12h 5min, dec 1, 2020 y - CROCK OF GOLD A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan Special Screenings USA

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Magnolia Pictures acquired the North American distribution rights. The North American premiere was on November 11, 2020 at DOC NYC followed by special screenings in theatres in the U.S. on December 1, 2020 before its general release on December 4, 2020.

The release in U.K. and Ireland cinemas by was delayed from November 20, 2020 to December 4, 2020 due to COVID-19.

NOTE: Johnny Depp had withdrawn from promoting Crock of Gold due to the loss of the UK Trial.

FROM LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS:

Pogues singer Shane McGowan’s irascible life unfolds in Julien Temple’s documentary​, made with Johnny Depp’s encouragement

By PETER LARSEN

When the chance arose to make a documentary about Shane McGowan of the Pogues, director Julien Temple hesitated, not at all sure he wanted the challenge of capturing the irascible Irish-English folk-punk frontman on camera.

“You’ve got to be prepared to put yourself through a special kind of experience with Shane McGowan,” says Temple, who, mind you, had previously subjected himself to the making of two films with the not-exactly-mild-mannered members of the Sex Pistols.

“He does come with a warning on the tin, you know, saying, ‘Open at your own peril,’” Temple says. “Which is what is great about him, too.”

But the lure of McGowan’s life story was hard to resist, so that once actor Johnny Depp, a friend of McGowan’s for decades, got involved, Temple was in too.

“I thought, ‘Well, Johnny will have my back on this,’ because you do want to start a film feeling you’re going to finish it and deliver something to the people who put the money up,” Temple says. “I felt, you know, take the plunge, let’s do it.”

“Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan,” opens Dec. 4, and despite the difficulty of a subject so unpredictable in his willingness to sit for interviews, it captures the glorious spirit of the man through the creative touch of Temple as director.

“I’d known Shane briefly in the punk time,” says Temple, 68, who made his debut with the 1979 film “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle,’ a fictionalized version of the Sex Pistols’ origins that starred three of the four members of that band.

“I did the first interview with him ever, actually, end of ’76,” he says. “That’s seen in the film, him with the peroxide blonde kind of punky hair. That’s something I actually shot when I was a student.

“It’s been an interesting ride, making this film,” he says. “But I think the fact that he is notoriously hit and miss in terms of whether he’ll do an interview, made it a better film. He painted us into so many corners that we had to bust out in ways that we wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

“I like to think he kind of directed it from afar in some ways, by making it difficult.”

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