|
|
Article: 'Hardcore' rocks at SPC.(Sony Pictures Classics pact for 'American Hardcore')(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 7, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Sony Pictures Classics has sealed a multiterritory pact to pick up the rock docu "American Hardcore" in advance of the pic's screening at the South by Southwest Film Festival next week.
Inspired by Steven Blush's 2001 book "American Hardcore: A Tribal History," pic--which world preemed at Sundance, and was--follows the 1980s hardcore punk scene and its influence on contempo rock.
Paul Rachman helmed the doc and produced with Blush via AHC Prods. Bands appearing include seminal hardcore acts Bad Brains, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, D.O.A., Minor Threat and TSOL. SPC will roll out the ...