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Oasis have announced a new documentary film being made in conjunction with their massive 2025 reunion tour, “Oasis Live ’25.”

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will produce the film, while music doc pros Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace will direct. Not much has been revealed yet about the film’s content or release date, but with the notoriously-embattled Gallagher brothers reuniting for their first shows in 14 years this year, there will be plenty of filming opportunities to come on their sprawling 2025 outing.

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Oasis kick off their reunion tour this year in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4th; the trek will continue in the UK and Ireland before heading over to North America on August 24th. They’ll also hit South America and Asia this year; get tickets to Oasis’ North American tour dates here, and their international tour dates on viagogo.

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Oasis have announced a new documentary film being made in conjunction with their massive 2025 reunion tour, “Oasis Live ’25.”

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will produce the film, while music doc pros Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace will direct. Not much has been revealed yet about the film’s content or release date, but with the notoriously-embattled Gallagher brothers reuniting for their first shows in 14 years this year, there will be plenty of filming opportunities to come on their sprawling 2025 outing.

Get Oasis Reunion Tickets Here

Oasis kick off their reunion tour this year in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4th; the trek will continue in the UK and Ireland before heading over to North America on August 24th. They’ll also hit South America and Asia this year; get tickets to Oasis’ North American tour dates here, and their international tour dates on viagogo.

Revisit our list of 10 Oasis deep cuts...

Exciting news for Oasis fans! Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is set to produce a brand-new concert film following the legendary band’s highly anticipated reunion tour.

The film, titled Oasis Live ‘25, will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. The duo is well-known for their work on music documentaries, including Shut Up and Play the Hits (about LCD Soundsystem) and Meet Me in the Bathroom, which explored the early 2000s New York music scene.

The project will be produced by Magna Studios, a company that has worked on major films like Beastie Boys Story, Gangs of London, 20,000 Days on Earth, and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now. It will be distributed globally by Sony Music Vision, with Krista Wegener leading the sales efforts.

Related: Steven Knight Is Working on a Remake of Hitchcock’s Classic, ‘Vertigo,’ with Robert Downey Jr.

The reunion of Oasis is a huge moment for fans,...

Oasis have confirmed a new film is being made in conjunction with their upcoming reunion tour. The film is being created and produced by Peaky Blinders scribe Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, who were responsible for LCD Soundsystem’s 2012 concert film Shut Up and Play the Hits.

The news comes in spite of Liam Gallagher rejecting rumors of a documentary about the long-awaited Oasis reunion last year. In October, the musician was asked by a fan on X, “How’s the new doco filming going?...

Oasis is set to release an accompanying film for their highly anticipated upcoming reunion tour, Sony Music announced Thursday.

Peaky Blinders director Steven Knight is producing the film, Sony said, and it will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. The duo previously directed Meet Me in the Bathroom, the documentary on the 2000s rock scene in New York, as well as Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentary film about LCD Soundsystem.

A release date hasn’t been set yet, Sony said. Sony Music Vision will distribute the movie. The film is being produced by Magna Studios. Producers are Sam Bridger and Guy Heeley, with executive producers Marisa Clifford and Kate Shepherd, whose credits have included Beastie Boys Story and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now.

Liam and Noel Gallagher have had a notoriously fraught relationship for years, making Oasis’ tour one of the most hotly...

Steven Knight is creating and producing a film about the iconic British band Oasis in conjunction with their upcoming tour, Oasis Live ’25.

Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace will direct the feature, having previously directed the documentary and concert film Shut Up And Play The Hitsabout LCD Soundsystem and the 2022 music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom.

Sony Music Vision is distributing the Oasis film and handling global sales.

The project is being “made in conjunction with the tour” but further details surrounding its content are currently under wraps.

It will be produced by Sam Bridger and Guy Heeley for Magna Studios...

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will produce a film following Oasis on their summer reunion tour.

Oasis Live ‘25 will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. The duo previously worked on the LCD Soundsystem concert film Shut Up And Play The Hits and Meet Me In The Bathroom, the documentary on the early 2000s NYC music scene.

The film will be a Magna Studios production. Producers are Sam Bridger & Guy Heeley, with executive producers Marisa Clifford and Kate Shepherd, whose previous credits include Beastie Boys Story, Gangs Of London, 20000 Days On Earth, and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now.

The project will be distributed by Sony Music Vision. Krista Wegener of Sony Music Vision will lead global sales.

There had been reports in the UK tabloid papers that Oasis had set plans to document their reunion tour for cinema audiences. The band has not performed together since...

Dogwoof unleashed the trailer for the feature documentary featuring John Lennon and Yoko Onom ‘One To One: John & Yoko.’

Directed by renowned British director Kevin Macdonald and co-directed and edited by Sam Rice-Edwards, the feature delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert. With mind-blowing remastered audio overseen by their son, Sean Ono Lennon, the film is both compelling and bittersweet, challenging pre-existing notions of the iconic couple.

On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, a rollicking, dazzling performance from him and Yoko Ono. Macdonald’s riveting documentary takes that legendary musical event and uses it as the starting point to explore eighteen defining months in the lives of John and Yoko.

By 1971 the...

Benedict Cumberbatch and writer-director Dylan Southern arrived in Berlin for the European bow of their family drama The Thing With Feathers, which recently had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Cumberbatch talked about how he sees grief and despair differently in his life, producing under his SunnyMarch label and also showered praise on the two young child actors that he worked with on The Thing With Feathers.

The Thing With Feathers follows a young father (played by Cumberbatch) who is devastated by the sudden and unexpected death of his wife. Left with two sons, his sense of reality gradually slips as he is haunted by a seemingly malign presence in the apartment he shares with his children.

“A lot of this film is about letting go, and grief is also about letting go. Something that was there is no longer there,” said Cumberbatch. “You can say that that...

Crows rustle in Dylan Southern’s fiction feature debut, the haunting story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, the mother of his two boys. In terms of genre, it’s hard to place, sitting somewhere between social drama and heightened horror; if Ken Loach dreamed up The Babadook, it might look something like this. Southern — previously known for such heady, experiential and you-are-there music docs as Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) and Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) — brings the visceral immediacy of those films to a very raw and emotional subject matter. For all the artistry behind it, however, The Thing with Feathers will likely prove divisive; for survivors of trauma, it will likely be cathartic, but for others more fortunate, its pitch-perfect portrayal of loss might be a touch too uncomfortable.

This is one of those films where...

A young father (Benedict Cumberbatch) of two boys suspects he is being stalked by a malevolent creature after the sudden death of his wife in The Thing with Feathers. The Premieres section film is the fiction feature debut of Dylan Southern, best known for a slew of music documentaries. Ben Fordesman served as Dp on the film after working with Southern on commercials and music videos. Below, he details at length how he made the crow stalking the young father feel real and how he […]

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A young father (Benedict Cumberbatch) of two boys suspects he is being stalked by a malevolent creature after the sudden death of his wife in The Thing with Feathers. The Premieres section film is the fiction feature debut of Dylan Southern, best known for a slew of music documentaries. Ben Fordesman served as Dp on the film after working with Southern on commercials and music videos. Below, he details at length how he made the crow stalking the young father feel real and how he […]

The post “Claustrophobic Framing Became the Photographic Heart”: Dp Ben Fordesman on The Thing with Feathers first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

In 1989, New York City resident Linda Napolitano said she was abducted by aliens outside her high-rise apartment. The occurrence, known as the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction, was reportedly witnessed by over 20 people and became highly publicized. But did it really happen, or was it all a hoax? From Vivienne Perry (Meet Me in the Bathroom) and series director Daniel Vernon (Nail Bomber: Manhunt), The Manhattan Alien Abductioninvestigates the case and features an interview with Napolitano.

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The docuseries retraces the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction, which allegedly happened to a woman named Linda Napolitano in November 1989 who said she was taken from her apartment in Lower Manhattan. She reported the incident to UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, who later claimed to have found over two dozen witnesses who saw Napolitano that night floating above her building. Hopkins, who...

A recent Netflix docuseries has captured the attention of subscribers, and it's one that deserves a slightly deeper dive. "The Manhattan Alien Abduction" tells the alleged true story of a woman named Linda Napolitano, who claims to have been abducted by aliens in the late '80s. This series attempts to get to the bottom of it all. The true story behind the documentary is, as one would expect, a bit messy, given that we're dealing with an uncertain phenomenon. That said, it's worth going over the history of this case for viewers who are either reckoning with what they just witnessed or who are looking to ride the wave of popularity surrounding this doc right now.

Netflix using true stories to craft popular television is nothing new. The success of stuff like "Files of the Unexplained" on the streaming service is proof enough of that, but there are near-countless examples.

IFC’s Late Night With The Devil has scared up the distributor’s largest opening weekend ever with an estimated $2.8+ million on 1.043 screens, coming in at no. 6 at the domestic box office.

Prior to this weekend, Watcher was IFC’s top opening film at $827k, followed by Skinamarink with $819k and Blackberry at $801k. Late Night was IFC’s widest opening since The D Train, the distributor said, noting it was IFC’s highest opening day ($437k) since Skinamakink, and its highest Thursday pre-show ($317k). The film by Australian duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes unfolds almost in real-time on the set of a 1977 late-night talk show broadcast that unexpectedly transforms from amusing to sinister, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. Stars David Dastmalchian as talk show host Jack Delroy.

The Image Nation Abu Dhabi and Spooky Pictures pic premiered at SXSW and has since played Fantasia Festival in Montreal,...

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Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.

December

December 31

Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)

Previous releases January

January 6

Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)

January 7

Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...

In the early 2000s, Rolling Stone hired photographer Tim Soter to shoot a music showcase that featured hip-hop icons De La Soul playing the same bill as the post-punk band the Rapture, who were on the precipice of a breakout with their single “House of Jealous Lovers.” That record came out on Dfa Records, the label co-founded by producers Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy and label manager Jonathan Galkin. Feeling emboldened by the experience of shooting the Rapture and witnessing what surely was a rapturous show, Soter emailed Galkin, asking...

Adam Green will be honored with a new tribute album, dubbed Moping in Style, that features renditions of his solo music from artists including Regina Spektor, Father John Misty, and Jenny Lewis. The project arrives in full December 1st, and as a preview, Org Music and Capitane Records have shared Sean Ono Lennon’s cover of “That Fucking Feeling.”

Best known as one-half of The Moldy Peaches, Green has released 11 solo albums over the past twenty years. The impressive roster on Moping in Style speaks to his influence in the indie rock community: in addition to those aforementioned artists, it boasts The Lemon Twigs, Frankie Cosmos, Lou Barlow, The Lemonheads, The Libertines, and Ben Kweller among its contributors. Pre-orders for the tribute album, which arrives on double LP gatefold and CD, are ongoing.

Ono Lennon completely transforms the title track to Green’s most recent album. While the original, thanks...

Exclusive: Linda Perry, one of the most talented singer-songwriters in popular music, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary from Mercury Studios and Utopia Originals.

Award-winning filmmaker Don Hardy (Citizen Penn) is directing Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, described as “an intimate look at the multi-faceted singer, songwriter and producer.” Perry was the lead singer and principal songwriter for the influential band 4 Non Blondes from 1989-1995, then embarked on a solo career and later founded two record labels. She became a hitmaker for other artists, writing “Beautiful” for Christina Aguilera, “Get the Party Started” for Pink, and co-writing the Gwen Stefani hit “What You Waiting For?” She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.

Linda Perry performs as part of 4 Non Blondes in 1993.

“Linda Perry is one of the most outspoken and recognizable artists of the past 30 years,” notes a release about the documentary project. “The hat,...

Exclusive: Indie distributors Utopia and Sumerian have set an October 13th nationwide theatrical release for Divinity, the sci-fi thriller starring Stephen Dorff, Bella Thorne, Scott Bakula and more, which world premiered in the Next section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Competitors in its opening weekend at the box office will include Uni/Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer, Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company’s inspirational drama Ordinary Angels with Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson, and the Spanish animation Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow.

An immersive black-and-white title from writer-director Eddie Alcazar, which is presented and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Divinity is set in an otherworldly human existence where scientist Sterling Pierce (Bakula) has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce (Dorff), his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream,...

Following last year’s Meet Me in the Bathroom, another documentary capturing a vital moment for indie rock is arriving this summer. The Elephant 6 Recording Co. explores the ’90s rock collective that launched Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Of Montreal, and more. Ahead of an August 25th theatrical release and September 1 digital release by Greenwich Entertainment, the first trailer has now arrived.

Directed by C.B. Stockfleth and produced by Lance Bangs, the documentary features never-before-seen footage of the bands shot by Bangs, as well as interviews with Elephant 6 members––Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart and many more––and notable fans including Elijah Wood, David Cross, Danger Mouse, and James Mercer.

Here’s the synopsis: “Around 1985, a group of Ruston, LA area high schoolers began experimenting with whatever random instruments and gear they could lay their hands on. Fanning out across...

Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is a hot property in Cannes, and it’s yet to even premiere.

Several buyers are currently circling the Japan-set, music-infused title from master filmmaker Wenders, which bows in competition on Thursday. Sources tell Variety that interested parties so far include Utopia, Mubi, Sideshow and Janus Films and Sony Pictures Classics.

Wenders’ “Perfect Days” follows Tokyo toilet cleaner Hirayama, who seems content with his simple life. Outside of his everyday routine, he enjoys his passion for books and, in particular, for music. Over the course of the film, a series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.

“Memoirs of a Geisha” star Koji Yakusho — whom some critics have tipped as a contender for Cannes’ best actor prize on Saturday — leads the cast as Hirayama. He also co-starred in “Babel,” a film that was honored by the Cannes Film Festival and earned Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

Exclusive: Benedict Cumberbatch has signed to star in Dylan Southern’s adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing With Feathers, about a father and his two young sons dealing with the sudden death of their wife and mother.

Cumberbatch will play a young father whose hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

This mysterious creature, known as “Crow,” seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.

Related: Cannes Film Festival Full Coverage

The feature adaptation, entitled The Thing With Feathers, is produced by Andrea Cornwell with SunnyMarch’s Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke. The script was developed with Film4,...

To celebrate the cinema release Meet Me In The Bathroom, an immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s, we have a special bundle to giveaway for 2 lucky readers. A bundle includes a film T-shirt, a cinema poster and the book by Lizzy Goodman that inspired the film.

Featuring never-before-seen footage of iconic artists including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem the film tells the story of how a new generation kick started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.

Inspired by the book by Lizzy Goodman and directed by the award-winning filmmakers behind “Shut Up And Play The Hits” and “Blur: No Distance Left to Run” – Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace – Meet Me In The Bathroom is the definitive film about the last great romantic age of Rock ‘n’ Roll, featuring some of the biggest personalities and hits,...

It’s the turn of the century. New York’s music scene is flatlining. Enter The Strokes, all surly insouciance, torn denim and tattered Converse. Theirs is an electrifying din; mixing distorted vocals with spindly guitars, it’s the defibrillator that the rock ’n’ roll scene so badly needs. From grimy graffiti-covered toilet stalls in dingy dive bars, these five New Yorkers stumble bleary-eyed out onto the biggest stages on the planet.

In Meet Me in the Bathroom, a new documentary based on journalist Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 book of the same name, directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace journey back to this strange and distant land. They return with a treasure trove of grainy archive footage capturing the creative upheaval that produced era-defining bands, including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, TV on the Radio, and The Moldy Peaches. “Those bands built a scene in a really DIY way, without...

Sony’s ’65’ and Universal’s ’Champions’ are also new this weekend.

This weekend’s widest opener at the UK-Ireland box office is Scream VI, the latest offering from the iconic horror franchise, hitting 624 locations for Paramount.

It is slightly up on locations to Scream – the fifth film in the slasher series – which opened to an impressive £2.5m from 622 sites in January 2022, at an average of £3,955, making it the highest-performing horror title since the pandemic at the UK-Ireland box office.

Recent horrors to do well in the territory includes Universal’s M3GAN, the second best-performer for the genre since the pandemic,...

Warner Bros’ “Creed III” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with a knockout £5 million ($5.9 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

In its third weekend, Disney’s “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania” moved down a slot to second place with £1.4 million for a total of £17.2 million.

Universal’s “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish” collected £1.1 million in its fifth weekend in third position for a total of £22.1 million. In fourth place, another Universal title, “Cocaine Bear,” snorted £1.09 million in its second weekend for a total of £3.6 million.

Rounding off the top five was Studiocanal’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It?,” which charmed its way to £845,838 in its second weekend for a total of £2.7 million.

Sony’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Swordsmith Village” debuted in sixth place with £567,638 and the weekend’s other debut was Magnetes’ “Heaven in Hell,” which bowed in 10th...

Universal Pictures and Dogwoof have debuted the trailer for the music documentary ‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’.

The doc is an immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s, featuring never-before-seen footage of iconic artists including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the story of how a new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.

Inspired by the book by Lizzy Goodman, the film is constructed entirely from audio interviews and raw, contemporaneous archives; including the personal archives of the featured artists and their contemporaries, found footage, Dv tapes unearthed from the shelves and storage units of New York music fans, cultural artefacts of a time and place on the cusp of seismic change.

The award-winning filmmakers behind “Shut Up And Play The Hits” and “Blur: No Distance...

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“This doesn’t feel like a normal fashion event,” Maggie Rogers said after landing in the lobby just before 8 p.m. on Thursday to attend Celine at The Wiltern, Hedi Slimane’s runway presentation for the French fashion house’s winter ’23 collection. “What I’m so excited for tonight is that being at The Wiltern feels incredibly creative and it has the ability to catch someone off guard. That’s when people get creative, when they can sense creativity in the air and be surprised.”

Rogers was right — this was not an average fashion function. From the moment Celine announced it would be presenting in L.A. by taking over the marquee at the iconic venue on the corner of Western and Wilshire, fashion insiders were buzzing about the spectacle to come.

Slimane, who called L.A. home for years, had not presented...

There are six UK productions and four UK co-productions in the line-up.

The UK is well represented in the 2023 edition of Utah-based festival Sundance, with debut features including Girl, Scrapper, Rye Lane and documentary Is There Anybody Out There? joining the line-up, which was announced in full yesterday (December 7). Five of the UK filmmakers selected are Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

This year’s festival takes place as a hybrid event, running from January 19-29 as an in-person event, with a selection of films available online from January 24-29.

Six UK productions and four UK co-productions have made the 99-strong line-up...

“The Fabelmans” (Universal) and “Bones and All” (United Artists), two very different films playing platform runs in New York and Los Angeles, will go wider this Wednesday after respectable debuts.

Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal love story costarring Timothée Chalamet opened at five theaters with about 120,000, drawing an overwhelmingly under-35 audience as anticipated. This tricky-sell story got the start UA expected.

This is a tough title for comparisons, but it does have some overlap with A24 genre titles. Most recently, it opened “Bodies Bodies Bodies” to 226,000 in six theaters last August with a more conventional horror audience appeal.

This expands to over 2,500 theaters Wednesday. Whatever the results, this will likely find post-theatrical interest.

Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” (Universal), with hopes for strong word of mouth to propel it, dropped about 40 percent its second weekend at its initial four theaters (all also played “Bones”). These days, distributors count on these platforms...

The implosion of cryptocurrency platform Ftx and its increasingly infamous founder Sam Bankman-Fried is the subject of a new documentary from premium nonfiction studio Xtr.

The company behind docs including “They Call Me Magic,” “Meet Me in the Bathroom” and the Emmy and Peabody award-winning “76 Days” is already in production on the untitled Ftx feature. Oscar nominee and Emmy winner David Darg is directing and presently on the ground in the Bahamas, where Ftx is headquartered and where Bankman-Fried is currently being questioned by securities officials.

The project touts “unprecedented access to key players at Ftx and the cryptocurrency community.” The doc “will explore the corporate drama that upended markets, sparked government investigations and sent shock waves through an industry still battling to gain mainstream credibility,” the filmmakers told Variety.

The international scandal has riveted the entertainment and media sector over the past month, since Ftx’s liquidity was called into question.

On the weekend after elections, there’s no better time to recognize that early numbers don’t always reflect final results. Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” (Universal) grossed 160,000 in four theaters, for a 40,000 per-theater average. That isn’t impressive at first glance, but recent precedent — from the same studio, using the same distribution strategy — suggests that could change.

Platform films initially focus on creating word of mouth, particularly in awards-sensitive New York and Los Angeles. Compared to many other platform releases, “Fabelmans” fell short. However, in 2018 “Green Book” opened in 25 theaters to 320,000, or about 13,000 per theater. The PTA at its four New York/Los Angeles locations skewed higher, with 25,000. At the end of a very long run, it grossed 85 million domestic.

Like “Green Book,” Spielberg’s film won the often Oscar-predictive audience prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. “The Fabelmans” bona fides include an 86 Metacritic score, the best for any studio release this year,...

The best scene in Meet Me In the Bathroom, the excellent new documentary on the rock & roll scene that slouched into New York in the beginning of the 21st century: a parking lot under the Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, Labor Day weekend, 2002. An afternoon punk show, maybe semi-quasi-not-illegal. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing; so are the Liars and Oneida and the Rogers Sisters. The parking lot is packed with kids, crammed onto roofs, balconies, the nearby bridge. Neighbors stare out of apartment windows. I’m down in the crowd. In the footage here,...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsi ran from it and was still in it.The Filmmaker Magazine editorial staff shared their annual roster of 25 New Faces of Independent Film, including Antonio Marziale, Darol Olu Kae, Lucy Kerr, and more.John Waters will return to directing with Liarmouth, an adaptation of his own novel of the same name. It will be his first film since 2004’s A Dirty Shame. The Edinburgh International Film Festival has been shut down after the charity that runs it, the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), announced it has called in administrators and made 102 out of the 107 current staff redundant. Mark Cousins wrote about the closure of the “feminist, unbridled, Nonconformist Scottish and passionately international” festival in the Guardian. The legendary actress Angela Lansbury died this week at age 96. "She moved so easily between film,...

The birth of The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Moldy Peaches, The Rapture, TV On The Radio, Liars, and more bands integral to the 2000s NYC indie music scene gets captured in the new documentary Meet Me in the Bathroom. Adapted from Lizzy Goodman’s book by directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the archival documentary will open on November 4th at the IFC Center in New York and the Los Feliz Theatre in Los Angeles, then have one-night-only nationwide screenings on November 8, followed by a Showtime streaming premiere on November 25. Ahead of that release, the first trailer and poster have arrived.

David Katz said in his review, “Meet Me in the Bathroom, adapted from Lizzy Goodman’s well-received oral history published in 2017, reckons with this somewhat but still seems designed as a nostalgia piece, a reminder, and maybe a reintroduction to a current generation of music...

Utopia has acquired Participant’s feature documentary “Unseen Skies,” which the U.S. distributor will release on Sept. 13.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Yaara Bou Melhem, “Unseen Skies” explores the evolution of state and corporate surveillance. The film follows American artist and geographer Trevor Paglen as he launches an artwork called “Orbital Reflector” into space, visible with the naked eye from Earth, to highlight the global impact of technology in the modern world.

Having achieved international notoriety for his conceptual art, which fuses photography and large-scale multidisciplinary events, Paglen’s work reveals the largely unseen power structures of technology and surveillance that shape, impact and increasingly define the framework of our lives.

A MacArthur Genius award winner and author, Paglen is known for his photography documenting the black ops sites of government surveillance and data collection, as well as installations such as Sight Machine, in which the musical group Kronos Quartet...

The Nashville Film Festival announced the full lineup Friday for a fall gathering of filmgoers in Music City that will begin with the Brandi Carlile-produced documentary “The Return of Tanya Tucker” as the gala opening on Sept. 29 and end with director Sacha Jenkins’ “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” for closing night on Oct. 5.

The 53rd annual edition of the festival will take place both in-person and virtually, with a selection of more than 150 films that includes 38 full-length features, about 30 of which will be world, North American or U.S. premieres.

Although the virtual component continues to be strong for the festival, its leaders note that of the 150 or so films in the festival, more than 50 will screen for audiences in Nashville venues, starting with the Tanya Tucker doc, which will be seen in the historic main auditorium of the city’s beloved Belcourt Theater, one of the original homes of the Grand Ole Opry.

Utopia and Showtime have partnered to acquire “Meet Me in the Bathroom,” the documentary film about the early 2000s New York City rock and roll scene that made its premiere at this year’s Sundance.

Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern directed the film that’s based on the 2017 book by Lizzy Goodman. Goodman’s book is a comprehensive oral history of the bands that redefined the rock scene in the early 2000s and late ’90s, including The Strokes, Interpol, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and more. The film specifically is an assemble of archival footage from that era and forgoes talking head interviews, instead featuring rare early performances and behind the scenes looks at NYC’s top bands.

Utopia will release the film theatrically in theaters later this year, and Showtime will air “Meet Me in the Bathroom” by the end of 2022.

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Utopia and Showtime have acquired the North American rights to Pulse Films’ “Meet Me in the Bathroom,” a documentary about the explosion of rock ‘n’ roll that helped define the early 2000s in New York City and ushered in a new generation of musical talent. The film, which is directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Utopia will release “Meet Me in the Bathroom” in theaters later this year. The film will air on Showtime at the end of 2022.

Based on the hit 2017 oral history of the same name by Lizzy Goodman, “Meet Me in the Bathroom” says it “tells the story of the last great romantic age of rock,” one that looks at the impact that bands like The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol had on revitalizing the cultural life of a reeling, post-9/11 city. To tell its story of this pivotal moment in music,...

Brand executive Rich Santiago has joined Vice Media Group as senior vice president of brand strategy and creative experience, Variety has learned exclusively. He will report to Nadja Bellan-White, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Vice Media Group, who announced the news on Wednesday.

Santiago joins the company from Meta (formerly Facebook), and will partner with Vice’s existing creative and editorial teams.

“Vice Media is an innovative media company that consistently delivers thought provoking and edgy news and content,” said Bellan-White. “Rich’s addition to our growing team will elevate our creative work across all Vmg brands.”

Santiago added that the company “continues to skyrocket with their award-winning, impactful content and storytelling. Now, more than ever, I am honored to join this team of creative and thought-provoking minds as we navigate new and exciting frontiers.”

Prior to joining Vice Media, Santiago was a creative leader at Bbdo Worldwide, Meta (formerly Facebook), Live Nation,...

Vice Media Group has taken full control of “Gangs of London” producer Pulse Films.

Pulse co-founders Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford, who founded the edgy production outfit back in 2005, have departed the company following the takeover, although Variety understands it was their decision to step down ahead of the acquisition. It’s believed the duo will continue to work together in another capacity.

Vice took a controlling stake in Pulse Films in 2016, long before the youth-skewing media brand overseen by Nancy Dubuc launched its own in-house production arm in Vice Studios. Pulse won’t be folded into the company, Variety can confirm, and will remain a distinct brand.

Pulse will be managed by the newly appointed global creative director of non-fiction Diene Petterle; chief operating officer of scripted Jamie Hall; and global president of commercials and entertainment Davud Karbassioun. They will all report into Vice Studios CEO Kate Ward.

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Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox), which runs in-person March 21-April 3, has revealed the lineup for its music program, Sound & Vision.

Highlights of the program, which contains 18 films, include a Nick Cave documentary, a look at the rise and fall of Sinéad O’Connor’s music career, the story behind Leonard Cohen’s hit “Hallelujah,” and an examinations of an album composed by artificial intelligence. The music of Leonard Bernstein, Stockhausen, Xxxtentaction and a feminist metal band from Lebanon will also feature.

Although people have been singing along to Cohen’s “Hallelujah” for more than 40 years, it flopped when it was first released in 1984. The documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” takes us through Cohen’s career and the creation of “Hallelujah,” which he worked on for seven years.

Cave’s film “This Much I Know to Be True” focuses on an intimate concert experience, and also provides...

Considering the myriad of exciting topics and subtopics packed within the running time of Meet Me In The Bathroom -- Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s impressively dense adaptation of Lizzy Goodman’s loaded oral history of the New York music scene to emerge from the new millennium -- I found the film pretty challenging to review. (It didn't help that I also had covid.) Suffice it to say, as artifacts go, in this strange new age of hyper-documented reality, so much of which is written on the walls of this film, I think it's a pretty important chapter of the American rockumentary canon, if not a century-culminating bookend. It seems that eras are only truly defined in retrospect and, now that we’re finally able to unpack...

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Adapting Lizzy Goodman’s novel of the same name, Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s Meet Me in the Bathroom captures the essence of late-90s, early-2000s New York, covering the periods right before and after 9/11. For primarily capturing the rise of the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem, it represents a nostalgia for a time of independence, a moment in which an entire music scene could bloom out of near nothingness. Full of live concert footage and archival interviews, the documentary finds the two U.K.-based filmmakers embracing the shaggy, messy nature of the bands they’re depicting.

Ten years after their LCD Soundsytem concert doc Shut Up and Play the Hits, the directors assemble a mythological picture of New York, a city bursting at the seams with new musicians and a new wave of rock. Julian Casablancas of the Strokes and Karen O of the...

With nearly every feature film at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival reviewed, it’s time to wrap up the first major cinema event of the year. We already got the official jury and audience winners here, and now it’s time to highlight our favorites.

Our Sundance contributors have shared their top picks from the festival, also including a handful of shorts (with a more substantial shorts overview coming soon). Check out everything below and stay tuned to our site, and specifically Twitter, for acquisition and release date news on the below films in the coming months.

Mitchell Beaupre

1. Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford)

2. After Yang (kogonada)

3. Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup)

4. God’s Country (Julian Higgins)

5. A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)

6. Resurrection (Andrew Semans)

7. Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu)

8. Happening (Audrey Diwan)

9. Emergency (Carey Williams)

10. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde)

John Fink

1. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier...

An accurate measure of great music would probably be connected to longevity. In other words the notion that an individual song or album will sound as rewarding after the 20th play as the first, or more relevantly for this documentary, as exciting 20 years after the more innocent days of 2002.

For the music and music scene on display in Meet Me in the Bathroom––a documentary chronicle of NYC’s turn-of-the-millennium indie-band boom directed by British duo Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (who also made LCD Soundsystem study Shut Up and Play the Hits)––a vital attribute, as opposed to mere quality, is “cool.” And viewing this film conjures flicking leftwards, rather than rightwards, on your Facebook profile picture, cringing slightly at those low-resolution mementos from the mid-00s. If “good” is more arguable, the likes of the Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD now seem conclusively uncool while the...

Bookended by a near-identical juxtaposition of sound and fury, directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s “Meet Me in the Bathroom” starts and ends like a messy, wannabe Jules Dassin cityscape film seen through a grunge filter. “Manhattan crowds with their turbulent musical chorus, Manhattan faces, and eyes, forever for me,” our narrator reads as we see riotous anger take to the streets. Following the evolution and rise of several now-legendary groups (in select circles) such as The Strokes, Interpol, TV on the Radio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem, ‘Bathroom,’ chronicles the journey of those in a musical movement who felt they were “slipping out of existence” and “didn’t have a place to play,” finding new direction and fame with the rise of the “anti-folk scene” in New York spots like the Mercury Lounge and Sidewalk Café.

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In the opening sequence of Juan Pablo González’s second feature, Dos Estaciones, Dp Gerardo Guerra’s Steadicam roves a tequila farm’s fields as workers chop down agave plants; when they pause for lunch, the camera pans equally slowly, seemingly without planning, to bring whoever’s speaking into frame. In these opening moments, Dos Estaciones could be any one of a number of post-Lisandro Alonso films composed of tracking shots, slow pans and nonprofessional performances by Latin American laborers, differentiated only by the skill and specifics of their execution. A static shot then introduces farm owner, Maria Garcia (Teresa Sánchez), trying and failing to start her […]

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In the opening sequence of Juan Pablo González’s second feature, Dos Estaciones, Dp Gerardo Guerra’s Steadicam roves a tequila farm’s fields as workers chop down agave plants; when they pause for lunch, the camera pans equally slowly, seemingly without planning, to bring whoever’s speaking into frame. In these opening moments, Dos Estaciones could be any one of a number of post-Lisandro Alonso films composed of tracking shots, slow pans and nonprofessional performances by Latin American laborers, differentiated only by the skill and specifics of their execution. A static shot then introduces farm owner, Maria Garcia (Teresa Sánchez), trying and failing to start her […]

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