I think the episode that airs this week really deals with that, in a really profound way I think … So I’m proud of it, I’m proud to have directed it.”
If the story of a man in power preying on women he works with for years sounds familiar, it’s because the writers deliberately chose to pull ideas “from the headlines,” McKidd said.
“It’s really cool to see the writers not just keeping it in the soap opera world of our show, but actually going, you know what, we’re going to tell the story and see our characters try to navigate these very difficult times in our hospital,” McKidd said.
Watch the clip above.
“Grey’s Anatomy” airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.
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Star Kevin McKidd, who also directed the episode, titled “Bad Reputation,” said that Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) in particular has a lot to grapple with.
“It’s his grandfather who has been accused, so it brings up … many, many intense feelings for him because it’s his own grandfather who he loves,” McKidd, who plays Dr. Owen Hunt, told TheWrap ahead of Thursday’s show. “But he’s passed away, and all of this posthumously has come out about the way he conducted his life.”
Also Read: 'Grey's Anatomy' Renewed for Season 15 at ABC
If you need a quick refresher on last week’s episode: the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial discovered that Harper Avery routinely sexually harassed women he worked with, and Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) helped to pay the women in exchange for silence. At its close, the story is all over the news and the doctors are left struggling with how to deal with the scandal, and how to atone for Harper Avery’s sins.
McKidd explained that because Jackson is in charge of the Harper Avery estate, the responsibility of dealing with the scandal is upon his shoulders.
“He has a responsibility to try to right the wrongs of his grandfather,” McKidd said. “And he doesn’t quite know how to cope and how to strategize and how to do the right thing. And — what is the right thing?”
Also Read: 'Grey's Anatomy': Geena Davis Will Reprise Her Role As Dr Nicole Herman
“This is a huge hospital and a network of other hospitals, and this behavior was going on for many, many years, and was left unchecked,” McKidd continued. “And how do you clean up that mess correctly to honor everybody involved, all the victims? And I think the episode that airs this week really deals with that, in a really profound way I think … So I’m proud of it, I’m proud to have directed it.”
If the story of a man in power preying on women he works with for years sounds familiar, it’s because the writers deliberately chose to pull ideas “from the headlines,” McKidd said.
“It’s really cool to see the writers not just keeping it in the soap opera world of our show, but actually going, you know what, we’re going to tell the story and see our characters try to navigate these very difficult times in our hospital,” McKidd said.
Watch the clip above.
“Grey’s Anatomy” airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Read original story ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Kevin McKidd on How the Doctors Try to ‘Clean Up’ Harper Avery’s Mess At TheWrap...
- 4/26/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
On this episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Bad Reputation," Jackson and Catherine Avery attempt to salvage the legacy and mission of The Harper Avery Foundation in the wake of the sexual harassment scandal, the return of Nurse Olivia stirs up trouble for Alex and Jo, Owen experiences an unexpected complication as he fosters baby Leo and Arizona considers how to best help Sofia, who is miserable at school. Meanwhile, as the hospital staff is flooded by unwanted media attention, the truth comes out about Jackson being the anonymous donor who funded the Grey Sloan Surgical Innovation Contest.
- 4/26/2018
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Hey,"Grey's Anatomy" fans. We've got some new casting news for you guys in this latest article. It turns out that the producers wanted to reach and grab one of the females that appeared on the show way, way back in the real early days. According to a new report from the folks over TV Guide.com news team, the show has decided to bring back character Nurse Olivia Harper for a new storyline. She's played by actress Sarah Utterback. Olivia Harper's Wikia page says she was a nurse at Seattle Grace until she was fired prior to the merger with Mercy West Medical Center. She was on the show for its first six seasons. During her time on the show, Oliva got into a number of serious situations.According to her Wikia page, she entered the show by way of an intern mixer where she eventually met Alex. Then they left together.
- 4/8/2018
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Cameron Crowe and his Vinyl Films banner will produce a documentary about the life and career of musician David Crosby.
The as-yet untitled project comes from first-time feature doc director A.J. Eaton, who has been following Crosby for the past few years.
BMG, the company behind the Joan Jett doc Bad Reputation, is both financing and executive producing the film.
Michele Farinola of Pch Films and Greg Mariotti of Vinyl Films will also produce. Justus Haerder and Kathy Rivkin-Daum of BMG will executive produce, along with Jill Mazursky, Norm Waitt and James Keach for Pch Films.
"It’s just such a compelling story," said...
The as-yet untitled project comes from first-time feature doc director A.J. Eaton, who has been following Crosby for the past few years.
BMG, the company behind the Joan Jett doc Bad Reputation, is both financing and executive producing the film.
Michele Farinola of Pch Films and Greg Mariotti of Vinyl Films will also produce. Justus Haerder and Kathy Rivkin-Daum of BMG will executive produce, along with Jill Mazursky, Norm Waitt and James Keach for Pch Films.
"It’s just such a compelling story," said...
- 4/3/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BMG announced today that Oscar-winning filmmaker Cameron Crowe, best known for rock-themed films such as “Singles” and “Almost Famous,” has signed a deal with the company to produce a documentary on the life of rock icon David Crosby. It is the first documentary about the veteran rocker — a founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — to be fully authorized by the artist. BMG is both financier and executive producer of the film, with all rights available worldwide.
The still-untitled film is helmed by first time feature-doc director A.J. Eaton (pictured above with Crosby, center, and Crowe, right), who has been following the singer for several years. In addition to producing the documentary, Crowe has conducted multiple interviews with Crosby. Crowe previously wrote and directed the musical documentaries “Pearl Jam Twenty (PJ20)” and “The Union,” on the 2011 collaboration between Elton John and Leon Russell.
“It’s just such a compelling story.
The still-untitled film is helmed by first time feature-doc director A.J. Eaton (pictured above with Crosby, center, and Crowe, right), who has been following the singer for several years. In addition to producing the documentary, Crowe has conducted multiple interviews with Crosby. Crowe previously wrote and directed the musical documentaries “Pearl Jam Twenty (PJ20)” and “The Union,” on the 2011 collaboration between Elton John and Leon Russell.
“It’s just such a compelling story.
- 4/3/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Ronda Rousey is about to enter the ring as a WWE superstar. According to ESPN, the former Ufc women's bantamweight champion has agreed to terms with WWE to work as one of the company's full-time professional wrestlers. Rousey surprised wrestling fans on Sunday by attending WWE's Royal Rumble in Philadelphia. According to ESPN, Women's Royal Rumble Match winner Asuka, SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair and Raw Women's Champion Alexa Bliss were all standing in the ring when Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" started blasting from the speakers and Rousey's name flashed across the screen. WWE reports Rousey then entered the ring and pointed upward to the Wrestlemania sign...
- 1/29/2018
- E! Online
What makes a documentary suited to a theatrical release—and all the expense and effort associated with it? And when are they more appropriate for smaller screens? After several straight months of disappointing box-office sales for most nonfiction films, including several hits from last year’s Sundance, this question would seem to be a pressing one out of this year’s film festival. But the answer—as evidenced by the few distribution deals that closed before and during Sundance, those that are still pending, and those that should be—isn’t so easy to nail down, though some combination of topicality, celebrity or artistry certainly comes into play.
Before Sundance kicked off, Oscar-winner Morgan Neville’s Mister Rogers film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” was one of the few documentaries to already have a major theatrical distributor (Focus Features) behind it—and its rapturous Park City unveiling appeared to justify it.
Before Sundance kicked off, Oscar-winner Morgan Neville’s Mister Rogers film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” was one of the few documentaries to already have a major theatrical distributor (Focus Features) behind it—and its rapturous Park City unveiling appeared to justify it.
- 1/28/2018
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
It's that vocals that always gets you first – the snarl that comes through Joan Jett's singing, sandpaper-rough around the edges and 100-percent fuck-you attitude. Yes, she's a first-class rhythm guitarist (listen the opening of the Runaways' "You Drive Me Wild" and tell us that's not gloriously, gut-punchingly rifftastic). But that voice ... that's what rock & roll sounds like. Seductive. Jagged. Rebellious. Like her vocal cords are going to jump out of her throat and kick your ass.
Bad Reputation, Kevin Kerslake's doc on Joan of Rock that premiered Monday at Sundance,...
Bad Reputation, Kevin Kerslake's doc on Joan of Rock that premiered Monday at Sundance,...
- 1/23/2018
- Rollingstone.com
IndieWire is proud to announce the inaugural IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, on Park City’s Main Street. With daily video interviews at its exclusive studio, it will serve as a destination for scores of actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, composers and documentary subjects.
From from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, January 19 through Monday, January 22, IndieWire will sit down with approximately 100 entertainment luminaries at 625 Main Street. Among those scheduled are Aubrey Plaza (“An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn”),Chloë Grace Moretz (“The Miseducation Of Cameron Post”), Chloë Sevigny (“Lizzie”), Chris O’Dowd and Rose Byrne (“Juliet, Naked”), Daveed Diggs (“Blindspotting”), Elle Fanning, Peter Dinklage, and Reed Morano (“I Think We’re Alone Now”), Ethan Hawke (“Blaze” and “Juliet, Naked”), Idris Elba (“Yardie”), Gus Van Sant (“Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”), Maggie Gyllenhaal (“The Kindergarten Teacher”), Joan Jett (“Bad Reputation”), Keira Knightley (“Colette...
From from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, January 19 through Monday, January 22, IndieWire will sit down with approximately 100 entertainment luminaries at 625 Main Street. Among those scheduled are Aubrey Plaza (“An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn”),Chloë Grace Moretz (“The Miseducation Of Cameron Post”), Chloë Sevigny (“Lizzie”), Chris O’Dowd and Rose Byrne (“Juliet, Naked”), Daveed Diggs (“Blindspotting”), Elle Fanning, Peter Dinklage, and Reed Morano (“I Think We’re Alone Now”), Ethan Hawke (“Blaze” and “Juliet, Naked”), Idris Elba (“Yardie”), Gus Van Sant (“Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”), Maggie Gyllenhaal (“The Kindergarten Teacher”), Joan Jett (“Bad Reputation”), Keira Knightley (“Colette...
- 1/17/2018
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
The 2018 Sundance Film Festival has announced their selected feature films. Among the 110 independent films from around the globe, the festival will also premiere documentaries on Joan Jett, Robin Williams and Studio 54.
Directed by Kevin Kerslake and written by Joel Marcus, Bad Reputation focuses on the life of Joan Jett. It's described as chronicling "her early years as the founder of The Runaways and first meeting collaborator Kenny Laguna in 1980 to her enduring presence in pop culture as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer."
Director Marina Zenovich culls never-before-seen footage and...
Directed by Kevin Kerslake and written by Joel Marcus, Bad Reputation focuses on the life of Joan Jett. It's described as chronicling "her early years as the founder of The Runaways and first meeting collaborator Kenny Laguna in 1980 to her enduring presence in pop culture as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer."
Director Marina Zenovich culls never-before-seen footage and...
- 11/30/2017
- Rollingstone.com
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