The title of Sonic Youth’s seminal avante-noise alt-rock record Daydream Nation, has been appropriated and appropriated by a Hayden Panettiere film vehicle no less. Kieran Culkin is also in talks to star in the film that has nothing to do with the downtown New York noiseniks. No they can’t sue. Titles are not copywritable in the United States. [Variety]
The documentary “Kurt Cobain: About a Son,” is coming out on DVD February 19 via ShoutFactory. Feb 20 would have been the departed grunge rocker’s 41st birthday. Extras include commentary by generally pleased-with-himself director A.J. Schnack, and the features “The Voices Behind About a Son” and “On Location: Scouting Video to Scene Comparison.” [Pitchfork]
The tracklist (songs performed) for U2’s 3D movie – ingeniously and imaginatively titled “U2 3D” – has been revealed by people that care. Egomaniac Bono joked at Sundance that he would rather not see himself on the bigscreen. “It’s bad enough on a small screen. Now you get to see the lard arse 40 foot tall,” he joked self-deprecatingly while lighting his cigar with a flaming $100 bill. We only have so many “Captain Eo” jokes in us so we hope this film finally goes away. [NME]
Marty Scorsese unveiled his Rolling Stone concert film, “Shine A Light” at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday. The documentary was filmed with 17 cameras at two concerts at the intimate Beacon Theater in 2006. In a press conference Mick Jagger joked that the movie was the only Scorsese one “I know that doesn’t have ‘Gimme Shelter’ in it!” (Marty has recycled the song three times in “Mean Streets,” “Goodfellas” and “The Departed”). The Italian American director and rock enthusiast is already thinking about his George Harrison movie, and said it’s going to be a “straight documentary.” According to Spout, some quick twittering insta-reviews said the ‘Shine’ movie sucked. [Rolling Stone/Reuters/ SpoutBlog]
Another music-related film set to debut at the Berlin Film Festival is the Gorillaz documentary “Bananaz,” directed by Ceri Levy, which is scheduled to premiere next week [Feb 9, 13-15]. The doc will also screen at the SXSW film festival in March. [Pitchfork]
Oh and finally, there was some very-preliminary and tentative talk of a “Wet Hot American Summer” musical, which probably has as much chance of happening as a “Fight Club” musical does. And so we’re not being vague, we mean zero to none.[MTV]