Devo, the rock band best known for 1980 hit “Whip It,” is getting the documentary treatment.
The project marks the first authorized documentary about the band, which featured the classic lineup of Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casales and Alan Myers.
Chris Smith, who directed Netflix’s Fyre, about the troubled Fyre Festival, and Tiger King, will helm the doc.
It comes from BMG, Fremantle Documentaries, and Warner Music Entertainment with Vice Studios and Library Films producing in association with Mutato Entertainment.
The untitled doc, which is currently in production, tells the story of the band that formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973, in the wake of the Kent State massacre.
It will feature a mix of archival footage and interviews from other characters in their orbit.
Producers include Anita Greenspan and Chris Holmes for Mutato Entertainment, exec produers are William Kennedy, Stuart Souter, and Kathy Rivkin Daum for BMG,...
The project marks the first authorized documentary about the band, which featured the classic lineup of Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casales and Alan Myers.
Chris Smith, who directed Netflix’s Fyre, about the troubled Fyre Festival, and Tiger King, will helm the doc.
It comes from BMG, Fremantle Documentaries, and Warner Music Entertainment with Vice Studios and Library Films producing in association with Mutato Entertainment.
The untitled doc, which is currently in production, tells the story of the band that formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973, in the wake of the Kent State massacre.
It will feature a mix of archival footage and interviews from other characters in their orbit.
Producers include Anita Greenspan and Chris Holmes for Mutato Entertainment, exec produers are William Kennedy, Stuart Souter, and Kathy Rivkin Daum for BMG,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Grateful Dead isn’t just a band. It is a social phenomenon. But as a band, it had one major superpower, the greatest Pa system in the world. It is only fitting Z2 Comics would want to include them in their roster of music-affiliated graphic novels. Their upcoming Grateful Dead Origins chronicles the history of jamband culture.
“Jerry Garcia was an avid comic book enthusiast so it is incredibly fitting to have the Grateful Dead’s origin story told in graphic novel form,” Rhino Entertainment President Mark Pinkus, said in a statement. “Z2’s passion for the band’s music and mythology make them the perfect partner to bring the story to life. It has been inspiring to watch the novel’s artwork evolve over the last year and I’m excited that Dead Heads now get to have a preview.”
The Grateful Dead and Z2 Comics will first make...
“Jerry Garcia was an avid comic book enthusiast so it is incredibly fitting to have the Grateful Dead’s origin story told in graphic novel form,” Rhino Entertainment President Mark Pinkus, said in a statement. “Z2’s passion for the band’s music and mythology make them the perfect partner to bring the story to life. It has been inspiring to watch the novel’s artwork evolve over the last year and I’m excited that Dead Heads now get to have a preview.”
The Grateful Dead and Z2 Comics will first make...
- 4/7/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Epix announced the premiere dates for several of its original programs Saturday at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour.
Season 3 of the dark comedy Get Shorty will premiere on October 6. Slow Burn, a six-episode docuseries based on the popular Slate podcast by the same name, will premiere on November 24. Alive, about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, premieres November 9, and the documentary Laurel Canyon is set to air in December. Additional details are below.
Get Shorty, Season 3
Premieres Sunday, October 6 at 10Pm
The dark comedy from MGM Television, based in part on the 1990s bestselling Elmore Leonard
novel of the same name and created for television by Davey Holmes (Shameless), will return
this fall with seven all-new episodes. Season 3 will see Miles Daly, newly released from
prison, in a cat and mouse game with studio head Laurence Budd, while Amara and Rick flee to
the Guatemalan jungle to escape the FBI.
Season 3 of the dark comedy Get Shorty will premiere on October 6. Slow Burn, a six-episode docuseries based on the popular Slate podcast by the same name, will premiere on November 24. Alive, about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, premieres November 9, and the documentary Laurel Canyon is set to air in December. Additional details are below.
Get Shorty, Season 3
Premieres Sunday, October 6 at 10Pm
The dark comedy from MGM Television, based in part on the 1990s bestselling Elmore Leonard
novel of the same name and created for television by Davey Holmes (Shameless), will return
this fall with seven all-new episodes. Season 3 will see Miles Daly, newly released from
prison, in a cat and mouse game with studio head Laurence Budd, while Amara and Rick flee to
the Guatemalan jungle to escape the FBI.
- 7/27/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Sokol Jun 5, 2019
The Grateful Dead had a special affinity to film, and celluloid liked the Dead. Mystery show will be announced when tix are on sale.
The Grateful Dead were always up front about their love for movies. Before he died, Jerry Garcia went on Turner Movie Classics to rhapsodize about about Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and continued the discussion in the recent documentary on the band. Their best-known concert film, The Grateful Dead Movie, caught the band at Winterland in San Francisco on October 16-20, 1974, can still be found as a midnight cult movie, where followers can get together and enjoy the shared experience. Now they want to get together globally. The 2019 edition of “Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies” is going worldwide, according to Variety.
The 2019 “Meet-Up At The Movies” is a one-night event happening on Garcia's birthday, August 1st. The event will uphold its nine...
The Grateful Dead had a special affinity to film, and celluloid liked the Dead. Mystery show will be announced when tix are on sale.
The Grateful Dead were always up front about their love for movies. Before he died, Jerry Garcia went on Turner Movie Classics to rhapsodize about about Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and continued the discussion in the recent documentary on the band. Their best-known concert film, The Grateful Dead Movie, caught the band at Winterland in San Francisco on October 16-20, 1974, can still be found as a midnight cult movie, where followers can get together and enjoy the shared experience. Now they want to get together globally. The 2019 edition of “Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies” is going worldwide, according to Variety.
The 2019 “Meet-Up At The Movies” is a one-night event happening on Garcia's birthday, August 1st. The event will uphold its nine...
- 6/5/2019
- Den of Geek
The ninth installment of the “Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies” will be seen in theaters around the world after Trafalgar Releasing signed on as the distribution partner for the annual event.
Rhino Entertainment, part of Warner Music Group, oversees Grateful Dead properties. Trafalgar replaces Fathom as its partner on the Grateful Dead event, which sees a concert from the iconic band and related footage shown in theaters for one night only each year. It has become a major draw for the group’s fans, known as Dead Heads.
The Meet-Up has traditionally run in the U.S. and there has been an attempt to launch it in the U.K., but on a different date from the U.S. The 2019 plans mark the first time it will play internationally and on the same day. Trafalgar is doing deals now and the film will play in Europe, North America, and Australasia.
Rhino Entertainment, part of Warner Music Group, oversees Grateful Dead properties. Trafalgar replaces Fathom as its partner on the Grateful Dead event, which sees a concert from the iconic band and related footage shown in theaters for one night only each year. It has become a major draw for the group’s fans, known as Dead Heads.
The Meet-Up has traditionally run in the U.S. and there has been an attempt to launch it in the U.K., but on a different date from the U.S. The 2019 plans mark the first time it will play internationally and on the same day. Trafalgar is doing deals now and the film will play in Europe, North America, and Australasia.
- 6/4/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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