Elvis Presley's death was earlier this month on August 16, 2022. The King of Rock and Roll was found dead at his home, Graceland, in 1977, by his fiancée, Ginger Alden. His only child, Lisa Marie Presley, was just next door.
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Peter Jackson’s mesmerizing Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back was supposed to be a six-hour immersion into the recording of Let It Be and the last live concert by rock music’s most famous band before they split up and headed toward solo careers.
“I didn’t want to make the movie about the Beatles breaking up,” Jackson told Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline’s Contenders TV: The Nominees panel. “It’s not a film about a band that’s breaking up — it’s about a band that’s trying not to break up.”
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But what was a final-cut director and bona fide Beatles fan to do when he was given access to the 60 hours of raw footage that Michael Lindsay-Hogg shot back in 1969, and twice that many audio recordings? Jackson found previously unseen treasures that ranged from the moment classic songs like “Get Back” and “Let It Be” were born, to a moment when George Harrison briefly quit the band to discovering the reason why the Beatles really broke up (it had nothing to do with Yoko Ono). And even mundane moments like bantering and horseplay among mates Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
“They have individual passions,” Jackson said, “but they want to be the pre-famous Beatles.”
Jackson turned in a cut that was 90 minutes longer than agreed upon, and even he said he was surprised when no one even raised an eyebrow or questioned it.
“Looking at seven or eight hours of footage each day that will be reduced to three minutes for the movie … we were able to include things in the film that we thought were important, but there’s wonderful stuff that we couldn’t include,” the filmmaker said. “I made sure that the historically important things were in there.”
He also cut
Elvis Presley's death was earlier this month on August 16, 2022. The King of Rock and Roll was found dead at his home, Graceland, in 1977, by his fiancée, Ginger Alden. His only child, Lisa Marie Presley, was just next door.
While the summer can sometimes be a strange time in the TV schedule, plenty of dramas are due to air over the coming months. Some big releases are coming to the BBC, Amazon, and Netflix, among many others.
A disgruntled father has slammed Manchester Airport as a 'ghastly place to travel from' after his daughter and wife suffered delays while travelling on separate flights from Manchester to Toronto.
Elvis Presley's death kicked off celebrations of Elvis Week earlier this month. The King of Rock and Roll was found dead at his home, Graceland, on August 16, 1977. Despite being dead for almost half a century, his music is still adored to this day by his fans - old and new.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAuckland, New Zealand-based financier Hillfarrance Venture Capital is backing a team of former Weta Digital staff in their new VFX venture Wellington-based Floating Rock Studios. Founded in 2020 by Laurent Herveic, Lukas Niklaus, Stephanie Parker and Garrick Rawlingson, Floating Rock Studios bills itself as a high-end animation and VFX provider for movies, commercials and video game cinematics.
It’s one thing to have the moves like Jagger — it’s another to wow Mick Jagger so much he starts dancing in the studio. However, such pinch-me moments have become common for “Sugar” singer Francesco Yates, whose musical rise has also seen him make his mark with Drake, tour with Justin Timberlake, and get memorable advice from Sir Paul McCartney.
The Lord of the Rings: The is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 2 but eager fans will get a chance to watch the first two episodes on the big screen days before. Amazon teamed up with Cinemark to screen the debut episodes on August 31 for one night only.
J. Kim Murphy Middle-earth may be going from film to television with Amazon’s new series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” but it turns out that that doesn’t mean the franchise is done with the big screen. The show will screen its first two episodes at fan events across the world on Aug.
Directed and shaped by filmmaker Peter Jackson—based on footage shot by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the little-seen 1970 “Let It Be” documentary— perhaps no piece of pop culture has reignited Beatlemania like the documentary “Beatles: Get Back,” save for maybe the “The Beatles Anthology” docu-series in 1995. Released last fall to much acclaimed, Jackson’s gargantuan six-hour, three-episode long series put the band in a whole new light for a whole new generation, recontextualizing previously unseen footage of the band writing, practicing, and recording their final album before their infamous breakup.
Randy Rainbow comes for both sides of the aisle in his newest parody song. But in the end, the real message is for Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice: “Get your s— together” and criminally charge Donald Trump.Of course, the video kicks off much the same way all of Rainbow’s songs do; he comes for the right first. This time, instead of taking on his usual persona of an anchor for “Fake News Channel,” Rainbow fills in for Liz Cheney, presiding over the Jan.
statement. “I am thrilled to see what lies in the future for this IP with Freemode and Asmodee as a start within the group.”The rights to the titles were previously owned by The Saul Zaentz Company, after acquiring them from the heirs and estate of J.R.R.
John Lennon’s son Julian was shocked by his father being brought “back to life” during Sir Paul McCartney’s shows. Lennon has been digitally ‘resurrected’ using video and artificial intelligence to perform duets with Sir Paul, including one of the 1969 track ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’ at the singer’s Glastonbury headline slot this year. The stunt was masterminded by The Beatles documentary ‘Get Back’ filmmaker Peter Jackson, who used “machine learning technology” to isolate Lennon's vocals from old recordings and arrange them into a copy of a live performance.
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.The filmmaker said that he wished he could experience the films like a regular fan once they were released, and approached Derren Brown to potentially help him.“When we did The Lord Of The Rings movies, I always felt I was the unlucky person who never got to see [them] as a coming-out-of-the-blue film,” Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.“By the time they were screening, I was immersed in it for five or six years. It was such a loss for me not be able to see them like everyone else.”He added: “I actually did seriously consider going to some hypnotherapy guy to hypnotise me to make me forget about the films and the work I had done over the last six or seven years so I could sit and enjoy them.
A version of this story about the Beatles first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Comedy issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.They formed in the late 1950s, changed the world in 1964 and broke up in 1970. Two of them died, one in 1980 and one in 2001.
A caustic, typewritten letter from John Lennon to Paul McCartney is expected to garner up to $40,000 via an ongoing auction.
the Hollywood Reporter that he “seriously considered” using hypnosis to forget all his work on the film series.But his reasoning behind wanting to erase his memories wasn’t because of any poor experiences — he simply wanted to experience the movies as a regular fan.“When we did ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movies I always felt I was the unlucky person who never got to see as a coming-out-of-the-blue film,” Jackson, 60, said. “By the time there were screenings, I was immersed in it for five or six years.
Peter Jackson has said that he was ghosted by the makers of the upcoming Amazon Prime Video Lord Of The Rings series.The anticipated new show The Rings Of Power is due to premiere next month, and is set thousands of years before the events of Jackson’s landmark film trilogy, which were released around two decades ago.The director has now said that he was approached by the show to be involved, and was told he would receive scripts, though didn’t hear anything further after that.“They asked me if I wanted to be involved — [writer-producer Fran Walsh] and I — and I said, ‘That’s an impossible question to answer without seeing a script,’” Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.“So they said, ‘As soon as we get the first couple scripts, we’ll send them to you.’ And the scripts never showed up. That’s the last thing I heard, which is fine.
Kiwi director Peter Jackson helped revolutionize modern studio blockbusters with his original “Lord of The Rings” trilogy, using practical effects in conjunction with newly developed CGI effects from his companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. These companies would later help bring James Cameron’s “Avatar” to life.
An angry letter that John Lennon wrote to Paul McCartney in the wake of the breakup of The Beatles is going up for auction.