The British-Canadian biopic Nowhere Boy
stars Aaron Johnson
as a young John Lennon and is based on a biography written by Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird. The film, which co-stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Lennon's Aunt Mimi, follows Lennon in Liverpool in mid-1950s and the creation of his first band, The Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles. Sony is releasing the movie on DVD and Blu-ray on January 25, some 70 years after Lennon's birth and just as the Beatles' music catalog has finally become available on iTunes. Both versions contain deleted scenes, a making-of featurette and "Nowhere Boy
: The Untold Story of John Lennon and the Creation of the Beatles."