EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Photos is taking North American rights to Kevin Macdonald’s documentary One to One: John & Yoko, which after making its world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant, and a play at Telluride, is making a pit cease within the Highlight part at Sundance this week. One to One: John & Yoko is getting an April 11 launch completely in Imax. Pic will air on HBO and stream on Max in late 2025.
The docu is a revelatory take a look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent dwelling in Greenwich Village within the early 1970 with never-before-seen materials and newly restored footage of Lennon’s solely full-length, post-Beatles live performance. Sean Ono Lennon, the couple’s son, oversaw the audio remastering of the live performance within the pic.
On August 30, 1972, in New York Metropolis, John Lennon performed his solely full-length present after leaving The Beatles, the One to One profit live performance at Madison Sq. Backyard. It’s the beginning in Oscar winner Macdonald’s doc into the lives of John and Yoko. By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the US— dwelling in a tiny residence in Greenwich Village and watching an enormous quantity of American tv. Because the duo expertise a 12 months of affection and transformation within the US, John and Yoko start to vary their method to protest — in the end resulting in the One to One live performance, which was impressed by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.
“One to One: John & Yoko is a revelation,” stated Magnolia Photos co-CEO’s Eamonn Bowles and Dori Begley. “Kevin Macdonald has given us an extremely contemporary, marvelously human and revealing take a look at the enduring couple.”
“I’m personally thrilled to be again with the Magnolia and HBO groups to be giving One to One: John & Yoko the bold theatrical launch that I all the time dreamed of for this movie,” stated Macdonald. “This can be a film about music and love and politics – and about immersing your self within the 12 months of 1972 – a interval in time that feels uncannily just like the world we’re presently inhabiting. And greater than the rest I’m grateful to Sean Lennon and Mercury Studios for entrusting the unimaginable One to One live performance to me.”
Mercury Studios Presents A Plan B/KM Movies & Mercury Studios Manufacturing. One to One: John & Yoko edited & co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards. Produced by Peter Worsley, Kevin Macdonald and Alice Webb. EPs are Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia SVP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, with Cinetic on behalf of the filmmakers.
Macdonald received a Function Documentary Oscar for 2000’s One Day in September which follows the 1972 Munich Summer time Olympic Video games when Palestinian terrorist group Black September held Israeli athletes hostage. Macdonald has additionally directed such characteristic movies as The Mauritanian, The Eagle, the Oscar profitable The Final King of Scotland, and Black Sea.