Inside Blockbuster Super-Producer Frank Marshall’s Other Filmmaking Career: Making Music Docs

If you’ve noticed a lot of music documentaries hitting your favorite platforms, that groundswell is driven by record companies like Universal Music Group looking for ways to invigorate their catalogues.

So it makes perfect sense that a musician’s son like Hollywood super-producer Frank Marshall — who has long been Hollywood’s fave party DJ, worked on Martin Scorsese’s The Band documentary “The Last Waltz,” and plays a mean guitar — would move into the space.Marshall has directed a few features over the years and started producing non-fiction series and features before moving into directing with “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” and “Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name.”There’s no question Marshall can afford to do whatever he wants with his time.

He still devotes his day job to shepherding the latest “Jurassic World” and “Indiana Jones” sequels, and feeds

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