AMC Theatres Back In The Concert Pic Biz With ‘Usher: Rendezvous In Paris’ This Fall
deadline.comAMC Boss Adam Aron promised that he’d be releasing more concert pics, and now the No. 1 theater circuit in the world is teaming with Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Vision to release Usher: Rendezvous in Paris on Sept.
12 for a limited 4-day weekend global run. The movie, which captured the 8x Grammy winner during Paris Fashion week at La Seine Musicale, will be booked at 2,000 cinemas around the globe, including 1,000 theaters stateside.
Directed by Anthony Mandler, the film will play at AMC and Odeon locations, and many other locations globally. Interestingly enough, Trafalgar had Sept.
12 reserved on the Comscore release calendar for an untitled event film. UnlikeAMC’s first concert movie release, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which arrived last October as a miracle to an event pic-starved theatrical marketplace straddled by the actors strike (opening to $93.2M stateside, and grossing $180.7M domestic, $267M global), Usher: Rendezvous in Paris arrives at an extremely competitive time at the domestic B.O., specifically in the wake of Warner Bros.’ Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (Sept.
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