Sox Entertainment, the production and distribution company of former top CBS distribution executive Scott Koondel, has acquired the 2001 Imax concert movie All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!. The film, produced two decades ago for theatrical distribution exclusively on IMAX, will be taken to the marketplace shortly, targeting global streamers. All Access has never been exposed to digital platforms; the film is available for broadcast and streaming for the first time after a 10-year distribution moratorium.
Directed by Martyn Atkins and produced by Ideal Entertainment, the one-hour music documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of putting on a mega-concert. The documentary combines candid backstage moments, including rehearsals, sound checks and conversations, with musical performances by Grammy-winning artists such as Santana, Sting, Sheryl Crow and Dave Matthews Band. Other featured artists include B.B. King, Al Green, George Clinton, Moby, Mary J. Blige, Kid Rock, Macy Gray, Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas,...
Directed by Martyn Atkins and produced by Ideal Entertainment, the one-hour music documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of putting on a mega-concert. The documentary combines candid backstage moments, including rehearsals, sound checks and conversations, with musical performances by Grammy-winning artists such as Santana, Sting, Sheryl Crow and Dave Matthews Band. Other featured artists include B.B. King, Al Green, George Clinton, Moby, Mary J. Blige, Kid Rock, Macy Gray, Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas,...
- 3/3/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
In the Eighties and Nineties, the Grateful Dead played a series of Bay Area concerts celebrating the Chinese New Year. Now, Bob Weir and his group Wolf Bros will revive that tradition: On February 12th, Weir and Wolf Bros — Don Was on bass and Jay Lane on drums — will broadcast a full show from Weir’s Tri Studios in celebration of the holiday.
The performance will air at 9 p.m. Est on Fans, and will also feature Jeff Chimenti on keyboards and Greg Leisz on pedal steel.
The performance follows...
The performance will air at 9 p.m. Est on Fans, and will also feature Jeff Chimenti on keyboards and Greg Leisz on pedal steel.
The performance follows...
- 2/5/2021
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
For more than 30 years, the Jazz Foundation of America has worked to keep jazz, blues and R&b alive by providing assistance to musicians in need. The non-profit provides everything from housing assistance to teaching jobs to hundreds of musicians and has helped artists with basic living expenses during the Covid-19 crisis.
To raise funds for the foundation, drummer Steve Jordan and promotor Peter Shapiro are staging Red, White, Black & Blues, a 16-hour journey through black American live music. Beginning on Saturday, July 25th at 9 a.m., Shapiro’s Fans.
To raise funds for the foundation, drummer Steve Jordan and promotor Peter Shapiro are staging Red, White, Black & Blues, a 16-hour journey through black American live music. Beginning on Saturday, July 25th at 9 a.m., Shapiro’s Fans.
- 7/21/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
This is the 12th installment of Rolling Stone’s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. This edition features Peter Shapiro — renowned concert promoter and owner of Brooklyn Bowl, the Capitol Theatre, and Relix Magazine — who’s doing his best to envision the future of live music.
In the 25 years since he took over New York’s Nineties jam-band haven Wetlands, Peter Shapiro has become known for pulling off impossible stunts. The concert promoter once approached Robert Plant...
In the 25 years since he took over New York’s Nineties jam-band haven Wetlands, Peter Shapiro has become known for pulling off impossible stunts. The concert promoter once approached Robert Plant...
- 5/21/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
This year marks five years since B.B. King’s death, but the thrill of King’s music will live on during two ambitious nights: February 16th and 17th, 2020, at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.
The Thrill Is Gone: A Tribute to B.B. King will be an an all-star concert featuring Anthony Hamilton, Bob Margolin, Bobby Rush, Buddy Guy, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Ivan Neville, Jamey Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, John Scofield, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Little Steven, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Shemekia Copeland, Southside Johnny, Steve Cropper, Susan Tedeschi,...
The Thrill Is Gone: A Tribute to B.B. King will be an an all-star concert featuring Anthony Hamilton, Bob Margolin, Bobby Rush, Buddy Guy, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Ivan Neville, Jamey Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, John Scofield, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Little Steven, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Shemekia Copeland, Southside Johnny, Steve Cropper, Susan Tedeschi,...
- 1/15/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
In a year full of major 50th anniversary commemorations — from Woodstock to the moon landing — why not one for “Easy Rider,” Dennis Hopper’s hippie-biker flick that was released on July 14, 1969?
That was the idea when a rep for Peter Fonda, who starred in the film as the laid-back Captain America, reached out to New York impresario Peter Shapiro and Live Nation earlier this year about staging an event where the movie would be screened with the soundtrack performed live by some of the legendary musicians who appeared on it.
When Friday night’s “Easy Rider Live” show at Radio City Hall Music in New York was announced in late July, Fonda had not yet passed away from lung cancer. Before his death at age 79 on August 16, Fonda encouraged fans to come, saying, “Enjoy the new print. Sing along with the songs. Laugh with the humor! Remember the spirit! Find the love.
That was the idea when a rep for Peter Fonda, who starred in the film as the laid-back Captain America, reached out to New York impresario Peter Shapiro and Live Nation earlier this year about staging an event where the movie would be screened with the soundtrack performed live by some of the legendary musicians who appeared on it.
When Friday night’s “Easy Rider Live” show at Radio City Hall Music in New York was announced in late July, Fonda had not yet passed away from lung cancer. Before his death at age 79 on August 16, Fonda encouraged fans to come, saying, “Enjoy the new print. Sing along with the songs. Laugh with the humor! Remember the spirit! Find the love.
- 9/21/2019
- by Steve Bloom
- Variety Film + TV
“Easy Rider” wasn’t born to be live, necessarily, but it will be, now, with a combination of screening and live performance set to take place at Radio City Music Hall Sept. 20. The film’s key original soundtrack artists, John Kay of Steppenwolf and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, are on board to reprise their songs from the film, and T Bone Burnett has been enlisted to direct the musical performances.
“Peter Fonda’s team reached out to see if I’d be interested in exploring ideas for the film’s 50th anniversary,” says Dayglo Presents’ Peter Shapiro, who’s presenting the show in partnership with Live Nation. The combination of music and visual is his forte, as he’s been responsible for putting everything from “U23D” to the Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” on cinema screens. The approach he came up with for this was not unlike...
“Peter Fonda’s team reached out to see if I’d be interested in exploring ideas for the film’s 50th anniversary,” says Dayglo Presents’ Peter Shapiro, who’s presenting the show in partnership with Live Nation. The combination of music and visual is his forte, as he’s been responsible for putting everything from “U23D” to the Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” on cinema screens. The approach he came up with for this was not unlike...
- 7/29/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Distributor plans theatrical release on singer/songwriter.
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights to the documentary about singer/songwriter John Prine documentary tentatively titled John Prine: Hello In There.
Zachary Fuhrer directs the feature, which is in post-production and tells the story of the mysterious performer who broke out with an album he wrote while a Chicago postman, and went on to create an occasionally surreal body of work that included Angel From Montgomery.
Production began as Prine prepared to release his first album in 13 years, and followed him throug a resurgence that took him from Radio City Music Hall...
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights to the documentary about singer/songwriter John Prine documentary tentatively titled John Prine: Hello In There.
Zachary Fuhrer directs the feature, which is in post-production and tells the story of the mysterious performer who broke out with an album he wrote while a Chicago postman, and went on to create an occasionally surreal body of work that included Angel From Montgomery.
Production began as Prine prepared to release his first album in 13 years, and followed him throug a resurgence that took him from Radio City Music Hall...
- 2/10/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Phil Lesh & Very Special Friends will headline a voter participation benefit concert at New York’s Apollo Theater on September 7th on a bill that also includes the Harlem Gospel Choir, Terrapin Family Band, Nicki Bluhm, Talib Kweli and Robert Randolph. Formally billed as Don’t Tell Me This Country Ain’t Go No Heart: A Benefit for Voter Participation, the event will raise money for HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that promotes involvement in democracy. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 17th at 12:00 Edt. The show will also be streamed online.
- 8/15/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The trippy circus that follows the Grateful Dead descended on Chicago en masse as the first of the three-night Fare Thee Well, the final performances by the core four -- Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, along with guest musicians Trey Anastasio from Phish and keyboardists Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti -- got out of the gates smoothly. The attendance of 70,764 shattered Soldier Field’s post-renovation attendance record of 67,936 set by U2 360 in 2009. The morning after the opening show, Peter Shapiro, co-producer of Fare Thee Well with Aeg’s Madison House, says the show came off well logistically. “One [show] in out of
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- 7/4/2015
- by Ray Waddell, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When U2 performed in South America in 2006 after an eight-year hiatus, they decided to bring some high-tech goodies along with them to mark the occasion.
The resulting souvenir, U2 3D, takes the well-traveled concert film to exhilarating new heights.
Billed as the first digital 3-D, multicamera, real-time production, this feature-length feast for the eyes and ears (thanks to the all-enveloping 5.1 Surround Sound), re-creates the U2 live experience without interruptions by the intrusive, talky backstage filler that seems to have become obligatory in the recorded "live" genre.
Instead, the docu serves up prime U2 in a startlingly rendered, state-of-the-art arena that truly raises the bar for headache-free 3-D technology.
Previewed last year at the Festival de Cannes in a version that was about a half-hour shorter, the finished edition will ensure both the fans of the band and the high-tech geeks will find what they are looking for when it follows its Jan. 19 Sundance screening with a limited release through National Geographic Entertainment starting Jan. 23, exclusively in 3-D digital and Imax theaters.
From the opening one-two punch of Vertigo and "It's a Beautiful Day," both the band and directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington effectively set the elevating tone.
Blending together performances from Vertigo Tour stops in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo as well as Mexico City and Santiago, the filmmakers succeed in ripping down that wall between and stage and the audience, and, in the process, create a team atmosphere that's perfectly in keeping with the band's "we're all in this together" philosophy.
Even with those sky-high Jumbotron screens and those fully dimensional mike stands that appear to take on a life of their own here, the mood is remarkably intimate.
Co-directors Pellington (before he became a feature director, he helmed U2's "One" video) and Owens are careful not to overplay the 3-D card -- utilizing advanced technology developed by 3ality Digital -- too early in the game.
They reserve the best effect for what is arguably the film's centerpiece, in which the band's early hit, Sunday, Bloody Sunday becomes an impassioned prayer for world peace with Bono (in fine vocal form) extending an outstretched arm over the crowd and, seemingly, through the screen, hovering right in front of the theater viewer in a plea for Christians, Jews and Muslims to put aside their differences.
In lesser hands, what might have come across as overly theatrical, packs a quietly potent impact.
Somehow, after experiencing U2 3D, the old iPod starts looking a little yellow around the edges.
U2 3D
National Geographic Entertainment
A National Geographic Entertainment presentation of a 3ality Digital production
Credits:
Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
Producers: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Owens
Executive producers: Sandy Climan, Michael Peyser, David Modell
Director of photography: Tom Krueger
Director of 3D photography: Peter Anderson
Editor: Oliver Wicki
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
The resulting souvenir, U2 3D, takes the well-traveled concert film to exhilarating new heights.
Billed as the first digital 3-D, multicamera, real-time production, this feature-length feast for the eyes and ears (thanks to the all-enveloping 5.1 Surround Sound), re-creates the U2 live experience without interruptions by the intrusive, talky backstage filler that seems to have become obligatory in the recorded "live" genre.
Instead, the docu serves up prime U2 in a startlingly rendered, state-of-the-art arena that truly raises the bar for headache-free 3-D technology.
Previewed last year at the Festival de Cannes in a version that was about a half-hour shorter, the finished edition will ensure both the fans of the band and the high-tech geeks will find what they are looking for when it follows its Jan. 19 Sundance screening with a limited release through National Geographic Entertainment starting Jan. 23, exclusively in 3-D digital and Imax theaters.
From the opening one-two punch of Vertigo and "It's a Beautiful Day," both the band and directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington effectively set the elevating tone.
Blending together performances from Vertigo Tour stops in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo as well as Mexico City and Santiago, the filmmakers succeed in ripping down that wall between and stage and the audience, and, in the process, create a team atmosphere that's perfectly in keeping with the band's "we're all in this together" philosophy.
Even with those sky-high Jumbotron screens and those fully dimensional mike stands that appear to take on a life of their own here, the mood is remarkably intimate.
Co-directors Pellington (before he became a feature director, he helmed U2's "One" video) and Owens are careful not to overplay the 3-D card -- utilizing advanced technology developed by 3ality Digital -- too early in the game.
They reserve the best effect for what is arguably the film's centerpiece, in which the band's early hit, Sunday, Bloody Sunday becomes an impassioned prayer for world peace with Bono (in fine vocal form) extending an outstretched arm over the crowd and, seemingly, through the screen, hovering right in front of the theater viewer in a plea for Christians, Jews and Muslims to put aside their differences.
In lesser hands, what might have come across as overly theatrical, packs a quietly potent impact.
Somehow, after experiencing U2 3D, the old iPod starts looking a little yellow around the edges.
U2 3D
National Geographic Entertainment
A National Geographic Entertainment presentation of a 3ality Digital production
Credits:
Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
Producers: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Owens
Executive producers: Sandy Climan, Michael Peyser, David Modell
Director of photography: Tom Krueger
Director of 3D photography: Peter Anderson
Editor: Oliver Wicki
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
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