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Lennon Film Project Receives Cash Injection A proposed movie titled Nowhere Boy, focusing on the early life of John Lennon, has been awarded funding by the UK Film Council. The flick will be based on a 2007 memoir by the late Beatles legends half sister, Julia Baird. Matt Greenhalgh, who penned the recent award winning rock biopic Control, is writing the script. Julias book took me into a world that illuminated so much about this legendary genius, says Greenhalgh.
1983 U2 Live Album Getting Reissue Treatment U2s 1983 live effort, Under a Blood Red Sky, will be reissued Sept. 23. The collection will be made available as a single CD and in a CD/DVD package. The rerelease will precede the bands 12th studio effort, which is due in November. In other news, a controversial plan to make renovations to the historic Clarence Hotel in Dublin, Ireland a building co owned by U2s Bono and the Edge has been approved.
Police Rolling Out Reunion Tour CD/DVD A CD/DVD featuring performances from two Police reunion concerts captured last December in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is expected out later this year. It was a pretty exciting show, recalls drummer Stewart Copeland. The stickmans son Jordan directed a documentary that will be included on the DVD. Meanwhile, an eBay auction offering VIP packages to the Police s last-ever concert Aug. 7 in New York is under way. The sale, which runs until July 24, will benefit New York-area public-TV stations.
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