Tickets on Sale Now and Exclusive Shea Stadium Footage Announced for The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years
LONDON / PARIS 28 JULY 2016 – The Beatles played Shea Stadium on August 15th 1965 in what was to be the first rock concert ever staged in a stadium in front of more than 55,000 people. The event was filmed using fourteen 35mm cameras by Ed Sullivan Productions and Brian Epstein and for the very first time, the fully restored, remastered, 30-minute performance will be available to screen as part of the worldwide theatrical release of Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s authorised documentary feature film, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years.
JUST ANNOUNCED: tickets for the exclusive event screenings of The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years are on sale now! Ron Howard’s authorised documentary will open in cinemas nationally on September 16 for a limited time only.
ONLY AVAILABLE IN THEATRES the 4K restoration with sound remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, includes performances of the classic songs such as “A Hard Days Night,” “I’m Down,” “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy.”
Apple Corps Ltd., White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment also launched a new trailer for the film opening in Cinemas Worldwide from 15 September 2016 following The World Premiere in London’s Leicester Square that same evening.
STUDIOCANAL RELEASE DATES:
AUSTRALIA / NZ – 16 September 2016
UK – 15 September 2016 – WORLD PREMIERE / IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE
FRANCE – 15 September 2016
GERMANY – 15 September 2016
Featuring rare and exclusive footage, the film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. White Horse Pictures’ Grammy Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy Award®-winner and Emmy® Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment are producing with Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.’s Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde are serving as executive producers, along with Imagine’s Michael Rosenberg and White Horse’s Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall. Also executive producing is the film’s award-winning editor Paul Crowder and Crowder’s long-time collaborator, Mark Monroe, who is also serving as writer. Marc Ambrose is the supervising producer.
The project was originally brought to Apple Corps by One Voice One World. OVOW’s Matthew White, Stuart Samuels, and Bruce Higham are co-producing the film.
STUDIOCANAL and PolyGram Entertainment are anchor partners on the film, having acquired U.K., France, Germany and Australia and New Zealand rights.
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Ron Howard’s film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It will delve into their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together – all the while, highlighting The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film will focus on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.
Shea Stadium Set list
Twist and Shout
She’s a Woman
I Feel Fine
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Ticket to Ride
Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
Baby’s in Black
Act Naturally
A Hard Day’s Night
Help!
I’m Down
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