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EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is getting back in business with musicians Ron and Russell Mael, after serving as the distributor for the 2021 Edgar Wright doc The Sparks Brothers, of which the duo were the subjects. The studio has today announced the launch of development on X Crucior, an original musical epic…

Pop music brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who perform as Sparks, were 'meta' before it became a thing, and certainly before Mark Zuckerberg decided to call his company by that name. They're meta in the way some of their songs comment on songwriting itself (a bit like how Monty Python would sometimes stop in the middle…

Edgar Wright has been directing scripted films, music videos and episodic television for over 25 years, but he had yet to make a documentary feature—until now. In The Sparks Brothers, he explores two of the most talented men in popular music: brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who have been performing together since the…

"So may we start?" asked the teaser trailer for Leos Carax's anarchic musical Annette, which proved to be an ebullient, if divisive, introduction to the 74th Cannes film festival. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as two ill-fated lovers—one a comedian, the other an opera singer—the film chalks up another…

For the uninitiated, you may have caught Sparks on late night TV, or glanced at their riveting album covers when you were a kid in the 1970s or the 1980s; artworks comprised of Geisha girls, the duo tied up in a boat, or dressed in wedding get-up. If you were the Go-Gos, Paul McCartney, Toni Basil, Flea of the Red Hot…