Ice-T "The Art of Rap" Film - In AMC Theaters June 15!

by **Amaranthine** » Jan 29th, '12, 05:24

EXCLUSIVE: Indomina is closing a world rights deal for Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, the Ice-T and Andy Baybutt-directed documentary about the art of hip-hop. I’m told Indomina is planning a meaningful theatrical release in the early summer. UTA and Myman Greenspan are brokering the deal. In the film, Ice-T travels coast to coast, visiting with the likes of Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash, Nas, Mos Def, Eminem, Chuck D, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg to trace the inspiration for an American art form.

by **JamaicanPattlez** » Jan 29th, '12, 05:47

Amaranthine wrote:The film was just picked up!!

EXCLUSIVE: Indomina is closing a world rights deal for Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, the Ice-T and Andy Baybutt-directed documentary about the art of hip-hop. I’m told Indomina is planning a meaningful theatrical release in the early summer. UTA and Myman Greenspan are brokering the deal. In the film, Ice-T travels coast to coast, visiting with the likes of Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash, Nas, Mos Def, Eminem, Chuck D, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg to trace the inspiration for an American art form.

YES!

by **Amaranthine** » Jan 30th, '12, 05:06

The deal was closed today:

The Indomina Group has acquired worldwide rights to Ice-T’s documentary “Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap,” the company said Sunday.

The sales price was not disclosed.

In the performance movie, Ice-T travels across the country, working with Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz, Nas, Mos Def, Eminem, Chuck D, KRS-One, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg.

The movie, which Ice-T directed with Andy Baybutt, is a personal story of the music that saved Ice-T’s life.

“Something From Nothing” shows the craft and skill of rap and explores what goes on inside the minds of the genre’s legends.

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"The Art of Rap is a perfect fit for Indomina," the company's vice chairman and CEO, Jasbinder Singh Mann, said in a statement. "A masterfully crafted, superbly riveting and star studded film about rap that only Ice-T could deliver. This is a film that shares the same DNA as Indomina and speaks directly to our core audience. We're thrilled to have 'Art of Rap' on our theatrical release slate and eager to give audiences around the world the opportunity discover this brilliant film."

Indomina plans a theatrical release in North America this summer.

Mann launched the Indomina Group in 2008. The company operates in Los Angeles and the Dominican Republic.

by **Trimss** » Jan 30th, '12, 15:43

This probably won't be released where I live so I'll download it from ... ... ... ... Itunes?

by **Amaranthine** » Jan 30th, '12, 15:49

Trimss wrote:This probably won't be released where I live so I'll download it from ... ... ... ... Itunes?

Where do you live? They bought the worldwide rights to it, and they plan to release it worldwide, but this summer is just North America.

by **Slim Fiasco** » Jan 30th, '12, 18:46

Trimss wrote:This probably won't be released where I live so I'll download it from ... ... ... ... Itunes?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

by **Trimss** » Jan 30th, '12, 19:04

Slim Fiasco wrote:
Trimss wrote:This probably won't be released where I live so I'll download it from ... ... ... ... Itunes?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Thanks but I'll still have to wait until it comes out on DVD. :'(

Amaranthine wrote:Where do you live? They bought the worldwide rights to it, and they plan to release it worldwide, but this summer is just North America.

Belgium, if it's worldwide well I'll be able to find a place to see it. I guess. :y:

by **Slim Fiasco** » Jan 30th, '12, 19:38

Trimss wrote:
Slim Fiasco wrote:
Trimss wrote:This probably won't be released where I live so I'll download it from ... ... ... ... Itunes?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Thanks but I'll still have to wait until it comes out on DVD.

Uh, yeah man, me too. But better late than never I guess :unsure:

by **Amaranthine** » Feb 2nd, '12, 03:21

Plans are in the works for a potential TV series spun off from the unused interviews in the documentary.

Score!

by **Amaranthine** » Feb 3rd, '12, 02:41

^I hope it actually happens, and soon. It'd be so epic, and it would be a huge shame to let all that unused footage go to waste.

Hearing Eminem say, “The first time I grabbed the mic to perform, I got booed, [and it] only made me want to do better the next time,” brings to mind, what if he’d never grabbed another microphone? Would a style like Eminem’s vocals and words ever exist? Not the most original documentary ever, but an entertaining one nonetheless, and a must for any rap, hip-hop, funk, R & B fans surely won’t want to miss it, but it was disappointing not to see some of my favorite hip-hop artists—the Beastie Boys and the Roots—featured.

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