{"id":21771,"date":"2025-04-15T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21771\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:45:09","slug":"weezer-are-making-a-new-movie-reveals-rivers-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21771\/","title":{"rendered":"Weezer are making a new movie, reveals Rivers Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/weezer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weezer<\/a> revealed during their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/festivals\/coachella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coachella 2025<\/a> appearance that they have been working on a new movie project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/weezer-play-coachella-2025-without-addressing-recent-arrest-and-shooting-of-bassist-scott-shriners-wife-3854398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The band played at Day 2 of the first weekend of the California festival<\/a> last Saturday (April 12), playing a set of classic songs in a set <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/coachella-2025-ed-sheeran-and-weezer-join-line-up-as-stage-times-revealed-3852243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that had only been announced a few days ahead of time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was during the set that frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/rivers-cuomo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Cuomo<\/a> told the crowd that the band had been busy on a mysterious film project over the last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been busy making the Weezer movie back in LA the last couple weeks, but when Coachella called us up, said, \u2018Hey Weezer, could you guys make it out for a surprise appearance?,\u2019 we\u2019re like, \u2018Heck yeah!\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt feels so good to be here with you guys and let out these emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3854401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/live-weezer.jpg\" alt=\"Weezer\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"  \/>Weezer\u2019s Rivers Cuomo and Scott Shriner plays at the Mojave stage at the 2025 Coachella in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 12, 2025. CREDIT: Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the film project have been confirmed, although as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2304144\/weezer-are-making-a-movie-rivers-cuomo-confirms-at-coachella\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stereogum<\/a>, one Weezer subreddit user noted that the band have invited fans to a \u201cprivate filmed merchandise signing for a select few fans for a TBA video\u201d on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>The fans in question will be asked to sign NDAs to prevent the nature of the video being made public, while no photography will be allowed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">apparently there will be a new weezer movie (documentary) coming out? i saw rivers mentioning it on discord and i also found this on reddit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4A2Z8YZhb\">pic.twitter.com\/w4A2Z8YZhb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 brivers lover (@g3tchoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/g3tchoo\/status\/1911064749997260888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s been a newsworthy week for Weezer \u2013 last week, Jillian Shriner, the wife of bassist Scott, was taken into custody in Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/wife-of-weezer-bassist-scott-shriner-shot-by-police-booked-for-attempted-murder-3853395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after sustaining a non-life-threatening gunshot wound from a police officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a complex scenario involving an unrelated hit-and-run car chase, Shriner is said to have fired her handgun at one of the suspects and then pointed it at officers, refusing to lower it. She was \u201cbooked for attempted murder\u201d, and later posted bail for $1million.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Weezer will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/weezer-announce-2025-european-tour-buy-tickets-3811835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embark on a UK and Europe tour later this year<\/a>. You can get tickets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fweezer-tickets%2Fartist%2F766591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0(UK\/Ireland) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weezer.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0(Europe).<\/p>\n<p>2024 saw them celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1994 debut record, \u2018The Blue Album\u2019, with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/weezer-to-celebrate-30-years-of-debut-album-with-voyage-to-the-blue-planet-tour-with-flaming-lips-and-dinosaur-jr-3599743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0a run of special shows<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/weezer-announce-the-blue-album-30th-anniversary-concert-film-3797547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new concert film<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/weezer-announces-30th-anniversary-reissue-of-the-blue-album-with-30-unreleased-tracks-3790842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d and expanded reissue of the LP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weezer revealed during their Coachella 2025 appearance that they have been working on a new movie project. 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