ALAN RICKMAN: 'CBGB' Trailer Goes Inside 'The Greatest Rock Club Ever' (Exclusive Video)

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
12:08 PM PDT 8/7/2013 
by Sophie Schillaci

UPDATED: Alan Rickman leads an all-star cast in the true story of the famed New York nightclub, hitting theaters this fall.


Blondie, Talking Heads, The Ramones and Patti Smith are one step closer to hitting the big screen.

After months of teaser posters and on-set photos, CBGB, Randall Miller's film chronicling the rise of New York's famed punk rock music venue, is finally letting audiences inside the club with an official trailer. See The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive first look in the player above.

Alan Rickman leads an all-star cast as Hilly Kristal, the financially unstable entrepreneur who opened the iconic club in 1973. CBGB, which stands for "Country Bluegrass Blues," ultimately closed in 2006 over a rent dispute but lives on as the largest music festival in New York City. "Why would you save for your dreams?" Rickman, as Kristal, asks in the trailer. "Why not live your dreams?"

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Sneak peek at 'CBGB': Rupert Grint's inner punk

Bryan Alexander
USA TODAY 7:55 a.m. EDT August 6, 2013

The film, which also features Grint's 'Harry Potter' co-star Alan Rickman, follows story of NYC club.

Now for something completely different: Harry Potter star Rupert Grint on stage, holding a guitar and wearing a dog collar, in a band whose lead singer blows his nose into sandwich meat, chews the sandwich and then spits the contents into a rabid audience.

"I have always wanted to play a punk," says Grint, 24, who stars as rocker Cheetah Chrome in the historical drama CBGB (opening in limited markets Oct. 11). "It was really good fun."

Chrome, a guitarist for The Dead Boys, is one of the many musicians brought to life in the raucous story of the seminal club CBGB in New York's Bowery district, a beer-drenched springboard for some of the most vibrant new wave and punk sounds from 1973 to 2006.

The film focuses on the early days, when owner and operator Hilly Kristal gave a stage to a mix of new and veteran underground performers such as Iggy Pop, Blondie, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, The Police and Talking Heads.

"It was this iconic place, and it has this kind of history," says writer/director Randall Miller, who worked on the film with his writer/producer wife, Jody Savin. "But people don't know how it all began. And that's what we wanted to tell, the origin of all of this."

Kristal (Alan Rickman), a classically trained musician and jazz club manager, had planned to open a forum for country, bluegrass and blues performers, hence the CBGB initials on the now-famous logo.

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Alan Rickman As Hilly Kristal On Set ... Or Is That Rupert Grint? (PHOTO) (HUFF POST)The Huffington Post | By Crystal Bell Posted: 06/29/2012 1:59 pm Updated: 06/29/2012 1:59 pm

It's hard to imagine Alan Rickman as anyone other than Severus Snape, but after seeing the British actor on the set of the upcoming "CBGB" film, we're starting to think that he could have made an excellent Mr. Weasley.

"CBGB," which chronicles the famous New York City music venue during the burgeoning punk rock scene of the 1970s, is currently filming in Savannah, Ga. Lucky residents have had the pleasure of spotting Rickman, sporing a curly red wig, on set. Now, you may need to squint your eyes -- and grab a magnifying glass -- but one Twitter user tweeted the following photo of Rickman, as legendary CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, from the set:

James Forrest@ForrestJim
A friend just snapped a pic of Alan Rickman filming new movie #CBGB in savannah, also starring Rupert Grint twitter.com/ForrestJim/sta…
26 Jun 12


Sure, he may be 50 feet away -- and could possibly be mistaken for his "Harry Potter" and "CBGB" co-star Rupert Grint (or is that really Rupert Grint?) -- but we think Rickman has expertly captured Kristal's signature style. Time will tell if he can nail down Kristal's punk rock swagger as well.

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Alan Rickman - Alan Rickman Eyeing 'Second Youth' On Cbgb Set 05 June 2012 16:02 (CONTACT MUSIC)

Alan Rickman is excited about playing New York club boss Hilly Kristal in a new movie, because he missed out on visiting legendary venue Cbgb in his youth.

The British actor takes the lead role in the movie, alongside a star-studded cast including Foo Fighters rocker Taylor Hawkins, who will make his acting debut as Iggy Pop, and Sting's actress daughter Mickey Sumner, who is slated to portray punk icon Patti Smith.

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