If you thought the original Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” music video couldn’t be any more cinematic, try adding Sesame Street characters from the 1985 film Follow that Bird. A fan has combined the iconic ’90s vid with your favorite Muppets, and the result—featuring Big Bird and Cookie Monster—might have topped the Spike Jonze-directed original.
Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. Mylo the Cat) posted the mashup on his YouTube channel isthishowyougoviral. The YouTuber explained how the original video was “one of the greatest of all time” and he therefore “couldn’t do a regular old lip sync video.” Other...
Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. Mylo the Cat) posted the mashup on his YouTube channel isthishowyougoviral. The YouTuber explained how the original video was “one of the greatest of all time” and he therefore “couldn’t do a regular old lip sync video.” Other...
- 7/7/2017
- by Max Murphy
- PEOPLE.com
No, it’s not a promo for the all puppet Beastie Boys cover band, The Beastie Birds, but the latest Sesame Street mashup is just as much fun. From the Webby Award-winning genius who set “Rick and Morty” to the mellifluous tunes of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank),” comes yet another highly entertaining remake — this time to Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.”
Read More: Sesame Street Spoofed ‘Orange is the New Black’ Without the Lesbian Sex, and It’s Weird — Watch
The original video was directed by none other than Spike Jonze, and this cheeky update follows that one pretty faithfully. Opening with Big Bird on the run in a cornfield, and ending with him lost in a parade, Big Bird’s round eyes and bumbling gait fit fit perfectly with the song’s distorted guitar riffs. Jonze’s original video payed homage to the television crime dramas of the 1970s,...
Read More: Sesame Street Spoofed ‘Orange is the New Black’ Without the Lesbian Sex, and It’s Weird — Watch
The original video was directed by none other than Spike Jonze, and this cheeky update follows that one pretty faithfully. Opening with Big Bird on the run in a cornfield, and ending with him lost in a parade, Big Bird’s round eyes and bumbling gait fit fit perfectly with the song’s distorted guitar riffs. Jonze’s original video payed homage to the television crime dramas of the 1970s,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
There’s nothing that the internet loves more than cat videos, and with its next feature-length documentary, YouTube Red is giving viewers their fill.
The subscription service has partnered with the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s New York-based production company Oscilloscope Laboratories to release Kedi, which chronicles the lives of seven street cats in Istanbul. The film, which has quickly become the third highest-grossing foreign language documentary of all time, topping $2.4 million -- and which will continue to be available in select theaters -- arrives on YouTube Red May 10.
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The subscription service has partnered with the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s New York-based production company Oscilloscope Laboratories to release Kedi, which chronicles the lives of seven street cats in Istanbul. The film, which has quickly become the third highest-grossing foreign language documentary of all time, topping $2.4 million -- and which will continue to be available in select theaters -- arrives on YouTube Red May 10.
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- 4/20/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Golden Exits. © Sean Price Williams“No soul or locale is too humble,” John Updike wrote, “to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction.” Which is a good thing for Nick, the nominal hero of Alex Ross Perry’s new film Golden Exits. The mild, meek, nearly-fifty archivist, played with greying dignity by former Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, lives a pinched and incapacious existence, toiling ten hours a day hunched behind the desk of a basement office only a few blocks away from his Brooklyn apartment. It’s a spartan, closed-loop life, and Nick thinks it’s “thrilling”—which it becomes for a time, when a 25-year-old assistant arrives from Australia and threatens to disrupt it. Golden Exits is about that threat. Or more precisely, it is a film about what happens when order and routine are besieged by the promise of change—when the life one has accepted is beleaguered by temptation,...
- 2/26/2017
- MUBI
Alex Ross Perry is an independent-film conundrum. The 32-year-old writer-director received very strong reviews for his 2015 dramatic thriller “Queen of Earth” and 2014 Sundance Film Festival entry “Listen Up Philip,” but both films were box office flops, taking in around $90,000 and $200,000, respectively.
Read More: ‘Golden Exits’ Exclusive Soundtrack: Listen to Keegan DeWitt’s Score From Alex Ross Perry’s New Film
Perry’s latest film, “Golden Exits,” premiered Sunday in U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance. The film follows two families in Brooklyn whose social bubble is disrupted by a visiting girl from Australia, played by Emily Browning. The ensemble cast is comprised of Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe and former Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.
The prospect of three commercial duds in a row could give any filmmaker a panic attack, but Perry has a sense of humor about his lack of box office prowess.
“It would be...
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Perry’s latest film, “Golden Exits,” premiered Sunday in U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance. The film follows two families in Brooklyn whose social bubble is disrupted by a visiting girl from Australia, played by Emily Browning. The ensemble cast is comprised of Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe and former Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.
The prospect of three commercial duds in a row could give any filmmaker a panic attack, but Perry has a sense of humor about his lack of box office prowess.
“It would be...
- 1/27/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Everyone loves a good mashup. Whether it’s Danger Mouse’s landmark Grey Album or Carly Rae Jepsen versus Nine Inch Nails, it’s a unique art form that re-contextualizes both included works — and gives us some new bangers.
All of which is to say, this two-year old Daft Punk and Beastie Boys mashup is getting passed around this week thanks to a Reddit post, and we couldn’t be happier to have it in the world.
Toronto producer Coins created the album Daft Science by intricately layering the finest of Beastie verses over Daft Punk’s indelible, futuristic beats.
All of which is to say, this two-year old Daft Punk and Beastie Boys mashup is getting passed around this week thanks to a Reddit post, and we couldn’t be happier to have it in the world.
Toronto producer Coins created the album Daft Science by intricately layering the finest of Beastie verses over Daft Punk’s indelible, futuristic beats.
- 11/18/2016
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
Mike D from the Beastie Boys told cops he's out thousands of dollars in surf and skate gear and now police are on the hunt to catch the thief. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... L.A. Sheriffs Dept. got called to the Beastie Boy's home Friday after Mike D claimed someone broke into his outdoor storage shed at his Malibu pad where he had loads of surfboards, skateboards and other miscellaneous surf gear. Mike reported...
- 8/8/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The first Beastie Boy blaring, action heavy trailer for Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond didn’t really sit with long standing fans of the franchise, and some of those who jumped on board with Jj Abrams reboot, feeling like a major departure from what had come before. Even star and co-script writer Simon Pegg was less than enthused, stating it wasn’t a really good indication of what the movie had in store for us. Well, a far more subtle, character driven trailer has been released that proves that there is more to Lin’s entry in Star Trek franchise than explosions and motor cycle stunts. I rather enjoyed the first trailer (maybe I’m a sucker for the Beastie Boys), but this is a far more impressive promo that carries on the Abrams tradition of marrying big action set pieces with equally big character moments. We also get...
- 5/21/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
London Short Film Festival | Jim Allen Retrospective
Both those bemoaning the lack of new British film-makers and more optimistic glass-half-full talent-spotters will be spoilt for choice here, possibly overwhelmingly so. There are 38 programmes of new British shorts alone, not to mention international work and documentaries. It’s all helpfully organised by genre (sample titles: Lo-Budget Mayhem, Femmes Fantastiques, God’s Lonely Men, Wtf?), which could bring anything from gang-related conker fights to an operatic love story between a jar of jam and a slice of toast. There are also events dedicated to film-makers just off the radar (Jarman collaborator Richard Heslop, Norway’s Joern Utkilen and British artist Jessica Sarah Rinland), and a few very much on it (a Harmony Korine weekend, a retrospective of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Aka Beastie Boy Adam Yauch). There’s even a night dedicated to films about cats.
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Both those bemoaning the lack of new British film-makers and more optimistic glass-half-full talent-spotters will be spoilt for choice here, possibly overwhelmingly so. There are 38 programmes of new British shorts alone, not to mention international work and documentaries. It’s all helpfully organised by genre (sample titles: Lo-Budget Mayhem, Femmes Fantastiques, God’s Lonely Men, Wtf?), which could bring anything from gang-related conker fights to an operatic love story between a jar of jam and a slice of toast. There are also events dedicated to film-makers just off the radar (Jarman collaborator Richard Heslop, Norway’s Joern Utkilen and British artist Jessica Sarah Rinland), and a few very much on it (a Harmony Korine weekend, a retrospective of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Aka Beastie Boy Adam Yauch). There’s even a night dedicated to films about cats.
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- 1/8/2016
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Reese Witherspoon, Dave Chappelle and the Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock in Clueless? As if! With the seminal 1995 teen comedy marking the 20th anniversary of its release on July 19, writer-director Amy Heckerling spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her lasting memories of making the film. This includes the fact that Witherspoon came quite close to nabbing the role of matchmaker Cher, which became a career-defining part for Alicia Silverstone. Here are 10 things you may not know about the film's sometimes-bumpy production, including every studio passing on it, the script constantly undergoing changes from the set and Heckerling's
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- 7/19/2015
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the high-school hierarchy of cool, there’s not much below the level of band geek, except perhaps the color-guard squad — the ones twirling flags at football games. But if it’s up to musical polymath David Byrne, that’s about to change. In 2008, after a Massachusetts team asked to use his compositions for the Winter Guard International championship, Byrne thought, “Wow, there’s this really crazy homespun creativity going on across the country and nobody in New York has ever heard of it,” he recalls. “Including me.” On June 27 and 28, the result of Byrne’s growing fandom (he’s now attended three world championships) will be on display at Barclays Center in “Contemporary Color,” a show matching musicians including Byrne himself, Nelly Furtado, and erstwhile Beastie Boy Ad-Rock with ten elite color-guard teams from across North America. This isn’t some quaint folk-culture pageant, though. The programs, which resemble...
- 6/18/2015
- by Rebecca Milzoff
- Vulture
Madonna is an iconic pop singer – but, deep down, she's a "closet comedian." On Thursday's episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon let the musician take her debut stab at stand-up with a brief set focused on dating younger men.
"I just always think it's good to talk about what you know," Madonna said in the above clip, wearing a grill and gold chains. "I did find myself, very strangely, the other day at breakfast with my [14-year-old] son Rocco, thinking, 'I haven't had a date in a couple weeks.
"I just always think it's good to talk about what you know," Madonna said in the above clip, wearing a grill and gold chains. "I did find myself, very strangely, the other day at breakfast with my [14-year-old] son Rocco, thinking, 'I haven't had a date in a couple weeks.
- 4/10/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Just like the characters in any one of his movies, Noah Baumbach emanates love and knowledge of movies and music from the past and present. But lacking the bombastic affectation of many of his characters, Baumbach is actually quite pleasant to talk with about art and pop culture. After a friendly quip about staying in “the mindset” for press interviews, Baumbach delved into his latest dissertation on the ubiquitous obsession with youth, “While We’re Young” which stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as an older couple who become enamored by a vibrant youthful pair of artists played by Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver. The film also co-stars Charles Grodin, former Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz (aka Ad-Rock — read our interview with him here), as an aging dad, and the movie is a wickedly funny look at youth, aging, art, and more (read our review). The writer-director spoke readily about creating his latest and funniest film,...
- 3/25/2015
- by Michael Arbeiter
- The Playlist
Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, Amanda Seyfried and Ben Stiller with While We're Young director Noah Baumbach, also starring Naomi Watts and Adam Driver with Charles Grodin, Maria Dizzia and Dree Hemingway Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Noah Baumbach says Academy Award Best Costume Design winner Ann Roth "has a way of dressing people - that you can't put your finger on." Roth won for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas and is a BAFTA honoree for John Schlesinger's The Day Of The Locust, which starred Donald Sutherland, Karen Black and Burgess Meredith. Roth also received Oscar nominations for her work on Robert Benton's Places In The Heart and again with Minghella for The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Noah's 2012 film, Frances Ha, with Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner and Adam Driver, had no costume designer credit, although Sumner's godmother is famed costume designer Colleen Atwood.
Noah Baumbach says Academy Award Best Costume Design winner Ann Roth "has a way of dressing people - that you can't put your finger on." Roth won for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas and is a BAFTA honoree for John Schlesinger's The Day Of The Locust, which starred Donald Sutherland, Karen Black and Burgess Meredith. Roth also received Oscar nominations for her work on Robert Benton's Places In The Heart and again with Minghella for The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Noah's 2012 film, Frances Ha, with Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner and Adam Driver, had no costume designer credit, although Sumner's godmother is famed costume designer Colleen Atwood.
- 3/25/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If your first association with Adam Horovitz is “the guy from the Beastie Boys,” then you’ve got something in common with Adam Horovitz. A few years past the disbanding of the iconic rap rock group, Horovitz still identifies himself as such. Even as he amounts acting gigs — like a major role in Noah Baumbach’s latest comedy about aging, art and losing one's edge, “While We’re Young” as a 40-something father who's the opposite of cool — Horovitz is proud to stick to this label of a Beastie Boy (read our review). But the real Horovitz isn’t exactly interchangeable from his Ad-Rock stage presence. Speaking to the performer over a plate of muffins and fruits in a dimly lit Manhattan hotel room, we were enchanted by his sweet and self-effacing means of carrying himself. Peppering in no small amount of jokes at his own expense, Horovitz waxed poetic...
- 3/24/2015
- by Michael Arbeiter
- The Playlist
Believe it, kids, you're gonna get old. And when you do, you might feel like Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in "While We're Young," wanting to recapture that youthful vigor, even if your bodies aren't up for staying out all night or hip hop dancing, and your brain has moved on from watching kitschy movies on VHS. But as Noah Baumbach's film points out, if you start hanging out with those younger kids again, some of your friends might not be so understanding. And two new clips from the movie have landed, and it's a nice taste of what's coming. You'll get a glimpse of Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, one half of Stiller and Watts' bestie couple, who has started making assumptions about what kind of crowd his pals want to hang with. Next, some health issues get very real. After that, check out James Murphy's cover of...
- 3/20/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Noah Baumbach’s latest feature, While We’Re Young, follows the tale of a middle-aged filmmaker (Ben Stiller) and his wife (Naomi Watts) finding their stagnant lives reinvigorated by their friendship with a young couple (Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver).
The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and will open in theaters March 27, everywhere April 2015.
(Yahoo! Movies)
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are Josh and Cornelia Srebnick, happily married middle-aged members of New York’s creative class. They tried to start a family and were unable to — and have decided they’re okay with that. But as Josh labors over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it’s plain that he has hit a dry patch and that something is still missing.
Enter Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a free-spirited young couple, who are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of...
The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and will open in theaters March 27, everywhere April 2015.
(Yahoo! Movies)
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are Josh and Cornelia Srebnick, happily married middle-aged members of New York’s creative class. They tried to start a family and were unable to — and have decided they’re okay with that. But as Josh labors over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it’s plain that he has hit a dry patch and that something is still missing.
Enter Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a free-spirited young couple, who are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of...
- 2/27/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts party and hallucinate with a younger couple before they make some sobering revelations in the latest trailer for A24's upcoming While We're Young. The Noah Baumbach-directed film centers around a New York-based documentary filmmaker and his wife (Stiller and Watts), who begin hanging out with a couple in their 20s (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried). Read More Watch Naomi Watts Envy Amanda Seyfried's Hip-Hop Skills in the 'While We're Young' Trailer When Stiller and Watts' Josh and Cornelia tell their friends (one of whom is played by Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz) about
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- 2/26/2015
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A trailer has been released for Ben Stiller’s new comedy While We're Young, which was directed by Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale). I love it when Stiller takes on off-beat comedy projects like this. I was really impressed with what I saw in this trailer, and it looks like a great and entertaining film.
The movie also has a great supporting cast that includes Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, and Adam Horowitz. Here’s the synopsis:
Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it’s plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable — and have...
The movie also has a great supporting cast that includes Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, and Adam Horowitz. Here’s the synopsis:
Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it’s plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable — and have...
- 12/6/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Universal Music, which co-owns the Beastie Boys’ recordings, is suing Monster Energy for $1.2 million over copyrights, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in New York. The energy beverage recently lost a $1.7 million lawsuit filed by the band for using several songs in a video promoting a snowboarding event in May 2012, just days after the death of Adam “McA” Yauch at age 47. Also read: Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Banned Commercial Use of His Music in Will According to Universal Music's latest complaint, ”Without the Plantiff's consent, Monster and/or entities acting at Monster's direction synchronized and recorded...
- 9/24/2014
- by Gina Hall
- The Wrap
Back in December of 2008, James Franco filmed a behind-the-scenes Saturday Night Live documentary, focusing on the week leading up to an episode hosted by actor John Malkovich. Originally intended to be a seven-minute short for an Nyu grad school assignment, the doc blossomed into a 90-minute film that screened to critical acclaim at the South by Southwest and Tribeca film festivals in 2010. While the project has been in studio limbo for the past few years, Franco has finally found a home for the documentary on Hulu Plus, where it will stream starting this Friday,...
- 9/24/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Coverage of International Sales Agents (ISAs) has resumed for the Toronto International Film Festival. This segment covers inspirational companies that have officially selected films in the festival. SydneysBuzz features ISAs, as they play an instrumental and necessary role in helping filmmakers to share their visions and voices with the world.
Glen Basner's FilmNation has knocked it out of the park at this year's Toronto International Film Festival with Chris Rock's comedy "Top Five" (taken by Paramount Pictures for world-wide rights), "While We're Young" (picked up by A24 for U.S rights), and "The Imitation Game" which received a full-on standing ovation.
More About these films:
"The Imitation Game"
One of the greatest stories of our time began back in the darkest days of the Second World War. Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician hired by the British military to break Nazi codes. His work leading a group of misfit geniuses didn't only shorten the war, it pushed technology to the point where computers could be imagined. But Turing paid a price.
At Cambridge University, the young Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) quickly establishes himself as a groundbreaking thinker with his theories about the potential of computing machines. When war between Britain and Germany is declared, these theories are put into active practice. Turing easily passes a test to become a member of a top-secret group assigned to decode critical German naval communications. Much to the surprise of the commanding officers, so does a woman, Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley also appearing at the Festival in Laggies). Turing and Clarke become fast friends, and are soon engaged to be married. But Turing is gay, struggling with his identity at a time when it is illegal and subject to terrible punishment.
"Top Five"
Chris Rock doesn't hold back. The comic made his name on sharp, uncensored observations about men, women, black people, white people, and the craziness we all get up to. As his work matured, his satire deepened and began to extend into both politics and love stories. But he never got any less raw. Chris Rock can still scandalize, which makes him more valuable than ever.
In Top Five, Rock plays Andre Allen, a successful comedian and movie star who, having had his work recently savaged by a New York Times critic, is now in need of a hit. His fiancé (Gabrielle Union) wants him to help boost her reality TV show, while his agent, played by the rocket-fuelled Kevin Hart, tries to guide him to the next blockbuster. But what Andre really wants to do is make a serious, important film about the Haitian revolution. So he lets the Times back into his life, hoping to revitalize his image with a profile written by a whip-smart, irresistible journalist (Rosario Dawson). It's the beginning of a beautiful sparring match.
Rock and Dawson make an appealing pair, and Top Five reveals the real chemistry between them. But Rock tailors the movie to suit his own mix of up-to-the-minute social criticism and raw gutter comedy. Even better, he surrounds himself with a galaxy of comedy stars (Tracy Morgan, Jay Pharoah, Cedric the Entertainer, Jb Smoove, and many more). Their scenes are a joy to watch as they riff on fame, sex, family, and that one question that always gets trash talk started: who are your top five hip-hop artists of all time?
"While We're Young"
Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it's plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable — and have decided they're okay with that. Yet for Josh, there is something still missing.
Enter Jamie (Adam Driver, also appearing at the Festival in Hungry Hearts and This is Where I Leave You) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who approach Josh after a class he teaches. A young artist couple, they are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion — retro board games one day, acquiring a pet chicken the next. For Josh, it's as if a door has opened back to his youth.
It's not long before the unhappy fortysomethings Josh and Cornelia throw aside friends their own age — including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in a sly supporting role — to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool. "Before we met," Josh admits, "the only two feelings I had left were wistful and disdainful." But is this new inspiration enough to sustain collaboration with artists twenty years his junior?
Learn about FilmNation's film slate here.
About FilmNation:
Founded in 2008 by veteran international film executive Glen Basner, FilmNation Entertainment is a new kind of film company – global, versatile and full-service; and is a go-to destination for many of the world’s most renowned filmmakers (including Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar, Jeff Nichols, Sofia Coppola, J.C Chandor and Anton Corbijn). FilmNation can board a project in a myriad of ways (as a producer, financier, sales agent, international distributor or marketer) and at any stage in a film’s lifespan including development.
FilmNation titles have grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office and the future looks to be even more successful with the company’s diversified global sales slate and the company’s own productions led by production vet Aaron Ryder. FilmNation has also forged a number of strategic relationships with some of the most prolific, respected producers and financiers operating in the film industry.
Glen Basner's FilmNation has knocked it out of the park at this year's Toronto International Film Festival with Chris Rock's comedy "Top Five" (taken by Paramount Pictures for world-wide rights), "While We're Young" (picked up by A24 for U.S rights), and "The Imitation Game" which received a full-on standing ovation.
More About these films:
"The Imitation Game"
One of the greatest stories of our time began back in the darkest days of the Second World War. Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician hired by the British military to break Nazi codes. His work leading a group of misfit geniuses didn't only shorten the war, it pushed technology to the point where computers could be imagined. But Turing paid a price.
At Cambridge University, the young Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) quickly establishes himself as a groundbreaking thinker with his theories about the potential of computing machines. When war between Britain and Germany is declared, these theories are put into active practice. Turing easily passes a test to become a member of a top-secret group assigned to decode critical German naval communications. Much to the surprise of the commanding officers, so does a woman, Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley also appearing at the Festival in Laggies). Turing and Clarke become fast friends, and are soon engaged to be married. But Turing is gay, struggling with his identity at a time when it is illegal and subject to terrible punishment.
"Top Five"
Chris Rock doesn't hold back. The comic made his name on sharp, uncensored observations about men, women, black people, white people, and the craziness we all get up to. As his work matured, his satire deepened and began to extend into both politics and love stories. But he never got any less raw. Chris Rock can still scandalize, which makes him more valuable than ever.
In Top Five, Rock plays Andre Allen, a successful comedian and movie star who, having had his work recently savaged by a New York Times critic, is now in need of a hit. His fiancé (Gabrielle Union) wants him to help boost her reality TV show, while his agent, played by the rocket-fuelled Kevin Hart, tries to guide him to the next blockbuster. But what Andre really wants to do is make a serious, important film about the Haitian revolution. So he lets the Times back into his life, hoping to revitalize his image with a profile written by a whip-smart, irresistible journalist (Rosario Dawson). It's the beginning of a beautiful sparring match.
Rock and Dawson make an appealing pair, and Top Five reveals the real chemistry between them. But Rock tailors the movie to suit his own mix of up-to-the-minute social criticism and raw gutter comedy. Even better, he surrounds himself with a galaxy of comedy stars (Tracy Morgan, Jay Pharoah, Cedric the Entertainer, Jb Smoove, and many more). Their scenes are a joy to watch as they riff on fame, sex, family, and that one question that always gets trash talk started: who are your top five hip-hop artists of all time?
"While We're Young"
Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it's plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable — and have decided they're okay with that. Yet for Josh, there is something still missing.
Enter Jamie (Adam Driver, also appearing at the Festival in Hungry Hearts and This is Where I Leave You) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who approach Josh after a class he teaches. A young artist couple, they are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion — retro board games one day, acquiring a pet chicken the next. For Josh, it's as if a door has opened back to his youth.
It's not long before the unhappy fortysomethings Josh and Cornelia throw aside friends their own age — including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in a sly supporting role — to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool. "Before we met," Josh admits, "the only two feelings I had left were wistful and disdainful." But is this new inspiration enough to sustain collaboration with artists twenty years his junior?
Learn about FilmNation's film slate here.
About FilmNation:
Founded in 2008 by veteran international film executive Glen Basner, FilmNation Entertainment is a new kind of film company – global, versatile and full-service; and is a go-to destination for many of the world’s most renowned filmmakers (including Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar, Jeff Nichols, Sofia Coppola, J.C Chandor and Anton Corbijn). FilmNation can board a project in a myriad of ways (as a producer, financier, sales agent, international distributor or marketer) and at any stage in a film’s lifespan including development.
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- 9/13/2014
- by Erin Grover
- Sydney's Buzz
There are cover songs, and then there are Muppets cover songs…dun, dun, Dun! But no, really, the Muppets make everything better, right?! Mylo the Cat, the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker are all bringing us the joy of watching them perform a shortened version of the Beastie Boys classic hit "So What'cha Want." It's magical, you guys. This certainly isn't the first time that the lovable puppets are jamming to the beat and singing along to famous songs, but it just might be our favorite. The visuals for the cover were actually originally paired with a Muppet-tastic version of "Danny Boy," but now it seems it's been trumped by the Beastie jam. So do yourselves a...
- 8/13/2014
- E! Online
The Public Theater will open its 2014-2015 season not on one of its storied stages but in the intimacy of Joe’s Pub beginning September 9 with Rock Bottom, the latest new musical from the producer of Here Lies Love, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Fun Home (not to mention A Chorus Line), among other new works. Bridget Everett (2007′s At Least It’s Pink, Inside Amy Schumer, Two Broke Girls) has teamed with Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (Hairspray, etc.), Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz and Matt Ray on the show, described by the Public as the story of ”what happens when you’re […]...
- 7/8/2014
- Deadline
A New York jury has awarded the Beastie Boys $1.7 million in the rap trio’s copyright violation lawsuit against Monster Energy drink. At issue was a mix by DJ Z-Trip used by Monster Energy that included five Beastie Boys songs, including “Sabotage” and “Pass the Mic.” DJ Z-Trip gave the drink manufacturer permission to use the mix for a recap of a snowboarding competition it sponsored, but Monster Energy did not have the Beastie Boys’ permission. From the start of the New York Federal Court trial, Monster Energy admitted it was at fault, so the trial was to determine damages. Monster Energy wanted to pay $125,000, the two remaining Beastie Boys, Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond, wanted $2 million— $1 million for the copyright infringement and $1 million for Monster Energy implying that the Beastie Boys’ endorsed the usage. Both Horovitz and Diamond testified at the trial. Among the facts...
- 6/6/2014
- Hitfix
On May 4th, 2012, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch passed away at the age of 47, following his three-year battle with cancer. The singer was probably the most powerful celebrity to make the younger generation aware of the liberation struggle in Tibet. This week, a group of Tibetan monks gave back. The four monks decided to honor Yauch's memory by breakdancing in Manhattan's Union Square to the tune of "Ch-Check It Out" off The Beastie Boys' 2004 album "To the 5 Boroughs." Unfortunately it's casual-spectator quality, but it's still worth Checking Out (sorry). ...
- 5/6/2014
- by Taylor Lindsay
- Indiewire
Wikipedia
If someone was to tell you in the early 80′s when rap was still in its infancy, that three Jewish white kids from the boroughs of New York City would go on to become the most successful hip-hop group in history, you would think they were crazy. However, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “McA” Yauch and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz would go on to defy racial barriers and captivate a world wide audience.
In a career that spanned three decades, the Beastie Boys went through quite the evolution, growing from a hardcore punk band, to party boy rappers on “Licensed to Ill”, to mature, sampling extraordinaires on “Paul’s Boutique”, to bringing fuzzed out funk jams on “Check Your Head” and “Ill Communication”, to the exotically weird yet captivating “Hello Nasty”, to the futuristic beats of “To the 5 Boroughs” and finally to the familiar but fresh ”Hot Sauce Committee Part...
If someone was to tell you in the early 80′s when rap was still in its infancy, that three Jewish white kids from the boroughs of New York City would go on to become the most successful hip-hop group in history, you would think they were crazy. However, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “McA” Yauch and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz would go on to defy racial barriers and captivate a world wide audience.
In a career that spanned three decades, the Beastie Boys went through quite the evolution, growing from a hardcore punk band, to party boy rappers on “Licensed to Ill”, to mature, sampling extraordinaires on “Paul’s Boutique”, to bringing fuzzed out funk jams on “Check Your Head” and “Ill Communication”, to the exotically weird yet captivating “Hello Nasty”, to the futuristic beats of “To the 5 Boroughs” and finally to the familiar but fresh ”Hot Sauce Committee Part...
- 3/24/2014
- by Steve Karantzoulidis
- Obsessed with Film
As an art student in Baltimore, Lotfy Nathan would sometimes hear the sounds of roaming dirt-bike gangs. "They would invade every part of the city," he says. "They seemed kind of mythical, mysterious." So for a 2007 class on documentary filmmaking, he decided to track down the cyclists, and found that many were eager for their high-octane hjinks to be caught on-camera. But the project only turned serious after he met Pug, a pre-teen hustler who wanted nothing more than to join in on the action. "They call them the 12 o'clock...
- 1/27/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Last week we brought you word that Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Beastie Boy Ad-Rock where bringing their musical skills to a couple of films headed to Sundance by providing a score (Lynn Shelton's "Laggies" and the baseball flick "No No: A Dockumentary," respectively). Well, that's just the tip of the iceberg. As you might suspect, the worlds of indie film and indie music aren't so far apart and there will be a lot of music to be heard in the films headed to Park City next week, so let's dive in... We previously reported it, but here's another reminder: Jenny Lewis alongside her boyfriend Johnathan Rice are providing the tunes for Anne Hathaway's "Song One" about a PhD student who becomes romantically involved with her brother's favorite musician. First look at the film here. Norwegian singer Sondre Lerche and Kato Ådland have teamed for "The Sleepwalker,...
- 1/7/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Director offers details of the abortive film he and the Beasties wrote in the mid-1990s
Spike Jonze has offered new details of a doomed feature film project he wrote with the Beastie Boys in the mid-1990s. We Can Do This would have been a "surreal and out there" star vehicle for all thee MCs, each one playing multiple characters.
"It would have been ridiculous," Jonze said in an interview with Indewire. "After we did [the music video for] Sabotage … the four of us wrote a script together, it was really fun."
In 1994, when Sabotage was released, Jonze was "just" a music video director; he had yet to release his feature debut, Being John Malkovich. But the Beastie Boys were arguably the biggest hip-hop group in the world, and Adam Yauch's comedy alter ego, Nathaniel Hornblower, was a fixture on MTV awards shows.
Reading on mobile? Watch the Beastie Boys' Sabotage...
Spike Jonze has offered new details of a doomed feature film project he wrote with the Beastie Boys in the mid-1990s. We Can Do This would have been a "surreal and out there" star vehicle for all thee MCs, each one playing multiple characters.
"It would have been ridiculous," Jonze said in an interview with Indewire. "After we did [the music video for] Sabotage … the four of us wrote a script together, it was really fun."
In 1994, when Sabotage was released, Jonze was "just" a music video director; he had yet to release his feature debut, Being John Malkovich. But the Beastie Boys were arguably the biggest hip-hop group in the world, and Adam Yauch's comedy alter ego, Nathaniel Hornblower, was a fixture on MTV awards shows.
Reading on mobile? Watch the Beastie Boys' Sabotage...
- 12/24/2013
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
A federal judge on Monday dumped out Monster Energy Company’s third party counter-claim in its ongoing legal battle with the Beastie Boys, who sued the beverage-maker last summer for copyright infringement. The Beasties sued first — serving Monster in August 2012 for using several songs in a video promoting a snowboarding event that May, just days after the death of Adam “McA” Yauch (right) at age 47. Performing at the Lake Louise, Alberta event was Beasties scratch-era contemporary DJ Z-Trip (real name Zach Sciacca, above), who paid homage to Yauch with a long medley mix. Also read: Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Banned Commercial Use of.
- 11/5/2013
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Oscilloscope Laboratories is feeling like a teenager again. The indie label founded by late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch said Thursday that it has acquired North American rights to "Teenage," a documentary look at the origins of youth culture. The film draws on archival material, film footage and diary entries from around the globe to look at various pre-adult movements -- from Flappers to Swing Kids to Hitler Youth -- that swept various countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer, Jessie Usher provide voice-over work. The film...
- 8/15/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Yes, that Ad-Rock: Adam Horovitz is reportedly in talks for a role in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, about a middle-aged couple (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts) who make some new, hip young friends (Amanda Seyfried and the ubiquitous Adam Driver). Ad-Rock would play a married and slightly disapproving pal to Stiller and Watts, so Beastie Boy Domesticity is still a trend, weirdly. ...
- 7/16/2013
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
New York -- A New York City playground where the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch learned to ride a bike as a child has been renamed in his honor.
City officials on Friday rechristened Brooklyn's Palmetto Playground as Adam Yauch Park. Yauch's parents and fellow Beastie Boy Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz attended the renaming ceremony.
The rapper known as "McA" died last May at the age of 47 after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. The gravelly-voiced Yauch helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop.
The playground includes full and half basketball courts, a community garden, a greenhouse, a small fitness area, an open play space, drinking fountains, and a dog run.
City officials on Friday rechristened Brooklyn's Palmetto Playground as Adam Yauch Park. Yauch's parents and fellow Beastie Boy Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz attended the renaming ceremony.
The rapper known as "McA" died last May at the age of 47 after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. The gravelly-voiced Yauch helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop.
The playground includes full and half basketball courts, a community garden, a greenhouse, a small fitness area, an open play space, drinking fountains, and a dog run.
- 5/4/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
One day before the first anniversary of the death of Adam Yauch, (aka McA of the Beastie Boys), a park in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed in his honor. On Friday, Brooklyn Borough president Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn parks commissioner Kevin Jeffrey, Beasties member Adam Horovitz and Yauch's parents Noel and Frances Yauch gathered to dedicate and rename Palmetto Playground, located on Columbia Place and State Street, blocks from Adam's childhood home. Yauch’s mother told the small crowd on hand that her son learned to ride his bike in the park. Photos: Adam Yauch: The Beastie Boy's Life and Career in Pictures In statement before
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- 5/3/2013
- by Mick Stingley
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spiegel & Grau, the folks behind Jay-z's art book/memoir/lyric collection Decoded, will publish a Beastie Boys memoir in 2015. Mike D and Ad-Rock are penning it, and they're "interested in challenging the form and making the book a multidimensional experience," publisher Julie Grau tells the Times. "There is a kaleidoscopic frame of reference, and it asks a reader to keep up." Agent Luke Janklow, who has been discussing a book project with the group for several years, says, "The first words out of Mike’s mouth were, 'I don’t want to do a straight memoir.'" Sacha Jenkins, who co-founded ego trip magazine and has worked as a writer and editor for Vibe, Rolling Stone, and Spin, will edit the book. There's no title yet, so we'll go ahead and suggest The Beastie Book.
- 4/29/2013
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
Vincent Grashaw made a gasoline-scented splash by both producing and appearing in 2011′s indie drama Bellflower, a twisted tale of Mad Max fandom and curdled love. Now Grashaw is making his directorial debut with the SXSW-screening Coldwater, which details a teenage boy’s struggle for survival at a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness.
“I played on a tournament hockey team growing up,” Grashaw told EW last year. “I remember one day our goalie wasn’t at practice and we all wondered what had happened. Turned out his parents sent him to a private juvenile program in the middle of nowhere.
“I played on a tournament hockey team growing up,” Grashaw told EW last year. “I remember one day our goalie wasn’t at practice and we all wondered what had happened. Turned out his parents sent him to a private juvenile program in the middle of nowhere.
- 3/7/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Barbra Streisand performed 'The Way We Were' as part of the 2013 Academy Awards In Memoriam segment.
The singer paid tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, who was one of the many departed stars remembered in this year's segment.
The 2013 In Memoriam feature was introduced by actor, producer and director George Clooney.
Stars whose lives were remembered included Ernest Borgnine, Ralph McQuarrie, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch and Herbert Lom.
Also celebrated were Michael Clarke Duncan, Tony Scott, Hal David, Nora Ephron and author Ray Bradbury, among others.
Stars who were notable by their absence included Dallas actor Larry Hagman and British film director Michael Winner.
The singer paid tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, who was one of the many departed stars remembered in this year's segment.
The 2013 In Memoriam feature was introduced by actor, producer and director George Clooney.
Stars whose lives were remembered included Ernest Borgnine, Ralph McQuarrie, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch and Herbert Lom.
Also celebrated were Michael Clarke Duncan, Tony Scott, Hal David, Nora Ephron and author Ray Bradbury, among others.
Stars who were notable by their absence included Dallas actor Larry Hagman and British film director Michael Winner.
- 2/25/2013
- Digital Spy
One of the most memorably twisted indie films of recent times was undoubtedly 2011′s micro-budgeted Bellflower — an apocalyptically minded tale of Mad Max fandom and a love affair which goes horribly awry. The Sundance-screened movie was made by a collective of filmmakers known as Coatwolf, whose membership includes writer-director Evan Glodell and producer-composer Jonathan Keevil. Today, the Coatwolf crew announced that their next project, the Keevil-directed action movie Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins, will feature molotov cocktails, a high-speed car chase, and “a massive bone-crushing 30 person street brawl.” The (fairly reasonable) catch? You have to help pay for it.
- 2/5/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
If you want to not only see the names, but hear the music from the top musicians who left us this year, this four-minute montage, "The Music They Made," posted by the New York Times last night is well worth your time. [More after the jump...] The compilation is reminder that the music world suffered some profound losses this year including Whitney Houston and Beastie Boy Adam Yauch. The video encompasses all formats, so a jazz genius like Dave Brubeck or bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs is alongside The Olivia Tremor Control’s Bill Doss, the Monkees’ Davy Jones, Ravi Shankar and Donna...
- 12/28/2012
- Hitfix
After brothers Bill and Turner Ross screened their new film for the first time at SXSW earlier this year, they went to lunch with representatives of Oscilloscope Laboratories, the film distribution company started by the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.
"Things came together pretty quickly after that," recalls Bill Ross to Rolling Stone. "It seemed so right. It was a perfect fit for us."
Having grown up listening to the Beastie Boys, Ross had a "geek-out moment," he says, as soon as he realized he'd be partnering with Yauch's company.
"Things came together pretty quickly after that," recalls Bill Ross to Rolling Stone. "It seemed so right. It was a perfect fit for us."
Having grown up listening to the Beastie Boys, Ross had a "geek-out moment," he says, as soon as he realized he'd be partnering with Yauch's company.
- 12/26/2012
- Rollingstone.com
Just as founder Adam Yauch wanted it to when he knew he was dying of cancer, Oscilloscope Laboratories is still kicking even after the Beastie Boy and art film lover passed away in May. The distribution company just acquired U.S. rights to Rowan Athale’s Wasteland, which created a buzz when it premiered at Toronto. Oscilloscope will release next year. Athale made his directing debut on the heist film (resulting in a chase by agencies before Wme signed him). A young Englishman recently released from prison recruits his three best friends and devises a complex scheme to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for the ex-con’s incarceration. Can he get revenge and win back his fed-up girlfriend? Attack The Block’s Luke Treadaway stars. “This is one of the most impressive debut films we’ve seen in a long time — Rowan has taken the classic heist...
- 10/18/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Bad Brains, the D.C. hardcore group known for their signature blend of reggae and punk, will release Into The Future, a new, self-produced album due Nov. 20. The band's last album, 2007's Build A Nation, was produced by devoted fan Adam Yauch and Into The Future will include a remix of "Peace Be Unto Thee" dedicated to the late Beastie Boy. Into The Future's title track is streaming now on RollingStone.com.
- 9/26/2012
- avclub.com
Reports of change at indie distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories' are premature. Oscilloscope ("Wendy and Lucy," "The Messenger,") has a team of eight people on the ground at the Toronto Film Festival this week, led by O-Scope veterans Dan Berger and David Laub, who acquired Matteo Garrone's Italian Cannes competition entry "Reality" in May, which went on to win the Grand Jury Prize and makes its North American debut in Toronto. In the last year, as O-Scope founder/owner, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, was fighting cancer, Oscilloscope execs David Fenkel, who left the company as announced soon after Yauch's death on May 4 to start indie distributor A24, and his successors Berger and Laub, were running the show. "David Fenkel's departure was unexpected and obviously came at a difficult time," writes the company's sole owner, Yauch's widow Dechen Yauch, in an email exchange. "But Adam did everything he could to.
- 9/11/2012
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Visit Films announced today that it is partnering with GoDigital on the digital release of Amiel Courtin-Wilson's ("Bastardy," "Hail") documentary "Ben Lee: Catch My Disease" November 6. The documentary paints a playful portrait of the Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee, with commentary from some of Hollywood's biggest stars who knew him, such as ex-girlfriend Claire Danes and old friends Jason Schwartzman, Michelle Williams, Zooey Deschanel, Winona Ryder, Thurston Moore and Beastie Boy Mike D. The 86-minute documentary took almost ten years to make, and Courtin-Wilson, in addition to writing, directing and producing the doc, also served as its cinematographer. An official synopsis from the press release follows: The focus of this documentary is charming, intelligent and iconoclastic Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee, whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless...
- 8/14/2012
- by Srimathi Sridhar
- Indiewire
Within days of the news that late Beastie Boy McA willed that none of his music be used in advertising, the Beastie Boys are suing Monster Energy Drink for doing just that. The beverage company used the Beastie Boys' music and images in a web ad campaign to promote their "Ruckus in the Rockies" event, as well as specifically featuring their names, thus giving the impression that the group endorsed the event and approved the music, which — surprise — they did not. Here are the specifics of the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in New York on Tuesday: The suit claims copyright infringement and violation of the Latham Act, which governs trademarks and endorsement. It also cites violation of New York's civil rights law. It seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction, as well as statutory damages of $150,000 for each infringement of their works. Representatives from Monster...
- 8/12/2012
- by Sarah Bennett
- Vulture
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, who died from cancer this past May at age 47, made sure his artistic dignity would be be maintained after his death. In his will, which was filed Tuesday in Manhattan, the rapper stipulated that his music and .artistic property. cannot be used for advertising purposes. DNAInfo.com reports that the late Adam Yauch's Last Will and Testament does prohibit usage of his and the Beastie Boys' songs in adverts. Yauch - known as McA - wanted to make sure that after his death the Beastie Boys' trademark sound would never be exploited in commercials. DNAInfo reports that his will was filed on Tuesday in a Manhattan Surrogate Court, and it stipulates that his...
- 8/10/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
By Zachary Swickey
On the eve of the late Adam Yauch's birthday, Beastie Boys fans can celebrate the life and legacy of McA with a Beastie-centric walking tour of New York City. Happening Saturday (August 4), the tour will visit over a dozen different locations that relate to the Boys and their musical history.
Led by a Beastie's super fan, the tour group will rendezvous at Frederick Douglass Playground on the corner of 101st Street and Amsterdam Ave. before traveling to their first official stop at John Berry’s Loft, which was the first venue to host a Beastie Boys performance.
Also included on the tour is Oscilloscope Laboratories, the independent film distribution company that was founded by McA along with David Fenkel, which notably released street artist Banksy’s documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” In addition to being a film production company location, To the Five Burroughs,...
On the eve of the late Adam Yauch's birthday, Beastie Boys fans can celebrate the life and legacy of McA with a Beastie-centric walking tour of New York City. Happening Saturday (August 4), the tour will visit over a dozen different locations that relate to the Boys and their musical history.
Led by a Beastie's super fan, the tour group will rendezvous at Frederick Douglass Playground on the corner of 101st Street and Amsterdam Ave. before traveling to their first official stop at John Berry’s Loft, which was the first venue to host a Beastie Boys performance.
Also included on the tour is Oscilloscope Laboratories, the independent film distribution company that was founded by McA along with David Fenkel, which notably released street artist Banksy’s documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” In addition to being a film production company location, To the Five Burroughs,...
- 8/1/2012
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
MTV News has your first peek at the late McA's special commemorative July cover.
By Rob Markman
The Beastie Boys on the cover of The Source
Photo:
Adam "McA" Yauch was more than a musician, he was a culture icon. As a member of the Beastie Boys, Yauch helped blend punk, rock and hip-hop, fusing multiple genres and effectively changing the way people consume music. He died on May 4 after a lengthy battle with cancer, and on June 26, The Source magazine will honor him with a special commemorative cover, and MTV News has the first look.Slaughterhouse appears on the July issue's main cover, while Yauch, Ad-Rock and Mike D. grace the special tribute cover. The black-and-white image, originally captured by photographer Sunny Bak in the 1980s, shows McA on a skateboard, flanked on his left and right by his two bandmates. Inside, The Source interviewed Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons...
By Rob Markman
The Beastie Boys on the cover of The Source
Photo:
Adam "McA" Yauch was more than a musician, he was a culture icon. As a member of the Beastie Boys, Yauch helped blend punk, rock and hip-hop, fusing multiple genres and effectively changing the way people consume music. He died on May 4 after a lengthy battle with cancer, and on June 26, The Source magazine will honor him with a special commemorative cover, and MTV News has the first look.Slaughterhouse appears on the July issue's main cover, while Yauch, Ad-Rock and Mike D. grace the special tribute cover. The black-and-white image, originally captured by photographer Sunny Bak in the 1980s, shows McA on a skateboard, flanked on his left and right by his two bandmates. Inside, The Source interviewed Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons...
- 6/19/2012
- MTV Music News
Vincent Grashaw, producer of the acclaimed 2011 indie drama Bellflower, will make his directorial debut with the movie Coldwater. The film, which Grashaw cowrote with Mark Penney, concerns a teenage boy’s struggle for survival inside a wilderness bootcamp.
Coldwater is a labor of love for Grashaw who has been working on the project for 13 years. He penned the first draft of the script back in 1999, when he was just 18. “I played on a tournament hockey team growing up,” Grashaw tells EW. “I remember one day our goalie wasn’t at practice and we all wondered what had happened. Turned out...
Coldwater is a labor of love for Grashaw who has been working on the project for 13 years. He penned the first draft of the script back in 1999, when he was just 18. “I played on a tournament hockey team growing up,” Grashaw tells EW. “I remember one day our goalie wasn’t at practice and we all wondered what had happened. Turned out...
- 6/4/2012
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
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