Re: (TV) "CGBG"/Film Financing/Parker+Apatow

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

I didn't know the Graham Parker/Apatow story - what a great ending.

Should I send Apatow a copy of MARQUEE MOON?

--Phil



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 From: leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
To: tv@obbard.com 
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 5:41 PM
Subject: (TV) "CGBG"/Film Financing/Parker+Apatow
 
Michael Gramaglia co-directed the Ramones film "End of the Century", which
seems to have been one of the most successful music docs in recent years, as
it earned several hundreds of thousands dollars at the U.S. box-office.
Despite that, he couldn't get this next music doc funded, until he finansed it
through Kickstarter.com, by raising 50,000 dollars by some hundred people who
wanted to see a film about veteran singer Graham Parker. (It should be said
here that Parker is another fave artist of mine, and that he -- contrary to
some other -- has put out records regularly through the years to the delight
of his tiny audience, and some of the albums from this side of the millennium
is clearly among his finest.) When the film was ready, it was rejected by most
film festivals, as they didn't knew who Parker is or what he's done.

I think this story is a bit telling about the reality of this sector of
show-biz. It seems a bit tragic, but as someone on the list may know, there's
a sunshine ending: All of a sudden, comedy director Judd Apatow jumped out and
declared himself a Graham Parker fan, offered GP a part in the sequel to
"Knocked up", got GP to reunite with The Rumour on the set and then in the
studio, and a new record -- their first together in 32 years -- will be
released at the same time as the film. And Gramaglia withdrew *his* film and
will also re-release it later, recut and extended. It's called "Don't As Me
Questions", by the way.
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