Johnny Depp Produced Doc On Pogues Frontman Shane MacGowan Picked Up By Magnolia Pictures
deadline.comDominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: “I’ve got a feeling,” goes The Pogues’ classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ song, “this year’s for me and you.”It might well be a good year indeed for the former frontman of the Celtic punk band as Magnolia Pictures have picked up the North American rights to the Johnny Depp produced documentary Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan.First put out to market at EFM earlier this year, the Julien Temple directed look at the hard-living English born poet was acquired by Magnolia after a bit of bidding war I hear.
From Temple’s Nitrate Film, Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and Stephen Malit, the deal was closed by Magnolia EVP Dori Begley and SVP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, and by HanWay.
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