{"id":10070,"date":"2012-05-25T03:20:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartcine.com\/blog\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2012-05-25T03:20:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:20:38","slug":"paul-mccartneys-my-valentine-short-film-to-make-theatrical-debut-at-the-intouchables-showings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/paul-mccartneys-my-valentine-short-film-to-make-theatrical-debut-at-the-intouchables-showings\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUL MCCARTNEY&#8217;S &#8220;MY VALENTINE&#8221; SHORT FILM TO MAKE THEATRICAL DEBUT AT THE INTOUCHABLES SHOWINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his directorial debut, Paul McCartney has created an artistic, black and white short film to his song \u201cMy Valentine\u201d that audiences will get to enjoy before all showings of THE INTOUCHABLES for the duration of its theatrical run. The Weinstein Company (TWC) will release THE INTOUCHABLES in theaters on May 25. The three minute short film, which came to fruition following an original idea by Stella McCartney, stars Academy Award\u00a9 winner Natalie Portman (BLACK SWAN, BEAUTIFUL GIRLS) and Golden Globe\u00a9 winner Johnny Depp (FINDING NEVERLAND, CHOCOLAT). Portman, who was exclusively dressed by Stella McCartney for the film, and Depp translate the lyrics of the song through sign language throughout the film each with their own distinct interpretations, and Depp adds soul midway through the film with a guitar solo, which was recorded live:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6jTIlPr-yI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Said TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein, \u201cWhat an honor it is to have Paul\u2019s short film directorial debut on the head of THE INTOUCHABLES showings. Paul and Stella are great old friends. He was the first musician to say yes to perform at the 9\/11 concert for New York, which I produced along with our friends John Sykes and Jim Dolan. Stella had a wonderful idea when she thought this song would translate well into a film, and I can\u2019t wait to share it with our audiences when THE INTOUCHABLES comes out on May 25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his directorial debut, Paul McCartney has created an artistic, black and white short film to his song \u201cMy Valentine\u201d that audiences will get to enjoy before all showings of THE INTOUCHABLES for the duration of its theatrical run. The Weinstein Company (TWC) will release THE INTOUCHABLES in theaters on May 25. The three minute\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/paul-mccartneys-my-valentine-short-film-to-make-theatrical-debut-at-the-intouchables-showings\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[649,442,3421],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-johnny-depp","tag-natalie-portman","tag-paul-mccartney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}