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Hollywood Classics will re-release the 1970 film “Zabriskie Point” in the U.K. on Oct. 24.

Pink Floyd contributed music for the film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Hollywood Classics will release the film in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format.

“We are aiming to re-release a variety of vintage films onto DCP throughout the next 12 months and while reviewing the selection of features available to us, we also realized Pink Floyd was gearing up to release their new album,” Hollywood Classics managing director John Ramchandani tells Variety.

The film will open at London’s Curzon Mayfair theater Oct. 24, and then at Picturehouse Cinemas theaters across the U.K. beginning Nov. 2.

Hollywood Classics holds the theatrical distribution rights for all pre-1986 MGM films in markets outside North America.

Focus Features will release “The Theory of Everything,” a biopic about British physicist Stephen Hawking, on Nov. 7.

Pink Floyd fans will recall Hawking’s synthesized voice is heard on “Keep Talking” from the band’s “The Division Bell” (1994).

The film is based on the book “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Hawking, the scientist’s first wife. It focuses on his early life before and after his diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).

It stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking, and Felicity Jones as his wife.

Learn more about the film and watch the trailer

The Islington Green Schoolchildren who sang on the Pink Floyd hit “Another Brick in the Wall” and their teacher are to be the subjects of a new feature film.

Producer Andy Harries (pictured) (“The Queen,” “The Damned United”) is said to be working with writer Steve Thompson on the project for Left Bank and BBC Films.

The movie will tell the true story of Alan Renshaw who worked as a music teacher at the north London public school. When, under his tutelage, the kids provide the chorus for that somewhat rebellious Floyd hit — now that we think of it, the only lyrics in that song are the chorus! — Renshaw loses his job. (He had transported the kids to the band’s Britannia Row studios for the session without permission of head teacher Margaret Maden.)

One sticking point: Though the producer has secured the rights to Renshaw’s story, he hasn’t obtained the green light to use the song. With the children’s participation somewhat contentious — in 2004 a group of the now-grown kids with assistance from music royalties expert Peter Rowan sued claiming they hadn’t been properly compensated 30 years ago — that could be quite a stumbling block.

Our fingers are crossed for what could be a very interesting Floyd-related film.