Jim here. Some hot breaking news in Los Angeles if you are not up to anything tonight - but you have to hurry!!
3ality Digital is doing the FIRST S3D simulcast of a concert in the U.S. TONIGHT -- the sold-out Black Eyed Peas show at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The concert will be piped from Staples Center to a 70' screen at the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14 across the street at LA Live.
The Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. World Tour LIVE Presented by BlackBerry 3-D Event, will also feature a 30-minute exclusive program that includes behind-the-scenes footage and band interviews.
Immediately before The Black Eyed Peas take the stage on March 30th, two lucky fans at the Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 will be selected to receive preferred seats for the live, sold out performance across the street at STAPLES Center.
Tickets for The Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. World Tour LIVE Presented by BlackBerry3-D Event on March 30 at 7:30 p.m. Pacific are available at the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14 box office and at Fandango.com.
They actually moved the simulcast to the biggest auditorium they had, because it sold out in a matter of hours, with very little publicity or advance notice.
The six-time GRAMMY Award-winning group – will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie – are on their first tour since 2006, and the group’s most ambitious stage production to date. In support of their multi-platinum No. 1 album, The E.N.D – featuring the chart record-breaking consecutive No. 1 singles “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” – The Black Eyed Peas are transforming major arenas into massive club parties across the country and around the world. The E.N.D. World Tour Presented by BlackBerry proves The Energy Never Dies with state of the art lasers, lights, HD visuals, flying stunts and eight world class dancers that will be a visual assault on the senses for hundreds of thousands of fans.
The Black Eyed Peas won three more GRAMMY Awards this year - Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals ("I Gotta Feeling"); Best Pop Vocal Album (The E.N.D.); and Best Short Form Music Video ("Boom Boom Pow"). To date, The Black Eyed Peas’ fifth studio album The E.N.D., has sold over 2.2 million copies in the U.S., and over 6 million copies world¬wide with digital single sales in the U.S. selling over 12.5 million tracks. The Peas have logged over 350 headlining tour dates in 29 countries, with over 2.5 million tickets sold.
Some other associated events: Official After Party at Conga Room on Tuesday, March 30th Tickets are available for $15 and may be purchased at www.congaroom.com.
The Black Eyed Peas Fan Fest on Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE The Fan Fest is FREE to the public and does NOT require a ticket.
The live 3D event is being delivered by 3ality Digital and presented by AEG Live. Wish I was there!
Jim here. Got a huge announcement for all you Phish fans out there (and I know there is a lot of them!): PHISH 3D will be hitting the S3D screens April 30 for a one week run with a limited preview of the concert movie in nine US cities on April 20.
Check out the movie's trailer below!
I found out about the movie during ShoWest and was pleasantly surprised when I saw what band was headlining. I took a photo of their poster but it was not official yet so they asked me to hold off for awhile. But now it is all out there!
From their press release: The more than two hour movie, presented by Action 3D Productions in association with Network LIVE and Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp., highlights Phish’s Festival 8, a three-day, eight-set, 16-hour concert in the Southern California desert.
In advance of the nationwide roll-out, exclusive preview screenings will be shown in nine cities - Boston; Burlington, VT; Chicago; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; New York; Raleigh/Durham, NC; and Washington, D.C.-- on April 20th. In addition to experiencing this special screening, fans in attendance will take home a Phish 3D movie poster. The fully immersive music and visual experience, featuring state-of-the-art 3D technology, gives viewers the sense that they are not only at the event, but on stage with the band that Entertainment Weekly has called “the biggest cult band in America.” Phish 3D features fan favorites, never before seen cover songs, and intimate footage of the band backstage and in rehearsals.
Filmed in October 2009 at the band’s Festival 8, more than 40,000 devoted fans watched as Phish combined two of their most beloved traditions — the multi-day festival and the Halloween album “costume.” The band’s highly anticipated "musical costumes" are concerts involving the performance of an entire album by another artist—in this case, Phish covered the Rolling Stones’ album Exile on Main St. Phish 3D also features songs from the band’s first ever full-length acoustic set, as well as performances taken from the six additional sets.
Tickets for the Tuesday, April 20th screenings will be available for purchase on Friday, March 26 (individual theater on-sale dates may be subject to change). Ticketing information is available at www.phish3dmovie.com or with the following theaters:
-Boston National Amusements 565 Squire Rd (781) 284-5700 Movietickets.com -Burlington Majestic 10 190 Boxwood St (802) 878-2010 Movietickets.com -Chicago Rosemont Theatre 9701 Bryn Mawr Ave (847) 447-1040 Movietickets.com -Denver Movie Tavern 10 18605 East Hampden Ave (303) 680-9913 Movietickets.com -Houston Studio Movie Grill 805 Town & Country Way (469) 693-3456 Movietickets.com -Los Angeles Rave Motion Pictures 18 The Promenade (310) 568-9950 Movietickets.com -New York Pavilion Theatre 188 Prospect Park West (718) 369-0836 Movietickets.com -Raleigh Wynnsong 15 1807 Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy (919) 489-9505 Fandango.com -Washington Fairfax Corner 14 11900 Palace Way (703) 378-6550 Movietickets.com
Ticketing information for the Friday, April 30th opening of Phish 3D will be made available at www.phish3dmovie.com. Fans are encouraged to check the site for ticketing and event news frequently, as there a very limited number of seats available for this one week run.
Phish will kick off an extensive summer tour on June 11th at Toyota Park in Chicago, IL. An online ticket request period is currently underway at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ and will end on Friday, March 26th, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, April 2nd. For full details, visit phish.com
About Phish: Since forming in Vermont in 1983, Phish has developed a large following dedicated to their legendary live shows of eclectic, free-form rock, jazz, country, bluegrass and pop. The band has sold more than 8 million albums and DVDs in the United States, including fourteen studio albums and a multitude of live shows. The ceaseless touring of guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman, bassist Mike Gordon and keyboardist Page McConnell helped make them one of the top concert draws in the nation until their indefinite hiatus in the summer of 2004. Phish officially reunited in March 2009 and later released their fourteenth album, Joy, with producer Steve Lillywhite. Phish headlined the Bonnaroo Festival in June 2009 and performed a 4-night New Year's Eve run at Miami's American Airlines Arena. For more information, visit www.phish.com.
About Action 3D: Action 3D Productions—A3D—is a privately held production company with a unique approach to capturing live alternative content events (music, sports, and theater) in digital 3D. While technology is key to the process, people are the main ingredients to creating immersive experiences for presentation in cinemas and location-based entertainment venues. A3D's biggest asset is its know-how. The company’s management team has decades of worldwide experience in entertainment presentation, business management and film production. While this team's individual accomplishments are impressive, the complementary backgrounds and skills have enabled A3D to quickly advance in creating, developing and marketing sought-after 3D entertainment for the rapidly developing suite of 3D distribution channels.
About Cinedigm: Cinedigm is the leader in providing the services, experience, technology and content critical to transforming movie theaters into digital and networked entertainment centers. The Company is a technology and services integrator that works with Hollywood movie studios, independent movie distributors, and exhibitors to bring movies in digital cinema format to audiences across the country. Cinedigm’s digital cinema deployment organization, software, unique combined satellite and hard drive digital movie delivery network; pre-show in-theater advertising services; and distribution platform for alternative content such as CineLive® 3-D and 2-D sports and concerts, thematic programming and independent movies provide a complete suite of services required to enable the digital theater conversion. Cinedigm™ and Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. ™ are trademarks of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. www.cinedigm.com [CIDM-G]
About AEG Network LIVE: Network LIVE is the industry’s largest provider of live digital entertainment, offering fans unparalleled access to the artists they want—when and how they want it—via broadband, TV, radio, wireless, theatrical and retail. AEG Network LIVE has completed successful tour and album launch campaigns for AEG Live clients including Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Prince, Linkin Park, Garth Brooks, and many others. More information on AEG Network Live can be found at http://www.networklive.com.
Jim here. Some hot breaking news in Los Angeles if you are not up to anything tonight - but you have to hurry!!
