The concert film “David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome” will hit theaters Sept. 17. A DVD and Blu-ray of the film, as well as a soundtrack, will arrive a month later.
The film, showing in select cinemas including IMAX for one day, is a record of Gilmour’s 2024 concerts in Rome, promoting his album “Luck and Strange.” Filmed against the backdrop of the ancient ruins of Rome and directed by Gavin Elder, it features tracks from “Luck and Strange” as well as Pink Floyd classics.
“I can’t wait for you to relive what were — as far as I’m concerned — the best concerts of my career,” Gilmour says.
Enter now to win a pair of tickets to see the Roger Waters concert film “This Is Not a Drill,” in theaters July 23 and 27. Shot in Prague, the film is a document of Waters’s 2022/23 tour of the same name.
Winners have their choice of date and theater. Prizes courtesy of Trafalgar Releasing.
Enter to win a pair of tickets to see Pink Floyd’s seminal 1972 concert film “Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII” in theaters beginning April 24 — digitally re-mastered in 4K from the original 35mm footage with enhanced audio.
Winners will receive codes redeemable at fandango.com for two (2) tickets at the theater and showing of their choice. Codes are valid for any theater that uses Fandango.
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A restored version of the 1972 film “Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii” will hit theaters in April. It’ll be followed in May with a soundtrack release in multiple formats.
Renamed “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII,” the film has been digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm footage, with enhanced audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson. Directed by Adrian Maben, it documents the band’s live performance over four days in October 1971 at an empty amphitheatre in the ancient dead city of Pompeii, Italy.
Presented by RM Productions and released by Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing, the film will show at select cinemas and IMAX theaters worldwide beginning April 24. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. ET Wednesday, March 5 at www.pinkfloyd.film.
Film restored
The film’s been restored by hand, frame-by-frame, from the original 35mm negative, which was recently discovered in the band’s archives.
Led by Lana Topham, Pink Floyd’s Director of Restoration, the team’s mission was to preserve the integrity and beauty of the original picture. They scanned the negatives in 4K using advanced techniques to ensure the finest detail. They enhanced the film’s color, and reviewed and repaired every frame to maintain a natural, vivid appearance with minimal grain adjustments.
“Since 1994, I have searched for the elusive film rushes of ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii,’ so the recent discovery of the 1972 original 35mm cut negative was a very special moment,” Topham says. “The newly restored version presents the first full 90-minute cut, combining the 60-minute source edit of the performance with the additional Abbey Road Studios documentary segments filmed shortly after.”
New soundtrack
The new cut also features enhanced sound with a new theatrical and home entertainment mix by Wilson in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos.
“Ever since my dad brainwashed me as a kid by playing ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ on repeat, Pink Floyd has been my favourite band,” Wilson says. “I first saw Pompeii from a grainy print at a local cinema. It made an incredible impression on me with its untethered and exploratory rock music made by four musicians that seemed to epitomise the notion of intellectual cool.
“It was an honour to remix the soundtrack to accompany Lana Topham’s incredible restoration of the film,” he adds, “which looks like it could’ve been filmed yesterday.”
The accompanying soundtrack release “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII,” will see the performance presented as a full-length live record for the first time. Wilson’s 2025 remix will be available on CD, LP, Blu-ray, DVD, digital audio and Dolby Atmos on May 2.
The company behind the recent Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” are said to be working on a film about Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.
Peter Jaysen, owner of Veritas Entertainment and a producer on the Dylan film, revealed on the podcast “The Town With Matthew Belloni” the company is now working on a film focused on Barrett.
Wash Westmoreland (pictured) is attached to the project, according to Jaysen. Westmoreland is a British writer/director known for “Still Alice” (2014), which won a number of awards, including the Best Actress Oscar for Julianne Moore.
Jaysen didn’t give a timeline for the film’s release.
He also mentioned he was planning a film about the Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas.
This Friday, Pink Floyd will release a 30-minute film documenting the recent Australian eclipse. Entitled “Eclipse,” the YouTube-exclusive release follows a number of Floyd fans who flew to Western Australia in April to listen to the band’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” while experiencing a total solar eclipse.
The documentary will be available on the band’s YouTube channel as part of “Floyd Fridays” at 12 p.m. EDT on Oct. 13.
On Thursday April 20, the shadow of the moon grazed the tip of Western Australia, as it travelled over the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park in Exmouth. Overseen by the group’s long time creative consultant and Hipgnosis co-founder, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Floyd gave eight Australian fans — dubbed The Astronome Domine Eight — the exclusive opportunity to visit the special scenic location within the region to hear “Dark Side” in its entirety.
The album’s final song, “Eclipse,” was timed to align with the exact moment of total eclipse.
The documentary, created by Powell, director Benny Trickett and producer Fiz Oliver, follows the Astronome Domine Eight who listened on headphones alongside a purpose-built pyramid on a deserted beach. It traces their journey from applying for the trip through their denouement after the eclipse.
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Mercury Studios will release “Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd” in U.K. theaters May 15. It will open in the U.S. and Canada in late-June.
The feature length documentary is directed by Roddy Bogawa and the late Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson. The two collaborated on Bogawa’s “Taken By Storm” (2011) about Thorgerson and the Hipgnosis design team.
Narrated by actor Jason Isaacs, the film also features surviving band members Nick Mason, Roger Waters and David Gilmour; original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King; as well as The Who’s Pete Townshend and Blur’s Graham Coxon.
Producer Orian Williams says, “The music of Pink Floyd bears witness to Syd Barrett’s exceptional talent and inner turmoil. Their unconventional approach and ground-breaking sound expanded the horizons of music. Friends, family, bandmates and admirers shed light on all aspects of Syd’s enigmatic life in our film.”
The film takes it title from a lost Floyd track: Legend has it Barrett tried to teach his bandmates a new song he’d written, while intentionally changing the tune each time he played it for them, asking “Have you got it yet?”
Enter to win a pair of tickets
The company behind the recent Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” are said to be working on a film about Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.
Congratulations to our winners of copies of the new documentary dropping this Friday: “Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd.”
