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Nationwide Beatles documentary screenings canceled
Photo credit: AP file | In this 1964 file photo, The Beatles, from left, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison board a plane for England in New York.
Nationwide screenings of the documentary "The Beatles: The Lost Concert" have been canceled.
The 92-minute documentary about the Fab Four’s first-ever U.S. concert was originally scheduled for a premiere Sunday at Manhattan's Ziegfeld theater, though that event was canceled on Friday. Tuesday morning, a news release announced that the film's nationwide May 17 and 22 screenings were also canceled.
The movie purportedly contains remastered footage of the band’s 12-song, half-hour set at the Washington Coliseum in D.C. on Feb. 11, 1964. Screenvision, the film's distributor, described this footage as “unseen in its entirety by audiences for over 47 years.”
A Beatles box set available through iTunes, however, also claims to offer the concert "from beginning to end."
Screenvision blamed the canceled screenings on “last-minute issues which are being resolved by the documentary’s producers” and expressed hope for an even longer theatrical release later this summer.
The movie's website is here.
