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ADAM GREEN UNVEILS ALADDIN,



AN INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILM AND ACCOMPANYING ALBUM



Film cast includes Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Francesco Clemente,

Har Mar Superstar, Devendra Banhart, Bip Ling, Jack Dishel, Zoe Kravitz and more





New York - Jan. 11, 2016 - Renowned musician and filmmaker Adam Green today unveiled a teaser trailer for Adam Green’s Aladdin, a hyper-sensory, poetic and humorously subversive take on the Classic Arabian Nights tale, written and directed by Green. The movie features a brand new soundtrack album composed and recorded by Green, who will be kicking off a worldwide ‘Aladdin Tour’ concurrent with the film and album's release in Spring 2016.



The film is a modern day version of Aladdin, with Green starring as the titular character, and explores the recesses of Green’s symbolic imagination wherein the lamp is a 3-D printer, the princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex-change and its population prints out an analogue version of the Internet.



“With Aladdin, I wanted to create a single and unified experience to showcase my music, art and writing,” said Adam Green. “When creating Aladdin, I approached the script like it was a song. It has been the creative project of a lifetime, and I’m so excited to put this out!”



The fantasy film stars an ensemble cast featuring some of New York’s biggest arts, music, and film talent, including:



Adam Green - Aladdin



Macaulay Culkin - Ralph the Rebel Leader



Natasha Lyonne - Aladdin’s Mom



Jack Dishel - Uncle Gary / Sultan



Alia Shawkat - Aladdin's sister



Francesco Clemente - The Genie



Har Mar Superstar - British Druggie Guy



Devendra Banhart - Saucemaker



Bip Ling - the Princess



Zoe Kravitz - Old Miner



The movie was filmed entirely with handmade paper-máche sets, with more than 500 props and 30 rooms constructed out of phone books, newspapers, glue, and house-paint. The satirical odyssey revolves around Aladdin’s dysfunctional family, who live in an ordinary city ruled by a corrupt Sultan and explores themes of technology, government repression, greed and true-love.



You can view the teaser trailer for Adam Green’s Aladdin here and download the press kit here. For more information on the film, please visit www.adamgreensaladdin.com, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, Like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel.





On the Full Album Soundtrack and Aladdin Tour



The ‘Aladdin Tour’ concert tour will begin after a series of film premieres in late April that will coincide with the release of the Soundtrack Album. Adam and his band will perform songs off all his previous albums as well as songs from “Adam Green’s Aladdin.” Actors in the film will make surprise appearances throughout the tour.





Adam recorded 13 new songs for the film in Los Angeles with producer Noah Georgeson.



The players on the soundtrack album are:



Rodigro Amarante (Little Joy) - Guitar, Bass, Piano, Saxophone, Percussion



Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) - Drums, Percussion



Josiah Steinbrick - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard, Piano





About Adam Green



Adam Green is renowned around the globe as one of music’s most unique and prolific songwriting talents - his songs have been performed by artists as diverse as The Libertines, Carla Bruni, Kelly Willis, and Will Oldham. A New York native, Green was only 17-years-old when he recorded and released his first album. As part of the downtown antifolk scene at the end of the nineties, he made up one-half of The Moldy Peaches, who enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy-winning, #1 Billboard Chart ranking soundtrack of the 2007 Academy Award-winning movie Juno. As a solo artist, Green has recorded nine albums, many of which have become cult hits. His 2005 record Gemstones went Gold in Europe.





His eruptive bursts of creativity have led him into the world of movies and visual arts - staging exhibitions across Europe and America, most recently at LISTE art fair in Basel. He also found himself writing/producing/directing and acting in The Wrong Ferarri (2010), a “screwball tragedy” which was the first feature film shot entirely on an iPhone. It has since been featured in the curriculum of NYU’s Tisch Film School. Rolling Stone magazine described it as “Fellini on Ketamine.”





In 2015 Adam began a collaboration with Mich Dulce making a line of hats inspired by his artwork and the ALADDIN movie. The designs incorporate elements from his HOUSEFACE symbolic alphabet, a group of reduced cubist pictographs gleaned from the facial features of the popular cartoon characters Garfield, Big Bird, and Elmo. In January of 2016, he will exhibit the art from Adam Green's ALADDIN at the Fondation Beyeler Museum in Basel, Switzerland.