“Until a month ago, you were a complete failure. And then somehow you became the biggest star in the world. As if by magic. So what happened?” Therein hangs a tale. Here’s the first trailer for Yesterday, director Danny Boyle’s film about what might happen if suddenly nobody remembered the Beatles — except one guy.

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Abramorama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' 1968 classic animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, with a theatrical release in July. Helpfully, the film will have the bouncing ball-style lyrics at the bottom of the screen for the first time, allowing audiences to sing along. Is it too much to…

Al Brodax, the TV cartoon producer who failed to impress The Beatles with his small-screen animated take on the band but won them over with the classic feature Yellow Submarine, died November 24 in Danbury, Conn. at age 90.

Brodax’s death was announced on Facebook by his friend, the Beatle cartoon expert Mitchell Axelr…

If there’s a genre that’s resonated recently with Oscar voters, it’s the music feature documentary, which counts such titles as 20 Feet From Stardom, Searching for Sugarman, and Amy as near back-to-back annual winners in the category.

Ron Howard, who already counts two Oscars as a producer and director of 2001’s A Beau…

As their Imagine Entertainment partnership hits 30 years, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s focus has been the comparatively short but white-hot run of The Beatles. In Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years, Howard has directed a lively and surprising documentary about the formative years of a band that burned brightly and…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Cowell is boarding the Beatles pic A Life in the Day. Cowell is coming on-board as a producer via his SyCo production company run by Adam Milano. Cowell will partner with Stuart Ford’s IM Global, who have optioned Tony Gittelson’s script, which tells the true story of Epstein who, while selling…

UPDATED with Paul McCartney tribute and more details throughout: George Martin, a semi-retired producer of classical music recordings until he became “the Fifth Beatle” as producer on all of the legendary group’s studio albums and films during a career that spanned six decades, has died. He was 90. Ringo Starr…

All you need is love and a good playlist. The Beatles’ music has been made available on a range of streaming services for the first time, seemingly just in time for Christmas meals around the world. The Fab Four’s back catalog has been made available to users of Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal, Amazon Prime…

Sony could collect a cool $2 billion from the sale of its 50% stake in Sony/ATV Music Publishing — the No. 1 music publisher whose copyright collection includes songs by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Hank Williams and Marvin Gaye — the Wall Street Journal <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sony-exploring-sale-of-music-publishing-unit-sources-say-2015-10-07" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"…

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White Horse Pictures and Studiocanal will launch international sales on Ron Howard's authorized feature-length Beatles docu, which focuses on the iconic group’s early touring years, at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo…

Mention “Twist And Shout” to a Boomer and you’ll get a shake of the thinning hair or shaved scalp along with recollections of the Fab Four on The Ed Sullivan Show. The more knowing response may even be the Isley Brothers, who recorded it first, in 1962. Ask who wrote the iconic rock number, however, and you’re more…