Magnolia Pictures has picked up U.S. distribution rights for the new documentary "One to One: John & Yoko" and plans an April 11 release for the film exclusively on Imax screens.
The film also is set to start streaming on Max later this year.
Via Deadline:
The docu is a revelatory look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s with never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert. Sean Ono Lennon, the couple’s son, oversaw the audio remastering of the concert in the pic.
On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving the Beatles: the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Garden. It’s the starting in Oscar winner Macdonald’s doc into the lives of John and Yoko. By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the U.S. — living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television. As the duo experience a year of love and transformation, they begin to change their approach to protest — ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.
“One to One: John & Yoko is a revelation,” said Magnolia Pictures co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles and Dori Begley. “Kevin Macdonald has given us an incredibly fresh, marvelously human and revealing look at the iconic couple.”
“I am personally thrilled to be back with the Magnolia and HBO teams to be giving One to One: John & Yoko the ambitious theatrical release that I always dreamed of for this film,” said Macdonald. “This is a movie about music and love and politics and about immersing yourself in the year of 1972 — a period in time that feels uncannily like the world we are currently inhabiting. And more than anything else I’m grateful to Sean Lennon and Mercury Studios for entrusting the incredible One to One concert to me.”
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