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COLDPLAY: HOTTER THAN EVER
Due to fan demand, British rock band Coldplay has announced a fourth show in India for its “Music of the Spheres” world tour. The band will perform at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Jan. 25, 2025, for a potential audience of 100,000 fans, making it the biggest stadium show of their career. The multiple Grammy-award winning band is already confirmed to play in Mumbai, India on Jan. 18, 19 and 21.
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Tickets go on sale on Nov. 16, 2024, at noon India time, exclusively at online ticketing platform Bookmyshow, sister company to the tour’s India promoter BookMyShow Live.
The tour began in 2022 and has sold 12 million tickets across Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, making it the most highly attended tour by a group of all time. The tour is also travelling to Abu Dhabi, Seoul and Hong Kong between Jan. and April 2025.
ASIA PACIFIC AWARDS
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards has announced three prize-winners in advance of its main ceremony. Georgia’s Data Chachua has been named best new performer for “Panopticon.” U.S.-based Japanese director Neo Sora is the recipient of the APSA Young Cinema Award in partnership with NETPAC for “Happyend.” And Nepali director Min Bahadur Bham’s “Shambhala” is the Cultural Diversity Award winner.
The three special awards celebrate cinematic excellence, support emerging practitioners and foster the promotion and protection of cultural diversity. Winners will be inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, the network that unites the filmmakers of the Asia Pacific. They will also become the first members of the Top 51 World Filmmakers Club when it is launched in 2025.
The 17th APSA ceremony will be held on Nov. 30 at The Langham, Gold Coast, Australia.
“Happyend” (Japan-U.S.) is a best film nominee at the APSAs, with Neo Sora also nominated for best screenplay. “Happyend” premiered in the Orizzonti competition at the Venice festival before being presented at Toronto.
Set in a Himalayan polyandrous village, ‘Shambhala” sees pregnant Pema face scrutiny when her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks her husband in the wild, unravelling her own self-discovery along the journey. Min Bahadur Bham will feature in two events at the Asia Pacific Screen Forum, the Cultural Preservation Through Film panel and Connect: The Human Side of Coproduction seminar on Nov. 29. The film has backing from producers in Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Türkiye, Taiwan, U.S. and Qatar).
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