Ever since Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads film “Stop Making Sense” picked up its reputation as the best concert movie of all time, David Byrne has kept designing dazzling tours, and prominent directors have kept wanting to capture them. Following Spike Lee’s film rendering of Byrne’s “American Utopia” road show six years ago, now another name filmmaker is bringing the musician’s acclaimed 2025-26 “Who is the Sky?” tour to the big screen — and in large-format cinematography. Director Brady Corbet, director of “The Brutalist,” is now in postproduction on the new Byrne concert film.
And while he did not shoot in VistaVision, as he did on his previous narrative feature, he was still thinking big, shooting the film in a combination of 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Reps for the film do not yet have distribution or release details to reveal, including whether there are plans or hopes to place the film largely in 70mm engagements. A media announcement says the movie was shot over multiple nights at the Hippodrome in the artist’s hometown, Baltimore.
Shows took place there in May, records show, with attendees noting on social at the time the presence of a filming team. The film is being produced by The Deep End Films with Pre-Code, Corbet’s company, along with Mona Fastvold, and presented by River Road Entertainment. Its producers are Amit Dey and Jason Fine, representing The Deep End; Corbet and Maddie Browning, with Pre-Code; and Byrne.
Executive Producers are River Road’s Bill Pohlad, Andrew van Wyk and Michael Overman; The Deep End’s Meredith and Martin Sumner; and Townhouse Media’s Sam Fayed & Adam Gibbs. Representing Corbet and Pre-Code are Range Media Partners and CAA. Global distribution rights are in play with Byrne’s film agents at the Gersh Agency, along with The Deep End.
The Deep End’s credits include an attention-getting line of recent music-related film projects, including “Sly Lives!,” “The Sparks Brothers,” “The Greatest Night in Pop,” “Little Richard: I Am Everything” and “Brian Wilson’s Long Promised Road,” the last of which featured Fine as the Beach Boys legend’s on-screen interlocutor. News of the forthcoming movie arrives as Byrne heads into the final North American stretch of a tour that began last September. After previously bringing the show to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood last November, Byrne is returning to L.A. this weekend for concerts Friday and Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl.
After heading south for five nights in Mexico, the tour will then move to the east coast for its final show Sept. 19 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Variety raved about Byrne’s tour last year, ultimately naming his Dolby show the best of 2025 in a year-end best concerts list. The review noted the unusual nature of the setup, in which all of the musicians on stage are in constant choreographed movement in front of the elaborate LED screens throughout the concert.
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