{"id":1027759,"date":"2026-08-27T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1027759\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:00:20","slug":"david-byrne-tour-being-filmed-in-70mm-by-director-brady-corbet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1027759\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Tour Being Filmed in 70mm by Director Brady Corbet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEver since Jonathan Demme\u2019s Talking Heads film \u201cStop Making Sense\u201d picked up its reputation as the best concert movie of all time, David Byrne<\/a> has kept designing dazzling tours, and prominent directors have kept wanting to capture them. Following Spike Lee\u2019s film rendering of Byrne\u2019s \u201cAmerican Utopia\u201d road show six years ago, now another name filmmaker is bringing the musician\u2019s acclaimed 2025-26 \u201cWho is the Sky?\u201d tour to the big screen \u2014 and in large-format cinematography.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector Brady Corbet<\/a>, director of \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d is now in postproduction on the new Byrne concert film. And while he did not shoot in VistaVision, as he did on his previous narrative feature, he was still thinking big, shooting the film in a combination of 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn\u2019t realize what a difference it would make until I saw some frames he sent me,\u201d\u00a0Byrne said in a statement. \u201cHe was right, it really does capture the widescreen visual scope of the show. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for the film do not yet have distribution or release details to reveal, including whether there are plans or hopes to place the film largely in 70mm engagements. A media announcement says the movie was shot over multiple nights at the Hippodrome in the artist\u2019s hometown, Baltimore. Shows took place there in May, records show, with attendees noting on social at the time the presence of a filming team.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is being produced by The Deep End Films with Pre-Code, Corbet\u2019s company, along with Mona Fastvold, and presented by River Road Entertainment. Its producers are Amit Dey and Jason Fine, representing The Deep End; Corbet and Maddie Browning, with Pre-Code; and Byrne. Executive Producers are River Road\u2019s Bill Pohlad, Andrew van Wyk and Michael Overman; The Deep End\u2019s Meredith and Martin Sumner; and Townhouse Media\u2019s Sam Fayed & Adam Gibbs. <\/p>\n

\n\tRepresenting Corbet and Pre-Code are Range Media Partners and CAA. Global distribution rights are in play with Byrne\u2019s film agents at the Gersh Agency, along with The Deep End.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deep End\u2019s credits include an attention-getting line of recent music-related film projects, including \u201cSly Lives!,\u201d \u201cThe Sparks Brothers,\u201d \u201cThe Greatest Night in Pop,\u201d \u201cLittle Richard: I Am Everything\u201d and \u201cBrian Wilson\u2019s Long Promised Road,\u201d the last of which featured Fine as the Beach Boys legend\u2019s on-screen interlocutor.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am so grateful to David Byrne and his entire team for entrusting us to capture his hometown show on 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm,\u201d Corbet said in a statement. \u201cThe band\u2019s performance is an inclusive celebration of community, and of Baltimore in particular\u2014one of America\u2019s most underappreciated historic cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough you would hardly call it a concert film, \u201cVox Lux,\u201d which preceded \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d did at least find Corbet loosely working in a music milieu for a dramatic feature The director\u2019s next project after completing the Byrne film is \u201cOrigin of the World,\u201d shooting later this year with stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender and Selena Gomez.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of the forthcoming movie arrives as Byrne heads into the final North American stretch of a tour that began last September. After previously bringing the show to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood last November, Byrne is returning to L.A. this weekend for concerts Friday and Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl. After heading south for five nights in Mexico, the tour will then move to the east coast for its final show Sept. 19 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety raved about Byrne\u2019s tour last year, ultimately naming his Dolby show the best of 2025 in a year-end best concerts list<\/a>. \u201cWhatever innovations may go down in the concert business, it rarely feels like the wheel is being entirely reinvented \u2014 until you go to a David Byrne show,\u201d the recap said. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe review noted the unusual nature of the setup, in which all of the musicians on stage are in constant choreographed movement in front of the elaborate LED screens throughout the concert. \u201cFans going into his \u2018Who Is the Sky?\u2019 shows already had some idea of just how untethered to tour norms these concerts might be, based on the previous round of touring that was captured in the \u2018American Utopia\u2019 documentary,\u201d Variety wrote. \u201cBut everything about his 2025 outing seemed ratcheted up to transport us somewhere that felt a lot more magical than any description you could possibly come up with for an intimate yet dazzling mixture of dance, rock and multi-media wizardry. The show\u2019s musicians traveled about the stage with as much cordless choreography as the dancers, on a wrap-around LED set that was about as impressive in its transportable way as Las Vegas\u2019 Sphere. It\u2019s a tour that\u2019s high-tech but even higher-human, with the troupe\u2019s sounds and movement making every nerve ending you\u2019ve got feel suddenly newly receptive to joy and possibility. The most common sentiment we heard in the lobby? \u2018That was the best concert I\u2019ve seen in years.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since Jonathan Demme\u2019s Talking Heads film \u201cStop Making Sense\u201d picked up its reputation as the best concert…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1027760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[107379,37887,171,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1027759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brady-corbet","tag-david-byrne","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117168545981426535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}