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- In September 2000, Almost Famous —Cameron Crowe’s poignant, semi-autobiographical film about going on tour with rock stars in the 1970s and writing about it for Rolling Stone —was released in theaters.
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Almost Famous: Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee. A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
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Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It tells the story of a teenage journalist, played by Fugit, writing for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s, touring with the fictitious rock band ...
Almost Famous, released on 13 September 2000, was written and directed by that same Cameron Crowe, by then a household name thanks to his Oscar-winning drama Jerry Maguire (1996).
- The Original Ending of Almost Famous Involved Neil Young.
- Almost Famous Was A Critical Success But Failed to Break Even at The Box Office.
- Patrick Fugit Had to Be Schooled in Classic Rock For His Role in Almost Famous.
- The Movie's Title Is A Reference to Being on The Outskirts of Celebrity.
- Almost Famous Reunited Cameron Crowe's Mom and Sister.
- Almost Famous's Penny Lane Is Partly Based on Bebe Buell—Liv Tyler's Mom.
- Almost Famous Purposely Captures A More Innocent Time in Rock Music.
- Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Pays Homage to Almost Famous.
In 2015, Cameron Crowe told Vanity Fair that he intended for Almost Famousto end on Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) playing the family Neil Young’s “On the Way Home.” “In the end, we decided not to hear that song or her dialogue, and to let the sequence live in a montage as the Stillwater tour bus drives away to the sound of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Tange...
DreamWorks decided on a slow rollout for Almost Famous, so the film debuted in a paltry 131 theaters the weekend of September 15, 2000, but grossed a robust $2.3 million. One week later, when it was released on an additional 1000 screens, it grossed less than $7 million. The overall U.S. tally was $32.5 million. Add that in with the foreign take of...
Crowe and the production team received hundreds of audition tapes for the part of William Miller, but Patrick Fugit’s tape surprised Crowe. “Patrick was funny and kind of awkward and not jaded in the slightest. He was just a raw talent,” Crowe told The Washington Post. Crowe flew the Salt Lake City-based Fugit—who was born nine years after the movi...
Before Crowe produced the movie, the original title was Untitled and then The Uncool, but the studio told him he had to rename it. “I used to go to concerts and I would see Mick Jagger, then off to the side are these people standing by the amplifiers,” Crowe explained. “You look at them, and you think, who are they? Are they groupies? Are they frie...
In 2000 Crowe revealed to Rolling Stonethat he and his sister, Cindy (Zooey Deschanel’s Anita in the movie), had a falling out after their dad died in 1989 and that his sister and mom had been estranged since then. “After my dad died, the chemistry of my family got f***ed up, and in my wildest dreams, I hope the movie helps my mom and sister commun...
Bebe Buell dated a lot of rock stars back in the day, including Todd Rundgren and Steven Tyler (Liv’s dad). During an interview between Buell and Crowe in Talkmagazine, Buell told Crowe about how in real life she twirled in concert debris just like Penny Lane does in movie. “I once did that in Madison Square Garden,” Buell recalled. “I couldn’t bel...
When Crowe set out to make the film, he thought movies set in the early 1970s were missing a certain quaintness that existed at the time. “Mick Ronson, David Bowie's guitarist, died before we made the movie, and somebody got a deathbed interview with him and asked, ‘How did it feel to be at the ground zero of decadence in rock?’ And he said, ‘It wa...
One of the most famous moments in Almost Famous is when Russell stands atop a roof, high on drugs, and screams “I am a golden god” to the teenagers below, then jumps into a pool. Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer prequel series has Chris Pineplaying a Russell Hammond-like character who stands on top of a roof and riles the campers to sing a song wi...
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Sep 15, 2000 · When his love of music lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview the up-and-coming band Stillwater -- fronted by lead guitar Russell Hammond and lead singer Jeff Bebe ...
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Sep 15, 2000 · Build 13f37d1 (7903) In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Sep 15, 2020 · Looking back at Almost Famous, 20 years later, it’s easy to see why it’s still beloved by music and film fans alike. Cameron Crowe understands the spirit of rock n’ roll better than nearly ...
