Nickelback’ documentary will get theatrical launch date
A brand new feature-length documentary about Nickelback is coming to cinemas in March, titled Hate To Love: Nickelback.
The movie, which premiered final yr on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, will play in 1350 cinemas throughout 30 nations on two nights, March 27 and March 30. Tickets go on sale at 3pm UK time on February 22 here.
The band have stated in an announcement: “We’re very excited to lastly carry this movie to theatres this Spring. It’s been an extended highway to get this challenge throughout the end line and we should thank Ben Jones and Leigh Brooks for all of their arduous work. We hope everybody enjoys our story, followers, buddies or in any other case.”
It’s directed by Leigh Brooks, and in response to the synopsis: “Hate To Love: Nickelback tells the genuine story in regards to the band from their humble beginnings in Hanna Alberta, to their explosive international success in 2001 and the highs and lows that adopted.”
“The movie celebrates the loyalty of Nickelback followers and delves into the years of on-line vitriol whereas exposing the private affect it had on every of the band members. The movie additionally unveils the rock group’s resolution to return after a 5-year break with a brand new file and a massively profitable sold-out tour, discovering themselves using a sudden wave of on-line love that has launched their music to a military of recent followers and audiences worldwide.”
The movie additionally options interviews with followers of the band, together with Ryan Reynolds and Billy Corgan.
The band are set to carry out 12 enviornment dates throughout eight European nations in Could and June as a part of their ‘Get Rollin’ Tour’. It kicks off in Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on Could 16 earlier than they carry out in Manchester (20), London (21) and Birmingham (23). You should buy any remaining tickets here.
The band’s newest tour is in help of their first album in 5 years, ‘Get Rollin’’ which was launched in November final yr.
Talking to NME forward of the discharge, frontman Kroeger stated that the goal of the brand new file was to encourage “fantastic feelings” as a result of “music’s alleged to be about escapism”.
Across the launch of ‘Get Rollin” final yr, Kroeger joked that he was “prepared for the world to hate us once more”, a reference to the band’s polarising impact on music followers over time.
Nonetheless, again in Could the frontman stated that he thinks the hatred in the direction of his band is “softening”.