Cowboy preps 'Ziggy' re-release

Album celebrates 30th anniversary in June

By CHARLES LYONS

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Cowboy Pictures will re-release "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars," starring David Bowie.

John Vanco of Cowboy Pictures and Henry Wrenn-Meleck of RZO Music, one of the pic's producers, negotiated the deal. The film will open July 10 at Gotham's Film Forum, followed by a national rollout this summer and fall.

D.A. Pennebaker ("Don't Look Back") captured Bowie's final live performance as Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1973, filming Bowie both on stage and backstage.

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Bowie's album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" celebrates its 30th anniversary June 6. To mark the occasion, EMI will release an enhanced version of the album containing an additional 12 songs.

"We are honored to be a part of bringing this historically significant piece of popular culture to life again," said Henry Wrenn-Meleck of RZO Music.

Co-founded by Vanco and Noah Cowan, Cowboy Pictures distributes foreign films, documentaries and American indie features. Company currently has in release George Butler's "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition," Chris Smith's "Home Movie" and Shohei Imamura's "Warm Water Under a Red Bridge."