Showing posts with label beatlemania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beatlemania. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Benedict Cumberbatch to Star in Beatles Manager Biopic (Exclusive) 10:04 AM PDT 10/31/2012 by Borys Kit (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)
Benedict Cumberbatch and his Sherlock director Paul McGuigan are teaming up for a biopic about Brian Epstein, the iconic manager of The Beatles.
Todd Graff wrote the screenplay, whose focus is not a story about The Beatles from Epstein’s point of view but the story of Epstein himself.
Sometimes called the "fifth Beatle," Epstein signed the band in 1961 -- before Beatlemania hit -- and died in 1967 from an accidental drug overdose. He was a closet homosexual and suffered from gambling and drug addictions -- and was many times the glue that held the band together. The producers describe the project as the story of “the man who threw the biggest party of the 1960s but ultimately forgot to invite himself.”
The actor, who had a role in Playtone’s 2006 feature Starter for 10, is playing the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness and appears with Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender in Twelve Years a Slave. He is also appearing in The Weinstein Co.’s adaptation of August: Osage County, where he will play Meryl Streep's nephew.
READ MORE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-star-beatles-manager-384749
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Beatles: Photos from 1963, before Beatlemania (THE MIRROR)
The unseen Beatles: Fab photos from 1963 unearthed for first time Taken in 1963 by 11-year-old Bruce Leak, who was staying at the same hotel, they show the Fab Four untroubled by Beatlemania
The photos were taken while the schoolboy was on a family holiday with his parents and sister just months after the Beatles had signed to Parlophone Records in 1962. But despite getting the amazingly candid pictures photographer before the Fab Four hit the big time, modest Bruce kept his amazing holiday snaps in his drawer for decades - thinking that they were “rubbish” and “worth nothing.”
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-unseen-beatles-fab-photos-from-1963-742964
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