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“Forever We Are Young,” a new documentary charting BTS’ global rise to fame through the lens of their fans, is coming to theaters next month.

The feature-length documentary, by award-winning directors Grace Lee and Patty Ahn, will hit screens on July 30 via Trafalgar Releasing. The film centers around the massive fandom of the K-pop superstars — a.k.a the BTS Army, an acronym standing for Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth, which currently has 90 million members globally.

“There is no BTS without Army and no Army without BTS,” Lee and Ahn said in a statement. “We’re excited for audiences to go on an emotional journey and meet a fandom that made us laugh, cry and think. We were constantly moved by the fans’ power, resilience, creativity and humor and hope audiences will be too.”

“Forever We Are Young” is not the first BTS-centric film, with previous releases including “Burn...

A collection of concert films featuring K-Pop icons BTS and Seventeen will start to become available worldwide on Asian-themed streaming platform Rakuten Viki from next week.

An agreement between agency firm Hybe Corp. and Rakuten Viki provides a slate of nine concert films, variety shows, documentaries from July 5, kicking off with “BTS Speak Yourself in Seoul Final.”

While the content deals are not exclusive, the deal is the first time that Rakuten Viki is partnering with Hybe to bring its K-Pop content to the platform. Rakuten Viki also claims to be the largest streaming destination for Asian content globally, with 90 million users and that potentially puts Hybe’s content in front of larger pockets of fandom that smaller, interest-focused streamers or the large general interest streamers. Rakuten Viki operates a hybrid business model with ad-supported free viewing (AVOD) and premium (SVOD) tiers.

BTS concert films, in particular, are a hot sector.

K-Pop legend BTS may be on hiatus but fans are decidedly not. Concert film BTS: Yet To Come hit no. 5 at the North American Box office this weekend with 5.1 million on 1,100+ screens, for a cume topping 7.8 million from the first showing Feb. 1.

The group announced last year it was planning to take a break. In October, after their one-off live concert to support the bid by Busan, Korea’s second biggest city, for the World Expo 2030, BTS said its seven members were planning to fulfill the Korean government’s mandatory military service and reconvene as a group in 2025. That concert footage has been cut, re-edited and remixed for the big screen.

“The members of BTS are currently moving forward with plans to fulfill their military service. After the phenomenal concert to support Busan’s bid for the World Expo 2030, and as each individual embarks on solo endeavors, it’s the...

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” sashayed away with the most prizes at the first ever MTV Movie and TV Awards Unscripted ceremony, which was spun off this year from the cable network’s long-running fan-voted kudos. Check out the complete list of golden popcorn winners here.

“Drag Race” won all three of its nominations: Best Competition Series, Best Reality Cast, and Best Host for the inimitable RuPaul Charles. The only categories that didn’t go to the “Drag Race” extended universe were Best Fight (“Untucked” queens Kandy Muse and Tamisha Iman lost to a dust-up between the Kardashian sisters) and Best International Reality Series (the UK edition of “Drag” was bested by “Love Island”).

See‘WandaVision’ sweeps at MTV Movie and TV Awards, while ‘To All the Boys’ and Chadwick Boseman take top film prizes

Elsewhere, the longtime MTV reality faves from “Jersey Shore” prevailed twice. First they claimed the honorary MTV...

On Monday, the inaugural MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted honored the best in unscripted television, with RuPaul’s Drag Race and Jersey Shore Family Vacation proving favorites.

The former series from VHS took home the statuettes for Best Competition Series, Best Reality Cast and Best Host, while the latter title from Paramount+ won Best Docu-Reality Show. At tonight’s ceremony, the Jersey Shore cast were also honorees, taking home the Reality Royalty Lifetime Achievement Award.

The rest of the night’s awards were evenly spread out between ABC (The Bachelorette), Netflix (Nailed It!), HBO Max (Selena + Chef), Comedy Central (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah), truTV (Impractical Jokers), MTV (Catfish: The TV Show), E! (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), ITV Studios (Love Island) and Trafalgar Releasing (BTS: Break the Silence: The Movie). One additional award (for Breakthrough Social Star) was given to Filipino-American influencer Bretman Rock.

MTV’s Unscripted award show,...

As Regal Theaters in the U.S. and U.K. parent Cineworld weigh closing their cinemas, this weekend’s box office offered little encouragement as this weekend’s top 10 came to about $8.2 million, and could be $10 million-$11 million for all films. That’s down from $9.6 million for last weekend’s top 10, which saw about $12 million overall. By comparison: This weekend in 2019, with the opening of “Joker,” brought in $150 million overall.

“Tenet,” by far the biggest contributor to domestic returns since it opened a month ago ,held well again, down 21 percent with $2.7 million. It has reached $45.1 million domestic so far, for $307 million worldwide.

The only country that is not reliant on “Tenet” is China, where local titles have driven the grossed to over $1 billion in the last six weeks. This weekend (a holiday there) showed two titles both gross over $150 million with “My People My Homeland” and the animated “Jiang Ziya.

Christopher Nolan’s thriller stays top for 4th weekend.

Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Sep 18-20) Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £780,000 £13.9m 4 2 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £597,979 £1.7m 3 3 Bill And Ted Face The Music (Warner Bros) £319,000 £460,000 1 4 André Rieu’s Magical Maastricht: Together In Music (Piece Of Magic) £124,455 £124,455 1 5 The New Mutants (Disney) £106,209 £1.3m 2

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The romantic drama After We Collided recorded the best per-location average at the UK & Ireland box office this weekend, bringing in £1,359 for each cinema it played in.

The film scored a second successive weekend increase, going up 35% on its previous...

BTS feature-length documentary film “Break The Silence: The Movie” has been given a new date to release in Korean theaters. It had been delayed by problems associated with the coronavirus.

The film will now arrive in cinemas on Sept. 24 and be shown exclusively in Cgv-operated premises. It had previously been planned to release in Korea and elsewhere on Sept. 10, but with new Covid-19 cases spiking upwards in the days before the scheduled outing the release was halted.

Releases in international territories, where cinemas are open, have gone ahead. The btscinemas.com website shows it having opened in 51 territories. The site shows the film opening in a further 30 markets from Sept. 24, including the U.S., Canada, South Africa and Hong Kong. Nearly all show that dated have had to be re-arranged. Another 33 territories are listed as coming soon.

The film follows the K-pop stars through the band’s 2019 “Love Yourself:...

BTS surprised viewers as they performed their first all-English release Dynamite on Wednesday during America’s Got Talent show on Wednesday.

The South Korean boy band group performed their new hit single on Wednesday's results show.

The latest episode is the second of America’s Got Talent‘s semi-finals results shows, which features five acts that will move to the finals for the Top 10 competition.

The new single which recently debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, is BTS' first tune to be sung completely in English.

BTS members Suga, J-Hope, Rm, Jimin, V, and Jungkook shocked the fans with their electrifying performance as they performed on a variety of sets at Universal Studios Hollywood, where America’s Got Talent is filmed.

The K-pop group danced around a drive-in, gas station, and streets outside an amusement park as they wooed fans, who were watching live and streamed from a stack of TV screens on set.

BTS performed “Dynamite,” their first all-English release, during America’s Got Talent on Wednesday. The episode is the second of America’s Got Talent‘s semi-finals results shows, which determines five acts that will move to the finals for the Top 10 competition.

During their performance, Rm, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook took to the streets outside an amusement park, gas station and in front of a theater and restaurant to perform their earworm tune, taking turns on verses and lead moves for the on-point choreography. Their grooves were also...

Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” topped U.K. and Ireland box office charts for the third weekend in a row, collecting $1.58 million from 612 locations for Warner Bros. according to Comscore.

“Tenet” now has a running total of $15.9 million from the territory. The movie, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, has made over $200 million globally to date.

Though “Tenet” led in ticket sales, Shear Entertainment’s young adult romance drama “After We Collided,” was the big gainer of the week, with box office receipts soaring 73% to take £442,661 from 386 sites, and a total of $763,664.

Elsewhere, Trafalgar Releasing’s concert film “Break The Silence: The Movie,” featuring globally popular K-pop sensation BTS, collected £249,997 from 363 locations, for a total of £374,060.

Disney’s “X-Men” universe film “The New Mutants” is still struggling to pull in crowds, taking in £200,660 from 542 sites for a total of £1,101,989.

Among holdovers, Disney’s animated adventure “Onward” continued its impressive run...

‘After We Collided.’

Five new mainstream titles entered the market last weekend – but none could beat the third frame of Warner Bros’ Tenet, which is benefiting from repeat business.

Product-starved exhibitors welcomed the influx and were pleasantly surprised by the turnout for Roadshow’s After We Collided but disappointed with Madman Entertainment’s Bill & Ted Face the Music.

A home entertainment release in the US, Paramount’s Paw Patrol: Jet to the Rescue drew a reasonable number of kids and families while fans of Korean boy band BTS flocked to Trafalgar Releasing’s Break the Silence: The Movie.

Released by Universal, Slim & I, Kriv Stenders’ biopic on country music star Joy McKean and her determination to be recognised as a performer and songwriter in her own right, resonated in regional locations.

Numero reported the top 20 titles generated $4.2 million, nearly 30 per cent up on the previous frame. “We have what I...

BTS have released a teaser for Break the Silence: the Movie, their upcoming concert film that documents last year’s massive Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour. The film will hit theaters on September 24th.

The one-minute clip features the band introducing themselves — Jin, J-Hope, Suga, Jungkook, Jimin, V and Rm — in front of a camera, where they begin to tell each of their personal stories. Glimpses of the tour are shown as they ride in cars, stroll through parks and perform onstage.

Break the Silence: the Movie marks the K-pop sensations’ fourth film,...

Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” suffered a precipitous 60% decline, but stayed on top of the U.K. and Ireland box-office in its second week.

The Warner Bros. release collected £2,151,490 from 613 locations and has now amassed £10,006,540 in the territory, according to final numbers released by Comscore.

Disney’s “X-Men” universe film “The New Mutants” collected £686,407 from 538 sites on debut.

Disney holdover “Onward” declined 27%, collecting £135,669 from 456 locations, and now has a total of £6,942,823.

Altitude Film Distribution’s “Unhinged,” starring Russell Crowe, declined 14% to collect £97,221 from 351 sites and has now grossed £1,436,244 in six weeks of release.

Rounding off the top five is Vertigo U.K.’s “100% Wolf,” which declined 31% to record £96,970 from 455 locations in its sixth week of release. The film has now collected £1,026,699.

Shear Entertainment’s young adult romance “After We Collided” debuted at sixth position with £65,797 from a limited 22 site release.

Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominee and Cannes-winner “Les Miserables,” from Altitude,...

The South Korean release of a new film about K-pop superstars BTS has been indefinitely delayed, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The documentary film “Break The Silence: The Movie” had been scheduled for a Sept. 10 release in South Korean theaters. However, the Yonhap news agency said Wednesday that it will not go ahead on that date.

The band’s label Big Hit Entertainment blamed the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the country, which is notably centered on capital city and entertainment hub Seoul.

The film is scheduled to be the fourth theatrical film release featuring the band. It was set for rollout in 70 markets on Sept. 10 and more than 40 other territories from Sept. 24. Big Hit Entertainment said that overseas releases may still go ahead according to previously announced schedules, but those plans may also change.

The film is produced by Big Hit Three Sixty, a subsidiary of Big Hit Entertainment.

Warner Bros’ espionage thriller, which opened last Wednesday, took £3.27m across the three-day weekend.

RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Aug 28-30)Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £3.27m £5.3m 1 2 The New Mutants (Disney) £220,000 £220,000 Preview 3 Onward (Disney) £185,000 £6.6m 12 4 100% Wolf (Vertigo) £139,000 £827,000 5 5 Unhinged (Altitude) £112,000 £1.2m 5

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Christopher Nolan’s Tenet has taken an impressive £5.3m at the UK and Ireland box office, providing a much-needed boost to the sector during the virus crisis.

The Warner Bros espionage thriller took £3.27m across the three-day weekend, from August 28-30, and has topped the £5m mark due to its opening last...

Warner Bros’ espionage thriller, which opened last Wednesday, took £3.27m across the three-day weekend.

RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Aug 28-30)Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £3.27m £5.4m 1 2 The New Mutants (Disney) £220,000 £220,000 Preview 3 Onward (Disney) £185,000 £6.6m 12 4 100% Wolf (Vertigo) £139,000 £827,000 5 5 Unhinged (Altitude) £112,000 £1.2m 5

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Christopher Nolan’s Tenet has taken an impressive £5.4m at the UK and Ireland box office, providing a much-needed boost to the sector during the virus crisis.

The Warner Bros espionage thriller took £3.27m across the three-day weekend, from August 28-30, and has topped the £5m mark due to its opening last...

With ‘Tenet’ opening in multiple territories, this is a key weekend for European cinemas.

France, opening Wednesday August 26

As the population gears up for the country’s traditional September Rentrée, marking the return to work and school after the summer, a number of films that were held back due to the Covid-19 pandemic are finally being released this week in addition to Tenet which Warner Bros France has opened on 800 prints.

They included Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s Silver Bear-winning comedy Delete History for Ad Vitam, which was originally scheduled for the spring and was one of the hits of the Berlinale this year,...