Rite Here Rite Now will premiere in cinemas this summer
Trafalgar Releasing has announced worldwide theatrical distribution plans for Rite Here Rite Now. The unique feature-length film combines never-before-seen 2023 concert footage of Grammy Award-winning rock band, Ghost, with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band’s long-running Chapters series. Directed by the band’s Tobias Forge, and Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell), the film will launch in cinemas globally on June 20th and 22nd only.
“Over a decade ago when Ghost got signed to Loma Vista, Tom Whalley (owner and CEO) asked what the story of the band was.
He felt telling a story was vital in order to get new fans engaged,” Forge shares. “I said that because we were a new ‘baby’ band and more importantly we were an ANONYMOUS baby band, there wasn’t really a compelling story to tell. Not yet anyway. But I told him that if he wanted a story, I could come up with one. This film is the fruit of that conversation.”
Full trailer launch and cinema tickets will be available beginning Thursday, May 9th. Worldwide screening details and ticket links will be revealed at ritehereritenow.com at 2 pm BST/9 am EDT/6 am PDT.
Shot throughout Ghost’s two sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ hallowed Kia Forum, Rite Here Rite Now fully immerses viewers in the technicolor melodrama of the vaunted live ritual that has helped to propel Sweden’s foremost theatrical rock export to Grammy-winning, chart-topping, arena-headlining status the world over.
Rite Here Rite Now is, however, so much more than a concert movie. Ghost’s debut feature film combines live performance from the two-night finale of the band’s Re-ImperaTour USA 2023 with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band’s long-running Chapters series. The result is an utterly unique phantasmagorical blend: Flesh and bone renditions of favorites from all five of Ghost’s albums as well as the RIAA platinum-certified “Mary On A Cross” and more are interwoven with the silver screen debuts of a few faces familiar to the band’s legions of fans—all interacting behind the scenes with the band’s Papa Emeritus IV, as his future and fate lay in the hands of the Ministry.
Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the Ghost live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, Rite Here Rite Now will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of Ghost.
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Rite Here Rite Now will be released via Loma Vista Recordings. Pre-order launch and additional details will complement the film’s cinema on-sale date of May 9th.
Children of the World!
Finally, our debut feature film ”RITE HERE RITE NOW” will be haunting cinemas all over the globe, on June 20 & 22 only.
So, pre-sales go live on May 9 and if you want to see it in a movie theatre, act fast.
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— Papa Emeritus IV (@thebandGHOST) May 1, 2024