A24 acquires 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense to be restored for theatrical release in 4K

After delivering his second Oscar nomination to Talking Heads frontman David Byrne everything everywhere at once A24 has acquired the worldwide rights to his former band’s 1984 concert photo stop doing Feeling for theatrical release later this year.

A24 will do a 4K restoration of director Jonathan Demme’s first concert photo. If the company can polish it up in time, boy, it will be a fun midnight movie for Cannes. The news comes shortly after A24 acquired and re-released Darren Aronofskys PI.

stop making sense The core group stars Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison, and P-Funk Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was recorded over three nights in December 1983 at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater and features such memorable Talking Heads songs as “Burning Down the House”, “Life during Wartime”, “Take Me to the River”, “Psycho Killer” and “Once in a lifetime.” The band, whose style was a mix of art-punk-funkrock, was pressed by legendary producer Brian Eno, whose collaborations include David Bowie, U2 and Coldplay.

The Talking Heads beamed at the news in a statement: “There was a tape. There was a concert. It has to be the movie!” The group broke up in 1991 and played briefly at an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Byrne recently told us on Deadline’s crew call, “We won’t do it,” meaning the Talking Heads will never get back together.

Byrne, who won an Oscar for co-writing the score for the 1987 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci the last emperor He recently received his second Oscar nomination for the original song “This Is a Life,” which he co-wrote with Son Lux and Mitski, from Daniels’ award-winning film Everything, everywhere, all at once. Byrne is a close EGOT winner; he just misses an Emmy. Gary Goetzman is producing its reissue stop making sense

Rhino will release a new deluxe version of the double platinum soundtrack on vinyl and digital on August 18, including the full version stop making sense concert for the first time. The film earned $5 million at the domestic box office.

There was a hilarious teaser on the news earlier this morning showing Byrne going to a dry cleaners where he hands in his ticket and says: “I’ll pick you up. It’s been here for a while.” We then see him pick up his famous big suit stop making sense He goes home, watches and dances to the song “This Must Be the Place.”

Watch the teaser above.