Ahead of the November 27th release of 'Zappa,' see the new trailer for director Alex Winter’s long-in-the-works Frank Zappa documentary.

As a prolific artist well ahead of his time, Frank Zappa was constantly creating and recording and he left behind a treasure trove of extraordinary still-unreleased music and video in his Vault ...

Zappa was known as an artist who kept tight control over his creative output, so the outtakes or materials he’d held back from public view brought new thrills with every day’s viewing. “When ...

“Zappa” tries to wrap itself around the life and enormous career of Frank Zappa, who died of prostate cancer in 1993 at age 52. But due to his prolific and tremendously varied musical output ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to “Zappa,” a documentary about the art-rock master Frank Zappa directed by “Bill & Ted Face the Music” star Alex Winter, the ...

Sooner or later, any commercially viable documentary about the life and work of avant-garde musician Frank Zappa — outsider art’s ultimate inside man — has to grapple with the same headache ...

UMG have more than proven their passion for Frank’s art and so the entire Zappa family – Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva – is thrilled to pass the baton to the new forever stewards for all ...

Frank Zappa, in a scene from the documentary 'Zappa.' Roelof Kiers/Magnolia Pictures There is no such thing as a casual Frank Zappa fan — it’s an all-or-nothing proposition.

In Los Angeles, meanwhile, Frank Zappa seemed to split the difference between art, revolution and retreat when he recorded “Hot Rats,” his second yet most important solo album, during the ...

Frank Zappa’s Entire Song Catalog, Films and More Acquired by Universal Music Group Assets include recordings, songs, films – even the artist’s likeness Josh Dickey June 30, 2022 @ 6:02 AM ...

In “Zappa,” actor and filmmaker Alex Winter provides an economical, uncritical documentary about the eponymous musician, who died at 52 in 1993. Frank Zappa became famous as an iconoclast, his ...