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Exclusive: Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to the Shea Whigham (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning) and Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age) crime thriller Lake George.

Premiere will launch international sales this week at the European Film Market.

The neo-noir road movie follows an ex-con who is coerced by mobsters into executing a hit on a woman, but instead, the two misfits hatch a plan to steal money from the people who want her dead. Max Casella and Glenn Fleshler round out the lead cast.

Jeffrey Reiner directed the film from his original screenplay. Reiner also produced alongside Joey Oglesby, Cleta Ellington, and Bernie Stern. Michael Hillman and Brent Wilson served as executive producers.

The film was released in limited theaters and on digital in the U.S. on December 6 via Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, after its premiere at Tribeca.

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The trailer has been released for Lake George. Lake George is a crime thriller about two people who end up on a road trip together, despite one of them having more nefarious intentions. The film features a leading cast including Shea Whigham, Carrie Coon, Max Casella, Ashley Fink, Glenn Fleshler, Troy Metcalf, Joey Oglesby, and Derk Phillips. It is written and directed by Jeffrey Reiner, and produced by Reiner, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Michael Hillman, Bennett LeBarre, Joey Oglesby, Tim Ogletree, David DeGrow Shotwell, Bernie Stern, Jessica To, and Brent Wilson.

Now, Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for Lake George.

The trailer introduces ex-con Don (Wingham), who is put up by a crime boss named Armen (Fleshler) take care of Armen's problem. In this case, the problem in question is a woman named Phyllis, who Don is tasked to kill. After Don picks up Phyllis, he fidns that he cannot actually kill her.

Carrie Coon is continuing her cult status as the go-to actress for complex performances.

The star, who leads HBO series “The Gilded Age” and Azazel Jacobs’ Netflix drama “His Three Daughters,” is poised to leave her mark on the “White Lotus” franchise with the highly anticipated third season. Before then, though, Coon can be seen in neo-noir crime comedy “Lake George,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been acquired by Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, for its North American rights. IndieWire shares the exclusive details below.

Coon stars as Phyllis, the target of hitman Don (Shea Whigham). Yet as things go sideways, Phyllis and Don end up working together to take down the mobsters who want her dead. The duo embark on a road trip to steal all the money from the mob boss who first hired Don. It’s a two-birds, one-stone kind...

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After nearly 20 years, Panic! at the Disco are over. On Jan. 24, frontman Brendon Urie announced the group will officially split up after the end of their European tour, which is currently set to conclude in Manchester, England, on March 10. The news came as Urie announced he and wife Sarah Urie are expecting their first child later this year.

"I am going to bring this chapter of my life to an end and put my focus and energy on my family, and with that Panic! At The Disco will be no more," Urie wrote on the band's official Instagram page.

The lengthy statement also noted how much Urie's life has changed since the band was first formed in Las Vegas when he was still in high school. "Well, it's been a hell of a journey . . . Growing up...

Panic! at the Disco are officially breaking up.

The news of the band’s departure comes as Brendon Urie simultaneously confirmed the upcoming birth of his first child with his wife Sarah on the band’s Instagram on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

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“It’s been a hell of a journey,” Brendon, 35, started off the announcement. “But sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin.”

Fans began immediately grieving in the comment section but also voiced their support for Urie’s new chapter.

“Im gonna miss you but I’m rooting for your new journey life brendon!!!,” wrote one user.

The band broke onto the popular music scene in 2005 with their massive hit “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,...

Pop-rock band Panic! at the Disco will disband after nearly 20 years together, singer and frontman Brendon Urie announced today.

The split will happen after the completion of a European tour in Manchester, England on March 10.

Urie announced the break-up on Instagram today, explaining that he and wife Sarah are expecting their first child and he wants to “put my focus and energy on my family.”

See his complete statement below.

Formed in 2004 in Las Vegas by longtime friends Urie, Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith and Brent Wilson. With only Urie remaining from the original line-up, the band has essentially become his solo project.

Here is his full statement:

Growing up in Vegas I could’ve never imagined where this life would take me. So many places all over the world, and all the friends we’ve made along the way.

But sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin.

After an impressive 19-year run, Panic! At the Disco will disband following their upcoming European tour, Brendon Urie announced Tuesday, Jan. 24.

“Well, it’s been a hell of a journey… Growing up in Vegas I could’ve never imagined where this life would take me. So many places all over the world, and all the friends we’ve made along the way,” Urie wrote in a post shared on the band’s official social pages. “Sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin.”

Urie cited the impending...

“When you’re scared, what do you do?” asks the now-elderly Beach Boy Brian Wilson, a man whose mind conjures towering cityscapes of gorgeous pop noise but seems to struggle with its own silence. It’s an utterly sincere question, addressed not to the audience or to the air, but asked honestly of the interviewer; his friend, Rolling Stone’s Jason Fine. Brian is scared and genuinely wants help feeling better – a beat of intimate vulnerability rarely seen in traditional rock docs. It’s one of a handful of genuinely remarkable moments in The Long Promised Road, a documentary which, in some places, struggles to justify its existence in a crowded market of Beach Boy docs, but occasionally reaches compelling heights.

Like the Beatles, Stones and Who, the Beach Boys have an obsessively documented career, the band’s story is too intriguing, too era-defining and too twisty-turny to resist telling every couple of years,...

Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox), which runs in-person March 21-April 3, has revealed the lineup for its music program, Sound & Vision.

Highlights of the program, which contains 18 films, include a Nick Cave documentary, a look at the rise and fall of Sinéad O’Connor’s music career, the story behind Leonard Cohen’s hit “Hallelujah,” and an examinations of an album composed by artificial intelligence. The music of Leonard Bernstein, Stockhausen, Xxxtentaction and a feminist metal band from Lebanon will also feature.

Although people have been singing along to Cohen’s “Hallelujah” for more than 40 years, it flopped when it was first released in 1984. The documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” takes us through Cohen’s career and the creation of “Hallelujah,” which he worked on for seven years.

Cave’s film “This Much I Know to Be True” focuses on an intimate concert experience, and also provides...

Exclusive: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the psychological thriller The Immaculate Room, from writer-director Mukunda Michael Dewil (Vehicle 19). The Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company has slated the title, starring Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth, Ashley Greene and M. Emmet Walsh, for a day-and-date release in the second half of this year.

The Immaculate Room follows a seemingly perfect couple who take part in a psychological experiment that will reward them $5 million if they can stay in a perfectly white room for 50 days. But the room is much more than it seems, and a hidden past and private demons will reveal shameful truths that they may not survive.

The film premiered on February 3rd as the opening night film at 4th annual Mammoth Film Festival,...

Exclusive: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the horror film The Accursed, from director Kevin Lewis (Willy’s Wonderland), which stars Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Sarah Grey (Power Rangers), Meg Foster (They Live) and Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect). The Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company has slated the title, which is currently in post-production, for a theatrical day-and-date release this fall.

The Accursed follows a young woman who is forced to return home following the death of her mother. Consumed by guilt and desperate to escape the haunting visions playing out in her head, she takes a temporary caregiver position for a comatose, old lady living alone in the woods. It does not take long before she realizes that not all is as it seems, and that the old lady harbors a demonic secret; an evil secret that the old lady’s daughter is intent on passing on.

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Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Michael Douglas will serve as guest of honor and advisor at the fourth annual Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival. Douglas will appear during the short film festival’s 2022 virtual awards ceremony to announce the grand prize winner and offer insights to young filmmakers. The ceremony will be organized via Japan-based Meihodo’s U.S. headquarters in New York City, and stream on YouTube for U.S. audiences on Feb. 22,

The theme of this year’s festival will be “Dreaming Big in the Digital Revolution.” The festival has received thousands of entries from around the world and Meihodo will introduce a new element, awarding top winners with custom NFTs and cryptocurrency and bestowing a prize of $20,000 to one standout work, with total prize money exceeding $100,000.

“I’ve had the good fortune to work in the film business for decades, and I’m both humbled and...

Exclusive: Screen Media has acquired worldwide rights to Family Squares—the comedy formerly titled Shoot the Rooster—from Unbound Media. The indie distributor is planning to unveil the film—starring Ann Dowd (Mass), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Judy Greer (Archer), Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die), Margo Martindale (August: Osage County), Sam Richardson (Veep), Timothy Simons (Veep), June Squibb (Nebraska), Casey Wilson (Saturday Night Live), Scott MacArthur (Halloween Kills), Zoe Chao (Love Life), Jessica Miesel (The Resident), Maclaren Laing (Eastbound & Down) and Henry Winkler (Barry)—in a day-and-date domestic release early next year.

The film from writer-director Stephanie Laing is a love letter to her family, the South and small-town America based on the passing of her mother, which was for the most part shot remotely during quarantine, with Laing directing actors via video conference. It centers on the members of the divided Worth family,...

“It was a real leap of faith” director Brent Wilson admits about directing his latest documentary feature “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road,” an intimate portrait of the life and career of enigmatic Beach Boys front-man Brian Wilson. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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“Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road” sheds new light on Wilson’s life and music. Part retrospective and part buddy road trip, the reclusive Wilson reminisces about his life under the filmmaker’s watchful eye, accompanied by Rolling Stone editor and longtime friend Jason Fine, as they traverse Wilson’s old haunts across Los Angeles. While “Long Promised Road” celebrates Wilson’s musical career, featuring interview excerpts with music industry luminaries like Linda Perry, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John, it also candidly addresses the musician’s life-long struggles with mental illness.

The film also offers music lovers several of...

“He’s a talker” is a phrase that has never been used to describe Brian Wilson, then — in the Beach Boys’ original 1960s heyday — or especially now. So director Brent Wilson might have been taking on one of the more quixotic filmmaking quests of all time when he set out to make a documentary that would consist primarily of pulling thoughts and memories out of one of the great musical geniuses of the past century, whose shyness with interviews and mental health struggles are well known. That such a movie — “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road” — not only exists but provides real windows into its subject’s inner world seems almost incalculable.

Today, Brent Wilson (no relation) is in Brian Wilson’s upstairs music room in a house overlooking the San Fernando Valley, holding court to talk about the doc and some new music therein. The singer, who has had multiple...

The original motion picture soundtrack for the documentary film Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road will be released by Lakeshore Records on Nov. 26th. The collection features unreleased music and alternate recordings of classic songs from the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, including a new collaborative single “Right Where I Belong” with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James.

“I was thrilled when Brent and Jason asked me to compose a song for the film, I enjoyed working on the song with Jim, he was the perfect collaborator,” Wilson said.

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The most telling moment in Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road is when the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson asks his longtime friend, Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, what he does when he’s scared. The de facto interviewer and guide through the musician’s documentary responds by asking Brian what scares him, and Wilson says “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers. The songwriting legend has always had one wary eye on the competition. It’s been an education, and he’s learned so much it’s scared him.

The Beach Boys’ singer, bassist, and keyboardist, besides being the chief and mostly-hit songwriter, was also the band’s producer. The Beatles had George Martin, and they were listening to what the surfer boys were laying down. Brian noticed what was happening in England, and became competitive. He is the one who wrote “Be True to Your School,” and...

"That must've been a really exciting time." "It was..." Screen Media Films has revealed an official trailer for a documentary titled Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, from acclaimed doc filmmaker Brent Wilson (no relation to Brian). The doc film is the definitive look at the career of The Beach Boys musician Brian Wilson. He doesn't like to do interviews, so they came up with a different idea. When Rolling Stone editor and longtime friend Jason Fine drops by the L.A. home of songwriter, producer and Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, Fine suggests they cruise around the city he knows so well to visit old haunts and give Brian the opportunity to reflect on his life and music. This film is the result of that experience. "This entertaining, informative, at times heart-tugging road trip provides both a first-hand, intimate look into Wilson's storied life and further inspiration to anyone who...

Exclusive: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, the new documentary on the legendary musical genius that had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, has been acquired for distribution by Screen Media for release in theaters and video on demand in November.

The company also plans an Oscar campaign for the film including hopes to land a nomination for the original song “Right Where I Belong,” written by Wilson and Jim James and recorded specifically for the movie.

I wrote about the docu pre-Tribeca in an exclusive interview with Wilson, director Brent Wilson (no relation) and executive producer and film participant Jason Fine, who as a veteran Rolling Stone editor has interviewed Wilson numerous times and, for the purposes of this film, took the star on a long drive (where Wilson selected the music they played along the way) to many of the locations that shaped his life and career.

The Nashville Film Festival will return in late September and early October with a hybrid slate of in-person and online screenings and events — with several music documentaries figuring into the programming, including docs about Brian Wilson, the pioneering 1970s all-female rock band Fanny and the MTV-era group A-ha, plus the world premiere of a film that takes John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas into Nashville’s famed RCA Studio B.

Music-based films take up only a sliver of the overall roster at the Sept. 30-Oct. 6 festival. Among narrative highlights, the festival will wrap up with A24’s “The Humans,” Stephen Karam’s adaptation of his Tony Award-winning play, with Karam and other guests from the film in attendance.

Altogether, 160 films — 45 of which are feature-length entries — have been selected for the 52nd annual festival, a little more than 50 of which will screen in-person at venues throughout Nashville. More than 30 of the features are getting their U.

There’s a scene in Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road that’s different from the many Brian Wilson documentaries. The artist is riding around Southern California with friend and music journalist Jason Fine when he’s told Jack Riley, his musician friend and one-time manager of the Beach Boys, has died. Riley managed the band during their prolific, if unappreciated, post-Pet Sounds years, his contributions—helping Carl Wilson write the lyrics for “Feel Flows” and “Long Promised Road,” the latter of which this intimate documentary is named after—went far beyond management.

Reeling from Riley’s death, Wilson recoils from talking to Fine, who does something important: he allows space for Wilson to feel the loss of Riley’s life and affirms his friend in pain. It helps Wilson through the trauma and shows the audience emotions we never see from the characteristically stoic musician. It is moments like this...

Reclaiming Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson’s voice and personal narrative, “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road,” is an insightful but breezy introduction to the musical mastermind. Touching on everything from his early career to Beach Boys success and his drug use and mental illness, Brent Wilson and Jason Fine’s film may not reveal much about Wilson that isn’t covered in a Wikipedia article but still allows the musician to reclaim his own narrative.

Continue reading ‘Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road’: A Breezy But Surface Introduction To The Beach Boys Legend [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.

Even if you think that Brian Wilson is God — and yes, I do — you could easily say that we don’t need another documentary about him. There have been some good, rich, and deep ones, like “Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times,” the 1995 musicological meditation directed by record producer Don Was, or “Brian Wilson and the Story of ‘SMiLE’,” which chronicled the history of that most fabled of all unfinished albums as well as the remarkable story of how, in 2004, Wilson and Darian Sahanaja put its majesty back together again. “Love & Mercy” (2014) wasn’t a documentary, but it had the true-life power of one; it’s one of the great music biopics, with an insight into the perfect storm of forces that made Brian Wilson tick. Beyond that, so many of the tales of Wilson’s life and art — his creation of, and withdrawal from,...

The good thing about “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road,” a documentary that premiered on Tuesday at the Tribeca Film Festival, is that it effectively makes the case for the startling musical genius of Brian Wilson, using celebrity testimony and musical examples to paint a clear portrait of the troubled songwriter, producer and singer as a protean pop creator.

And the frustrating thing about “Long Promised Road” is that it makes that case and then keeps making it for an hour and a half, to the point where the film is apt to become wearying to all but the most diehard fans of Wilson and the Beach Boys.

Directed by Brent Wilson (no relation to Brian) and written by Brent Wilson and Jason Fine, the film is ostensibly built around a road trip in which Rolling Stone writer Fine drives Wilson around Southern California in a car that is apparently equipped with multiple cameras.

Without Brian Wilson, the world would be devoid of West Coast anthems like “California Girls,” “Good Vibrations” and “Surfin’ U.S.A.”

The musician and record producer, who founded the Beach Boys in 1961 with his brothers Dennis and Carl, as well as their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, is the subject of a new documentary, “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road.”

Directed by Brent Wilson, who has no relation to the singer, the film is premiering at this year’s Tribeca Festival on June 15. “Long Promised Road” features guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Nick Jonas and gives the Beach Boys icon an opportunity to reflect on his life and music.

In an exclusive clip of “Long Promised Road,” Wilson discusses his songwriting process with Rolling Stone’s editor Jason Fine, his longtime friend, on their way into the recording studio.

“[You] start with a background track, then...

For his portrait of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, filmmaker Brent Wilson (no relation) gathers the usual tools of the trade: informed and impassioned talking-head testimonials and a rich selection of stills and clips from public and personal archives. What sets the documentary apart is the new vérité footage of day-trip excursions to the musical great’s former homes and stomping grounds. In a moment that encapsulates the unforced intimacy of this two-guys-in-a-car setup, Wilson, riding shotgun, glances at his watch and poses a question to journalist Jason Fine, his friend behind the wheel: “What’re you going to have at the deli?”

Brian ...

For his portrait of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, filmmaker Brent Wilson (no relation) gathers the usual tools of the trade: informed and impassioned talking-head testimonials and a rich selection of stills and clips from public and personal archives. What sets the documentary apart is the new vérité footage of day-trip excursions to the musical great’s former homes and stomping grounds. In a moment that encapsulates the unforced intimacy of this two-guys-in-a-car setup, Wilson, riding shotgun, glances at his watch and poses a question to journalist Jason Fine, his friend behind the wheel: “What’re you going to have at the deli?”

Brian ...

For many distributors and sales agents, the Tribeca Festival — which kicks off Wednesday — marks a major milestone: The first American festival in over a year offering an in-person venue to make deals for finished films. But the dealmaking will mirror the festival itself, which will offer in-person programming across the New York City’s five boroughs as well as a robust online component for out-of-towners.

The decentralized festival means that this year, Tribeca won’t be defined by making the daily trek to Manhattan to watch films and take meetings. New York-based agents and buyers say they’re looking forward to meeting in person and leveraging the long-awaited return of word-of-mouth buzz. But many in Los Angeles are still relying on Zoom and the festival’s online platform to do their work.

Maria Zuckerman, head of Topic Studios, has three films at the festival, all for sale: the Vanessa Kirby-starring “Italian Studies,...

Exclusive: The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in earnest this week and one of the indisputable highlights of this New York-centric fest as far as I am concerned is a documentary having its sold-out world premiere June 15 and chronicling a certain Southern California musical legend. Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road from director Brent Wilson (no relation) is not the first feature film to center on The Beach Boys icon responsible for a host of immortal hits from “Good Vibrations” to “In My Room” to “God Only Knows” and countless others, but taking a new look at Wilson, who has had more than his share of ups and downs including well-documented battles with mental illness over the course of a 60-year career at the top, this film somehow gets right to the core of what makes him tick without much verbal input from the man himself.

In this case it is...

“Harmony, harmony, harmony — no band, no nothing,” explains Charlie Thomas of the Drifters in director Brent Wilson’s Streetlight Harmonies, a new doc tracing the history of doo-wop (premiering tonight on VOD). Doo-wop could be swoony and romantic, playful and mischievous. It was the sweet-voiced sibling to the insouciant rock & roll being made at the same time, and genre classics like “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “In the Still of the Night,” “I Wonder Why,” “Speedoo,” and “Why Must Fools Fall in Love” remade the sound of syncopated pop...

Documentaries on Brian Wilson and the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood will premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, held in New York City from April 15th through the 26th.

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road captures the last 20 years of Beach Boys genius Wilson. Directed by Brent Wilson (no relation), the film features Wilson and Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Jason Fine driving around Los Angeles, as well as clips of him on the road and recording in the studio. Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Jim James, Nick Jonas, Taylor Hawkins, Jakob Dylan and others appear in the film.

The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, has today unveiled its feature film lineup, including a number of world premieres and a selection of proven hits from other festivals, including Tiff, Sundance, and SXSW. The features program will include 115 films from 124 filmmakers from across 33 different countries. This newly announced lineup includes 95 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 4 North American premieres, 4 U.S. premieres, and 9 New York premieres, plus one sneak preview. The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will run April 15 to 26 across New York City and even, for the first time ever, New Jersey.

“This year’s festival embraces the unique power of film to bring people together — whether that’s literally the communal experience of watching a film in a packed theater, or the more intangible way a great film can make you empathize with a stranger’s struggle,” said festival director Cara Cusumano in an official statement. “In an election year where...

David Lowery’s The Green Knight, Hugo Cabret stage musical in the pipeline.

Dallas-based oil billionaire and film financier-producer Tim Headington and music industry and advertising veteran Theresa Steele Page have launched film, TV and theatre production and financing company Ley Line Entertainment.

Notable upcoming projects include David Lowery’s The Green Knight, a documentary about Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, and Sundance 2019 selection Light From Light.

The roster includes a West End theatrical adaptation of The Invention Of Hugo Cabret, the film version of which, Hugo, Headington financed and produced alongside former business partner Graham King. His financing and...

Producers Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page have teamed up to open Ley Line Entertainment, a content development, production and financing company with projects spanning film, TV and stage.

Among the first projects are two stage productions: a musical based on the chart-topping catalog of Swedish hit-maker Max Martin that’s bound for London’s West End in November 2019. Martin first rose to prominence in the late 1990s with songs for Britney Spears (“…Baby One More Time”), The Backstreet Boys (“I Want It That Way”) and Bon Jovi (“It’s My Life”).

Headington and Page are also working on a stage musical based on Brian Selznick’s illustrated children’s novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” which was previously adapted into the 2011 Martin Scorsese film “Hugo” (which Headington produced).

Selznick is writing the libretto, though no composer is yet attached.

Also Read: Jordan Peele, Rosamund Pike, Steven Soderbergh Projects Announced for 2019 Sundance Indie Episodic,...

Producers Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page have unveiled Ley Line Entertainment with a Brian Wilson documentary and a “Hugo Cabret” musical in the works.

Ley Line said it’s a content development, production, and financing company with projects spanning film, television, stage, and music. Headington financed and produced “The Young Victoria,” “Argo,” “Hugo,” and “World War Z,” while Page, a former music industry and advertising executive, was involved in the careers of Britney Spears, Nsync, Justin Timberlake, and Backstreet Boys.

The duo produced Paul Harrill’s upcoming Sundance Next entry “Light from Light,” starring Marin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan. Ley Line is also co-financing and co-producing David Lowery’s “The Green Knight,” a re-telling of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” along with A24 and Bron.

“We started this company in order to foster both new and established talent while telling unique and meaningful stories across a broad range of mediums,...

Argo and World War Z producer Tim Headington and former music industry exec Theresa Steele Page have launched Ley Line Entertainment, a development, production and financing company that already has a slate of projects across film, TV, theater and music.

In the pipeline at launch is a musical based on Brian Selznick’s 2007 novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was turned into the 2011 Martin Scorsese film that Headington produced and which won five Oscars. Selznick is writing the libretto now, with a 2011 West End bow planned. Ley Line is also working on a musical based on the music of Max Martin to bow in London in November 2019.

On the film side, the company co-produced Light From Light, Paul Harrill’s pic starring Martin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan that will world premiere in the Next section at Sundance in January. It also is co-financing and co-producing David Lowery’s recently announced The Green Knight,...

A documentary on Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson is nearing completion, producers tell Variety, after nearly three years of under-the-radar production that has involved collecting about 90 hours of fresh footage of the music legend talking about his life or working in the studio. Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Nick Jonas are among the famous fans who’ve filmed their own interviews for the still-untitled doc, which is expected to be completed and ready to show to potential distributors in January.

The film is being directed by Brent Wilson, who first met Wilson in the course of doing interviews for his documentary on doo-wop, “Streetlight Harmonies.” Its producer and financier is Tim Headington, who’s acted as producer or executive producer on “Jersey Boys,” “Hugo,” “Argo” and “World War Z.” Wilson’s longtime manager Jean Sievers is co-producing, and executive producers include Wilson and his wife Melinda Wilson as well as Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine.

Brian Wilson’s life has been chronicled in countless books, movies and documentaries over the years, but nearly all of them focus either on his 1960s heyday as the creative force behind the Beach Boys or the difficult decades that followed in which he struggled with mental illness, obesity, drug addiction and the pernicious influence of therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. The time period that started 20 years ago when he began touring as a solo artist and creating brilliant new music has largely been ignored, but a new documentary by director...

Street Light Harmonies will focus on music and influential musicians that defined doo-wop.

The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, Nsync's Lance Bass, and The Flamingos' Terry Johnson will participate in the doc that is being directed by Brent Wilson.

The doc will be a combination of restored archival footage and present-day interviews with musicians and music producers, including La La Brooks (The Crystals), Eddie Rich (The Swallows), Leon Hughes (The Coasters), Scherrie Payne (The Supremes), Florence Larue (Fifth Dimension) and Ron Dante (The Archies)

“Street Light Harmonies is an inspiring reminder that music is far bigger than any one hit...

Ryan Ross and Jon Walker leave band to 'embark on a musical excursion of their own.'

By James Montgomery

Panic at the Disco's Ryan Ross and Brendon Urie

Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Ryan Ross and Jon Walker have left Panic at the Disco to "embark on a musical excursion of their own."

Panic posted the announcement Monday (June 6) on their official site, hinting that creative differences may have caused the split between Ross, Walker and the remaining bandmembers: frontman Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith.

"Though the four of us have made music together in the past, we've creatively evolved in different directions, which has compromised what each of us want to personally achieve," the statement read in part. "Over the years, we have remained close and honest with each other, which helped us to realize that our goals were different and that parting ways is truly what...