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13 ROCK N' ROLL: Cameron Crowe working on Pearl Jam movie

Billboard is reporting that director Cameron Crowe and Pearl Jam are teaming up on an upcoming film about the Seattle-based rock group.

The project, which sounds like a compilation of pre-existing Pearl Jam footage, was revealed last month on Seattle's "Don and Ron" radio show by guitarist Mike McCready.

"We're building up to our big 20th anniversary," McCready said. "We're trying to have a little campaign of building rereleases with new mixes and new outtakes up until that time and we're also trying to do a movie with Cameron Crowe with all of our footage."

Crowe and Pearl Jam first teamed together on the '90s grunge pic, "Singles," which featured soundtrack music, baggy flannels and "acting" from band members Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament. Crowe also exec produced, "Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory," a short making-of documentary about the group's 1998 LP, "Yield."

Pearl Jam is currently working on a new album due out later this year and are scheduled to headline the Outside Lands Festival (August 28-30) in San Francisco.

--Stuart Oldham