''She was like, 'Wow, do you have all the music rights?' I was like: 'Yeah! Sure! Totally!' I had no idea what she was talking about.'' Penelope Spheeris, the director of the punk rock documentary ''The Decline of Western Civilization'' as well as ''Wayne's World,'' introduced ''End of the Century'' at the Slamdance festival. Fields laughs at how clueless he was then.
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''We assumed we would make such a great movie that the Ramones would just love it and sign off, and someone would say: 'It's great. Meanwhile, distributors were offering them $30,000 for the rights to the movie. They owed Chinagraph, an editing house, another $150,000 and they estimated they would have to spend several hundred thousand dollars more to secure the rights to music and concert footage. Gramaglia and his brother, John, a producer, had amassed a debt of about $65,000 in production expenses. By the time the film was presented at Slamdance, Mr. The film's release has been further complicated by the filmmakers' financial situation. Joey and Johnny, in fact, never reconciled before Joey died of lymphatic cancer in April 2001.
Joey and Johnny did not talk to each other during the 15 more years the Ramones toured until they retired in 1996. And Joey Ramone, the singer, was dumped by his fiancée, Linda, for Johnny in the early 80's. A cast of drummers came and went because they were either too drunk, too opposed to constant touring or too upset over not getting a larger share of the money from T-shirt sales. Dee Dee Ramone, the bassist, was a heroin addict (he died of an overdose in 2002). Johnny Ramone, the guitarist, ran the band like a dictator. But while the Ramones presented a united front on their album covers - black leather jackets, canvas Converse sneakers and bowl haircuts - the band was fraught with tension and jealousy among its members. With their super-fast, two-minute, three-chord songs, the Ramones almost single-handedly created punk rock in the mid-70's, inspiring bands from the Clash to U2 to Pearl Jam along the way.
The filmmakers, Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields, say the movie has not been released after nearly seven years of work because of the very same tenuous relationships they hoped to document. It has been praised in Variety, Entertainment Weekly and The Los Angeles Times for its unflinching portrayal of the dysfunction that both fueled and undermined the Ramones.Ībout the only thing the film hasn't gained is a release date. It has attracted a following among influential figures like Nicolas Cage and the director Jim Jarmusch. And Morrissey’s making a new “best of” comprising his own favorites from the legendary punks’ career.OVER the last 15 months, ''End of the Century,'' a documentary about punk rock's founding fathers, the Ramones, has been shown at major film festivals in New York, Toronto and Berlin. Earlier this year after nearly 40 years, the band’s greatest hits package, Ramones Mania. The band’s last original member, drummer Tommy Ramone, passed away earlier this summer, after which Jon Wurster and Legs McNeil penned touching tributes to the musician. Is it too early to start dream-casting this? “And luckily,” he added, “when you have a really genius artist like the Ramones you don’t have to spin it.” Though no more details are available about the Scorsese-helmed movie, Jeff Jampol, who manages the band’s estate, said “authenticity is the foundation of everything” when it comes to celebrating the band’s legacy in 2016. According to a new Billboardreport from Sunday night’s annual Johnny Ramone tribute at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, fans of the band have a lot to look forward to in the coming years, including a new documentary - “much of which has never been seen before,” it claims - as well as a musical, which hopefully fares better than the recent Tupac Shakur theatrical debacle. The great Ramones revival of 2014 continues today with the news that acclaimed director Martin Scorsese plans to direct a dramatized movie about the band with hopes for a 2016 release.
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