Featuring rare and exclusive footage, the
film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo
Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. White Horse Pictures’
Grammy Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy
Award®-winner and Emmy® Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine
Entertainment are producing with Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.’s Jeff Jones
and Jonathan Clyde are serving as executive producers, along with
Imagine’s Michael Rosenberg and White Horse’s Guy East and Nicholas
Ferrall.
Studiocanal is an anchor partner on the film having acquired UK, France, Germany and Australia and New Zealand rights.
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The
Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career
(1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s
acclaim. Ron Howard’s film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney,
George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this
extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It will explore their inner
workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their
collective career together – all the while, exploring The Beatles’
extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable,
complementary personalities.
The film will focus on the time period
from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in
Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in
1966.
Richard Abramowitz’s Abramorama will
handle the US theatrical release of the film that is set to be an event
driven experience with a few special surprises planned for cinemagoers.
Hulu will have the exclusive US streaming
video on-demand rights to the film on SVOD beginning September 17th –
marking the first feature film to debut on Hulu following its theatrical
premiere. The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years is the
first film acquired by Hulu’s Documentary Films arm which will serve as a
new home for premium original and exclusive documentary film titles
coming to Hulu.
Following an all-star world premiere in
London on September 15th, the film will roll out theatrically worldwide
with release dates set in Japan (September 22nd), Australia and New
Zealand (September 16th) and UK, France and Germany (September 15th).
Award-winning Editor Paul Crowder is the
editor. Crowder’s long-time collaborator, Mark Monroe, is serving as
writer. Marc Ambrose is the supervising producer.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS
This project was originally brought to Apple Corps by One
Voice One World, which has conducted extensive research around the
globe, including inviting Beatles fans to send in clips of home movies
and photos that they acquired during this extraordinary period. OVOW’s
Matthew White, Stuart Samuels, and Bruce Higham are co-producing the
film.
Nicholas Ferrall is the executive in charge of production
for White Horse Pictures, assisted by executives Jeanne Elfant Festa and
Cassidy Hartmann. The Beatles documentary is one of the first projects
under Nigel Sinclair’s new White Horse Pictures banner, which he founded
in 2014 with long-time business partner Guy East. Their recent
documentary, David Gelb’s A Faster Horse, had its world premiere at the
Tribeca Film Festival where it received rave reviews.
The Beatles began touring Europe in late 1963, after an
extraordinary arrival on the British scene in 1961 and ‘62. However, it
was their much-heralded Ed Sullivan appearance on February 9, 1964 that
caused The Beatles’ popularity to explode. By June, the band had
commenced their first world tour, and continued on a relentless schedule
for two subsequent years. By the time the band stopped touring in
August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90
cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped
create, known as “Beatlemania,” was something the world had never seen
before and laid the foundation for the globalization of culture.
Beatlemania was not just a phenomenon. It was the catalyst for
a cultural shift that would alter the way people around the world
viewed and consumed popular culture. This film explains what it was
about that particular moment in time that allowed this cultural pivot
point to occur, examining the social and political context of the time,
and revealing the unique conditions that caused technology and mass
communication to collide. The film also explores the incomparable
electricity between performer and audience that turned the music into a
movement – a common experience into something sublime.
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