Michael Palin in The Seventh Python!

Our 'Python' premiere will be a really big show!

In the LAist's comprehensive report on Monday night's reunion-- and first-time performance-- of The Rutles, there's big news about the premiere of our new movie, The Seventh Python at very same Mods and Rockers Film Festival that brought together Eric Idle, John Halsey, Ricky Fataar and our subject Neil Innes:

"...There was also a preview for the upcoming documentary on Neil Innes, titled The Seventh Python. The documentary will be premiering at this summer's Mods and Rockers Film Festival. Martin Lewis, co-founder and producer of Mods and Rockers has some serious mojo...

"This may be the first and last time all four Rutles performed together, but this is not the last you will see of The Rutles. Neil Innes told LAist that when he returns in June for the Mods and Rockers Fest to premier his documentary, The Seventh Python, he may form a trio with Ricky Fataar (Martin Lewis - seriously, the guy is magic)..."

That's more than we knew! Way to go, Martin!

The Seventh Python's executive producer Sean Connors & Martin Lewis

at the Rutles reunion bash

Someone videotaped the Hollywood premiere of our trailer for "The Seventh Python"

From TabloidBaby.com:

WORLD PREMIERE: March 17, 2008 7:30 pm. The setting: The Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard; a sold out house for the American Cinematheque’s 30th anniversary showing of the Eric Idle’s 1978 mockumentary classic, The Rutles in All You Need Is Cash, and the first-ever reunion of all four Rutles (Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey). Host and organizer Martin Lewis begins by introducing a special trailer.

SECOND SHOW: 10:30 pm. An enthusiastic late-show crowd. The trailer plays and once again Martin Lewis announces that The Seventh Python will premiere at this theatre in June at his Mods & Rockers Film Festival.

Visit The Seventh Python movie website here.

Our movie, The Seventh Python, will premiere in June at Mods & Rockers Film Festival in Hollywood

The world premiere of The Seventh Python, our Neil Innes biopic, will take place in June at the American Cinematheque's Mods and Rockers Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

The announcement was made last night by festival founder, host and curator Martin Lewis, as he premiered The Seventh Python trailer (above) at the festival's 30th anniversary screening of The Rutles in All You Need Is Cash, at which the four stars of the film, Innes, Eric Idle, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey were united for the first time.

Meet The Rutles:
Martin Lewis (right) introduces John Halsey, Ricky Fataar, Neil Innes & Eric Idle

The trailer can also be viewed here on the new Seventh Python movie website.

Lewis said The Seventh Python will open the festival, and that Neil Innes will most likely be on hand for the much-anticipated world premiere.

"I want to see the Neil Innes movie," Eric Idle told the enthusiastic crowd. "Not only is he an untold story, he's an unsold Tory!"

"We're honored to be invited to such a prestigious and acclaimed festival," said Python director Burt Kearns, who wrote and produced the nonfiction musical with Brett Hudson. "Martin Lewis has done tremendous things and made worldwide headlines this week and we're especially grateful that he found the time to be so generous to us and our film. This is the perfect place to introduce this picture and Neil Innes' gifts to the world."

"Touching, hilarious & inventive!"

We had a screening of our new nonfiction musical film, The Seventh Python, Wednesday night at the Sunset Screening Room on the Sunset Strip so we could show it to its star, Neil Innes, folks who worked on the film and assorted friends and celebrities. Despite a few technical issues at the outset, everything went smoothly and people laughed and clapped!

And one of the media bigs who attended wrote up a very nice post about the evening and posted some cellphone photos for Fishbowl LA. Consider it our first review. We do:

"Touching, hilarious and inventive!"

Thanks, Fishbowl LA! Here's the story:

"At a discreet screening room on Sunset, a select group gathered to watch The Seventh Python, the new documentary from Frozen Pictures. The film, a portrait of rock legend Neil Innes, of Bonzo Dog Band and The Rutles fame, is the work of Burt Kearns, Brett Hudson, animator Bonnie Rose, editor Dan Brown, and producer Sean Connors. Crowd reaction was strongly approving of the film, which is touching, hilarious and inventive.

"Hanging out were Weird Al Yankovic, Emo Philips, Martin Lewis, Alison Holloway, TV producers Peter Brennan and Lisa Lew. Chelsea Lately writer Steve Rosenfield assured us that Chelsea Handler herself is really funny.

"We're so relieved.

"Innes, here with a fan, will be at the Monday screening of All You Need is Cash as part of the Mods and Rockers film fest of the American Cinematheque."

We have our own exclusive photo of the only food served at the event: cheese & onions.


(Our great friend, PR legend Jeff Abraham, came up with the cheese & onions idea).

Here's the new poster for The Seventh Python