Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor on Black Sabbath’s final live show being turned into a concert film

A film of Black Sabbath’s final live show is set to be released in theatres early next year.

The event was held earlier this month at the Villa Park venue in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, and a film documenting the sold-out gig  is currently in production from Mercury Studios.

The film will reportedly run for 100 minutes, and it promises to be a ' love letter to Ozzy and the pioneering sound of Black Sabbath'.

Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall explains the project further.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talk SEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
A week or two ago, our entertainment contributor Steve Newle,
editor at flixs dot co and Z. He was doing
this segment while also kind of simultaneously watching The Black
Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne's final concert. The really good news is,
if it did sound like a bit of you, they
are going to turn this final live show into a film.

(00:36):
So the sold out gig is currently in production and
the film is set to arrive in cinemas in twenty
twenty six one hundred minutes, and it's described as in
the press release is a love letter to Ozzie and
the pioneering sound of Black Sabbath. So they go to
all new Black Sabbath fans, something to look forward to
you next year. Fantastic, right, Steve is with us now,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Good morning. I should note as well that that concert
raised two hundred million pounds for charity. It's the largest
I believe it's the largest charity fundraising concert in history.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Amazing, it's amazing. Didn't know that. Hey, I have been
watching Eric Banner and Sam Neil in the Netflix thriller
untamed great setting.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Isn't it just Yazimite National Park? And filmed beautifully? In
this new Netflix thriller, the pairing of Eric Banner and
Sam Neil seems like something that should have happened heaps
sometimes before.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, it's so right. They're so right together on screen.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Totally and I mean, as their ages may suggest, like
Eric Banners very much. The start of the show, he
is the special agent in Yosemite National Park, trying to
figure out a new murder in a park that's already
rife with disappearances and kind of weird goings on. Sam
Neil plays his boss, sort of a bit of a
father figure as well. So they're dynamics. Yeah, I'm mystified.

(01:50):
While we haven't seen this on screen before. To be
perfectly honest, I've been really enjoying this. The locations beautiful.
There's a lot of really vertigo inducing shots, rock climbing,
leaning over cliffs, and just the natural wonder next to
this kind of the tale that unfolds of just sort
of getting a little grubbier and into the secrets of

(02:12):
the people that have been living there for a while.
I'm really enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's a good ben Jess.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'd say that The one thing that I've noted though,
is if this was a UK show might have had
just a tiny bit more respect for its audience being
able to put two and two together. It is a
little bit of a It is a little bit of
a oh hey did you notice this? Did you notice this?
Did you notice this?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:33):
But did you notice this? But be that as it may.
Location stars makes for a winning show.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, I completely agree, very much enjoying it. Hey tell
me about friendship.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, so this is well. This is another kind of
interesting male duo project, this time a feature film and
cinemas now and in quite a black comedy. It stars
Paul Rudd, everyone's sort of a favorite everyman comedian, and
Tim Robinson, who if you're not familiar with I think
you should leave, and his kind of absurd brand of comedy.

(03:06):
He is kind of mining the foibles of men in
a way that is just kind of getting to the
core of how terrible we are really. So both these
actors have sort of chased like air quote normal in
their comedy, but here we sort of see normal as
you're a nice, relatable guy, Paul Rudd versus Tim Robinson,

(03:28):
You're the stuff that lives in a head that we
a relaldly never should admit to. So they are, they're
living in the suburbs. Tim Robinson's character meets Paul Rudd.
He's the cool new neighbor. He's in a band, he's
got a mustache. Even very soon, the title friendship stops applying.
Because this is very awkward and weird. I think you

(03:49):
should leave. That show is populated by characters who kind
of dig themselves in over their head and get in
this sort of outrageously indefensible positions and make complete manesses themselves.
This film's a bit like what that would happen, or
what that would be like if it happened in real life. Okay,
it's a comedy, but it's a dark one.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
So we've got Untamed on Netflix and Friendships.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
And friendships and cinemas now, and I'm ready to recommend
sing this with an audience. This is a really great
kind of cringe comedy stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Brilliant. Thank you, so ah, Can I ask you a
quick question. I noticed that tickets to Christopher Nolan's The
Odyssey are going to be on sale a year before
the film is released. I mean, it hasn't even they
haven't even.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
How's how's your forward plannet?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, this is this a good I mean they're trying
to build anticipation for it and everything, but is that
going to work? Is this going to sort of market films?
Is this a good sort of gimmick to get people
interested in going to the cinemas? Now, I'd completely forget
in a year's time, i'd even purchased it.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I think even seeing a teaser a year out's kind
of a bit a bit of a Oh that's nice.
It's nice to know that's coming. But I'm going to
immediately disregard all mention of dates and everything because you'll
be reminded of it close to the time.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
You buy a ticket to a concert a year out
because you have to because they sell out in the day, right,
But you know you're gonna be able to get a
ticket for this.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Mane What if you want to what if you change
your mind about what your favorite seat is? What'sween now?
And then oh I don't like if one anymore? I
want g want you know that we just sound old.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Thank you so much, Steve, really nice to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
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