News Summary

• Russell Crowe's bio-doc meets concert film What Love Builds premiered Out of Competition to a 1,400-strong crowd at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening.
• The documentary charts Crowe’s early musical endeavours from his teen years performing at an Auckland music hall under the stage name of Russ Le Roq, to his 415 performances as Eddie/Dr Scott in a New Zealand production of The Rocky Horror Show.
• Crowe delves into the creation of his first major band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts in 1992; its prophetic The Photograph Kills EP, and his abrupt decision to disband it as his acting career took off.