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When Dave Grohl first heard a film studio was interested in making a horror movie with the Foo Fighters, he dismissed the notion. But when a former landlord emailed him about a vacant Encino property, the Foo frontman decided to make the most out of the “big creepy old house.” There, he wrote and recorded the band’s 10th album, “Medicine at Midnight,” in addition to filming “Studio 666” — a once “stupid idea” transformed into a feature film starring the Foo Fighters. The movie debuts Feb. 25 in limited release.

Ahead of the film’s arrival, Grohl sat down with Variety to discuss “Studio 666,” along with his real-life ghost story and the metal album he recorded as fictional band Dream Widow.

When and how did the idea of “Studio 666” come to you?

It started almost three years ago when a friend of mine who works in the industry was...

Dave Grohl hasn’t sat still for more than 30 years, so it’s not much of a surprise that he’s ended up creating and starring in his own feature film.

As Pat Smear, one of the founders of L.A. punk legends The Germs, touring guitarist in Nirvana and a cornerstone of Grohl’s Foo Fighters, told him, “Drummers are like sharks, if they stop moving, they’ll die.”

In Studio 666, a horror comedy in the vein of The Evil Dead, perpetual movement doesn’t necessarily prevent death either. (Watch the trailer below.)

Grohl, who came up with the idea of the Open Road Films-distributed film that debuts theatrically on February 25, is a fascinating creature.

For some, he is best known as the drummer of Nirvana; for many he is the founder and frontman of Foo Fighters, a group that began as a solo project and turned into one of the most successful,...

202o was supposed to be a huge year for Dave Grohl and his rock band Foo Fighters the group was going to celebrate their 25th anniversary with The Van Tour, a trek that would take them across North America old school style in a beat up van. Once Covid-19 hit, the Foos, like so many other bands, were forced to scrap their touring plans and wait out the pandemic indoors like everybody else.

Related: Foo Fighters' 10 Best Music Videos (Ranked By YouTube Views)

Instead of moping about, Grohl turned the camera on himself and created a documentary called What Drives Us, currently streaming on Amazon Prime. The doc features interviews with band members of Metallica, Slayer, No Doubt, and Guns N' Roses, among others. There are some pretty interesting tidbits throughout the movie, and these are the revelations that were the most interesting to hear directly from the horse's mouth.

Dave Grohl threw out some monologue jokes, played some games, and recreated a Foo Fighters meme while co-hosting The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Monday, May 25th.

One of the highlights of the night was a game of “Off Songs, Song Off,” a name-that-tune-style contest where Grohl and Fallon had to identify a popular song the Roots were playing in a way that was just slightly off. Fallon jumped out to an early lead, with Grohl half-jokingly guessing the first two songs were Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up.

Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer, is to co-host The Tonight Show on Monday.

Grohl will join Jimmy Fallon to present the NBC late-night show. The pair will deliver the monologue together, interview guests including comedian Jim Jeffries and musician Blake Shelton together and play a series of games.

Fallon, it seems, will no longer be alone or an easy target and will give enough space to his co-host, whom he is announcing was joining him in an expanded capacity on this evening’s show

Grohl has been ramping up his entertainment projects, recently directing the What Drives Us documentary and exec producing an adaptation of his mother’s book from Cradle To Stage as an unscripted series for Paramount+.

The ex-Scream drummer was on the show back in February, talking about his band’s new album Medicine at Midnight.

Fresh off Foo Fighters’ Rock Hall induction announcement, Dave Grohl will serve as co-host on the Monday, May 24th episode of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon revealed on Friday’s episode.

Together, Grohl and Fallon will deliver the monologue, interview guests — scheduled to be comedian Jim Jefferies with musical guest Blake Shelton — and participate in all the games the Tonight Show has planned.

Monday’s appearance marks Grohl’s fourth visit to The Tonight Show and first time co-hosting. However, the Foo Fighters frontman does have some late-night hosting experience:...

Foo Fighters covered “Back in Black” alongside AC/DC’s Brian Johnson as part of Global Citizen’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World.

“So considering that this is the first show [in front of an audience] that we’ve done in a year and a half — a long time — we thought that we would make this a special occasion for all of us,” Grohl told the audience at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.

“So say you want to do something special, what do you do? Call a friend to come play with you,...

In February, Stellantis’ Global Chief Marketing Officer Olivier Francois fulfilled a decade-long pursuit of working with Bruce Springsteen with a Super Bowl spot for Jeep, marking the first time The Boss and his music had appeared in a commercial for a major brand.

For his latest musical foray, Francois has scored another commercial coup: a rare on-camera cameo and sync license from Foo Fighters, for Stellantis’ Ram Trucks. The campaign premiered Thursday (May 6), and features Foo Fighters’ song “Making a Fire” from the band’s 2020 album “Medicine at Midnight.”

Frontman Dave Grohl and the Foos appear in Ram’s minute-long commercial, “Rock Star,” which flips the titular term on its ear by showcasing the real-life “rock star” mentors and heroes that shape families and communities, from coaches and teachers to moms and dads. Grohl is seen driving a Ram 1500 truck alongside his voiceover about how real rock stars are made.

“All of the biggest bands in the world, they had to start somewhere. Everybody I know started out like this: in a van,” Dave Grohl says at the onset of his new documentary What Drives Us, a film that chronicles the early touring days of some of rock’s most enduring groups, including U2, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and, of course, the Foo Fighters.

“What happens in the van is the foundation of who we become,” adds Grohl. “It creates this unique perspective that we all share. Personally, I...

As more and more superstar acts are born inside laptop-lit bedrooms, Dave Grohl remains the face of that old-fangled tradition of picking up an instrument, practicing it till your fingers bleed, then heading out on the open road in a beat-up van to share your songs with the world.

The former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman, 52, has captured that experience in What Drives Us, his new doc featuring Ringo Starr, St. Vincent, Slash, The Edge and many more. Ahead of the movie’s streaming debut April 30 as part of the Coda Collection on Amazon Prime Video, Grohl caught up ...

As more and more superstar acts are born inside laptop-lit bedrooms, Dave Grohl remains the face of that old-fangled tradition of picking up an instrument, practicing it till your fingers bleed, then heading out on the open road in a beat-up van to share your songs with the world.

The former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman, 52, has captured that experience in What Drives Us, his new doc featuring Ringo Starr, St. Vincent, Slash, The Edge and many more. Ahead of the movie’s streaming debut April 30 as part of the Coda Collection on Amazon Prime Video, Grohl caught up ...

Dave and Violet Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Dave Lombardo, and Greg Kurstin appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform a cover of X’s 1980 track “Nausea.” The track comes from Grohl’s new documentary What Drives Us, which premieres Friday.

The musicians performed from a recording studio, with 15-year-old Violet taking lead vocals alongside her father. The pair originally recorded the cover for the documentary’s soundtrack.

The documentary, which will stream as part of the Coda Collection on Amazon Prime on April 30th, pays tribute to the power of live performance.

Lars Ulrich, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Flea, The Edge, and more appear in an exclusive clip from What Drives Us, a new documentary directed by Dave Grohl that pays tribute to the power of live performance.

In the video, the musicians discuss why they love playing live as a montage of concert clips is spliced alongside. Clark describes playing to an audience as “some kind of other dimension,” while Ulrich chats about the unique connection between artist and audience.

“Rock and roll is the unique opportunity to scream to the world,...