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Bee Gees Project
While Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb first begin performing together in the late 1950s, much of their popularity comes after they write songs for the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" that prolongs the popularity of disco and leads to one of the top selling albums ever. The trio's worldwide sales of over 220 million records established them as one of the biggest selling groups of all time.
To Be Announced (TBA) Nationwide
All Apologies
Explores the life of Kurt Cobain, who formed Nirvana in 1987 with bassis Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. Nirvana ushered in the Seattle grunge music movement in the early ‘90s. Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994, leaving behind his wife and a daughter.
Always On My Mind
Follows an aging rock star (Nolte) as he succumbs to Alzheimer’s. His wife (Close) is left to pick up the pieces of his hard-lived rock n’ roll life.
Fela Kuti
A human rights activist, sexual revolutionary, and political maverick, Fela Kuti was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was the king of Afrobeat, a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and Yoruba chants and rhythms. Taking on Nigeria’s rapidly changing and often corrupt government in the 1970s, Fela pushed boundaries in art and life. His legacy as a charismatic visionary continues to inspire the contemporary hip-hop world and generations of artists who believe in the power of music to transform people and cultures.
Of All the Things
The story of songwriter-producer Dennis Lambert ("Baby Come Back," "Rhinestone Cowboy"). A songwriter/producer achieves rock star status late in life when he goes on a singing tour of the Philippines, and discovers he is to Filipinos what Jerry Lewis is to the French.
A Complete Unknown
During a period when he is poised to become folk music's most seminal figure, young Bob Dylan embraces rock ‘n’ roll and trades his acoustic guitar for an amp and an electric guitar, and it creates a huge outcry. And it cements the status of rock music.
Location: US - New Jersey
To Be Announced (TBA) Limited
Good Vibrations
A biopic of Belfast, Ireland-based music legend Terri Hooley, founder of the Good Vibrations record store and record label, home of punk rockers The Undertones and Rudi and the Outcasts.
Hippie Hippie Shake
The film will use a famous obscenity trial involving the Australian satirical magazine Oz as a metaphor for a journey through the swinging '60s in London. The magazine was transplanted to London, where Neville and his cohorts became the defendants in the longest obscenity trial in English legal history after a sexually explicit issue aroused the ire of the Obscene Publications Squad. The trial ended with the defendants sentenced to hard labor, but an appeal absolved them, with the provision that they stop publishing the magazine. Cillian Murphy will play Neville.
Karma Chameleon
A biopic on the life of iconic singer Boy George.
Mina
Follows the story of Italian pop singer Mina who stirred up controversy when she had a child with a married man, forcing her to withdraw from the public eye in the late 1970s.
Nina Simone Project
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Sexual Healing
The movie chronicles late Motown legend Marvin Gaye's self-imposed exile in Europe after years of battling drugs, domestic issues and label headaches. There, he was rescued by a promoter who helped Gaye record his biggest-selling album, "Midnight Love," which yielded the monster comeback hit, "Sexual Healing." Gaye's life was cut short the day before his 45th birthday in 1984, when his father killed him.
Dionne
The film will cover the period early in singer Dionne Warwick's career from 1962 through 1968.
Fred Astaire Biopic
A biopic of legendary actor, dancer and singer Fred Astaire.
Girl You Know It’s True
Follows the 1980s rise of the Grammy-winning German-French R&B duo, as well as their fall after it emerges that they lip-synch all of their songs.
Janis
A biopic of rock icon Janis Joplin.
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