Scorsese finally gets some Satisfaction

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After the critical and box office success with The Departed, Paramount Pictures has announced that they are contiuing the collaboration – picking up the North American rights to Martin Scorsese’s next project, which has been in gestation for a long time now and finally, after having them musically be a part of his feature films (e.g. Goodfellas) the aging Martin Scorsese will get to create with the aging rockers know as the Rolling Stones.

Fans of either The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan have an idea of what to expect, but as The Hollywood Reporter reports this will include an A-list of cinematographers Mitch Amundsen (2nd unit, “Mission: Impossible III”), Stuart Dryburgh (“The Piano”), Robert Elswit (“Good Night, and Good Luck”), Ellen Kuras (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Andrew Lesnie (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy), Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki (“The New World”), Anastas Michos (“Mona Lisa Smile”), Declan Quinn (“In America”) and John Toll (“Braveheart”). The doc will focus on the two concerts from the group’s current “A Bigger Bang” tour as well as historical and contemporary behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

The film’s producers are Bing, Michael Cohl, Zane Weiner and Victoria Pearman. The executive producers are band members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, with Jane Rose as co-executive producer. The camera team expects to film more than half a million feet of film at the Beacon, using additional Hi Def, DV Cam, 16mm and 8mm cameras to shoot behind-the-scenes footage. Veteran docu filmmaker Albert Maysles also will provide backstage coverage. Paramount plans to release the film in fourth-quarter 2007.