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Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, a documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald that explores John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s early years in New York City and their One to One concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972. The film will premiere in IMAX on April 11 before expanding to wider theaters on April 18.

The documentary, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year, features archival footage, including previously unseen home movies and restored clips from the benefit concert where Lennon performed with guest musicians, members of the Plastic Ono Band, and backing band Elephant’s Memory. The concert was Lennon’s only full-length solo performance after leaving The Beatles, serving as both a musical event and a call to action during the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration.

Macdonald, known for One Day in September and The Last King of Scotland, directed the...

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, which takes an intimate look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they settle into a new life in New York City while associating with the anti-war movement and being targeted by the U.S. government. The documentary is directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Peter Worsley. Sam Rice-Edwards would co-direct and edit the feature. Macdonald produces the film with Alice Webb and the executive producers on board include Sean Ono Lennon, Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.

The official synopsis reads,

“An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, One To One: John & Yoko delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of John and Yoko’s only full-length concert.

Magnolia Pictures has secured the North American distribution rights for One to One: John & Yoko, a documentary offering an in-depth look at an 18-month period that redefined the lives of one of music’s most iconic couples, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Details Of The Documentary

The film, directed by Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September), delves into the couple’s life during the early 1970s when they resided in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

It features rare, never-before-seen footage and newly restored material from Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert. This audio restoration was overseen by their son, Sean Ono Lennon.

The documentary had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by screenings at the Telluride Film Festival, and is set to be featured in the Spotlight section of the Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 23 to February 2, 2025.

Magnolia plans an exclusive...

Kevin Macdonald’s Venice and Telluride premiere One To One: John & Yoko has been picked up by Dogwoof for release in the UK-Ireland.

The documentary screened in the Spotlight section at Sundance yesterday (January 23). The feature will preview exclusively in Imax on April 9 and 10 before opening in cinemas nationwide on April 11.

The film offers an inside look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 1970s with never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert, in Madison Square Garden. Their son, Sean Ono Lennon,...

Magnolia Pictures has landed North American rights to “One to One: John & Yoko,” a documentary that offers an expansive and revealing look at the transformative 18 months of one of music’s most famous couples.

The sale went through before “One to One” is set to screen at Sundance Film Festival, which is taking place in Park City from Jan. 23-Feb. 2, 2025. The doc had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival and played at Telluride Film Festival before making the trek to Utah’s snowy mountain town.

Magnolia plans to release “One to One: John & Yoko” exclusively in Imax on April 11 before expanding to additional theaters. It will land on HBO and Max at a later date in 2025.

Kevin Macdonald (an Oscar winner for “One Day in September”) directed the documentary, which captures the time that Lennon and Ono spent living in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the early 1970s.

Kevin Macdonald’s Venice and Telluride documentary One To One: John & Yoko has found a home in North America, landing at Magnolia Pictures ahead of a Sundance slot in the Spotlight section.

The film looks at the 18-month period in the early 1970s when John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in Greenwich Village and features previously unseen material and restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert. Sean Ono Lennon oversaw the remastered audio.

One To One: John & Yoko will open exclusively in Imax on April 11 before expanding into additional theatres and, late this year, debuting on HBO...

Ahead of its screening as part of the Spotlight section at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary “One to One: John & Yoko” has secured distribution from Magnolia Pictures for a release that includes Imax exhibition and a streaming home on Max.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”), the film chronicles the 18 months that 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, their son, oversaw the audio remaster and the film previously played at the Venice and Telluride film festivals.

Magnolia will open the film exclusively in Imax on April 11 before expanding to additional theaters. The film will air on HBO and will be available to stream on Max in late 2025.

“’One to One: John & Yoko’ is a revelation,” Magnolia Pictures co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures is taking North American rights to Kevin Macdonald’s documentary One to One: John & Yoko, which after making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and playing at Telluride is making a pit stop in the Spotlight section this week at the Sundance Film Festival. One to One: John & Yoko is getting an April 11 release exclusively in Imax. Pic will air on HBO and stream on Max in late 2025.

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...

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s legacy during their 18 months stateside in Greenwich Village is captured in new documentary, “One to One: John and Yoko.”

The feature, helmed by Kevin Macdonald, is set in in 1971 and 1972 New York as Lennon prepares for his One to One charity concert for children with special needs. The iconic performance, which took place on August 30, 1972, was Lennon’s only full length concert between the final Beatles show in 1966 and his death in 1980. “One to One” boasts unseen home videos filmed by Lennon and Ono, as well as archival personal phone calls and photos.

The iconic couple’s son Sean Ono Lennon is also involved as the music producer.

The official logline reads: “Set in New York in 1972, the film explores John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world set against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history. While much...

Life after The Beatles for legendary singer-songwriter John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono in New York City is the focus of Kevin MacDonald’s latest documentary, One to One: John & Yoko.

The Scottish filmmaker, coming off his fashion doc High & Low: John Galliano, recalls Lennon in 1972 performing his final full-stage performance, the One to One benefit concert, at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, with Ono at his side.

Directed by Macdonald (Whitney, Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland), One to One features new materials like remixed concert audio produced by Sean Ono Lennon, newly restored footage and personal archives like phone calls and home movies recorded and filmed by Lennon and Ono. Besides earning an Oscar for One Day in September, MacDonald also executive produced the award-winning documentaries Senna and The Rescue.

“I wanted to make a film that surprises and delights even the most dedicated...

Making Magic

To mark the 25th anniversary of the “Harry Potter” books being published in the U.S., the Empire State Building is set to be lit up in Hogwarts house colors at sunset on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Viewers outside of New York can watch the building’s Tower Lights shine red for Gryffindor, yellow for Hufflepuff, blue for Ravenclaw and green for Slytherin on the Empire State’s live cam. For those in New York, there will be a magical pop-up cart on the 86th Floor Observation Deck where fans will be able to pick up free copies of the book and bottles of Butterbeer. Costumes and wizard robes are encouraged.

Crypto Scam

BBC One have set a documentary on alleged crypto-scammer Sam Bankman-Fried. Produced by Bitachon365 (“Secrets of Prince Andrew”), the 60-minute doc will air under the BBC’s “Panorama” strand on Sept. 25. A 90-minute cut will be available...

Film will release globally later this year.

Netflix has made another fall festival acquisition, swooping with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground on worldwide rights to Matthew Heineman’s Telluride documentary American Symphony.

The film follows a year in the life of musician and Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste as he navigates the stresses and struggles of his meteoric rise winnings six Grammys and preparing the American Symphony for Carnegie Hall, while his wife and bestelling author Suleika Jaouad is diagnosed with the return of Leukemia.

Heineman, Lauren Domino, and Joedan Okun produced American Symphony, and executive producers are Alice Webb,...

This year’s best documentary feature Oscar race, which heretofore seemed unusually wide open, now has a frontrunner.

American Symphony, Oscar nominee Matthew Heineman’s moving portrait of the musician Jon Batiste as he experiences his greatest professional success (he dominated the 2022 Grammys) at the same time his wife faces her greatest personal challenge (Suleika Jaouad is battling leukemia), has been acquired by Netflix following a lengthy bidding war, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The film will be released this year and will be promoted with a major Oscar campaign in the works. Moreover, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground, which has a first-look deal with Netflix, is on board for the project, just as it was for two other recent Netflix films: 2019’s American Factory, which went on to win the best documentary feature Oscar, and for 2020’s Crip Camp, which was nominated for it.

Mercury Studios, the production company behind recent Abbey Road Studios doc “If These Walls Could Sing,” have unveiled their new feature, about composer Felix Mendelssohn’s genius sister Fanny.

Although Felix, who is best known for writing “The Wedding March,” is still world-renowned 175 years after his death, his sister Fanny was also a prolific musician, composing 450 works – including her own wedding music – before she died in her early 40s. “Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn” tells her story.

Sheila Hayman directs the doc, which also stars classical artist Isata Kanneh-Mason bringing Mendelssohn’s works to life. Filming has taken place in Berlin, New York, London, Oxford and Buckingham Palace, where Kanneh-Mason played Queen Victoria’s piano.

“Take a celebrated musical genius, some sibling rivalry, an unknown manuscript, a dash of sass and one sensational revelation and what have you got? ‘Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn,'” reads the logline.

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Ileana D'Cruz shared a recent photoshoot with funny captions, lets have a look at the same. Ileana D'Cruz, an actress and model who predominantly appears in Telugu and Hindi language films was born in Mumbai but spent most of her childhood in Goa.

When in Goa, the manager at her mother's workplace, suggested that Ileana had a vibrant smile and should start modelling and fixed a meeting with Marc Robinson. Someone apparently also mentioned that Ileana had chiseled features & a figure to die-for. Though initially reluctant, she was persuaded and her first portfolio was created in January 2003, which she described as a 'disaster'.

D'Cruz made her screen debut in 2006 with Telugu-language film Devadasu, which was a commercial success whilst earning her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debutant.

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John Battsek’s Ventureland is producing in a new development deal with Mercury Studios.

The world-famous Abbey Road Studios is to be the subject of a feature documentary directed by Mary McCartney and produced by John Battsek.

If These Walls Could Sing will mark the first feature about the London recording studios where The Beatles recorded almost all their albums and will be the centrepiece of Abbey Road’s 90th anniversary celebrations, which being in November.

Universal Music Group-backed Mercury Studios will produce the documentary with Battsek’s new outfit, Ventureland, and marks the first in a multi-project deal...

Famed British recording studio Abbey Road will be the subject of a feature doc from UK photographer and filmmaker Mary McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney whose Beatles famously recorded their eleventh studio album there and named it after the site.

The project, If These Walls Could Sing, comes from Mercury Studios, the music-first content studio from Universal Music Group, which has enlisted Oscar-winner John Battsek to produce through his new banner Ventureland. Mercury has also struck an ongoing development deal with Ventureland. Universal Music UK’s Marc Robinson and Mercury Studios CEO Alice Webb will oversee and executive produce.

The movie will mark the first time Abbey Road has opened its doors to a feature doc crew. The studio’s 90th anniversary celebrations begin in November this year and the project will be the centerpiece of those events.

“Some of my earliest memories as a young child come from time spent at Abbey Road.

Abbey Road Studios will be the subject of a new feature-length documentary from director Mary McCartney.

Universal Music Group-backed Mercury Studios is partnering with celebrated doc producer John Battsek’s Ventureland for the project, entitled “If These Walls Could Sing.”

The doc marks the first time Abbey Road has opened its doors to a feature doc, and will be the centrepiece of the legendary studio’s 90th anniversary celebrations, which kick off in November. Billed as the untold story of the studio, the film will feature an all-star cast of interviews, and intimate access to the premises.

Located in St. John’s Wood in North West London, Abbey Road Studios was opened in 1931 and has earned a reputation for groundbreaking recording technology. Although it was initially used for classical recordings, its repertoire eventually broadened to jazz, big band and rock ‘n’ roll. The Beatles recorded 190 of their 210 songs at the studios.

Mumbai, Ekta Choudhury, a 22-year-old from New Delhi, was Sunday night crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2009. She will represent the country at the global beauty pageant later this year. She received the crown at a grand ceremony here. Pooja Chopra was crowned Miss India World and Shriya Kishore is Miss India Earth 2009. The ceremony also featured performances by Bollywood stars Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Genelia D'souza, choreographed by Shiamak Davar. The contestants dazzled the event in beautiful creations by designers Ritu Kumar, Rocky S., Pantaloons (designed by Rajesh and Anirban) and Prasad Bidappa. The show was choreographed by Marc Robinson and hosted by Bollywood beauty Malaika Arora Khan and star R. Madhavan.