Back to Black, the in-production Amy Winehouse biopic starring Marisa Abela, finally has a release date. The Sam Taylor-Johnson–directed film will open in UK theaters on April 12, but does not yet have a U.S. release date.
Nick Cave has scored the new Amy Winehouse biopic to create the soundtrack for a film about the life of Amy Winehouse.
Principal photography on Back to Black began earlier this year in London, with Jack O’Connell appearing alongside Abela as Blake Fielder-Civil, Winehouse’s former husband. Taylor-Johnson completed the film with writer Martin Greenhalgh; the pair previously worked together on the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy.
Thirteen years after its release, the video for Amy Winehouse’s classic “Back To Black” has entered the YouTube billion views club, marking Winehouse’s first video to reach the milestone.
The black and white Phil Griffin-directed video was shot at Abney Park Cemetery in northeast London, and features Winehouse leading an elegantly-dressed cast of characters in a funeral procession. In her signature eyeliner and beehive, the camera focuses on Winehouse as she sings the now-iconic chorus, “We only said goodbye with words / I died a hundred times / You go back to her / And I go back to…” The video originally featured a shot of a gravestone reading “R.I.P. the Heart of Amy Winehouse,” but it was edited out following the singer’s passing in 2011.
Amy Winehouse fans will be able to get a deeper look into the late singer’s thoughts and life in an upcoming book, ‘In Her Words’, which will feature portions of her personal journals and more, according to NME.
The book was announced via Winehouse’s social media, which is being handled by her estate. The book – per an official description – features the singer’s “own never-before-seen journals, handwritten lyrics and family photographs together for the first time,” to provide “a rare insight into the girl who grew up to become a legend”.
‘In Her Words’ will be published on August 29 as a full-colour, 288-page hardcover book.
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One of Amy Winehouse’s closest creative collaborators has called for a positive reappraisal of her life and work, as he unveils intimate, never-before-seen images of the star.
Phil Griffin – the music video director and photographer who served as Winehouse’s creative counsel during the Back to Black album – says that 10 years on from the singer’s death, people should look past the tragedy and focus on what she achieved while under huge pressure.
Part of the new documentary includes footage from a show at London’s Riverside Studios. The private gig took place on February 10, 2008 – the same night Winehouse won five Grammys, including Record Of The Year.
