The Beatle loved Monty Python so much, he set up HandMade Films to make Life of Brian – and rehabilitated the UK movie industry. But the studio’s fun couldn’t last"
He wrote and produced the 13-minute movie, which was directed by Geoff Dunbar, and accompanied the original release with the single “We All Stand Together,” which reached No. 3 in the U.K. chart.
“I’ve always loved animation,” McCartney said in a statement. “It started with the Disney cartoons and went on from there. As a kid I would always get the Rupert Annual at Christmas. I remember getting the idea for a film project when looking through one of them. There was a standout image in color, and when I saw it I could imagine a concert of frogs with them all doing different parts, a choir and an orchestra, and I could almost hear the music.
The Beatles: Get Back will tell the story of the final Beatles album, Let It Be, drawn from over 120 hours of transcribed conversations from the band’s studio sessions. It will accompany Peter Jackson’s feature documentary of the same name, also set for release that month.
The book documents January 1969, with friction building in the band as they recorded music for an intended TV special – George Harrison walked out of the sessions at one point and John Lennon described them as “hell”. The music they made, though, would be among the most poignant in their catalogue, and the sessions built towards the group’s final live performance, on top of the Apple Corps building in London on 30 January 1969.
The songs they recorded were later mixed (including with controversial input from Phil Spector) and eventually released in May 1970 as Let It Be, instead of the original title Get Back. It followed the recording and release of Abbey Road in September 1969, and was released a month after Paul McCartney’s departure precipitated the band’s split."
https://blitz.pt/principal/update/2019-06-19-Hey-Dude.-O-hilariante-conselho-de-Ed-Sheeran-no-filme-sobre-o-mundo-onde-os-Beatles-nunca-existiram
Citando:
""Yesterday" conta com uma participação especial de Ed Sheeran, que dá um conselho precioso - e hilariante - a Jack: trocar o título de 'Hey Jude', por 'Hey Dude'."
Não. Um filme com o Ed Sheeran em Liverpool, parece-me:
https://mag.sapo.pt/cinema/atualidade-cinema/artigos/e-se-os-beatles-nunca-tivessem-existido-essa-realidade-alternativa-vai-chegar-ao-cinema
Citando:
"Novo filme de Danny Boyle, realizador de "Quem Quer Ser Bilionário", é sobre um mundo onde apenas uma pessoa sabe quem é o grupo de Liverpool. Ed Sheeran é um dos atores, com um papel relevante como si próprio."
Trailer:
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEBZJ8IgV8N_sMjXkL49BicIqFggEKg4IACoGCAow_598MLC1CTChqAY?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen
... Mais ou menos. Gravações de Letras it Be vão dar origem a um novo filme (e nova versão do já existente em 2020):
https://www.publico.pt/2019/01/30/culturaipsilon/noticia/peter-jackson-vai-reconstruir-beatles-50-anos-1860059
No Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQZnWCnjgG/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=kg0syz515bgr
Citando:
" Peter Jackson, o realizador neo-zelandês da saga Senhor dos Anéis, terá em mãos um espólio gigantesco: 55 horas de filme não utilizado no Let it Be original e 140 horas de gravações áudio. O objectivo? Criar um novo Let it Be, ou, como afirmou Peter Jackson em comunicado: “a experiência ‘mosca na parede’ definitiva com que os fãs dos Beatles sonham há muito – é como se uma máquina do tempo nos transportasse para 1969, e nos sentássemos no estúdio a ver aqueles quatro amigos a fazerem óptima música juntos”"
https://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartneys-previously-unseen-movie-the-bruce-mcmouse-show-to-be-shown-in-cinemas-2429362
Citando:
"Featuring a family of mice living beneath Macca's stage...
Paul McCartney‘s previously unseen movie The Bruce McMouse show is to receive a cinema release later this month.
The new offering from the Beatles icon is part concert film, part animated feature and tells the story of how Paul McCartney and Wings initially met Bruce McMouse – the film’s animated protagonist."
https://nit.pt/coolt/cinema/realizador-big-little-lies-prepara-filme-john-lennon-yoko-ono
Quoting:
" Jean-Marc Vallée:
O canadiano está a preparar-se para realizar um filme sobre a história do beatle John Lennon e de Yoko Ono, que será produzido pela Universal Pictures. O guião foi escrito por Anthony McCarten, o mesmo que adaptou a história de “A Teoria de Tudo”, sobre Stephen Hawking.
A ideia é que a música de John Lennon seja a banda sonora do filme. Este é um projeto que está em preparação há vários anos — não foi fácil convencer Yoko Ono a colaborar, e os contratos ainda não foram assinados. A expetativa é que a produção arranque em meados ou no final de 2019."
... celebrado com o retorno do filme às salas de cinema. Hoje foi no Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (em Coimbra):
https://www.thebeatles.com/news/yellow-submarine-returns-big-screen-one-day-cinema-event
The history of The Beatles and their cultural influence:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6170130/
Trailer oficial:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/how-the-beatles-changed-the-world
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5452613/Danny-Boyle-Richard-Curtis-making-Beatles-movie.html
Citando:
"Boyle, who won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, will direct the film which has the tentative title of All You Need Is Love, although London-based studio Working Title has insisted that the secretive project is still untitled.
Curtis, responsible for British classics such as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, has written the script for All You Need Is Love, which is about a struggling musician who, for plot reasons as yet unknown, thinks he’s the only person who can remember the Fab Four."
P.S.: Another source for the news:
http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/beatles/danny-boyle-for-the-beatles-musical-movie/
Citando:
"In fairness, It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! is not wholly devoid of interest, especially for forensic Fab Four fans. Lengthy archive newsreel clips give an intriguing sense of life inside the Beatlemania bubble just as the band were in transition from moptop pop minstrels to planet-shaking rock aristocrats. The chapter on Epstein's death also has a pleasing journalistic rigor that is lacking elsewhere. Yanked out of a meditation retreat with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to hear the news, Lennon's shell-shocked reaction still feels raw five decades later. "There's no such thing as death anyway," George Harrison argues. "There's death on a physical level, but life goes on everywhere."
More earthly insights into Epstein's death come in a contemporary interview with Simon Napier-Bell, a budding pop impresario in Sixties London who later went on to manage Wham! and many other artists. After spurning repeated sexual advances from Epstein, Napier-Bell came home from a weekend in Dublin to find several bleary messages that the tormented Beatles manager had left on his prototype answerphone machine the very night he died. "I did the stupid, British, correct thing and immediately erased the tape," Napier-Bell says ruefully.
In visual terms, Parker tries to compensate for a dearth of fresh Beatles material with small stylistic flourishes. Trippy animated credits invoke the surreal look of Yellow Submarine (...)"
... nos arquivos de um dos autores (já falecido):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/12/unseen-footage-of-the-beatles-during-filming-of-help-emerges-after-50-years
Citando:
"Unseen footage of the Beatles larking around as they filmed a movie in the Austrian Alps has emerged after being stored in a garage for more than 50 years.
The footage, entitled Snow Scenes, was taken by the late actor Leo McKern, best known as Rumpole of the Bailey on ITV between 1978-92.
In 1965, McKern was in the Richard Lester-directed film Help! along with the Beatles, playing a cult supervillain called Clang who is after the ring on Ringo’s finger.
A keen amateur photographer and filmmaker, McKern caught the Beatles relaxed and off guard as they prepared to film scenes in the ski resort of Obertauern.
“It is unseen footage of people who were, at that time, the most famous people on earth,” said the actor Neil Pearson, who is also a rare books dealer. “It is footage of golden age Beatles, fooling around between takes, waiting for something to happen ... I know that feeling.”"
Sim, aparentemente estiveram lá duas vezes:
https://www.adn.com/arts/2017/04/15/what-was-it-like-to-be-13-when-the-beatles-came-to-anchorage-a-new-screenplay-explores-just-that/
Citando:
"The reason the band landed in Anchorage on June 27, 1966, varies depending on whom you ask. According to some, the jet, which was heading to Japan, stopped in Alaska to dodge a typhoon. Others say it was a planned refueling stop extended because of mechanical problems.
A brief history of the Beatles' (brief) time in Alaska:
https://www.adn.com/culture/article/brief-history-beatles-brief-time-alaska/2014/07/06/
The Beatles were wrapping up their last tour ever and were reportedly irritable and bored during their brief stay at the former Anchorage Westward Hotel, now the Hilton."
E um guião à espera de financiamento para se tornar num filme sobre esse dia em que as mães das adolescentes as fecharam em casa para não irem ter com os Beatles:
Citando:
"In her screenplay "Revolver," Kate Trefry captures an extraordinary day in the life of Anchorage.
"It's based on my mom and her friends' experience when the Beatles landed in Anchorage in 1966," said Trefry, 30, who is from Anchorage. "My mom was 13, so my grandma locked her in the house like a lot of moms did. But a few of her friends escaped and went to the hotel where the Beatles were staying and actually got to the floor where their room was, but didn't see them.""
(...)
"As for "Revolver," the Fab Four's unannounced Anchorage visit provided Trefry with plenty of material both real and imagined."
"The Beatles Come to Town" color film:
http://www.guitarplayer.com/artist-videos/1436/watch-the-beatles-in-rare-1963-color-clip-from-before-their-us-arrival/62010
Citando:
"High-quality color footage of the group from before its February 1964 arrival in the U.S. is hard to come by. What’s readily available is mostly in black and white and often has poor audio quality.
The Manchester clip is an exception. It was created by Pathé News for the short feature The Beatles Come to Town and features performances of “She Loves You” and “Twist and Shout.” The film was shot in Technicolor and Techniscope (a budget widescreen process from the period) and features good-quality audio. Even without the benefit of modern restoration, it makes for enjoyable viewing. The film was originally shown in British theaters during the week of December 22, 1963 as a preview to the daily feature."
(...)
"While it’s great to see the ABC Theater footage restored and included in Howard’s film, the performance of “She Loves You” is broken up with additional documentary clips that obscure the song’s final verse and chorus. Eight Days a Week also omits the additional footage from the original six-and-a-half-minute newsreel, including the theater preparations and the Beatles chatting with photographers. Fortunately,The Beatles Come to Town is available in its entirety on YouTube."
