IYD Documentary

[mitzo]

I wonder where it is.

[louielouie2000]

If it surfaces at all at this point, it'd have to be as a promotion tool: Stevie would have to base an official summer tour around it or something to that effect. I'm not so sure about the documentary coming to life given the fact most of Stevie's released works have gone into Out Of Print status.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

If it surfaces at all at this point, it'd have to be as a promotion tool: Stevie would have to base an official summer tour around it or something to that effect. I'm not so sure about the documentary coming to life given the fact most of Stevie's released works have gone into Out Of Print status.

According to Dave, he is in the process of getting a distributor now.

[Macfanforever]

I hope Dave and Stevie don't blow this op coming up with her tour.It won't make since to release it in 2013 after the tour is said and done.

[MacMan]

If they are just NOW looking for a distributor.. This is going to be months and months away from release! Not sure why they don't just make a few thousand copies and sell it on-line...

Dave could be trying to do something like he's just done for his own documentary which is on the making of The Blackbird Diaries and The Ringmaster General (his new album), he's partnered with a wine maker, has come up with a Ringmaster General bottle of wine with him on the label and is selling his 90 minute documentary with the bottle of wine for something like $125 bucks! It's an interesting idea and likely done to recoup some of his costs for production... So maybe he's looking into some sort of partnership for Stevie's doc.

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by MacMan

If they are just NOW looking for a distributor.. This is going to be months and months away from release! Not sure why they don't just make a few thousand copies and sell it on-line...

Dave could be trying to do something like he's just done for his own documentary which is on the making of The Blackbird Diaries and The Ringmaster General (his new album), he's partnered with a wine maker, has come up with a Ringmaster General bottle of wine with him on the label and is selling his 90 minute documentary with the bottle of wine for something like $125 bucks! It's an interesting idea and likely done to recoup some of his costs for production... So maybe he's looking into some sort of partnership for Stevie's doc.

Hun.I'm wondering what kind of tie in.I'm not a wine drinker.If I was I probably have tried
Mick's already.

[Jondalar]

All these opinions are making me think the documentary won't come out.

[Morgana]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

All these opinions are making me think the documentary won't come out.

I'm trying to remain optimistic and continue hope that this documentary will see the light of day. The one reason that clouds my, "Happy Bubble," if you will, is that the promoters (WB & whom ever else) did not strike when the iron was hot!

The question is, Is it still hot one year later? And, I wonder what is exactly in this documentary aside from clips of making IYD?

[GavinBrown]

Didn't dave just recently sign a deal for his production company with distributing documentaries of artists into movie houses and dvd releases. I am almost certain we will see this thing SOMEWHERE this summer.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

All these opinions are making me think the documentary won't come out.

No kidding.

She'll release it at just the right point in time and space. As usual.

[mikephxaz]

I know this may not be a popular opinion but maybe the documentary isn't very good...I have not been a big fan of the secret love and moonlight videos. Maybe Daves talents at producing music doesn't transfer to making videos and documentaries. Maybe everything we love about the making of Say You Will wasn't captured in the IYD documentary footage The struggles, decision making, and the conflicts that we saw between Lindsey and Stevie may have been replaced with Daves weird imagery and quirky editing....just a thought

[Macfanforever]

I was thinking If WB just take the DVD and package it with a copy of her IYD cd for about $25.00 to $30.00.Dave will get his cut WB will get their cut.The IYD cd will get more copies sold in the meantime.

Now if WB did received a advance copy months ago to screen the docu and said forget it.And told him. it wont sell. Thats a different story.Maybe thats the problem Dave is putting up with now.


In the meantime I hope they know probably the true Stevie fans like us will buy the DVD.
A regular music fan wont bother with the DVD.

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

I was thinking If WB just take the DVD and package it with a copy of her IYD cd for about $25.00 to $30.00.Dave will get his cut WB will get their cut.The IYD cd will get more copies sold in the meantime.

Now if WB did received a advance copy months ago to screen the docu and said forget it.And told him. it wont sell. Thats a different story.Maybe thats the problem Dave is putting up with now.


In the meantime I hope they know probably the true Stevie fans like us will buy the DVD.
A regular music fan wont bother with the DVD.

Exactly! Most people won't buy Stevie's DVD. It is us diehards that will. Why do they and everyone else act like it has to be some massive money maker to be released? Even if it was just a digital release on iTunes, they've already spent enough time and money on it so they might as well make SOME profit off of it.

[NoFear♥OnlyLove]

I'm not very optimistic about the documentary either. On one hand, we always have to wait for everything Stevie does...nothing is ever finished on time, there's always some reason everything is delayed, so on and etc, so we could very well end up with the documentary.

On the other hand, there is every possibility that:

~ it hasn't turned out as good as they thought it would & they're stalling so that they can figure out how to save the project.
~ WB isn't interested in promoting/distributing it because they didn't think there would be a big enough market for it, so it's just sitting there.
~ they are looking for a distributor other than WB and it's taking longer than expected.
~ Stevie, in her quest for perfection, has vetoed the inclusion of anything that doesn't portray the experience the way she wants us to see it and/or has stamped every last bit of entertainment out of it (much the same way she did in the DR doc when she wouldn't agree to include her argument with Lindsey) because she has to micromanage everything down the slightest detail...and it turned out kind of boring. --> We all know that she does this...you can see this drive for perfection in the way she runs her shows too. Back in the day, during Bella Donna & the Wild Heart, she was much more spontaneous and free on stage and Lori and Sharon were behind her just doing their own thing. Then everything changed and everyone had marks to hit and matching outfits and it was all choreographed down to the last second, etc...and it lost something. It's blatantly obvious in the Soundstage DVD that everything was staged and there was nothing spontaneous about it. Maybe this hyperactive micromanagement has been the fate of this documentary as well. Maybe when it was finished and edited together, the result was a bit of an anticlimax.

Now, hopefully no one will be offended by that last bit. I'm not saying she doesn't put on a good show and that she doesn't make a good product because she absolutely does. I'm not saying that the behind the scenes stuff for this documentary won't be excellent if we ever get to see it. Her hardcore fans, including myself, love all that stuff. I'm just trying to point out that Stevie wants everything to be the best it can be and she doesn't understand that we want to have the whole experience - the good, the bad, the boring, the exciting, the unexpected, the mistakes, the struggles - not just the best bits of something.

[GavinBrown]

WHAT IS THE HOLDUP WITH THIS???? It would make perfect sense for it to be out this summer while shes on tour, i just dont understand Warner Bros.