BTS‘ long-awaited return from their nearly four-year hiatus just keeps getting bigger. On Thursday (Feb. 12) the K-pop superstars announced that they will return to movie screens around the world in April with BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ LIVE VIEWING, a global live cinema event that will bring the two of the group’s full-length concerts to movie screens on April 11 and 18.
According to a release announcing the screenings, RM, Jin, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook will beam into movie theaters to air two of the first shows on their highly anticipated world tour in support of their upcoming album, Arirang. The two screenings will feature a live airing of one of their three kick-off shows in Goyang, South Korea (April 11), followed by a broadcast of the April 18 stop in Tokyo. In total, the outing will present 82 shows in 34 cities across the globe , notching yet another record for the group for the most tour dates by a K-pop artist, according to a release.
Tickets and screening details for each territory will be available here beginning on Feb. 25, with ARMY encouraged to sign up for event alerts. Screening times will vary by territory, with each territory scheduled to screen each concert twice. Tickets will officially go on sale beginning Feb. 25 at 8 a.m. ET.
“Trafalgar Releasing is very proud to bring one of the year’s most significant cultural moments to cinema audiences worldwide. The announcement of BTS WORLD TOUR ARIRANG has been met with extraordinary global demand, and we are excited to continue our longstanding partnership with HYBE and BIGHIT MUSIC on two unmissable live cinema broadcasts this April,” said Trafalagar Releasing CEO Marc Allenby in a statement, which noted that additional live viewings are planned for later this year. “Presenting two full-length concerts from Goyang and Tokyo, these events offer audiences around the world the opportunity to come together and experience the tour on the big screen.”
The upcoming tour — which will find the singers performing in-the-round on a 360-degree stage — is the first by the group since their 2021-2022 Permission to Dance on Stage outing, their final run of shows as a group before all seven members took a break to complete their mandated military service. BTS’ fifth studio album, Arirang, is due out on March 20.
In addition to the album and concert screenings, BTS the Comeback Live | Arirang, a chronicle of the group’s first live show in three years, will stream exclusively on Netflix the day after the LP’s release at 7 a.m. ET on March 21. It will feature the septet taking the stage at Seoul, South Korea’s historic Gwanghwamun Square, the main gate of the historic Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. The comeback will also be chronicled in BTS: The Return, a full-length documentary slated to premiere on Netflix on March 27.
