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For Immediate Release
ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER BRETT MORGEN’S
KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK,
THE FIRST FULLY-AUTHORIZED DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE ICONIC MUSICIAN,
AN HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND
UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT CO-PRODUCTION,
SLATED FOR 2015
NEW YORK, Nov. 25, 2014 – Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist and
songwriter of Nirvana, “the flagship band of Generation X,” remains an object of
reverence and fascination for music fans around the world. For the first time, his story will
be told in KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK, a fully-authorized feature documentary
from co-producers HBO Documentary Films and Universal Pictures International
Entertainment Content Group. Slated for international release in 2015, the film will debut
exclusively on HBO in the U.S.
Brett Morgen, the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker behind acclaimed documentaries
such as the HBO presentations “Crossfire Hurricane,” which celebrated the 50th
anniversary of The Rolling Stones, and “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” is writer, director
Contact:
HBO New York:
Lana Iny (212) 512-1462 or [email protected]
Jessica Driscoll (212) 512-1322 or [email protected]
HBO Los Angeles: Nancy Lesser (310) 382-3274 or [email protected]
Mara Mikialian (310) 382-3276 or [email protected]
Universal:
homeboxoffice.com
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DDA London: Joanna Sturrock or Tiffany Kizito +44 20 7932 9800
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and producer of KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK. Visual artist Frances Bean
Cobain, Cobain’s daughter, is executive producer.
The first documentary to be made with the cooperation of Kurt Cobain’s family, the
film is a raw and visceral journey through Cobain’s life and provides no-holds-barred
access to Kurt Cobain’s archives, home to his never-before-seen home movies,
recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos, personal archives, family archives
and songbooks. The film features dozens of Nirvana songs and performances as well as
previously unheard Cobain originals.
“I started work on this project eight years ago,” says Morgen. “Like most people,
when I started, I figured there would be limited amounts of fresh material to unearth.
However, once I stepped into Kurt’s archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased
music and audio, a vast array of art projects (oil paintings, sculptures), countless hours of
never-before-seen home movies, and over 4000 pages of writings that together help paint
an intimate portrait of an artist who rarely revealed himself to the media.”
He adds, “I could not be happier with our partners at HBO and Universal. We look
forward to sharing this film with audiences around the world.”
HBO Documentary Films and Universal Pictures International Entertainment
Content Group in association with Public Road Productions and The End of Music
present KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK. A film by Brett Morgen. Written and
directed by Brett Morgen; produced by Brett Morgen and Danielle Renfrew Behrens;
executive produced by Frances Bean Cobain, Larry Mestel, David Byrnes; co-executive
producer, David Morrison. For HBO: senior producer, Sara Bernstein; executive producer,
Sheila Nevins.
ABOUT HBO AND HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Home Box Office, Inc. is the premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner
Inc. and the world’s most successful pay TV service, providing two television services –
HBO® and Cinemax® – to approximately 127 million subscribers worldwide.
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HBO Documentary Films offers a full spectrum of stellar, non-fiction programming by
acclaimed documentary filmmakers. The network’s steadfast commitment to timely and
engaging documentary filmmaking has earned it virtually every major programming
award, including dozens of Primetime Emmys®, News & Documentary Emmys®, and
Peabody® and Academy Awards®.
ABOUT UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT
GROUP
Headquartered in London, UPIE Content Group is a division of Universal Pictures Home
Entertainment and is a repertoire centre acquiring and producing multi-genre content for
distribution by all NBC Universal divisions, including home entertainment, TV, digital and
theatrical, on a worldwide basis. UPIE Content Group is led by Executive Vice President,
A&R, Helen Parker.
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