Foo Fighters Plan Spring Theatrical Release of Career-Spanning Documentary

It's shaping up to be a banner year for the Foo Fighters. The band will release a new album in April and are expected to launch a world tour shortly thereafter. They're already announced as the headliners at a number of major rock festivals around the world this summer, with more on the way. A stealth show in Los Angeles yielded the closest thing possible to a Nirvana reunion when frontman Dave Grohl's ex-bandmate Krist Novoselic joined him onstage, while a second secret show saw the band performing their new album in its entirety. And now... they'll be coming soon to a theater near you.

A feature-length documentary about the Foo Fighters -- chronicling their 16-year career -- will premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas this March, followed shortly thereafter by its theatrical release. Directed by Academy Award winner James Moll, the documentary takes viewers back to a time when Grohl was in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters merely a speck of an idea, and it culminates with an in-depth examination of the band's extraordinary circumstances recording their current album.

"In October of 1994, I walked into Robert Lang's Seattle studio with a guitar, a drum set, a bass and 14 songs I thought nobody would ever hear," says Grohl in a statement issued to the press. "Five days later, I walked out with the first Foo Fighters record. Sixteen years and seven studio albums later, with the help of Academy Award winning director James Moll, we're finally able to tell the story of how that one demo cassette turned into the band that we are today. This is our side of the story. From the first rehearsal, to the completion of our new album, it's all there."