David Bowie Projects Stardust Gets Zoom World Premiere After Canceled Tribeca Film Festival!
The Tribeca Film Festival has been cancelled due t the Coronavirus which has now thrown a wrench in three major projects, Jimmy Carter, Sean Penn, and David Bowie biopic. Read on for more details on David Bowie Zoom World Premiere…
CelebNMovies247.com has the latest from Mary Wharton, director of Jimmy Carter: Rock And Roll President, the documentary chosen to open the 2020 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Wharton had this to say about her project which was supposed to be showcased as a World Premiere venue for worthy projects involving them.
I’m not going to lie I cried, I sobbed. And I sort of hate to admit it, because it’s not about me. But we worked so hard for, you know, a couple of years on this movie. And it felt like there were times when we weren’t sure if it was even ever going to get made or anything. And then to have it lined up, this is how it works: you take it to your festival and then the buyers get excited about it, and you sell it, and it goes out into the world, and that’s how things normally work. To have that all just sort of ripped out from under you is very disappointing, for sure.
The other two projects are the searing documentary of Penn’s relief efforts in Haiti called Citizen Penn, and the new showbiz biopic focusing on the early years of rock icon David Bowie, Stardust.
All were hoping to launch out of Tribeca and into distribution deals. Now with the cancellation plans have changed, and producers and sales companies are coming up with other ways of reaching the marketplace and attracting buyers.
Tribeca Film Festival Change Up to Zoom:
None of them will be part of the virtual experience Tribeca is offering films that were also going to be showcased at the fest, launching today a number of opportunities to see select entries for the 19th Tribeca Fest. That includes the Online P&I library and Industry Extranet , a way for press and buyers to see films from producers opting-in for the chance, similar to what SXSW is also doing in association with Amazon. So far, 21 films have signed up for the service that runs for the next month, while other, higher profile movies, such as the three I was able to see, go another way in garnering attention and a future theatrical life.
As for the David Bowie movie, the early Bowie biopic Stardust was to have World Premiered there this Friday night. But instead, in perhaps a futuristic vision of the weird twists premieres could take, had a virtual World Premiere today for select press and buyers on Zoom that featured a live introduction from the film’s director, Gabriel Range, and stars Johnny Flynn, who plays the circa-’71 Bowie, Jena Malone as his first wife, Angie, and Marc Maron as the record company publicist who accompanied him on a cross country tour of America to gain attention for the fledgling new musical star, including a big dream of a Rolling Stone cover.
