One of the ghostwriter’s most valuable skills is getting their subjects to talk. So, when I gathered L.A.’s most successful ghostwriters at the Formosa Cafe to gossip, they knew all my tricks. In desperation, I went with the most transparent of all reporting techniques — buying them all fruity cocktails.
A reputation for discretion is not only how they get work, but how they avoid getting sued; they sign nondisclosure agreements for every memoir they write. But even if they revealed nothing scandalous about their famous clients — or at least nothing that couldn’t be discovered with a Google search — I learned a lot about the curious craft of ghostwriting and the types of personalities drawn to help famous people tell their life stories. Also, I learned why I am far too egotistical to do their job.
Sitting around the table were Neil Strauss (who has written memoirs for Rick Rubin,...
A reputation for discretion is not only how they get work, but how they avoid getting sued; they sign nondisclosure agreements for every memoir they write. But even if they revealed nothing scandalous about their famous clients — or at least nothing that couldn’t be discovered with a Google search — I learned a lot about the curious craft of ghostwriting and the types of personalities drawn to help famous people tell their life stories. Also, I learned why I am far too egotistical to do their job.
Sitting around the table were Neil Strauss (who has written memoirs for Rick Rubin,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Joel Stein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adapting the biography of a singular figure is hard enough, but how do you adapt the autobiography of a band? Bassist Nikki Sixx, guitarist Mick Mars, drummer Tommy Lee, and Vince Neil joined forces to make Mötley Crüe, one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and well-documented hedonist troublemakers.
In 2001, all four members of the band along with Neil Strauss released an autobiography called "The Dirt," describing the group as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book shot to the top 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for 10 weeks. On a personal note, I used the book as the subject of my own freshman year biography project book report in 2004, when I showed up to school dressed like Nikki Sixx and delivered my presentation in full character ... much to my teacher's chagrin.
In 2019, Netflix adapted "The Dirt" with "Jackass" creator and director Jeff Tremaine at the helm,...
In 2001, all four members of the band along with Neil Strauss released an autobiography called "The Dirt," describing the group as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book shot to the top 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for 10 weeks. On a personal note, I used the book as the subject of my own freshman year biography project book report in 2004, when I showed up to school dressed like Nikki Sixx and delivered my presentation in full character ... much to my teacher's chagrin.
In 2019, Netflix adapted "The Dirt" with "Jackass" creator and director Jeff Tremaine at the helm,...
- 8/13/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Conversion Therapy Podcast ‘Dear Alana’ Leads Tenderfoot TV Slate Alongside Weekly Series & Spinoffs
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the podcast company behind series such as To Live and Die in LA and Up and Vanished, is expanding its slate.
The company has unveiled a raft of new series, including Dear Alana, a dual-narrative series created by Simon Kent Fung about the life and tragic death of devout youth Alana Chen, whose aspiration to become a nun led her to conversion therapy, and a number of weekly series and spinoffs of existing shows.
Dear Alana is an eight-episode series that sees Kent Fung explore the psychological theories behind conversion therapy today, as he goes behind the scenes of an ascendant brand of American Catholicism sweeping college campuses now, and unearths the complicated boundary between earnest faith and spiritual manipulation, the promise of perfection and the price we pay to belong. It features Chen’s extensive journals, which reveal her hidden struggles with her sexuality and faith.
The company has unveiled a raft of new series, including Dear Alana, a dual-narrative series created by Simon Kent Fung about the life and tragic death of devout youth Alana Chen, whose aspiration to become a nun led her to conversion therapy, and a number of weekly series and spinoffs of existing shows.
Dear Alana is an eight-episode series that sees Kent Fung explore the psychological theories behind conversion therapy today, as he goes behind the scenes of an ascendant brand of American Catholicism sweeping college campuses now, and unearths the complicated boundary between earnest faith and spiritual manipulation, the promise of perfection and the price we pay to belong. It features Chen’s extensive journals, which reveal her hidden struggles with her sexuality and faith.
- 7/17/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
UFO Audio Series ‘High Strange’ In The Works As Cadence13 & Tenderfoot TV Extend Podcast Partnership
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the podcast company behind series including Up and Vanished and To Live and Die in LA, has extended its partnership with Audacy-owned studio Cadence13.
The deal has been extended through 2024 and includes a slew of renewals as well as a new series hosted by Tenderfoot TV co-founder Payne Lindsey.
The two companies will also develop a new slate of weekly podcast series and there’s a first-look at new limited series.
Lindsey will host UFO investigative series High Strange. The series will focus on unexplained aerial phenomena and will debut in early 2023.
Meanwhile, Up and Vanished, To Live and Die in LA, Culpable and Radio Rental have all been picked up for new seasons.
Up and Vanished, which has been downloaded more than 400M times over three seasons, will explore another cold case disappearance, having previously covered the disappearance of Georgia high school teacher Tara Grinstead,...
The deal has been extended through 2024 and includes a slew of renewals as well as a new series hosted by Tenderfoot TV co-founder Payne Lindsey.
The two companies will also develop a new slate of weekly podcast series and there’s a first-look at new limited series.
Lindsey will host UFO investigative series High Strange. The series will focus on unexplained aerial phenomena and will debut in early 2023.
Meanwhile, Up and Vanished, To Live and Die in LA, Culpable and Radio Rental have all been picked up for new seasons.
Up and Vanished, which has been downloaded more than 400M times over three seasons, will explore another cold case disappearance, having previously covered the disappearance of Georgia high school teacher Tara Grinstead,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The new live production “Blue’s Clues and You! Live on Stage” will embark on its U.S. tour this fall, Nickelodeon and Round Room Live announced Tuesday. The interactive show is based on the pre-school series “Blue’s Clues and You” and will feature Blue, Josh, and their friends Magenta and Rainbow Puppy in an original musical story.
“We are thrilled to partner with Nickelodeon by bringing one of the foremost franchises in kids’ entertainment to the stage in Blue’s Clues & You! Live On Stage,’” said Round Room Live co-president Stephen Shaw, who is producing the tour. “’Blue’s Clues’ is an iconic show that has captivated and educated children for years. We couldn’t be more excited to share our love of ‘Blue’s Clues’ with the next generation of fans in a memorable experience for the whole family.”
TV series host Josh Dela Cruz will join...
“We are thrilled to partner with Nickelodeon by bringing one of the foremost franchises in kids’ entertainment to the stage in Blue’s Clues & You! Live On Stage,’” said Round Room Live co-president Stephen Shaw, who is producing the tour. “’Blue’s Clues’ is an iconic show that has captivated and educated children for years. We couldn’t be more excited to share our love of ‘Blue’s Clues’ with the next generation of fans in a memorable experience for the whole family.”
TV series host Josh Dela Cruz will join...
- 3/8/2022
- by Sasha Urban and Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Neil Strauss has found a new case.
The former Rolling Stone writer is making a second season of his To Live and Die in LA podcast, which has racked up 50M downloads, and will investigate the 2017 disappearance of Elaine Park in the sophormore of the audio series.
The podcast, produced by Tenderfoot TV in partnership with Audacy’s Cadence13, will launch on May 27. You can listen to a teaser below.
Strauss returns as host to find out what happened to Elaine Park, a 20-year-old woman from Glendale, who went missing in January 2017. Park went to a movie with her ex-boyfriend and slept over at his Calabasas home.
‘Hollywood Con Queen’ Team Heads To Las Vegas For Doomed FBI Sting In Season 2 Of ‘Chameleon’ Podcast
The next morning, surveillance footage shows her leaving his home, but she hasn’t been seen since. Park’s Honda Civic was discovered in Malibu...
The former Rolling Stone writer is making a second season of his To Live and Die in LA podcast, which has racked up 50M downloads, and will investigate the 2017 disappearance of Elaine Park in the sophormore of the audio series.
The podcast, produced by Tenderfoot TV in partnership with Audacy’s Cadence13, will launch on May 27. You can listen to a teaser below.
Strauss returns as host to find out what happened to Elaine Park, a 20-year-old woman from Glendale, who went missing in January 2017. Park went to a movie with her ex-boyfriend and slept over at his Calabasas home.
‘Hollywood Con Queen’ Team Heads To Las Vegas For Doomed FBI Sting In Season 2 Of ‘Chameleon’ Podcast
The next morning, surveillance footage shows her leaving his home, but she hasn’t been seen since. Park’s Honda Civic was discovered in Malibu...
- 5/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Update (5/7): The Podcast Academy has tapped Cameron Esposito to host their inaugural ceremony, held on May 16th. Rainn Wilson, Hank Azaria, Este Haim, Kenan Thompson, Darren Criss, Neil Strauss, Whitney Cummings, Ashley Flowers, DeRay Mckesson, and others will present awards.
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The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for their inaugural Awards for Excellence in Audio, a.k.a. the Ambies.
Matthew McConaughey, Tessa Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell and Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the 164 nominees in 23 categories that include Best Performer in Audio Fiction, Best Podcast Host,...
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The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for their inaugural Awards for Excellence in Audio, a.k.a. the Ambies.
Matthew McConaughey, Tessa Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell and Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the 164 nominees in 23 categories that include Best Performer in Audio Fiction, Best Podcast Host,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In 2018, the serial entrepreneur Brent Underwood purchased an abandoned California ghost town called Cerro Gordo, forking over a cool $1.4 million for the property alongside his business partner, Jon Bier, and several investor friends.
Having exited a career in investment banking, Underwood had subsequently pursued myriad business ventures, including co-founding the marketing agency Brass Check -- which works with self-help authors like Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, and Ryan Holiday -- as well as overseeing DailyStoic.com, a website and online shop dedicated to the philosophical sect. But his true passion lied in the hospitality industry -- one he honed launching an illegal backpacker hostel in Brooklyn, and then an on-the-books ventured called Hk Austin: a co-living and co-working space housed within a Victorian mansion dating back to the 1890s.
Underwood’s latest venture marks a culmination of these passions, combined with his romanticism of the wild, wild west: to...
Having exited a career in investment banking, Underwood had subsequently pursued myriad business ventures, including co-founding the marketing agency Brass Check -- which works with self-help authors like Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, and Ryan Holiday -- as well as overseeing DailyStoic.com, a website and online shop dedicated to the philosophical sect. But his true passion lied in the hospitality industry -- one he honed launching an illegal backpacker hostel in Brooklyn, and then an on-the-books ventured called Hk Austin: a co-living and co-working space housed within a Victorian mansion dating back to the 1890s.
Underwood’s latest venture marks a culmination of these passions, combined with his romanticism of the wild, wild west: to...
- 11/5/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Exclusive: The murder and disappearance of a slew of Grateful Dead fans is the subject of a true crime podcast from Tenderfoot TV, the company behind the Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished series.
Disgraceland host Jake Brennan has teamed up with Tenderfoot TV co-founder Payne Lindsey in Dead and Gone, a true crime music mystery set in the world of Jerry Garcia’s psychedelic rock band.
It will look at how, over the past five decades, a number of Dead Heads are missing, unidentified or dead. One fan died in a car accident, one was murdered and dumped in a ditch, while many others are missing.
The company, which was founded by Lindsey and Donald Albright, has also renewed Neil Strauss’ To Live and Die in LA for a second season and lined up basketball series Whistleblower. All three series, which are produced in association with all produced in...
Disgraceland host Jake Brennan has teamed up with Tenderfoot TV co-founder Payne Lindsey in Dead and Gone, a true crime music mystery set in the world of Jerry Garcia’s psychedelic rock band.
It will look at how, over the past five decades, a number of Dead Heads are missing, unidentified or dead. One fan died in a car accident, one was murdered and dumped in a ditch, while many others are missing.
The company, which was founded by Lindsey and Donald Albright, has also renewed Neil Strauss’ To Live and Die in LA for a second season and lined up basketball series Whistleblower. All three series, which are produced in association with all produced in...
- 6/25/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: CBS has put in development Truth & Justice, a crime drama from one of its top drama showrunners, Peter Lenkov, The Oath creator Joe Halpin and The Dirt author Neil Strauss. The project hails from Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS TV Studios, where Lenkov and his 101st Street Entertainment are under a deal.
Written by Lenkov, former undercover cop Halpin and Strauss, Truth & Justice revolves around a disgraced cop-turned-pi and a down-and-out journalist, both seeking redemption, who team up and use nothing but their intellect, perseverance and profound empathy to dive deep into the lives of victims and perpetrators to deliver the justice that is so desperately needed in an otherwise flawed system.
Lenkov — via 101st Street — Halpin and Strauss executive produce with Donald Albright of podcast company Tenderfoot TV, and Lin and Lindsey Libertore for Rideback. Lenkov is a co-writer on the pilot only.
Written by Lenkov, former undercover cop Halpin and Strauss, Truth & Justice revolves around a disgraced cop-turned-pi and a down-and-out journalist, both seeking redemption, who team up and use nothing but their intellect, perseverance and profound empathy to dive deep into the lives of victims and perpetrators to deliver the justice that is so desperately needed in an otherwise flawed system.
Lenkov — via 101st Street — Halpin and Strauss executive produce with Donald Albright of podcast company Tenderfoot TV, and Lin and Lindsey Libertore for Rideback. Lenkov is a co-writer on the pilot only.
- 12/2/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the company behind the hit Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished podcasts, is debuting its first semi-scripted audio series.
The producer is launching Radio Rental, which will chronicle real-life stories set against the backdrop of a fictional, enigmatic world, on Halloween. The podcast will feature a well-known actor as a video store clerk who holds a secret VHS collection of tales of horror and the unexplained. The series is produced in association with Cadence13.
The series, which will be hosted by Tenderfoot TV co-founder and host Payne Lindsey, will tell detailed stories of terror, spanning from eerie experiences with the dead, to close shave encounters with killers and unexplained phenomena. Each episode will include an interview with people who’ve had these encounters.
“This podcast is something new,” said Lindsey. “As our first semi-scripted project, it’s a bit of a departure from our other work. I...
The producer is launching Radio Rental, which will chronicle real-life stories set against the backdrop of a fictional, enigmatic world, on Halloween. The podcast will feature a well-known actor as a video store clerk who holds a secret VHS collection of tales of horror and the unexplained. The series is produced in association with Cadence13.
The series, which will be hosted by Tenderfoot TV co-founder and host Payne Lindsey, will tell detailed stories of terror, spanning from eerie experiences with the dead, to close shave encounters with killers and unexplained phenomena. Each episode will include an interview with people who’ve had these encounters.
“This podcast is something new,” said Lindsey. “As our first semi-scripted project, it’s a bit of a departure from our other work. I...
- 10/1/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Jonas Brothers tapped a soulful horn section for their appearance on Late Night, giving single “Only Human” a funk-laden vibe. The trio took the stage alongside two backup singers and a group of horn players, as well as their usual backing back, to perform the track, which comes off recent album Happiness Begins.
In the clip, Joe takes the lead on vocal while Kevin plays guitar and Nick offers a catchy chorus. It’s a notably grown-up effort, matching the group’s new aesthetic, and there are a lot of swaggering dance moves involved.
In the clip, Joe takes the lead on vocal while Kevin plays guitar and Nick offers a catchy chorus. It’s a notably grown-up effort, matching the group’s new aesthetic, and there are a lot of swaggering dance moves involved.
- 7/19/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the company behind the hit Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished podcasts, is launching its latest series – true crime story Insomniac. The podcast, which explores the dark world of serial killers, is produced for iHeartRadio Original Podcasts.
Monster Presents: Insomniac, hosted by Scott Benjamin, will look at five serial killers across ten episodes including The I-70 Strangler Herb Baumeister, The Rochester Strangler Arthur Shawcross, Stephen McDaniel, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins Jr. and The Candy Man Dean Corll.
It will tell these stories with a twist; it will also explore the process through the eyes of host Benjamin, who spent hours researching grisly crime scene photos before it started affecting him. The process began to consume him and he started to experience insomnia. Insomniac is the story of that journey – one man’s freefall from objective researcher to tormented subject.
It is the latest doc series for Tenderfoot TV,...
Monster Presents: Insomniac, hosted by Scott Benjamin, will look at five serial killers across ten episodes including The I-70 Strangler Herb Baumeister, The Rochester Strangler Arthur Shawcross, Stephen McDaniel, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins Jr. and The Candy Man Dean Corll.
It will tell these stories with a twist; it will also explore the process through the eyes of host Benjamin, who spent hours researching grisly crime scene photos before it started affecting him. The process began to consume him and he started to experience insomnia. Insomniac is the story of that journey – one man’s freefall from objective researcher to tormented subject.
It is the latest doc series for Tenderfoot TV,...
- 6/20/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
You might think the Jonas Brothers, being actual brothers, know a lot about each other. But Jimmy Fallon put that knowledge to the test in a segment for The Tonight Show called “Know Your Bro,” which involved asking the trio questions about their brothers.
In the clip, Fallon asks Nick to go first, urging the musician to put on noise-canceling headphones. As an oblivious Nick rocks out to whatever music Fallon put on the headphones, Fallon asks Joe and Kevin, “What would Nick say is the thing you’re most jealous of him for?...
In the clip, Fallon asks Nick to go first, urging the musician to put on noise-canceling headphones. As an oblivious Nick rocks out to whatever music Fallon put on the headphones, Fallon asks Joe and Kevin, “What would Nick say is the thing you’re most jealous of him for?...
- 6/13/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The Jonas Brothers brought a new vibe to “Sucker” by performing the single with classroom instruments on The Tonight Show. Joined by The Roots and Jimmy Fallon, the trio grabbed a clapper (Nick), a triangle (Kevin) and a banana shaker (Joe).
In the clip, Nick takes on vocal lead as Fallon snaps on a Casio keyboard and taps out the beat on a wood block. Some post-production effects come into play as the performance amps up, giving the segment a music video effect. Fallon and The Roots back up the...
In the clip, Nick takes on vocal lead as Fallon snaps on a Casio keyboard and taps out the beat on a wood block. Some post-production effects come into play as the performance amps up, giving the segment a music video effect. Fallon and The Roots back up the...
- 6/11/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The Jonas Brothers will publish a new memoir, Blood, November 12th via Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of the publishing house Macmillan. Blood chronicles the origins of the Jonas Brothers, traces their swift rise from Disney idols to genuine pop stars and delves into the tensions that fueled their break-up in 2013. But the band will also discuss their recent reunion, which will culminate with the release of their new album, Happiness Begins, June 7th.
The Jonas Brothers — Joe, Kevin and Nick — co-wrote Blood with journalist Neil Strauss, who famously co-wrote The Dirt with Mötley Crüe.
The Jonas Brothers — Joe, Kevin and Nick — co-wrote Blood with journalist Neil Strauss, who famously co-wrote The Dirt with Mötley Crüe.
- 5/28/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Tenderfoot TV, the company behind the hit Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished podcasts, is looking to take advantage of the boom in the audio genre and is plotting a slew of music and sports-set true crime podcasts as well as IP that can be translated for television.
The company, which is run by Donald Albright and Payne Lindsey, has had more than 380M downloads for its podcasts and co-produced a TV adaptation of Up and Vanished for Oxygen with Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content. Its latest podcast, To Live and Die in La with The Dirt author and Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss, is set to conclude May 16.
Albright told Deadline how the company started and outlined the pair’s plans to scale up their nascent media business.
Tenderfoot TV started with Up and Vanished, a podcast that followed the case of the mysterious disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a...
The company, which is run by Donald Albright and Payne Lindsey, has had more than 380M downloads for its podcasts and co-produced a TV adaptation of Up and Vanished for Oxygen with Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content. Its latest podcast, To Live and Die in La with The Dirt author and Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss, is set to conclude May 16.
Albright told Deadline how the company started and outlined the pair’s plans to scale up their nascent media business.
Tenderfoot TV started with Up and Vanished, a podcast that followed the case of the mysterious disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a...
- 5/1/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Christgau is one of the most influential rock critics of all time. He’s also an invaluable book critic, and now he’s releasing Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading, via Duke University Press, a collection of reviews covering everything from fiction to cultural theory to musicology. In this classic piece, which originally appeared in the Village Voice in 2000, he dives into three books by fellow rock critics: Jim DeRogatis’s Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
For a long time now Howard Stern has been the kind of guy that does the no-holds-barred kind of show that quite honestly has shocked a lot of people but has entertained them as well. Folks like Neil Strauss from Rolling Stone have found themselves blindsided by him when attempting to do an interview since Stern isn’t exactly the kind of guy to let the moment go without speaking his mind. He’s been toned down in the past as his shock-jock ways have seemingly ruffled a few feathers, but amazingly enough fans didn’t like this at all and as Joe
Five Actors Who Could Play Howard Stern in a Biopic...
Five Actors Who Could Play Howard Stern in a Biopic...
- 4/15/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
While Netflix holds viewership figures for its films close to the vest, the band Mötley Crüe is feeling the positive effects of the hellraising band’s biopic The Dirt. Its music catalog is soaring as a result of the film.
Streaming partners have stepped up to support the film’s soundtrack, and Mötley Crüe’s catalog with the Global Marquee feature on Spotify and Apple Music building a dedicated Mötley Super Room. The payback was instant, with a 570% stream increase on Spotify, a 900% stream increase on Apple Music and Apple iTunes downloads growing by 2,027%. Amazon, with triple-digit streaming growth, is benefitting from sales of the biography, which jumped back to No. 1 music book, and Mötley’s Deezer streams are up 669%.
The band reports that the Mötley Essentials playlist now is charting higher than Drake Essentials on Apple Music. The effect is being felt globally in 150 markets with top 10 iTunes charts around the world.
Streaming partners have stepped up to support the film’s soundtrack, and Mötley Crüe’s catalog with the Global Marquee feature on Spotify and Apple Music building a dedicated Mötley Super Room. The payback was instant, with a 570% stream increase on Spotify, a 900% stream increase on Apple Music and Apple iTunes downloads growing by 2,027%. Amazon, with triple-digit streaming growth, is benefitting from sales of the biography, which jumped back to No. 1 music book, and Mötley’s Deezer streams are up 669%.
The band reports that the Mötley Essentials playlist now is charting higher than Drake Essentials on Apple Music. The effect is being felt globally in 150 markets with top 10 iTunes charts around the world.
- 3/29/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Thanks to a new documentary on Netflix, metal band Mötley Crüe has enjoyed a resurgence this month, with the four founding members once again generating some buzz in the press, almost 40 years after they first hit the scene.
In the four decades since their founding, Mötley Crüe has become one of the most notorious bands in the world, as prolific for their arena-churning anthems as they are for their off-stage escapades. While Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx recently debuted a new single to coincide with the release of their biopic,...
In the four decades since their founding, Mötley Crüe has become one of the most notorious bands in the world, as prolific for their arena-churning anthems as they are for their off-stage escapades. While Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx recently debuted a new single to coincide with the release of their biopic,...
- 3/26/2019
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix's Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt is based on a book by the same name by the band with ghostwriter Neil Strauss, who later wrote the pick-up artist memoir The Game. For the most part it's a very faithful adaptation. It has, of course, undergone much of the condensing necessary when adapting a
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- 3/23/2019
- by Liam Mathews
- TVGuide - Breaking News
A long time ago, the words sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll carried a hint of danger. The lifestyle did, too, but I’m talking about the phrase. It used to sound cool (back around the time the word “cool” sounded cool). But sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll has long since passed into the realm of vintage American catch-phrase banality, like “How’s that workin’ out for you?” And “The Dirt,” the new Netflix rock biopic about the sordid, squalid saga of Mötley Crüe, the royal hair-metal sleaze gods of the ’80s and ’90s, is a movie that reflects the new harmless status of that phrase.
“The Dirt” boils over with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, whether it’s Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), the snaky leader singer of Mötley Crüe, acting like a horny jackrabbit as he enjoys a backstage boink with every woman who comes near him,...
“The Dirt” boils over with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, whether it’s Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), the snaky leader singer of Mötley Crüe, acting like a horny jackrabbit as he enjoys a backstage boink with every woman who comes near him,...
- 3/23/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In 2018, Mötley Crüe delighted glam metalheads everywhere by announcing they were reuniting and working on new music. Along with producing, the members have been penning songs for Netflix's The Dirt, a gritty, star-studded film adaptation based on the band's autobiography. The book details the group's lurid sex, drug, and rock-'n'-roll escapades in the '80s. While the memoir was well-received in its heyday, it's definitely not without controversial claims, a few of which have been stirring up heat ahead of the movie's release.
Published in 2001, the autobiographical project is officially titled The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. Moving between the perspectives of the different members - Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx - the book was a collaboration with journalist Neil Strauss, drawing contributions from managers and other figures in the music industry.
The most upsetting moment in the book involves an...
Published in 2001, the autobiographical project is officially titled The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. Moving between the perspectives of the different members - Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx - the book was a collaboration with journalist Neil Strauss, drawing contributions from managers and other figures in the music industry.
The most upsetting moment in the book involves an...
- 3/22/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Netflix is taking audiences into the wild and unbelievable world of music's most notorious rock band Mötley Crüe in its new film The Dirt, based on Neil Strauss' 2001 autobiography of the same name.
Stepping into the shoes of lead singer Vince Neil, actor Daniel Webber sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss how the Jeff Tremaine film "captures the essence" of the band and why it was "one of the most fun films" he’s been a part of.
"It's going to be an absolute roller coaster of fun, and ...
Stepping into the shoes of lead singer Vince Neil, actor Daniel Webber sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss how the Jeff Tremaine film "captures the essence" of the band and why it was "one of the most fun films" he’s been a part of.
"It's going to be an absolute roller coaster of fun, and ...
- 3/22/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix is taking audiences into the wild and unbelievable world of music's most notorious rock band Mötley Crüe in its new film The Dirt, based on Neil Strauss' 2001 autobiography of the same name.
Stepping into the shoes of lead singer Vince Neil, actor Daniel Webber sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss how the Jeff Tremaine film "captures the essence" of the band and why it was "one of the most fun films" he’s been a part of.
"It's going to be an absolute roller coaster of fun, and ...
Stepping into the shoes of lead singer Vince Neil, actor Daniel Webber sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss how the Jeff Tremaine film "captures the essence" of the band and why it was "one of the most fun films" he’s been a part of.
"It's going to be an absolute roller coaster of fun, and ...
- 3/22/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The new, eagerly awaited Motley Crue biopic, based on Neil Strauss’ best-selling 2001 book, “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” premieres today on Netflix after a seemingly endless 13 years in development hell.
Those anticipating “a fun ‘80s music movie,” as Crue bassist Nikki Sixx puts it, will inevitably be stunned by the final product, a dark-laced cautionary tale that balances the thrill of making it as a rock god against the downside of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll excess. “The Dirt” takes the “A Star Is Born” theme of the perils of fame and convincingly sets it in the late ‘70’s/early ‘80s punk/metal milieu of Hollywood, complete with a recreation of the Crue’s legendary party house just up the block from the Whisky, where one of its memorable scenes takes place.
“There’s no varnish in this movie, no whitewashing,” insists one of the film’s producers,...
Those anticipating “a fun ‘80s music movie,” as Crue bassist Nikki Sixx puts it, will inevitably be stunned by the final product, a dark-laced cautionary tale that balances the thrill of making it as a rock god against the downside of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll excess. “The Dirt” takes the “A Star Is Born” theme of the perils of fame and convincingly sets it in the late ‘70’s/early ‘80s punk/metal milieu of Hollywood, complete with a recreation of the Crue’s legendary party house just up the block from the Whisky, where one of its memorable scenes takes place.
“There’s no varnish in this movie, no whitewashing,” insists one of the film’s producers,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: This review contains details of the movie version of The Dirt
Having taken decades to make it to the screen, you kind of knew any adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s 2001 memoir The Dirt was going to be problematic, to put it politely.
Infamy has a tiring tendency to downgrade over time to just being lame, which truly is the greatest praise one can heap on this Jeff Tremaine directed pic that debuted today on Netflix. Perhaps due from the limited requirements of his past gigs helming the often hilarious but plotless Jackass movies, Tremaine delivers set-ups in The Dirt, but no actual story besides an elongated Behind The Music.
The fact is Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, ankylosing spondylitis suffering Mick Mars and Vince Neil deserved better. On board as producers, the battle-scarred bass player, drummer, guitarist and singer have earned a movie that confessionally puts it all out there,...
Having taken decades to make it to the screen, you kind of knew any adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s 2001 memoir The Dirt was going to be problematic, to put it politely.
Infamy has a tiring tendency to downgrade over time to just being lame, which truly is the greatest praise one can heap on this Jeff Tremaine directed pic that debuted today on Netflix. Perhaps due from the limited requirements of his past gigs helming the often hilarious but plotless Jackass movies, Tremaine delivers set-ups in The Dirt, but no actual story besides an elongated Behind The Music.
The fact is Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, ankylosing spondylitis suffering Mick Mars and Vince Neil deserved better. On board as producers, the battle-scarred bass player, drummer, guitarist and singer have earned a movie that confessionally puts it all out there,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
In many ways, fact-checking a movie about Mötley Crüe is a ridiculous task, especially a film that says right off the bat it is merely “based” on a true story. It’s also a film that breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that things didn’t happen quite as they’re being presented. The whole thing is also based on a book that bassist Nikki Sixx now claims has at least one story – in which he writes that he “pretty much” raped a woman – was “possibly greatly embellished or made up.
- 3/22/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
If you’re a fan of Mötley Crüe, then you’ll probably love the movie they made about themselves.
Early on in The Dirt, Mötley Crüe lead guitarist Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon) turns to the camera. “This didn’t actually happen,” he says of the scene that’s just transpired, which involves the band meeting future manager Doc McGhee (David Costabile) at a house party. “Doc never came to this filthy shithole. We met him at the Santa Monica Civic Center after a show.”
On the one hand, it’s a fleetingly sweet attempt to credit McGhee’s business partner, Doug Thaler, who also helped to manage the band. On the other hand, it’s one of many attempts by the filmmakers to make sure the audience knows that yes, this is just a movie, and no, not everything that happens onscreen is going to be based on the truth.
Early on in The Dirt, Mötley Crüe lead guitarist Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon) turns to the camera. “This didn’t actually happen,” he says of the scene that’s just transpired, which involves the band meeting future manager Doc McGhee (David Costabile) at a house party. “Doc never came to this filthy shithole. We met him at the Santa Monica Civic Center after a show.”
On the one hand, it’s a fleetingly sweet attempt to credit McGhee’s business partner, Doug Thaler, who also helped to manage the band. On the other hand, it’s one of many attempts by the filmmakers to make sure the audience knows that yes, this is just a movie, and no, not everything that happens onscreen is going to be based on the truth.
- 3/22/2019
- Den of Geek
Few musicians have lived — and died and lived again — quite like Nikki Sixx. In the three-and-a-half decades he spent playing bass in Mötley Crüe and serving as the group’s primary songwriter, he mainlined heroin, indulged any groupie’s whims and helped the band become Top 10 hitmakers. Outside of the Crüe, he’s recorded with the groups 58, Brides of Destruction and Sixx:a.M., and released the book The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, chronicling his time on the drug. Since sobering up, he...
- 3/20/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The story of the Zodiac killer continues to intrigue true crime fans as podcast Monster: The Zodiac Killer surpasses 12M downloads in its first two months.
The figures make it one of the most downloaded podcasts of the year with the first series Atlanta Monster and the spin-off second season scoring a total of 60M downloads across both seasons.
The show, which is produced by Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks for by iHeartRadio, is narrated by Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know host Matt Frederick with Tenderfoot TV co-founder and Atlanta Monster host serving as exec producer.
Monster: The Zodiac Killer dives into one of the most notorious, unsolved serial killing sprees in history. Despite sketches, cyphers and taunting letters to the press, the question still remains: who is the Zodiac? It premiered on January 2 and will run for 15 episodes, finishing on March 26.
It comes as the podcast boom continues.
The figures make it one of the most downloaded podcasts of the year with the first series Atlanta Monster and the spin-off second season scoring a total of 60M downloads across both seasons.
The show, which is produced by Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks for by iHeartRadio, is narrated by Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know host Matt Frederick with Tenderfoot TV co-founder and Atlanta Monster host serving as exec producer.
Monster: The Zodiac Killer dives into one of the most notorious, unsolved serial killing sprees in history. Despite sketches, cyphers and taunting letters to the press, the question still remains: who is the Zodiac? It premiered on January 2 and will run for 15 episodes, finishing on March 26.
It comes as the podcast boom continues.
- 3/13/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s taken eighteen years for Motley Crue biopic The Dirt to go from print to screen. Long-time manager Allen Kovac, who is exec producing the Netflix feature film, tells Deadline why it took so long to adapt the memoir and how they wanted to create “Boogie Nights-meets-Goodfellas” set in the debaucherous world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
The film, which debuts on the Svod platform on March 22, tells the story of notorious Sunset Strip glamrockers Motley Crue – Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars and is based on Neil Strauss’ book The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, which was published in 2001.
It’s a raucous story that includes rampant drug abuse – Sixx was famously pronounced dead after a heroin overdose – manslaughter – Neil killed his passenger in a 1985 drunk driving accident – and the film opens with a graphic oral sex scene involving Tommy Lee.
The film, which debuts on the Svod platform on March 22, tells the story of notorious Sunset Strip glamrockers Motley Crue – Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars and is based on Neil Strauss’ book The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, which was published in 2001.
It’s a raucous story that includes rampant drug abuse – Sixx was famously pronounced dead after a heroin overdose – manslaughter – Neil killed his passenger in a 1985 drunk driving accident – and the film opens with a graphic oral sex scene involving Tommy Lee.
- 3/8/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx is taking back a story described in the band memoir “The Dirt” in which he is quoted saying he “pretty much” raped a woman at a party.
Sixx now says he does not remember that story and may have made it up, but also apologized.
“I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
Also Read: Motley Crue Biopic 'The Dirt' Brings Anarchy in First Trailer for Netflix Film (Video)
Mötley Crüe wrote 2001’s “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” with journalist Neil Strauss. In the book, Sixx is quoted...
Sixx now says he does not remember that story and may have made it up, but also apologized.
“I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
Also Read: Motley Crue Biopic 'The Dirt' Brings Anarchy in First Trailer for Netflix Film (Video)
Mötley Crüe wrote 2001’s “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” with journalist Neil Strauss. In the book, Sixx is quoted...
- 3/6/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx tells Rolling Stone that he does not recall a story in the band’s 2001 memoir The Dirt where he realizes he may have participated in a sexual assault during a party.
“I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx tells Rolling Stone. “I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
In The Dirt,...
“I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx tells Rolling Stone. “I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
In The Dirt,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a sunny spring day in New Orleans, and three men who look like the Sunset Strip coughed them up in 1985 are on a smoke break outside the Saenger Theatre. They’re there to portray Mötley Crüe in Netflix’s unruly new biopic, The Dirt. Inside, fake roadies are setting up Marshall stacks onstage, in front of a backdrop of gaudy black-and-white diamonds and comedy/drama masks.
The resemblance to the band’s Theatre of Pain tour is uncanny, but there are signs that this is a different Crüe.
The resemblance to the band’s Theatre of Pain tour is uncanny, but there are signs that this is a different Crüe.
- 3/5/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
After Mötley Crüe played what they say was their last-ever concert, on New Year’s Eve 2015, things got weird — even for them. The band had signed a “cessation of touring agreement” in 2014, swearing never to reunite onstage and, as Tommy Lee told Rolling Stone after the gig, it felt a little more final than he had hoped. Nobody said goodbye to him or went to the after party. “I think fucking Nikki unfollowed me on fucking Twitter, like, the next day,” Lee said at the time. “I was like, ‘Wow.
- 2/22/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The world’s most notorious rock band, Mötley Crüe announces the release of The Dirt Soundtrack that accompanies the upcoming Netflix Film The Dirt, based on the New York Times best-selling 2001 autobiography by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss. The soundtrack and film are set to release March 22nd worldwide.
Watch the Trailer for Netflix’s MÖTLEY CRÜE Film ‘The Dirt’
The upcoming Netflix Film The Dirt is an unflinching and uncensored story about sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, fame, and the high price of excess. Director Jeff Tremaine (Jackass co-creator) shows us just how Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), Tommy Lee (Colson Baker a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly), and Vince Neil (Daniel Webber) took Mötley Crüe from the Sunset Strip to the world stage, and what it meant to become the world’s most notorious rock band.
The Dirt Soundtrack includes four brand new songs and...
Watch the Trailer for Netflix’s MÖTLEY CRÜE Film ‘The Dirt’
The upcoming Netflix Film The Dirt is an unflinching and uncensored story about sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, fame, and the high price of excess. Director Jeff Tremaine (Jackass co-creator) shows us just how Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), Tommy Lee (Colson Baker a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly), and Vince Neil (Daniel Webber) took Mötley Crüe from the Sunset Strip to the world stage, and what it meant to become the world’s most notorious rock band.
The Dirt Soundtrack includes four brand new songs and...
- 2/22/2019
- by Andrew Wendowski
- Age of the Nerd
The Dirt and The Game author Neil Strauss has teamed with Tenderfoot TV, the team behind hit audio series Atlanta Monster, to launch a podcast about the disappearance of aspiring actress Adea Shabani.
Rolling Stone writer Strauss will host To Live and Die in La, a 12-episode true crime podcast series. The series will launch on February 28 and will be produced in association with podcast company Cadence13.
To Live and Die in La, which is Strauss’s first foray into narrative podcasting, will take a deep dive into the mysterious disappearance of 25-year-old Shabani, an aspiring actress and model who vanished without a trace from her apartment complex near Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Like thousands each year, Shabani, a native of Macedonia, moved to Hollywood with the hope of realizing her dreams of stardom. But in February of 2018, the acting student disappeared just days before her 26th birthday.
Within...
Rolling Stone writer Strauss will host To Live and Die in La, a 12-episode true crime podcast series. The series will launch on February 28 and will be produced in association with podcast company Cadence13.
To Live and Die in La, which is Strauss’s first foray into narrative podcasting, will take a deep dive into the mysterious disappearance of 25-year-old Shabani, an aspiring actress and model who vanished without a trace from her apartment complex near Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Like thousands each year, Shabani, a native of Macedonia, moved to Hollywood with the hope of realizing her dreams of stardom. But in February of 2018, the acting student disappeared just days before her 26th birthday.
Within...
- 2/21/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its Motley Crue biopic “The Dirt” — based on Neil Strauss’ best-selling history of the legendarily bad-behaved ‘80s metal icons — and it looks like the film pulls no punches in terms of the band’s famously sordid history.
In this two-minute trailer, we get glimpses of singer Vince Neil’s 1984 car wreck that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle (as well as the death from cancer of Neil’s 4-year-old daughter several years later), bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx’s heroin addiction, guitarist Mick Mars’ age and degenerative bone disease, and Tommy Lee’s marriage to TV star Heather Locklear and all-around unhinged behavior.
Industry insiders will probably be tickled to see “SNL” star Pete Davidson as the band’s A&R man, Tom Zutaut.
While much of this territory has been covered in the VH1 “Behind the Music” on the group, judging by the trailer the...
In this two-minute trailer, we get glimpses of singer Vince Neil’s 1984 car wreck that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle (as well as the death from cancer of Neil’s 4-year-old daughter several years later), bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx’s heroin addiction, guitarist Mick Mars’ age and degenerative bone disease, and Tommy Lee’s marriage to TV star Heather Locklear and all-around unhinged behavior.
Industry insiders will probably be tickled to see “SNL” star Pete Davidson as the band’s A&R man, Tom Zutaut.
While much of this territory has been covered in the VH1 “Behind the Music” on the group, judging by the trailer the...
- 2/19/2019
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
The trailer for Netflix‘s upcoming Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt is here. It can be streamed below, and it does not disappoint. The film is set for worldwide release on March 22.
The film is based on the autobiography “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band” which as co-written by the band members of Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss.
The cast of The Dirt features Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee, Daniel Webber (from Netflix’s The Punisher) as Vince Neil, Game of Thrones actor Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars, and Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx. Booth previously played Culture Club’s Boy George in the BBC film Worries About a Boy. The film will also feature Breaking Bad‘s David Costabile as band manager Doc McGhee and SNL’s Pete Davidson as Elektra Records executive Tom Zutat.
Mötley Crüe exploded onto the Sunset Strip in...
The film is based on the autobiography “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band” which as co-written by the band members of Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss.
The cast of The Dirt features Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee, Daniel Webber (from Netflix’s The Punisher) as Vince Neil, Game of Thrones actor Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars, and Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx. Booth previously played Culture Club’s Boy George in the BBC film Worries About a Boy. The film will also feature Breaking Bad‘s David Costabile as band manager Doc McGhee and SNL’s Pete Davidson as Elektra Records executive Tom Zutat.
Mötley Crüe exploded onto the Sunset Strip in...
- 2/19/2019
- by Matt Bishop
- Age of the Nerd
If you thought the story of “Bohemian Rhapsody” was nuts, “The Dirt” and its look at the formation of Mötley Crüe will really rock you.
Mötley Crüe was one of the most notorious ’80s hair metal bands in the country, arguably known more for their antics offstage and their lavish, outrageous performances than their music. “The Dirt,” a new music biopic based on the salacious autobiography by the band and Neil Strauss, taps into that insanity.
“The fans? They’re dying for some anarchy. So let’s give it to them,” one of the bandmates says in the film.
Also Read: Motley Crue Biopic 'The Dirt' Heads to Netflix
Mötley Crüe is made up of Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil. And they’re played by Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones”), Douglas Booth, Machine Gun Kelly and Daniel Webber, respectively. “The Dirt” also stars Pete Davidson and Leven Rambin.
Mötley Crüe was one of the most notorious ’80s hair metal bands in the country, arguably known more for their antics offstage and their lavish, outrageous performances than their music. “The Dirt,” a new music biopic based on the salacious autobiography by the band and Neil Strauss, taps into that insanity.
“The fans? They’re dying for some anarchy. So let’s give it to them,” one of the bandmates says in the film.
Also Read: Motley Crue Biopic 'The Dirt' Heads to Netflix
Mötley Crüe is made up of Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil. And they’re played by Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones”), Douglas Booth, Machine Gun Kelly and Daniel Webber, respectively. “The Dirt” also stars Pete Davidson and Leven Rambin.
- 2/19/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt is coming to Netflix in March, and they’ve just released the first trailer. In just two and a half minutes, it crams in many of the familiar beats of the saga, including Nikki Sixx’s near-fatal heroin overdose, the car crash that killed Hanoi Rock drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley and sent Vince Neil to jail, Tommy Lee’s tumultuous marriage to Heather Locklear and Mick Mars’ battle with the bone disease ankylosing spondylitis.
It’s also the public’s first glimpse of Machine Gun Kelly...
It’s also the public’s first glimpse of Machine Gun Kelly...
- 2/19/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Mötley Crüe’s seemingly unfilmable group autobiography, The Dirt, will finally come out as a biopic via Netflix next spring. Frontman Vince Neil shared the news with an effusively excited, exclamation-point–studded tweet: “Wow!!! Just left Netflix offices. Just saw The Dirt movie!! Fuckin’ awesome!! Can’t wait for everyone to see it! Released March 22!! Yea!!!” A representative for Netflix confirmed the date to Rolling Stone.
The band released The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, co-written by Neil Strauss, in 2001. It contains some of the grittiest,...
The band released The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, co-written by Neil Strauss, in 2001. It contains some of the grittiest,...
- 12/3/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Chuck Berry rarely did interviews, and when he did, he could be confrontational and reticent. Which is why his 1987 appearance on the Tonight Show is so remarkable.
At the time, Berry was well into his pickup-band years, touring the country and playing with local groups to save money. But he also on the edge of a resurgence, thanks to a salacious autobiography and Hail Hail Rock & Roll!, the concert film about his 60th birthday concert that was released that year, which exposed Berry’s fascinatingly difficult personality.
But Berry had clear respect for Johnny Carson,...
At the time, Berry was well into his pickup-band years, touring the country and playing with local groups to save money. But he also on the edge of a resurgence, thanks to a salacious autobiography and Hail Hail Rock & Roll!, the concert film about his 60th birthday concert that was released that year, which exposed Berry’s fascinatingly difficult personality.
But Berry had clear respect for Johnny Carson,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: David Costabile, who plays Bobby Axelrod’s right-hand man Mike “Wags” Wagner stars on Showtime’s Billions, has signed on for the Mötley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, as the group’s longtime manager Doc McGhee. Jeff Tremaine is directing the Netflix/Lbi Entertainment film that stars Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx, Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars, Daniel Webber as Vince Neil and Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee. The pic is based on the Neil Strauss' book The Dirt: Confessions of the…...
- 3/24/2018
- Deadline
Rebekah Graf (The Amityville Murders, Lycan) has been tapped to play actress Heather Locklear, ex-wife of Tommy Lee, in the long-gestated Motley Crue pic The Dirt, from Netflix and Lbi Entertainment. She joins the Jeff Tremaine-directed biopic which will star Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx, Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars, Daniel Webber as Vince Neil and Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee. It’s based on the Neil Strauss' novel The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band…...
- 3/6/2018
- Deadline
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band was an autobiography for the whole of Motley Crue, though it should be noted that it was written with the assistance of Neil Strauss, a ghostwriter who might be better-known to some because of his books about his experiences with the pick-up artist community. Regardless, since Motley Crue had a reputation for their hedonism, it should come as no surprise to learn that the book performed well when it promised a surfeit of such stories. In turn, this meant that there was an enormous interest in making a biopic about
What We Know about the Neflix Motley Crue Biopic So Far...
What We Know about the Neflix Motley Crue Biopic So Far...
- 1/22/2018
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Amber Heard and Elon Musk are spending time together.
The former couple made headlines on Friday when photographs surfaced of them sharing a kiss outside a Los Angeles restaurant, leaving fans speculating whether romance had reignited between the two four months after their split.
But a source close to Musk claims the duo were just having a friendly visit.
“Amber invited Elon to her favorite Texas-breakfast spot,” says Musk’s friend of HomeState restaurant, the eatery in Los Feliz, California where the pics were taken. “They shared a quick kiss goodbye. They’re still just friends, not trying to get back together.
The former couple made headlines on Friday when photographs surfaced of them sharing a kiss outside a Los Angeles restaurant, leaving fans speculating whether romance had reignited between the two four months after their split.
But a source close to Musk claims the duo were just having a friendly visit.
“Amber invited Elon to her favorite Texas-breakfast spot,” says Musk’s friend of HomeState restaurant, the eatery in Los Feliz, California where the pics were taken. “They shared a quick kiss goodbye. They’re still just friends, not trying to get back together.
- 12/22/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Elon Musk somehow finds the time for a growing number of budding projects: Tesla, his electric car company; SpaceX, his rocket company; the Boring Company, his underground tunnel solution for Los Angeles traffic; and the Hyperloop, his network of tubes rapidly moving passengers at several hundred miles per hour. One thing he doesn’t have time for, though, is turtlenecks. In Neil Strauss’ extensive profile of the tech exec in Rolling Stone, Musk recounted one photoshoot where they tried to make him wear a black turtleneck — the trademark shirt of choice for Steve Jobs. Musk wasn’t feeling it. “If I was.
- 11/16/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
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