SPEND A NIGHT UNDER THE STARS IN THE "CITY OF STARS"
AT LOS ANGELES' ICONIC
HOLLYWOOD BOWL ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
FEATURING COMPOSER JUSTIN HURWITZ CONDUCTING HIS OSCAR®-WINNING
SCORE AND SONGS TO THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING FILM, PERFORMED LIVE
BY A 100-PIECE ORCHESTRA, CHOIR, AND JAZZ ENSEMBLE, ACCOMPANIED BY
FIREWORKS
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY,
MARCH 10 at 12:00PM PST
HOLLYWOOD BOWL PREMIERE TO
KICK OFF NATIONWIDE AND WORLD TOUR
SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
March 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) today announced that the world
premiere of LA LA LAND IN CONCERT: A LIVE-TO-FILM CELEBRATION will
take place at Los Angeles' iconic
Hollywood Bowl on Memorial Day
weekend Friday, May 26 and
Saturday, May 27. Composer
Justin Hurwitz will conduct his Oscar®-winning score and
Oscar®-winning song "City of Stars" (with lyrics by
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul) performed live-to-film by a
100-piece symphony orchestra, choir, and Jazz ensemble,
accompanying the film's original vocal recordings. LA LA LAND is
written and directed by Damien
Chazelle, who won the Oscar® for Best Director.
"For me, one of the most thrilling and fulfilling parts of
making LA LA LAND was scoring the film to a live orchestra: a
hundred phenomenal local musicians playing in real-time to the
Technicolor images, bringing Justin's compositions to vivid life. I
couldn't be more excited to share that experience with audiences
this summer, let alone in a setting as epic and as quintessentially
'LA' as the Hollywood Bowl," said Chazelle.
"Damien made a beautiful tribute to Los Angeles with LA LA LAND, and I couldn't be
more excited to celebrate the film's music at an LA landmark with
incredible LA musicians," said Hurwitz.
This world premiere event at the Hollywood Bowl will celebrate
the film and embrace the legendary venue with unique pre-show photo
opportunities and an array of delights including a grand fireworks
spectacular. LA LA LAND or vintage Hollywood-inspired dress is encouraged.
"We could not be more excited about what will be the first live
orchestral presentation of LA LA LAND. And what better place
to do it than at the magically dreamy Hollywood Bowl? We're
thrilled about this exciting next chapter of the movie's life,"
said lyricists Pasek & Paul.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, March
10 at 12:00pm PST via
www.ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets, (800) 745-3000, and the
Hollywood Bowl box office. Doors will open at 6:30pm with the show beginning at 8:00pm. All acts and ticket prices subject to
change without notice. Know Before You Go:
www.hollywoodbowl.com/lease for parking information.
Following the world premiere, LA LA LAND IN CONCERT will debut
in select locations across the globe including the UK, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, and Switzerland, with additional locations to be
announced. In the United States,
select cities include Atlanta
(GA), Seattle (WA), Portland (OR), San
Diego (CA), San Antonio
& Dallas (TX), Indianapolis (IN), Nashville (TN), Milwaukee (WI), Minneapolis (MN), Denver (CO), and Washington, D.C., with additional cities to be
announced.
Released by Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment label, LA LA LAND
is the winner of 6 Academy Awards® including Best
Actress Emma Stone, who stars
alongside Ryan Gosling (Academy
Award® nominee for Best Actor) and John Legend, whose
recorded vocal performance will be featured in this event. The film
has already grossed nearly $400
million at the worldwide box office.
"By preserving the film's unique recorded vocal performances of
Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and John Legend from the
film's soundtrack and blending them with live musicians," said the
concert's director Richard Kraft,
"we are able to build a one-of-kind concert experience, which
becomes a hybrid of film, pre-recordings and incredible live
musicianship."
ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
WORLD PREMIERE TEAM
The LA LA LAND IN CONCERT: A LIVE-TO-FILM CELEBRATION AT THE
HOLLYWOOD BOWL event is directed
by Richard Kraft, who was the
Creative Director of the acclaimed DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID IN CONCERT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL and A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF ALAN
MENKEN.
Producing this event are Laura
Engel & Richard Kraft and
Tim Fox & Alison Ahart Williams following their previous
successes of DISNEY'S TIM BURTON'S NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS LIVE
IN CONCERT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL,
DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID IN CONCERT
LIVE-TO-FILM AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, DANNY
ELFMAN'S MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON, A WHOLE NEW
WORLD OF ALAN MENKEN, and the Emmy®-winning PBS special
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: DANNY
ELFMAN'S MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON. Also
producing are Andrew Hewitt &
Bill Silva Presents.
Music Supervisor for the event is Steven
Gizicki, who won the Guild of Music Supervisors top award
for his work on the film LA LA LAND.
ABOUT LIONSGATE
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) is a vertically integrated next
generation global content leader with a diversified presence in
motion picture production and distribution, television programming
and syndication, premium pay television networks, home
entertainment, global distribution and sales, interactive ventures
and games and location-based entertainment.
With the acquisition of Starz, Lionsgate adds to its portfolio
of businesses the flagship STARZ premium pay network serving 24.3
million subscribers and the STARZ ENCORE platform
with 31 million subscribers. The combined company will operate five
over-the-top (OTT) streaming services and the STARZ app delivering
content directly to consumers.
The Company's feature film business spans eight labels and
includes the blockbuster The Hunger
Games franchise, the Now You See
Me series, the box office blockbuster La
La Land, which won six Academy
Awards®, the hit franchise sequel John Wick: Chapter Two, double Oscar
winner Hacksaw Ridge, Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween, The Shack, CBS
Films/Lionsgate's Hell or High Water, Roadside
Attractions' critically-acclaimed Manchester by the Sea, Codeblack
Films' breakout concert film Kevin
Hart: Let Me Explain and Pantelion
Films' Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing
Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S.
One of the largest independent television businesses in the
world, Lionsgate's slate of premium quality series encompasses
nearly 90 shows on more than 40 different networks. These include
the ground-breaking Orange is the New Black, the fan
favorite Nashville,
the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show, the
hit drama The Royals, the
acclaimed Casual, the breakout
success Greenleaf and hit STARZ series
including Outlander, Black
Sails, Survivor's
Remorse and Power, the second highest-rated
premium pay television series of 2016.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in
box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rates.
Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of more than
16,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important
source of recurring revenue and serves as a foundation for the
growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate, Summit
Entertainment and Starz brands are synonymous with original,
daring, quality entertainment in markets around the
world. www.lionsgate.com
For press inquiries regarding the Hollywood Bowl Performance,
please contact:
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