From Universal Studios Home Entertainment: Director Richard Curtis, Creator of Love Actually and Notting Hill, Will Have You Dancing in Your Seat with the Rock and Roll Music and Spirit of the 1960s, Pirate Radio

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- OVERVIEW: From Richard Curtis, director of Love Actually, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary and Four Weddings and a Funeral, comes the musically charged, feel-great comedy about rock and roll in the 1960s.  Called "A rip-roaring comedy" by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and inspired by true events, Pirate Radio follows a band of hilarious rogue deejays who boldly defied the British government by playing the music that defined a generation, including artists such as The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, among others.  Hailed as "the finest rock movie since Almost Famous" by Kyle Smith of the New York Post, Pirate Radio stars Academy Award®-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt, Capote), Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually), Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill), Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), Tom Sturridge (Vanity Fair), Chris O'Dowd (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People), Rhys Darby ("Flight of the Concords"), Talulah Riley (Pride and Prejudice) and January Jones ("Mad Men").

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• FEATURETTES
  • TUNING IN:  Richard Curtis and cast members including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy discuss the enormous influence pirate radio had in the UK in the 1960s.
  • 7" OF HEAVEN:  Richard Curtis, Bill Nighy, Chris O'Dowd and Philip Seymour Hoffman discuss the life-changing effects of the music of the 1960s.
  • ALL AT SEA:  Richard Curtis, Chris O'Dowd, Rhys Darby and Rhys Ifans discuss the fun and perils of filming at sea.
  • GETTING SHIP SHAPE:  Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd discuss re-creating the Radio Rock boat as a set on dry land and Rhys Darby brings us on a tour of the set.
  • HITTING THE DECKS:  Tom Wisdom, who plays Mark 'The sexiest man in the world', shows us around Mark's cabin, a true 'love den,' on the day 35 semi-clothed women come to pay him a visit!
  • MARK'S LOVE DEN:  Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans and Chris O'Dowd discuss the fun of learning to be a 1960s DJ for the film.

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• FEATURE COMMENTARY: Commentary from Writer and Director Richard Curtis, Producer Hilary Bevan Jones and actors Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd.

SYNOPSIS: From the creator of Love Actually and Notting Hill comes a trip back to the freewheeling, free-loving '60s when the very rock music that inspired a generation was censored by the government. When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban, they take to the seas to broadcast music and mayhem to millions of adoring fans. Featuring a soundtrack that includes The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and many more, it's a feel-great film based on a true story that critics cheer is "exuberant!" (John Powers, Vogue).

http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/pirate_radio/

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