Spinal Tap Stonehenge concert film goes to Bleecker Street for US

Bleecker Street has acquired US rights to Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale and will release the concert film in Imax venues and other cinemas next year. 

Produced by Vertigo Live and directed by Rob Reiner, the film features Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, from This Is Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, in a show filmed at Stonehenge, with guest appearances by Shania Twain, Eric Clapton and Josh Groban. 

Bleecker Street released Spinal Tap II in US cinemas last month and re-released the original rock spoof theatrically in the summer. 

Bleecker Street CEO Kent Sanderson said: “I’m told this is it. They’re really serious this time. While this is ostensibly the end, how fitting is it that this actual-probable-send-off is shot, historically, at Stonehenge, the mysterious landmark that we now know must have been erected thousands of years ago purely to serve as the setting for the last act of Spinal Tap.”” 

Vertigo Live CEO Ian Brenchley added: “Bringing Spinal Tap to Stonehenge felt inevitable - the ultimate meeting of rock mythology and cinematic scale. An iconic band performing at one of the world’s most legendary landmarks, captured in IMAX and, of course, turned up to eleven. This is exactly what we set out to do: take music beyond the stage, beyond the ordinary, and turn it into living cinema. An experience unlike anything before it - and the perfect finale to rock’s most enduring legend.”

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