After a theatrical launch in 2024, Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers Seaside Occasion is coming to Paramount+. The Cameron Crowe-directed challenge will probably be obtainable to stream on the service beginning on March 11. Filmed across the time of Petty’s album Lengthy After Darkish, the challenge initially aired on MTV in 1983 earlier than being largely forgotten about.
“’Heartbreakers Beach Party’ occupies a special place in my heart,” Crowe mentioned in a press release with the announcement, per Selection. “Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers leaned into the making of the film with a kind of hilarious music-filled honesty that still feels fresh forty years later. It was also my first experience as a director. Thanks to Adria Petty and the Petty estate, along with our co-filmmakers Danny Bramson, Phil Savenick, Doug Dowdle and Greg Mariotti, we’re bringing it back in all its reckless glory. I’m especially happy to add a postscript with the never-seen outtake footage I always treasured. The fact that the original film was yanked from MTV after only one airing shows that it was, and still is, an outlandish feast for fans in the best ways. Turn it up!!”
Filmed in 1982 and 1983 and misplaced for many years, the 16mm print of Heartbreakers Seaside Occasion was found in 2024 and restored to incorporate 19 minutes of additional footage, together with outtakes and an interview with Petty’s daughter Adria Petty. It loved a theatrical launch final October as a deluxe reissue of his 1982 album Lengthy After Darkish hit cabinets with new bonus tracks.
Adria is actively concerned with a lot of the archival work of her father, and introduced the tapes to Crow after discovering them within the vault. “We have this great archivist that’s been testing film for vinegar syndrome, and she found a bunch of the raw film reels for “Heartbreakers Beach Party,” which we didn’t understand we had in our possession. They weren’t labeled,” she advised Selection. “And we found an incredible trove of unreleased material and important material, of songs he had written for other people and things like that during that time, and it felt like a really good and fun thing to work on.”
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