EXCLUSIVE: Billy Idol Should Be Dead has found an international distributor following screenings at Tribeca and Sheffield Doc Fest earlier this year.

Fremantle has boarded the feature doc about music star Billy Idol and taken international sales (outside the U.S.). It has been shopping if this week at MIPCOM .

The doc, from Swedish filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund, is billed as an “intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary punk musician, told by those who know him best, including Idol himself.” Live Nation Studios is the production house, with Michael Rapino and J. Ralph the exec producers. Violaine Etienne, Akerlund, Orian Williams, Mark Monroe, Ryan Kroft, Jessica James Batista, Laurence Freedman and China Chow are among the producers.

The doc weaves never-before-seen arc

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