It was already going to be a long night with two back-to-back cinema events and it got started a little late but the sold-out crowd at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday night (April 5) didn’t seem to mind at all.
That’s because this was a crowd of die-hard Foo Fighters fans who are used to sitting far longer for a live concert, and that’s what this was, a live concert experience broadcast by Cinedigm Digital Cinema to 80 digital theaters, and delivered for the first time in 3D.
<Story continues below the following video highlights of the event in Hollywood.
The evening began with producer Nigel Sinclair (“No Direction Home: Bob Dylan”) of Exclusive Media’s Spitfire Pictures, and Oscar/Emmy-winning documentary producer/director James Moll introducing the commercial premiere of the profile of the evolution of the band’s ever-changing line-up, “Foo Fighters: Back and Forth.” The film then runs at 10 p.m. ET/PT Friday, April 8, on VH1 Rock Doc, VH1 Classic, and Palladia.
The film was co-financed by Exclusive Media Group and RCA Records and produced by Spitfire Pictures in association with Allentown Productions.
After a brief intermission following the film’s cinema presentation Tuesday, the Foo Fighters introduced themselves from a undisclosed location in Northridge, Ca., where they performed their entire new album being released April 12, “Wasting Light,” with little more than a couple seconds in between each song, and almost no comments or acknowledgment of the live audience watching except for a hello and a goodbye.
— By Scott Hettrick
Again another article with no mention of cinedigm’s technical difficulties, that kept many many people from seeing anything, and wasting countless hours and dollars.