Atmosphere’s Dorothy Canton and David Hopwood are the executive producers. The film will be produced by Canton through his Atmosphere Entertainment, Leigh Ann Burton through Opus 7, Courtney Solomon, David Blackman and Jody Gerson through Universal Music Group, Doc McGhee through his McGee Entertainment (he is KISS’ longtime manager), Rønning and KISS’ Simmons and Stanley. KISS has sold more than 100 million records, has 30 Gold and 14 Platinum albums, and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Their perseverance paid off with KISS Alive! a mega-selling live album that for a time saved Casablanca Records and made them a top-selling and global touring band. At an early downtown date, they heard snickers from their glam counterparts “until we plugged in and played, and then everyone’s mouths hung open,” Simmons said. “All the glitter-rock bands had wrists as thin as their girlfriends did, and here we looked like linebackers who had raided their girlfriends’ closets,” Stanley said. “I played him a song that ended up on our first album, and he played three for me, one about soup.” Combining Simmons’ passion for comics with the ’70s Gotham glitter-rock craze, they hit the makeup mirror with a specific goal: “Become the Beatles on steroids.” “Gene felt he, Lennon and McCartney were the only ones who wrote music,” Stanley once said. And when I played music, there were always girls around.”Īlthough their musical motives matched, Simmons and Stanley didn’t instantly mesh when they met. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley said. Stanley, the lead singer with the jet-engine vocals, wasn’t always sex-symbol material. ‘Terror In Tinseltown’: Mötley Crüe Manager & Exec Producer Allen Kovac On ‘The Dirt’s 18-Year Journey To Screen “It occurred to me this was better than religion.

“I remember walking out onto the street, seeing this Spanish girl jumping rope across the street, and staring at her long black hair slapping against this great butt,” he once said. Picture the fire-breathing, blood-dripping demonic and growly voiced bass player Simmons at age 12, when he was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva. At heart, their formative story is in the vein of The Commitments, if that Irish soul band employed makeup and spiked heels. Trying to set themselves apart from the “hair” bands of the day, they accented their power chords and pyrotechnics with makeup. The band’s concert-arena anthems will be a big part of this, but the film will focus on that duo going back to when they were two misfit kids from Queens who formed an unlikely friendship, starting KISS after enlisting guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss. Shout It Out Loud will have close cooperation from bandleaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. 'Floor Is Lava' Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix

'The Lincoln Lawyer': LisaGay Hamilton Joins Netflix Drama Series As Recurringĭisney And Sony Reach Windows Deal That Can Sling 'Spider-Man' To Disney+ For First Time, Along With Reach Across Hulu, ABC, FX & More The pic will be a co-production of Mark Canton’s Atmosphere Entertainment and Universal Music Group. An earlier draft was done by William Blake Herron. EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is near a deal for Shout It Out Loud, a film package that aspires to do for the iconic hard rock band KISS what Bohemian Rhapsody did for Queen.Īccording to sources, Netflix is tying up a deal after a bidding battle for a film that will be directed by Joachim Rønning, the Norwegian filmmaker whose credits include Kon-Tiki, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

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