{"id":104816,"date":"2025-08-29T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:56:07","slug":"paul-mccartney-doc-man-on-the-run-picked-up-by-amazon-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104816\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Doc Man on the Run Picked Up by Amazon MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmazon MGM Studios has picked up Man on the Run, the feature documentary directed by Morgan Neville that explores Paul McCartney<\/a>\u2019s creative rebirth after The Beatles\u2019 breakup.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe move comes ahead of the movie\u2019s premiere this weekend at the Telluride<\/a> Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tMan on the Run, which is produced by Neville\u2019s Tremolo banner, in association with MPL and Polygram Entertainment,\u00a0will be released in select theaters and then hit Prime Video Feb. 25 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary is meant to be the centerpiece in a partnership between McCartney, Universal Music Group, and Amazon that will unfold over the next year. It includes the release of exclusive music and merchandise drops, and commentary from McCartney himself. And it will coincide with the release of his book,\u00a0Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, which will be available on Amazon and Audible Nov. 4, and McCartney\u2019s Got Back tour dates across North America this fall.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers of the documentary include Neville, Chloe Simmons, and Meghan Walsh for Tremolo; Scott Rodger and Ben Chappell for MPL; and Michele Anthony and David Blackman for Polygram Entertainment. Executive producers include Caitrin Rogers and McCartney.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMan on the Run\u00a0is described as taking viewers on an intimate journey through McCartney\u2019s extraordinary life following the breakup of The Beatles and the formation of his follow-up band Wings with his wife Linda in 1971.\u00a0 The band, with its tumultuous member changes, hit a high with the 1973 album Band on the Run, with the title track and the song \u201cJet\u201d becoming massive hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film chronicles the arc of McCartney\u2019s solo career as he faces down a myriad of challenges while creating new music to define a new decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNeville had unprecedented access to previously unseen footage and rare archival materials to tell the story of McCartney\u2019s transformative post-Beatles era through a uniquely vulnerable lens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaker, who made 2018\u2019s Won\u2019t You Be My Neighbor?, a documentary about Fred Rogers, has a long history of music-focused works. He tackled back-up singers with his 2013 film,\u00a020 Feet from Stardom, which won the Academy Award for best documentary as well as a Grammy Award for best music film. Last year he showed off Piece by Piece, focusing on Pharrell Williams and told via Legos. Other subjects include Keith Richards, producers Rick Rubin and Mark Ronson, and Bono and the Edge.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal was brokered by Liesl Copland of MATR Labs on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios has picked up Man on the Run, the feature documentary directed by Morgan Neville that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,13683,75471],"class_list":["post-104816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-telluride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}