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From Kaleidoscope Entertainment, documentary It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond directed by Emmy nominated Alan G. Parker is out now on Blu-ray and DVD. To celebrate we have two copies on DVD to giveaway!

On 1st June, 1967 The Beatles released what would become the world’s first concept album, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. Described by Rolling Stone magazine as “The most important rock & roll album ever made…” the album not only changed the course of music but went on to become one of the biggest selling records of all time.

Featuring interviews with former employees, fellow musicians, family members and journalists, and supported by a vast array of original and exclusive never-seen-before footage, the film offers a fascinating insight into the swinging sixties and the 12 months surrounding the album’s release. Examining the band’s disillusionment with touring, their changing relationship with manager,...

A straw poll of the average music fan on what the biggest British albums of all time are is likely to consist of: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd; (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis; probably 21 by Adele; maybe Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits; Queen’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1, perhaps; but most definitely, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. The latter of these has reached the grand old age of fifty, and so in way of celebration has been remastered and re-released in a sparkly new boxed set, which also includes a plethora of alternative recordings, outtakes and interviews, over four CDs and two DVDs and 100 minutes of extra footage. Imagine the 1995 release of The Beatles era defining anthology series, but focused purely on 1967. The release is also supported by a feature length documentary, directed by long time Beatles fan Alan G. Parker...

The kaleidoscopic baroque-and-roll masterwork that elevated The Beatles from pop stars to multimedia conceptual artists, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band celebrates its 50th anniversary in June. Arriving in U.K. cinemas later this month to coincide with a feast of deluxe album repackages, Alan G. Parker's cumbersomely titled documentary It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper and Beyond frames the Fab Four's psychedelic 1967 game-changer within a turbulent 18-month period when they stopped playing live, flirted with Eastern religion, popularized LSD, suffered the tragic loss of manager Brian Epstein and launched their avant garde arts organization Apple.

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Kaleidoscope to release film about Sgt. Pepper album.

Kaleidoscope Entertainment will release Beatles documentary It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…Sgt Pepper & Beyond in the UK from late May.

The film examines why the band stopped touring in the mid 1960s, how their iconic Sgt Pepper album was conceived and its recording at Emi’s Abbey Road Studios.

It will feature archival footage and interviews with The Beatles’ original drummer Pete Best, John Lennon’s sister Julia Baird, Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein’s secretary Barbara O’Donnell, Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks and Beatles associate Tony Bramwell, among others.

Alan G. Parker (Monty Python: Almost The Truth) directs. Producers are Reynold D’Silva and Alexa Morris.

The film will not include original music from the group but has a score composed by Andre Barreau (Sliding Doors) and Evan Jolly (co-composer Hacksaw Ridge) and features music from tribute band The Bootleg Beatles, which has existed...

Exclusive: Documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal album.

A new Beatles film marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band’s seminal album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is in post-production.

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…Sgt Pepper And Beyond, directed by Alan G. Parker (Hello Quo), will be sold internationally by former Im Global executive Tim Grohne’s Primal Screen.

The film picks up on The Beatles as they end their gruelling tour schedule in August 1966 (coincidentally following on from Ron Howard’s recent Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week) to return to the studio to record the landmark ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album.

As one of the biggest selling records of all time, described by Rolling Stone magazine simply as “The most important rock & roll album ever made…”, ‘Sgt Pepper’ (released in June 1967) marked a pivotal moment in the 60’s, cementing the advent of Psychedelia and the Summer of Love.

The album includes...

Exclusive: Sc Films boards 3D family-animation from Monty Python icon ahead of Afm.

Monty Python legend Terry Jones is set to direct family animation Sherlock Hound And The Case Of The Missing Santa Claus (3D), which Simon Crowe’s Sc Films has boarded ahead of the Afm.

Jones, who most recently directed Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale in UK comedy Absolutely Anything, is due to direct the feature with his producer-director son Bill Jones and his business partner Ben Timlett of UK production outfit Bill and Ben Productions, which is also producing.

Writers are Denis Higgins and Stephen Meier.

The Victorian-set story will feature canine sleuth Sherlock Hound on the hunt for Santa Claus after he goes missing.

Characters in the script include The Queen, a polar bear Father Christmas, Elves as penguins, Rudolph the Reindeer and evil feline Moriarty.

Currently in development, the production is aiming to shoot next spring for a Christmas 2018 release. Casting is due...

My dad would love this film. He raised me on a diet of Status Quo, Queen and Gloria Estefan (no really), so this documentary was practically made for him. Naturally, if you’re a fellow Quo fan you’ll love it too.

But what if you’re not? What if you don’t miss long hair, making denim look good, and Brian May talking music instead of badger culls? In short, what if you’re a young person – are the life, times and reunion of this supposedly seminal band really for you?

For legal reasons: absolutely. How else would you discover that Status Quo once sued the BBC after Radio One quit playing their records on the grounds they were “too old”?

In all seriousness, it’s anecdotes like that which make Hello Quo! a treat for anybody. The rags to riches tale – following the band from grimy East End...

Cologne, Germany - British/German sales group K5 has sold documentary Hello Quo about U.K. rock band Status Quo to Studiocanal in Germany and Anchor Bay in the U.K. The deals for the “rockumentary” come ahead of the American Film Market, where K5 will be presenting Alan G. Parker's film to international buyers. The documentary, produced by Alexa Morris, features interviews about Status Quo with such music bigwigs as Brian May of Queen, Thin Lizzy, The Buzzcocks, Slade, Paul Weller of The Jam, The Sweet and artist and producer Jeff Lynne, originally of Elo. Hello Quo traces the band's history from

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London -- A no-holds-barred insight into the 50-year career of the legendary British rock band Status Quo, complete with sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, is to be touted to film buyers. The feature length documentary, Hello Quo, is directed by Alan G. Parker (Who Killed Nancy) and produced by Alexa Morris. Parker's resume also boasts feature documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers’ Cut) which earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 2010. K5, the German/Brit group, will tout the movie after snapping up the rights to the film that features interviews about Status Quo with

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The Film:

Based on book Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent, this documentary provides an examination of the brief life of the Sex Pistol bassist Sid Vicious and specifically the stabbing of his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon in room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel in lower Manhattan on 12 October 1979. After her death, Sid posted bail and died soon after of a drug overdose. Case closed. But here director Alan G. Parker presents some compelling arguments arguing against Vicious as the murderer. Numerous eyewitnesses present the night of the Nancy’s death attest Sid was splayed out on the bed, motionless from heroin. The murder weapon, a knife, was wiped clean, an action others thought Sid would not have the presence of mind to do. In addition, thousands of dollars were stolen from a stash Sid and Nancy kept. Why would Sid steal his own money?

Interspersed with creative animation, Who Killed Nancy?...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"$5 a Day" (2008)

Directed by Nigel Cole

Released by Image Entertainment

A refugee of the bankrupt Capitol Films, this dramedy starring Christopher Walken as a raconteur who claims he's able to live a full life on the titular Lincoln bill is finally seeing the light of day after premiering at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Alessandro Nivola co-stars as his son who drives him to New Mexico when he falls ill. Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet are along for the ride.

"2:22" (2008)

Directed by Phillip Guzman

Released by Inception Media Group

A quartet of thieves scheme to rob a boutique hotel on New Year's Eve, but find out that what's waiting for them on the inside is even colder than the snow-caked streets outside. Just as he did for his 2006 crime thriller "Played," star/co-writer Rossi called upon famous pals Gabriel Byrne and Val Kilmer...

Punk historian Alan G. Parker feared he'd upset the ghost of Sid Vicious when he started researching his new documentary "Who Killed Nancy?" because the ex-Sex Pistols star walked right through him. Parker visited the Bank Street home in New York where the tragic rock icon suffered a heroin overdose and died in 1979 and was allowed access to the bedroom where Vicious' body was found and he immediately felt unwelcome.

The documentarian explains, "I had been talking to the guy who now lives there for various research on Sid for books I've written. I got to the house and this guy Howie is a lovely little fellow and he invited me in and asked if I'd like to go into the bedroom where Sid died."

"I'd probably been in every building Sid entered in his short life. It was December and freezing in New York and I had a big...

Monty Python fans rejoice, airing on IFC beginning Sunday is Monty Python: Almost The Truth (Lawyer's Cut), a six-part documentary on the legendary Brit comic troupe. A very thorough examination of the six members (with new, refreshingly frank, interviews from all five living members) directors Bill Jones, Ben Timlett and Alan G. Parker leave no stone unturned as they examine everything from the troupe forming while writing sketches for David Frost, how they came up with the name Monty Python, their fights with the BBC, George Harrison fronting the money to make Life of Brian, and finally what they've done since Python. IFC also plans on airing episodes of Flying Circus next week as well as their films The Holy Grail, Life of Brian and...