BTS is continuous their streak of conserving followers satiated throughout their necessary navy enlistment, this time by a documentary movie following the group’s chief, RM.
The documentary movie RM: Proper Individuals, Mistaken Place will premiere on the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant. The movie, which was invited to the competition’s Open Cinema part, chronicles the method of creating the worldwide star’s second solo album Proper Place, Mistaken Individual.
CJ 4DPLEX, a subsidiary of Korean conglomerate CJ Group, and BTS’ label Hybe introduced the information Tuesday.
“It’s a nice honor for RM: Proper Individuals, Mistaken Place to be the primary documentary movie specializing in a Ok-pop artist formally chosen for the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant’s large-scale out of doors premiere,” Hybe Media Studio’s GM Gyewon Suh stated in an announcement. “The movie offers an trustworthy portrayal of RM, and with director Lee Seokjun’s distinctive visible type, we’ve crafted a very unconventional but distinctive work. We hope the movie resonates deeply with the viewers.”
RM: Proper Individuals, Mistaken Place “explores the candid journey of BTS’ chief RM as he navigates the complexities of being a world celebrity,” based on a launch. The movie will give followers an opportunity to see the eight months main as much as the rapper’s enlistment.
RM, whose actual title is Kim Namjoon, enlisted in Korea’s navy late final 12 months. Six out of seven members of BTS are at the moment serving.
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RM: Proper Individuals, Mistaken Place is directed by Lee Seokjun and produced by Hybe. Lee beforehand produced music movies for J-Hope, one other member of BTS. The movie can have a world theatrical launch later this 12 months, based on a launch.
“We’re delighted to announce the worldwide theatrical launch of the BTS RM documentary, RM: Proper Individuals, Mistaken Place, in collaboration with Hybe and BigHit Music, constructing on the success of our earlier partnership for BTS: But to Are available in Cinemas,” CJ 4DPLEX’s CEO Joon Beom Sim stated in an announcement.
RM and his fellow group members have been noticed welcoming BTS’ eldest member Jin as he was discharged from his navy service earlier this summer time. BTS members Jimin and Jungkook are the celebs of a newly launched Disney+ present Are You Positive?!, which was filmed in 2023 earlier than the singers enlisted. The eight-episode journey sequence will run by Sept. 19.
Final yr, Ok-pop large Hybe and Geffen Data introduced the six members chosen to be a part of their first world woman group KATSEYE.
Billed as a global group, with ultimate members hailing from America, the Philippines, South Korea and Switzerland, the group was created utilizing Ok-pop artist improvement methodologies by way of the audition program The Debut: Dream Academy.
Now, 9 months after it was introduced that Daniela, Lara, Manon, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae had been chosen for the worldwide group, KATSEYE has launched their first EP SIS (Tender Is Sturdy) and is the main target of recent Netflix docuseries Popstar Academy: KATSEYE.
It’s been a whirlwind few months for the members of KATSEYE, who vary in age from 16 to 22. The group launched their first single in June, fittingly titled “Debut,” a strong and youthful pop monitor, earlier than releasing their second single “Contact,” a catchy but chill pop track, in July.
“Our debut was completely superb. It couldn’t have gone higher,” Daniela tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We had been so excited to lastly come out with music and present the world who we’re as KATSEYE, and we’ve simply been working so, so laborious on this album.”
KATSEYE gave their first stay efficiency as a bunch final month throughout KCON L.A.’s third-night live performance. The woman group, who already carried out like seasoned veterans, is seemingly nonetheless in disbelief over the efficiency. “We are going to actually always remember [that moment],” Sophia gushes.
“It’s actually probably the greatest days of our lives as a result of that was our first stay efficiency as KATSEYE,” the 21-year-old continues, explaining that the group labored laborious to get into the appropriate headspace for the efficiency by making an attempt issues rehearsing with faux cheering sounds.
“All of us felt actually current. We had been capable of focus, and we might see the faces of all of the followers” Sophia says. “All of us labored so laborious that we had been capable of benefit from the second. I really feel prefer it was actually revealing [as] to why we work so laborious, and why we do all of those hours, in order that we might actually, we had been very current.”
KATSEYE acting on stage at their El Rey Theatre fan occasion in Los Angeles.
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“We actually needed to present the perfect first impression and the perfect efficiency that we might have probably given,” Lara provides. “We needed to indicate folks, with even the documentary, all of the coaching that we did, all the things that has led as much as this second, that we imply enterprise, and we’re right here to remain.”
The group carried out for his or her followers at their first fan occasion on Tuesday. That they had the possibility to see their supporters in a extra intimate setting, which was a giant milestone for them. “It was actually significant for us,” Yoonchae, the youngest of the group at 16, explains.
The docuseries, which was launched on Wednesday, provides a behind-the-scenes take a look at the coaching the members went by way of, even earlier than Dream Academy. “[The documentary] could be very intense. It’s very emotional. I feel I cried each single episode, however it’s a nice documentary,” Daniela says.
When requested if reliving the moments of Popstar Academy made them see moments in a brand new life, the group exhibits a behind-the-scenes take a look at how their teamwork goes. Sophia emphasizes that KATSEYE is so shut and communicates with each other.
“Coming into this, figuring out {that a} documentary is popping out, and even earlier than we noticed it, all of us instructed one another, ‘That was us two, three years in the past. We had been infants going by way of this insanely intense, insane, intense course of,’” she provides. “We’ve grown a lot as members of KATSEYE and as sisters that nothing goes to shake how we’re proper now.”
Their debut EP SIS (Tender Is Sturdy) options 5 songs, together with “Debut” and “Contact.” Nonetheless, the slower, candy monitor, “My Approach,” becoming for an end-of-movie montage. The lyrics, “Like a firework showin’ up over your city / Even when all of it burns out / I did it my approach,” appear to be a favourite amongst the group.
Sophia, Lara, Yoonchae, Megan, Daniela, and Manon hug onstage as HYBE X Geffen Data reveal ultimate members of KATSEYE.
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Daniela emphasizes that she relates closely with the track, notably her lyrics “Thick hair / Large curls they usually all stare / Yeah, I attempted to slot in your field of pink Barbie dolls / Discovered I nonetheless couldn’t win all of them.”
“I used to be at all times a brand new woman, and I used to be at all times making an attempt to slot in. I by no means had a bunch of girlfriends ever, and no one actually accepted me for the way in which I used to be, so I did attempt to change up my seems and the way I acted,” the 20-year-old says. “Wanting again, I’ve realized that that shouldn’t be the case and that I have to be myself and embrace myself, embrace my pure curly hair. I feel I made the group due to who I’m, and I would like to really embrace that.”
Megan can be drawn to the track. “The lyrics inform all of our tales collectively so superbly and particularly. ‘By no means wish to do what I’m instructed / Even when I mess all of it up and make one million errors,’ I really feel like that’s at all times been my life motto,” the 18-year-old says, saying she has at all times needed to study her personal classes. “Simply rising up and being a lady, you simply wish to study your individual errors and study your individual lifestyle,” she provides.
KATSEYE has a number of musical inspirations together with Beyoncé (Manon) and M.I.A. (Lara). “My dad used to name me Beyoncé. I used to be so obsessed,” Manon laughs, saying she loves to observe the Grammy-winning artist’s Netflix documentary Homecoming. “As a brand new artist, it’s so inspiring, and it provides me plenty of motivation. Her work ethic is unmatched, and she or he does nice issues. That’s why she’s been related within the business for thus lengthy.”
Lara cites M.I.A’s impression on music as why she counts the singer as an affect. “As a brown woman, she was sort of the primary South Asian artist within the media that was capable of actually make an affect,” the 18-year-old provides. “She actually helped me discover my confidence and to be unapologetically myself and never at all times must be fairly, simply being myself and being uncooked.”
Wanting in the direction of the longer term, KATSEYE has a transparent imaginative and prescient for themselves and the way they need the world to see the woman group. “One in all our large, large issues is that we wish to present our variety,” Manon explains. “I feel it’s such a gorgeous factor about our group that each younger woman can take a look at our group and see herself in us as a result of we’re so numerous and totally different.”
The 22-year-old provides: “We at all times needed to have that rising up, so it simply looks like a dream dwelling that out.”
The Grammy Museum is amping up its Okay-pop programming for 2024.
The downtown Los Angeles museum, which has made a two-year-long dedication to showcasing displays and programming surrounding Okay-pop, introduced a brand new exhibit that includes artists from Korean leisure conglomerate Hybe final week. They’ve additionally added two new occasions with Okay-pop teams Ateez and Zerobaseone.
Introduced as a partnership between the Grammy Museum and the Korean leisure firm, the upcoming exhibit is titled “Hybe: We Imagine In Music, A Grammy Museum Pop-Up.” The exhibit is ready to open Aug. 2 and can chronicle and seize “the ability and historical past of Hybe, spotlighting its legacy of unparalleled innovation and creativity as a trend-setting international leisure model,” in line with a launch.
The Grammy Museum’s newest addition will highlight a number of Hybe artists together with BTS, Seventeen, Tomorrow x Collectively, Enhypen, Le Sserafim, Zico, fromis_9, Boynextdoor, TWS, &Group, Illit and Katseye.
Followers will get the prospect to see outfits from BTS’ “But To Come (The Most Lovely Second),” Seventeen’s “Maestro,” Tomorrow x Collectively’s “Sugar Rush Trip,” Enhypen’s “Candy Venom” and Le Sserafim’s “Simple.” Equipment and efficiency gear worn by Zico, fromis_9, Boynextdoor, TWS, &Group and Illit can be featured alongside the ensembles. It is going to be the primary time these things can be proven collectively.
The exhibit additionally contains sing-along and dance rooms, a fan part, a Mono to Immersive room that includes BTS’ 2022 Grammy efficiency of “Butter,” a photograph sales space that enables followers to pose subsequent to their favourite artists and unique video content material.
“Hybe has contributed to making a playground of innovation that evokes fandoms that transcend age, gender, geography and past,” the Grammy Museum’s president and CEO Michael Sticka stated in a launch. “The Grammy Museum is thrilled to supply an area the place followers can specific their love for Okay-pop and really feel nearer to their favourite idols.”
The Hybe exhibit’s opening program will happen on Aug. 1 with the museum’s dwell efficiency collection World Spin Dwell with Hybe artist TWS.
Later this month, the Grammy Museum can be internet hosting a dialog Okay-pop group Ateez to rejoice the closing day of the group’s present pop-up exhibit: “KQ ENT. (Ateez & xikers): A Grammy Museum Pop-Up.” The pop-up, the primary to return from the museum’s dedication to internet hosting Okay-pop programming, opened in April, simply earlier than the group’s Coachella debut.
The exhibit featured outfits and props from each Ateez and their label mates xikers, together with the principle look from Ateez’s 2023 album, THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL, which earned the worldwide stars their first Billboard No. 1 in December.
The July 22 occasion will function the boy group’s eight members Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho in an intimate dialog about their music, profession, inventive course of and extra.
The evening earlier than the opening of L.A.-based Okay-pop pageant KCON, the museum is ready to host boy group Zerobaseone, who is ready to carry out on the pageant. The occasion can be a part of the museum’s dwell occasion collection World Spin Dwell, which showcases international music artists.
Zerobaseone is a nine-member Okay-pop boy group below the leisure firm WakeOne. Shaped by the Korean music survival program Boys Planet, the group is comprised of members Sung Han Bin, Kim Ji Woong, Zhang Hao, Seok Matthew, Kim Tae Rae, Ricky, Kim Gyu Vin, Park Gun Wook Han Yu Jin.
In the course of the July 25 occasion, the group is ready to debate their rising music profession, newest music and extra.
“Hybe: We Imagine in Music, a Grammy Museum Exhibit” will run from Aug. 2 by Sept. 15. Tickets for the exhibit are $20 with the acquisition of a common admission museum ticket. Extra info may be discovered on the museum’s web site.
Tickets for A Dialog with Ateez and World Spin Dwell: Zerobaseone are at present offered out, however followers are capable of be part of a waitlist for every occasion. Ticketing info for the KQ Leisure pop-up exhibit that includes Ateez and xikers may be discovered on the museum’s web site.
BTS members Jimin and Jung Kook are set to star in a brand new journey actuality sequence on Disney+.
The sequence Are You Positive?!, unique to the Disney streaming service, was introduced through a launch from the Okay-pop supergroup’s label, Large Hit Music, and their mum or dad firm, Hybe, Tuesday night.
Are You Positive?! is slated for launch on Aug. 8, and in accordance with a launch, follows the duo as they journey by way of three areas in three nations: New York, Jeju Island, South Korea, and Sapporo, Japan.
The eight-part present will present Jimin and Jung Kook having fun with each a summer-time ocean and a snowy ski resort, permitting followers of the group — collectively referred to as ARMY — to get a behind-the-scenes look because the pair street journey collectively.
The sequence was filmed in 2023, earlier than the 2 Okay-pop stars enlisted for his or her obligatory army service in South Korea. It marks the primary journey actuality present for simply Jimin and Jung Kook, nonetheless, BTS has lengthy been placing out travel-related content material akin to their widespread amongst followers selection exhibits: Bon Voyage and In The Soop. The exhibits are at the moment obtainable to look at on Weverse, a fan-artist platform owned by Hybe Corp.
Earlier Tuesday, it was confirmed that BTS member Jin, the oldest within the group, would take part within the upcoming torch relay for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games as a torchbearer from South Korea. Jin is the one member of the group who has accomplished his army service, having been discharged final month after enlisting in December 2022.
Are You Positive?! will launch new episodes each Thursday by way of Sept. 19.
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