Rolling Stones to release new documentary Crossfire Hurricane

Crossfire Hurricane alert … Rolling Stones documentary hits cinemas in October. Photograph: Rankin/Reuters

The Rolling Stones have announced details of a new documentary called Crossfire Hurricane to mark their 50th anniversary.
Directed by Brett Morgen, the film features historical footage, much of it widely unseen, and commentary from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Period interviews, extensive live performance material and news archive footage will complete the documentary, which takes its title from the opening lines of Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Morgen, whose previous films include the Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, said: "Crossfire Hurricane invites the audience to experience first-hand the Stones' nearly mythical journey from outsiders to rock'n'roll royalty It's an aural and visual rollercoaster ride."
The film will receive a theatrical release in UK cinemas in October prior to broadcast on BBC2, while HBO will screen it in America.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the band has refused to confirm a report on music industry site Billboard that the Stones will play two shows at the O2 Arena in London in November and two at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York.
According to an unnamed source quoted by Billboard, the band will be paid $25m (£15.7m) for the four shows, which will be promoted by Richard Branson and Paul Dainty, whose Dainty Group is the fifth largest concert promoter in the world.
Any live dates would be the first concerts the band have played since their A Bigger Bang world tour, which ended in 2007.
Last week Mick Jagger increased speculation that the Stones are preparing for a comeback by posting a picture of himself on Twitter holding a guitar in a French recording studio.
"Had fun in the Paris studio this week!" he wrote.