YOU WILL ALSO BE WATCHING

…telling the fraught story of veteran Tokyo metal band X Japan, WE ARE X gets a cinema release in March. It’s directed by Stephen Kijak (Scott Walker: 30 Century Man and Stones In Exile), who said the story was “so unreal” he might retire from music film-making …Jonas Åkerlund will direct a biopic of JOHNNY

THUNDERS, based on Nina Antonia’s biography IN COLD BLOOD. Åkerlund is also working on a film dramatising the church-burning

Norwegian black metal scene… CHASING TRANE is written and directed by John Scheinfeld (Who Is Harry Nilsson…?/ The US vs. John Lennon) in cooperation of John Coltrane’s estate… Alex Winter continues to work on his authorised Frank Zappa documentary,

WHO THE F*@% IS FRANK ZAPPA?

…Kevin Macdonald, director of the Bob Marley documentary Marley, is working on a WHITNEY HOUSTON film. The authorised movie will present an “unvarnished” portrait of the troubled soul voice, with interviewees including A&R man Clive Davis… MARVIN, WHAT’S GOING ON? will concentrate on the soul legend’s 1971 masterwork, with insider interviews and private footage from his family …TURN IT AROUND: THE STORY OF EAST BAY PUNK will focus on Berkeley’s 924 Gilman Street collective, and features comment from Iggy Pop, Kathleen Hanna, Jello Biafra, Ian Mackaye and others…