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Bob Odenkirk’s modestly budgeted sequel Nobody 2 is having to settle for a third-place finish in its domestic box office debut as Zach Cregger’s Weapons continues to fire on all cylinders and stay atop the chart in its sophomore outing, followed by Disney’s family comedy Freakier Friday.

Nobody 2, about a seemingly average suburban dad who leads a double life as a stealth operative, is on course to open on the lower end of expectations with $9.3 million from 3,260 locations after receiving a B+ CinemaScore from audiences (its audience ranking on Rotten Tomatoes is more promising at 89 percent). Its early global total is $14.2 million.

The first Nobody opened amid the pandemic to $6.8 million on its way to grossing a pleasing $68 million domestically. The sequel cost a reported $25 million to make before marketing, so no one at Universal is losing sleep, since it is sure to make up ground...

It is a packed mid August frame with a mix of shiny new entries, special events, and a couple of lovable throwbacks. You have a giant lizard stomping back into the multiplex, a live riff comedy night, prestige drama, animated romance, and a gnarly slate of thrillers and horror. There is truly something for every vibe.

Below you will find everything opening on August 14, August 15, and August 17, 2025, including who is in it, how long it runs, and whether it is a wide rollout or a limited peek. Pick your lane, grab a seat, and enjoy the cool air conditioning while the stories do their thing.

‘Shin Godzilla’ (2016) Toho Pictures

The modern Japanese reboot lumbers back to the big screen as a widescreen rerelease on August 14, 2025. Starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, and Ren Ôsugi, this action drama horror sci fi blend arrives from Gkids in a wide rollout.

At two hours,...

Mid August brings a lively mix of brand new stories, special events, and a couple of beloved returns to the big screen. You can chase monster mayhem, drift into music history, or lean into heartfelt drama and sharp laughs without leaving the cool of the auditorium.

Here is the full slate landing on August 14, August 15, and August 17, 2025, with cast highlights, runtimes, and how wide each one goes. Scan the lineup, circle a favorite, and make your plan before the good seats vanish.

‘Shin Godzilla’ (2016) Toho Pictures

The towering kaiju roars back into theaters as a wide rerelease on August 14, 2025 from Gkids. Starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, and Ren Ôsugi, this action drama horror sci fi entry plays like a fresh shock on a huge screen.

At two hours, it shifts from dry humor to city shaking spectacle with a clean sense of scale. If you want a crowd pleaser with brains and brawn,...

Following Dead & Company’s epic weekend at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Mickey Hart shared a poignant reflection of the 60th anniversary shows.

“This weekend was 3 days of coming home and in those final moments of the weekend, it was truly profound,” he wrote on Instagram. “I saw 60,000 people sparking light, in love, entrained big time and coming our way. Different than applause after a song, it sounded more like an ahhhhhh. All the peace and love in proximity generated a collective energy that was shared by all. Very rare stuff indeed.

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After wrapping up their Las Vegas residency at the Sphere earlier this year, Dead & Company are gearing up for their next gig to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead with three concerts this August in San Francisco.

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In 1975, the Grateful Dead found themselves at Bob Weir’s home studio in Mill Valley, California, recording a new album. This time, though, was a bit different than their previous sessions: they recorded almost entirely without any pre-written material. “The whole idea was to get back to that band thing, where the band makes the main contribution to the evolution of the material,” Jerry Garcia said.

The result was the experimental Blues for Allah — an album that’s jazzy, otherworldly, and at times straight swamp-rock — that arrived after a rare hiatus from the road.

The Grateful Dead are celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, from the massive 60-cd box set Enjoying the Ride to a book of rare Jim Marshall photographs. Now, the long, strange trip continues with two separate screenings on IMAX.

Dead & Company — the offshoot that celebrated its 10th anniversary this year with another residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas — will livestream the last of their three shows in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. That live IMAX event takes place on Aug. 3, and features an opening set by the Trey Anastasio Band.

The Grateful Dead’s 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie is heading to theaters and IMAX in celebration of the group’s 60th anniversary this summer.

The newly-remastered film will first make its IMAX debut in 60 theaters across North American as an exclusive preview on August 13th, followed by a wide release on August 14th. The theatrical event is part of the Grateful Dead’s long-running “Meet-Up At the Movies” series, which they’ve been doing annually since the first event in 2011 (in which they also re-released The Grateful Dead Movie in theaters).

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The August event marks the first time The Grateful Dead Movie will be screened in IMAX, with the film remastered to create an immersive, visually engaging concert film experience. Directed by bandleader Jerry Garcia, the film tracks the band’s five-night run at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in 1974, shining a light...

The Grateful Dead’s 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie is heading to theaters and IMAX in celebration of the group’s 60th anniversary this summer.

The newly-remastered film will first make its IMAX debut in 60 theaters across North American as an exclusive preview on August 13th, followed by a wide release on August 14th. The theatrical event is part of the Grateful Dead’s long-running “Meet-Up At the Movies” series, which they’ve been doing annually since the first event in 2011 (in which they also re-released The Grateful Dead Movie in theaters).

Get Dead & Company Tickets Here

The August event marks the first time The Grateful Dead Movie will be screened in IMAX, with the film remastered to create an immersive, visually engaging concert film experience. Directed by bandleader Jerry Garcia, the film tracks the band’s five-night run at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in 1974, shining a light...

Trafalgar Releasing, a specialist in global event cinema, expanded its leadership with key promotions and a new hire after setting records over the past year. Its slate, from acclaimed restoration Pink Floyd at Pompeii – McMlxxii to Suga│Agust D Tour ‘D-day’ The Movie, hit 57 event films, the most ever for the company founded in 2009.

Trafalgar runs on an April fiscal year.

Internally, Kymberli Frueh has been elevated to EVP of Content Acquisitions and Programming, where she will continue to strengthen relationships with top-tier artists, producers and rights holders across acquisitions including music, film, faith and more.

Jamie Woglom has been appointed SVP, Marketing & Strategic Partnerships, expanding her remit to focus on ancillary revenue generation, including consumer merchandise programs, branded concessions, sponsorship, and strategic brand partnerships.

James Merchant now serves as SVP, Marketing & Client Relations, overseeing the company’s global corporate marketing strategy and managing key client relationships worldwide.

Gemma Spector,...

Sturgill Simpson paid tribute to the Grateful Dead for the band’s Kennedy Center Honors, playing a twangy country cover of the band’s classic “Ripple.”

Simpson performed the song in front of Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, the Dead’s three surviving members. He was joined onstage by Don Was as well as the late Phil Lesh’s grandson Grahame to interpret the track off 1970’s American Beauty.

Simpson’s grown more acquainted with the Dead’s music in recent years, particularly as he joined some of...

The holidays are coming, and if the weather outside is not to your liking, maybe binging on some excellent music documentaries could save the day

Focusing on Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella performance as one of her key live performances up to that moment, the film focuses on everything that was involved for her as an artist to reach such a peak, and the quality of the insights might also lie in the fact that Beyoncé also produced and directed this documentary herself.

Keith Richards: Under the Influence (2015)

Taking a look at the musical legend and an intriguing character that is Rolling Stone’s Keith Richards was an intriguing prospect that could have gone awry at any point, but the film’s director, Morgan Neville, was able to escape all the possible traps and come up with a film that is so easy to watch.

Miss Americana (2020)

The devoted fans of Taylor Swift...

Updated: At Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro each appeared on stage to give special tributes to Francis Ford Coppola, while Al Pacino called him a trailblazer willing to break the first rule of Hollywood: Never put your own money in your movie projects.

Julia Louis Dreyfus said that when honoree Bonnie Raitt “sings and plays, you know instantly that it’s Bonnie Raitt. It’s just all red hair and no bulls—.”

After testimonials for honoree The Grateful Dead from figures like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, David Letterman popped out of a prop Deadhead’s Vw van and declared, “I’m so f—ed up.”

Then, Letterman threw in a quip about the trepidation of what’s ahead for the annual event, D.C. preeminent gathering of Beltway, showbiz and media elite.

“I was talking to people backstage, and they are...

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features drummer David Kemper.

In April 1998, Bob Dylan and his band headed down to South America to open up for the Rolling Stones at soccer stadiums.

Wall Street hasn’t been kind to Hollywood entertainment giants this year — but that may be about to change.

Disney, once thought of as a stock-market pace car setting the tempo for the rest of the industry, has been one of the Dow Jones industrial average’s biggest dogs in 2022, with share prices dropping 28 since the start of the year. (The stock closed at 112.32 on Thursday.)

The overall market has taken a beating this year: The S&P 500 has slumped 20, the tech-laden Nasdaq is down 27, and the Dow has tanked 14. But Hollywood conglomerates have fared even worse: Paramount Global shares have dropped 29, Lionsgate fell 45, while Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix shares have been stunningly sliced by more than half. Fox, which has declined a relatively modest 12, has ironically been the one Hollywood stock to break out from the pack simply because the Murdoch-led media empire has focused on terrestrial and...

Festival brass on Wednesday added two Documentary Premieres as well as a pair of favourites from the vaults – Desert Hearts and Reservoir Dogs.

Documentary Premieres are Haitian activism story Bending The Arc from Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos, and Long Strange Trip, about The Grateful Dead, from Happy Valley and The Tillman Story director Amir Bar-Lev.

Desert Hearts and Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance in 1986 and 1992, respectively. Quentin Tarantino and Reservoir Dogs producer Lawrence Bender will participate in a post-screening Q&A.

The archive films are selections from the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA, a joint venture between UCLA Film & Television Archive and Sundance Institute established in 1997 that has grown to more than 4,000 holdings representing close to 2,300 titles.

The four additions boost the 2017 roster to 118 feature films representing 32 countries and 37 first-time filmmakers, including 20 in competition.

Entries were selected from 13,782 submissions including 4,068 features and 8,985 shorts. Of the feature submissions, 2,005 were from the Us and 2,063 were international. One hundred...

There’s a lot to comment about in the comics and popular culture community this week – Rebirth, Civil War II, who screwed over whom but did they really… the usual stuff that promotes our fannish wrath and strokes our inner-nine-year-old. But I don’t feel like it. Sure, I could fake it but you’d see through that in a heartbeat.

In this space yesterday, Joe Corallo eloquently and soulfully expressed his views regarding Sunday morning’s Pulse massacre in Orlando Florida. Joe deftly tied the story in to our comics community, and as a writer and as his editor I applaud his effort. Crom knows I couldn’t top that even if I tried, and there’s absolutely no need to try. So, instead, I’m going to tell you about how a couple of our pop culture icons handled it.

Sunday night, John Oliver attached a two-minute opening to his political comedy news show. Oliver had a problem I wouldn’t wish upon any broadcaster, although most of us have faced lesser versions of it from time to time. Everybody woke up Sunday morning to the news out of from Orlando, and the news junkies among us (ahem) spent the better part of the day watching and listening to the coverage – particularly Brian Williams’ amazing marathon anchoring job at MSNBC. And several million of us pretty much go to bed after watching Oliver’s Last Week Tonight. There are plenty of people who labor in that field; John Oliver’s show was the first one up.

He expressed his outrage, to be sure. What he said kinda sorta seemed like an apology for doing the subsequent comedy show, but if you pay attention to what he said you’ll see that was not the case. In fact, he made what I regard as the most gratifying statement I’d heard on the subject: “I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club at the theme park capital of the world as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America.” Indeed.

Monday, Rolling Stone magazine covered Bob Weir’s comments at Sunday’s Bonnaroo Festival, held in Manchester, Tennessee. The Grateful Dead’s guitarist/vocalist said the anti-lgbtq rhetoric coming from some prominent members of the Republican party mirrors the language of groups such as Isis. Weir noted Georgia Rep. Rick W. Allen’s comments from the state legislature, quoting Romans 1:18-32 and Revelations 22:18-19 – the bits about how lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered and queers (Lgbtq) are “worthy of death.” Not a steroid-raging young lunatic who had enough cash to buy a Sig Sauer McX assault rifle, but a member of the state house of representatives presumably elected by the people in his district. You know, a position of honor.

Weir went on to quote Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick quoting Galatians 6:7. “This morning, the lieutenant governor of Texas using Galatians 6:7 to justify his comment regarding the Lgbtq community: ‘Well, they’re reaping what they’ve sown.’”

Explain to me again the difference between fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians and exactly who we should ban from our nation’s shores in order to protect the security of all Americans.

This latter bit comes from the mouth of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, who, after the Sunday morning massacre, doubled down on his position that Muslims should be banned (somehow) from entering this country. Not that such an act would have stopped the Pulse gunman: this asshole was born in America – in fact, he was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, the same place where Donald Trump was born.

How do we put an end to this madness? Well, of course we must speak up and we must speak out. We cannot stand by idly while our elected psychopaths call for the building of new and improved ovens.

More important, as people involved in our popular culture, both as financial supporters and as creators, we must speak out within the framework of our media and back those who do so. It is our obligation as human beings, and it is most certainly our role as Americans.

Do you need proof of that? Okay, friends. Here it is.

Truth. Justice. And the American Way.

This year's Tribeca Film Festival has hosted projects involving Tom Hanks, photographer Mick Rock, Ricky Gervais, Kevin Spacey — and, oh yes, the Grateful Dead. Premiering at the downtown New York film fest this week, Grateful Dead: Truckin' is a slice of concert footage from one of the reunited band's "Fare Thee Well" shows last summer.

Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...

Amazon is embarking on a long, strange trip — well, not that long really. Amazon Studios is developing a limited bio-series about the Grateful Dead, based on a book penned by one if its longtime roadies. The legendary band’s singer, guitarist and co-founder Bob Weir is executive producing along with Steve Parish, who penned the source memoir Home Before Daylight: My Life On The Road With The Grateful Dead. Weir will oversee all aspects of music for the untitled series…...

What a long, strange trip this will be.

Amazon Studios is developing a limited bio series about The Grateful Dead, it announced on Tuesday.

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The project will be based on roadie Steve Parish’s memoir, Home Before Daylight: My Life On the Road with the Grateful Dead.

Parish will serve as executive producer on the potential series, alongside Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, who will also oversee all aspects of music for the series.

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The Grateful Dead’s run of five sold-out shows earlier this summer, billed as Fare Thee Well and featuring Phish’s Trey Anastasio, was not a final farewell after all. As previously reported by Billboard, three of the Dead’s "core four" players — guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — plan to continue the party, with John Mayer on guitar. Their first performance as Dead & Company is set for Halloween night (Oct. 31) at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where the Grateful Dead had played more than 50 times since its formation in 1965. Joining the

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America celebrated its 239th birthday yesterday. In Chicago, another American institution reached a milestone, as the Grateful Dead turned 50 and played their penultimate show as a band. The occasion brought out many tributes. A record number of people filed into Soldier Field. New York's Empire State Building rocked Dead colors, something that has "never been done before for a rock band of this magnitude." And celebrities showed up in droves, including Katy Perry, John Mayer, Woody Harrelson, Chloe Sevigny, Liz Phair and Al Franken. Even President Obama took note of the occasion. The Grateful Dead played a show in support of the president's first campaign in 2008,

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Chicago (AP) — The Grateful Dead is closing the lid on its storied half-century of concerts this weekend in Chicago, where a museum has captured the band's prankster heart by displaying its artifacts, skeletons-and-roses iconography included, in the shadow of a world-famous dinosaur. Soldier Field, which was the last place legendary guitarist Jerry Garcia played with the band before his death in 1995, is hosting the final three shows of the short "Fare Thee Well" tour in what the remaining core members — rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and percussionists Mickey Hart and

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The Grateful Dead is finishing up its 50-year career as one of the most well-known rock bands of the past century. However, not all of the band’s fans can get to its final concerts in Santa Clara, California or Chicago, Illinois. To rectify this, the Grateful Dead is making these events available via YouTube.

In conjunction with Live Alliance, YouTube will sell access to live streams of the Grateful Dead’s last five shows. Fans who want to tune in can pay $19.95 each for the Santa Clara broadcasts on June 27 and 28, and $29.95 each for the Chicago events on July 3, 4, and 5. Viewers will be able to watch the broadcasts on any device which supports the YouTube site or app.

YouTube is renowned for being a top destination for music fans. After all, the most-searched word on the site in 2014 was music and artists routinely attract hordes of new subscribers and...

Want to keep up with all the great new content arriving on Netflix? Then you're in luck, as we'll be bringing you a round-up of the best TV shows, films, documentaries and stand-up arriving on Netflix UK every week.

Here are the latest additions to Netflix over the coming week:

Catfish

Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's acclaimed and unsettling documentary delves into the perils of that very modern phenomenon - online dating.

The film is renowned for its shocking twists, and went on to inspire a spinoff reality TV series. Watch Catfish from May 20.

World War Z

This Brad Pitt-starring action film takes the zombie genre to a new level with epically huge swarms of the undead threatening to consume the entire world.

Arriving on Netflix on May 21, the movie follows a former Un investigator who is called upon to research a solution to the zombie pandemic. But...

Read More: Meet the 2014 Tribeca Filmmakers #30: Mike Fleiss Takes a Wild Ride into the Life of The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir in 'The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir' If you're unable to make it to the "Fare Thee Well" concerts marking both the 50th Anniversary of acclaimed rock band The Grateful Dead and the band's last few concerts together, fear not. Netflix is celebrating the milestone anniversary, too, with an original documentary feature chronicling the life of band member John Weir.  "The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir" is directed by Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor," "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne"), produced by Marc Weingarten ("God Bless Ozzy Osbourne") and Ep'd by Martin Hilton ("The Bachelor") and Justin Kreutzmann ("In the Attic with Pete Townshend and Friends"). It follows Weir's life and journey as a member of The Grateful Dead with interviews from family,...

The Grateful Dead is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. But before the band's surviving members reunite at Soldier Field this summer (and maybe for a tour with John Mayer and Phish's Trey Anastasio), thier founding member, Bob Weir, will release a career retrospective in the form of a Netflix documentary. The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir promises a look at the the band's history, how Weir went from a 16-year-old kid with a guitar to a rock-and-roll legend, and Weir's relationship with Jerry Garcia. It'll also include archival footage that fans, somehow, have never seen. In other words, it's essential viewing for any Deadhead. The doc hits Netflix May 22.

Call it a longer, even stranger trip. David Browne’s So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead (Da Capo, out April 28th), takes a different tact when chronicling one of the rock’s greatest and most enduring bands. Using new interviews with surviving members as well as Dead friends, colleagues, and family members, Browne, an Rs contributing editor, centers each chapter around a significant or pivotal day or moment in the band’s epic saga. In this exclusive excerpt, that moment is the band’s 15th...

A source familiar with The Grateful Dead confirms to Billboard that the band has been at least "considering" a gig in Santa Clara, Calif., the weekend before the Fare The Well concerts in Chicago July 4 weekend that were billed as the final Dead shows.   A report on the fan blog hypemusicfestivals.com first put out the "rumor" that the Dead would soon be announcing two more shows the weekend before Fare Thee Well in Chicago, which would be June 27-28.   Read more: Grateful Dead to Reunite, Jam with Trey Anastasio for Final Shows   Billboard's own

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Albert Maysles, the director who, alongside his brother David, revolutionized documentary filmmaking, died at the age of 88 Thursday night. The filmmaker had been battling pancreatic cancer recently and had fallen ill last month.

"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, following a brief battle with cancer," Maysles' family said in a statement. "Albert was a loving husband, father, brother as well as a friend to many. For more than five decades, Albert created groundbreaking films, inspired filmmakers and touched all those with his humanity,...

Deadheads, rejoice. The four living original members of The Grateful Dead - Bob Weir, 67; Phil Lesh, 74; Mickey Hart, 71; and Bill Kreutzmann, 68 - have announced three 50th-anniversary shows, set for July 3, 4 and 5 at Chicago's Soldier Field. The three-day concert will also serve as a send-off for the veteran rockers. "These will be the last shows with the four of us together," Weir told Billboard. Furthermore, their goodbye venue also has some sentimental value. The band's last performance with Jerry Garcia was at the same stadium only a month before the lead guitarist's August 1995 death. Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, 50, will join the original Dead members,...

Earlier this year, we heard rumblings that Martin Scorsese might be working on a film about legendary punk rock band The Ramones, but there's yet to be any official confirmation that will happen. However, another iconic rock band will have Scorsese's attention as THR reports he is executive producing a documentary about the psychedelic rock group The Grateful Dead. The documentary will arrive just in time for the 50th anniversary of the band once led by the late Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, and it will cover the entire career of the beloved band. Sounds like the ultimate must-see for the Deadheads out there. The documentary still doesn't have a title, but it does have one hell of a director in Amir Bar-Lev, the man behind the acclaimed 2010 documentary The Tillman Story. The filmmaker has been trying to get this doc off the ground for about 10 years now, and it's finally coming together,...

Martin Scorsese will serve as executive producer on a Grateful Dead documentary.

Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story) is directing the film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band.

The untitled film will feature never-before-seen footage, vintage interviews and "candid moments unearthed from the Grateful Dead's vast vaults".

Surviving band members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have been interviewed for the documentary.

"The Grateful Dead were more than just a band," said Scorsese. "They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans.

"I'm very happy that this picture is being made, and proud to be involved."

The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2015.

The Grateful Dead formed in 1965, which means we are fast approaching the 50th anniversary of the storied jam band. To celebrate the occasion, Martin Scorsese will executive produce a Grateful Dead documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story). Scorsese explained the appeal of the project and the unique stature of the band: “The Grateful Dead were more than just a band. They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans. I’m very happy that this picture is being made and proud to be involved." Hit the jump for the press release with all the details. Grateful Dead Announce Official Documentary In Celebration Of 50th Anniversary Executive Producer Martin Scorsese And Director Amir Bar-Lev To Offer A Never Before Seen Look At One Of Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Most Fascinating And Enduring Bands Los Angeles – The Grateful Dead are proud to announce their first official career-spanning documentary...

Get ready, Deadheads. The Grateful Dead turn 50 next year and to celebrate, they're getting a new documentary from executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Amir Bar-Lev (Happy Valley). The still-untitled doc will feature never-before-seen footage from various performances, archived interviews and behind-the-scene moments as well as new talks with surviving members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir. It'll also feature the eccentric characters from the "Dead universe." Band archivist David Lemieux will serve as the music supervisor. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Bar-Lev noted that he'd first set out to make a film about the Grateful Dead 10 years ago.

The Grateful Dead are proud to announce their first official career-spanning documentary to coincide with the band's 50th anniversary celebration. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev ("Happy Valley," "The Tillman Story") will direct the as yet untitled documentary. Alex Blavatnik is financing through his Aoma Sunshine Films. Eric Eisner ("Hamlet 2"), Nicholas Koskoff, and Justin Kreutzmann will serve as producers.&#160 Executive Producers are Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Andrew Heller, Sanford Heller, and Rick Yorn. Longtime The Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux will serve as the film's music supervisor.

This monumental documentary will meld a cornucopia of never before seen performance footage, vintage interviews, and other candid moments unearthed from The Grateful Dead's vast vaults along with newly captured conversations with surviving members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, as well as many other characters and pranksters from the Dead universe.

Said surviving members Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh,...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's first shows together in 1965, first as the Warlocks before adopting their household moniker, the legendary jam band have a number of projects on the horizon to celebrate the occasion. Chief among them: An official, career-spanning documentary produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Amir Bar-Lev that will be stuffed with never-before-seen archival footage plucked from the Dead's vaults, live performances and new interviews with band members and "other characters and pranksters from the Dead universe."

"The Grateful Dead were more than just a band.

Rhythm guitarist Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead fame has had an exciting life to say the least, even for the likes of a rock star. The musician's life has had so many notable moments that filmmaker Mike Fleiss had a difficult time pinpointing which areas to focus on in his film "The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir," with the many faces of Weir (artist, rebel, family man) being exposed as profoundly as can be in a 90-minute documentary. Tell us about yourself. I'm a producer and director in Los Angeles. I'm a reality TV veteran, having created "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," among other shows. I also produced the "Hostel" series of films as well as the fist two "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remakes. My last documentary "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne" premiered at Tribeca in 2011. What was your biggest challenge in completing this project? Bob was...

The 13th Tribeca Film Festival has announced its complete lineup for next month’s New York celebration, which runs April 16-27. Culled from more than 6,000 submissions, Tribeca 2014 includes 55 world premieres, 37 first-time filmmakers, and 22 female directors. Half the slate had been announced on Tuesday, with Spotlight, Midnight, and Storyscapes films unveiled today, as well as special screenings. “Spotlight and special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s program, both in range of styles and stories,” said Genna Terranova, Tribeca’s director of programming. “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we...

One of my most diversified year-end lists yet -- rock, electronica, jamband, prog, pop, R&B. I didn't really think I'd even find 10 albums that could hold my attention start to finish, and believe me, I tried to listen to most of my fellow critics' top ten titles and could barely get through most of their selections top to bottom. Okay, so there may have been some overlapping, but very little. Here are my top tens of favorite CDs and singles in some kind of non-numerical order. (Well, actually, the number of plays on my iTunes player.)

1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)

A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.

One of my most diversified year-end lists yet -- rock, electronica, jamband, prog, pop, R&B. I didn't really think I'd even find 10 albums that could hold my attention start to finish, and believe me, I tried to listen to most of my fellow critics' top ten titles and could barely get through most of their selections top to bottom. Okay, so there may have been some overlapping, but very little. Here are my top tens of favorite CDs and singles in some kind of non-numerical order. (Well, actually, the number of plays on my iTunes player.)

1. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (Columbia)

A Mercury Prize music nominee in the U.K. and rightfully so. Slightly left of center, but accessible in a sweeping film noir soundtrack meets Nina Simone kind of way. Joyous tone poems with gorgeous vocals (and ethereal background vocals) and Gil Evans-inspired orchestral arrangements that leave you breathless.

I’ll be honest. Trick ‘R Treat is a cult horror movie that completely passed me by. The film, cobbling together four short “tales of terror” into a cohesive horror anthology of yore, has been a favorite Halloween movie since it arrived in theatres in 2007.

It’s only risen in stature and popularity since, and it seemed like that groundswell movement reached its crescendo last night at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood for the finale of American Cinematheque and Amity’s Beyond Fest, one of the best film festivals in recent memory. The folks at Legendary teamed with the theatre to throw a bash, and provide a free screening for ardent fans of the picture. Tickets were snapped up within hours online, and the line to get in gave me a mini Comic-Con flashback. A lot of fervor for a Monday night screening, but I doubt anyone in the audience left disappointed.

Excuse me if this week’s profundity seems a bit more extemporaneous than usual. It’s been one of those weeks, and at 3:00 yesterday morning Roscoe The Cat literally saved my life and I’m still twitching over that one.

I listen to music all the time. Literally, all the time. I have a very wide range in taste, but most of what I listen to falls under the exceptionally broad category of “kick ass rock’n’blues.” It’s a phrase I use on Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind, my weekly radio indulgence on (ahem) www.getthepointradio.com. Right now, I’m listening to Sterling Koch’s 2010 effort, Steel Guitar Blues. Kick ass music energizes me and takes the pressures of the day and it puts them over there, wherever there is. Music is my drug of choice.

A lot of my friends in the comics racket...

The Grateful Dead are a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing they aren't is an immersive, online experience capable of sucking away your money and free time without forcing you to leave your computer chair. Yet. Curious Sense, the same company responsible for Reo Speedwagon's "hidden object" game, Find Your Own Way Home (you thought I was kidding, didn't you?), will be creating a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called The Epic Tour that will allow thousands of tech-savvy hippies to vicariously relieve the famous Dead shows that their older, less-tech-savvy relatives rant about every Christmas. ("Mom, I don't want to talk to Uncle Moonbeam! He keeps talking about long strange trips and orange sunshine, whatever that is!) Curious Sense CEO Adam Blumenthal: "Players will explore a Grateful Dead-themed world comprised of many types of games, [...]...

The Grateful Dead are an incredible phenomenon of pop culture.  They have a more devoted  fanbase than anyone else I can think of (yes, even "Twilight" pales in comparison) and even the loss of Jerry Garcia didn't really dim the music or the enthusiasm for their live performances.But the Dead haven't gotten their due on the big screen, largely because the band has been reluctant to ever give up their music rights.  After all, they had their own "movie" directed by Garcia himself. What more did a Deadhead need?Well, apparently a "a film that captures that psychedelic Haight-Ashbury hippie spirit of the late 60s and early 70s."  According to Deadline, ICM has been given unlimited access to the Dead catalog in the hopes of making a musical film that celebrates the Grateful Dead. It won't be a biopic, persay, but a film that is just a journey through...

The Grateful Dead are an incredible phenomenon of pop culture.  They have a more devoted  fanbase than anyone else I can think of (yes, even "Twilight" pales in comparison) and even the loss of Jerry Garcia didn't really dim the music or the enthusiasm for their live performances.But the Dead haven't gotten their due on the big screen, largely because the band has been reluctant to ever give up their music rights.  After all, they had their own "movie" directed by Garcia himself. What more did a Deadhead need?Well, apparently a "a film that captures that psychedelic Haight-Ashbury hippie spirit of the late 60s and early 70s."  According to Deadline, ICM has been given unlimited access to the Dead catalog in the hopes of making a musical film that celebrates the Grateful Dead. It won't be a biopic, persay, but a film that is just a journey through...

After putting together a deal that allowed for the use of no less than 20 tunes for The Beatles inspired musical Across the Universe from Julie Taymor, Deadline reports literary agent Bruce Kaufman is putting together a similar deal with access to the entire musical catalog of The Grateful Dead for another narrative feature film structured around the iconic band's music. Kaufman is working closely with trusted colleagues of the band including archivist David Lemiux and Mark Pinkus, the general manager of Grateful Dead Properties at Rhino Entertainment who has exclusive management of the band's intellectual property. There's no word on what kind of story might be woven with the band's music, but I'm hoping it's pieced together a little better than Taymor's venture with The Beatles' music. While the covers of each song were fantastic and well worth a purchase of the soundtrack, the story that brought them all...

For those who have been waiting for another Grateful Dead movie, it looks like you won’t have to wait much longer. According to Deadline, ICM has officially gained access to the 1960′s jam band’s music catalog, which will be orchestrated into a narrative-style feature film.

The untitled feature film will be led by ICM agent Bruce Kaufman, who was also in charge of orchestrating 2007′s Across the Universe. The Grateful Dead project will be in the same vain as Universe, which will include re-recorded Dead songs for the feature film. Kaufman is currently working with The Grateful Dead team including, band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, General Manager of the Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment.

Lead guitarist and frontman Jerry Garcia passed away shortly after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, which resulted in the...

Deadheads rejoice! Up until now, all attempts to make a moving about The Grateful Dead have met a major hurdle in gaining use of the music. Deadline reports that ICM has been given unprecedented access to the band’s music catalog and will package a narrative-style feature film built around those tunes.

The project has been rolling forward with the help of ICM lit agent Bruce Kaufman. He was able to gain rights for Beatles songs to be used in Across the Universe. Kaufman is working with The Grateful Dead team that includes band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, Gm of Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment. Rhino was granted exclusive management of The Grateful Dead’s intellectual property back in 2006. The film will not be a biopic. Instead the plan is to capture the psychedelic Haight-Ashbury vibe of the late 60s and early 70s,...

Exclusive: A number of films about the Grateful Dead have cropped up, but the challenge has always been to get music rights. Now, ICM has the opposite situation. The agency has been granted unprecedented access to the seminal band’s music catalog and will package a narrative-style feature film built around those tunes. ICM lit agent Bruce Kaufman is leading the charge. He has done this before, including brokering the use of 20 re-recorded songs from The Beatles for Across the Universe. He’s working closely with The Grateful Dead team that includes band archivist David Lemieux and Mark Pinkus, Gm of Grateful Dead Properties at Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment. The band granted Rhino exclusive management of The Grateful Dead’s intellectual property back in 2006. Formed in 1965, the San Francisco-based band broke up in 1995 after frontman/guitarist Jerry Garcia passed away shortly after the band was inducted into the...