{"id":30980,"date":"2024-12-05T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/becoming-led-zeppelin-documentary-to-open-in-imax-in-february\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:02:31","slug":"becoming-led-zeppelin-documentary-to-open-in-imax-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/becoming-led-zeppelin-documentary-to-open-in-imax-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Becoming Led Zeppelin&#8217; documentary to open in IMAX in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-05\/M_BecomningLedZeppelin_120524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Sony Pictures Classic\/IMAX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A long in the works <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> documentary is finally set to hit theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The film, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> will open exclusively in IMAX theaters on Feb. 7, with a one night only early access screening to take place Feb. 5 in 18 markets, including New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0is a film fans have been waiting for for a long time. In fact, it first\u00a0premiered as a work-in-progress at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the rights to the completed film in May.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The movie, described as a \u201chybrid docu-concert film,\u201d is the first officially sanctioned\u00a0documentary about the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As for why it took so long to complete, it seems the filmmakers had a hard time finding early footage of the band, and had to search for material to use for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs and music recordings,\u201d writer\/producer <strong>Allison McGourty<\/strong>\u00a0explains. \u201cThen we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Director <strong>Bernard MacMahon<\/strong> adds, \u201cThe cinematic power of IMAX paired with the film\u2019s authentic sound creates an immersive and transportive viewing experience letting audiences feel like they are there, in the venues with the band.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets for <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imax.com\/movie\/becoming-led-zeppelin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on sale now<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUTLOltEOf8\" title=\"Becoming Led Zeppelin IMAX Exclusive | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX\u00ae\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Classic\/IMAX A long in the works Led Zeppelin documentary is finally set to hit theaters. The film, Becoming Led Zeppelin will open exclusively in IMAX theaters on Feb. 7, with a one night only early access screening to take place Feb. 5 in 18 markets, including New York,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/becoming-led-zeppelin-documentary-to-open-in-imax-in-february\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}