Shine a Light stays dark until April

The long awaited Rolling Stones concert documentary by Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light, is being held back until sometime in April 2008 according to Paramount Classics, the film's distributor. The film is a composite of two concerts last year, with guest performances by Buddy Guy, Jack White, Christina Aguilera and, judging from The Last Waltz, many others.

This announcement comes as a bit of a surprise, as the film was slated for a release little more than a month from now on September 21, which is a pretty late time to pull a date that's been set for ages. Paramount Classics cites the lack of an adequate marketing campaign as the reason for the delay, which is maybe an understatement. At the point of this writing, pretty much nothing at all has been released about the film since its initial one-sheet press release. No pictures, no trailer, nothing.

Still, The Last Waltz took about two years, so by that calendar we're still doing pretty good.

Related links:
ShineALightMovie.com
RollingStones.com
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