Ed Sheeran, 50 Cent Set India Concert Dates – Global Bulletin

Naman Ramachandran
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CONCERTS

Global music icons Curtis ‘50 Cent‘ Jackson and Ed Sheeran have unveiled concert dates for India. 50 Cent will perform at Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium on Nov. 25 as part of his “The Final Lap Tour” to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his blockbuster album “Get Rich or Die Tryin.” The opening line-up will consist of popular Indian acts including Divine, Prabh Deep, SVDP and Yung Raja. The event is produced by Tracktical Concerts in India. The tour will continue till the end of the year, with post-Mumbai play dates at Almaty, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland and Abu Dhabi.

Meanwhile, Sheeran will bring his “+–=÷× Tour” to India as part of his Asia and Europe 2024 tour. The Mumbai concert, produced by BookMyShow and AEG Presents, will be at the city’s Mahalaxmi Racecourse on March 16, 2024 with singer-songwriter Calum Scott as a guest performer.

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HIRING HOPKINS

Visual effects group Framestore has (re)-hired Lara Hopkins as head of studio in Melbourne. Her appointment marks a return to Framestore after four years at Industrial Light & Magic in Sydney, most recently as director of talent management.

Hopkins started working in traditional animation in 1992 at Adelaide’s Anifex, before moving to Animal Logic as a producer in Sydney in 1997. She first joined Framestore in 2001 as a senior producer in the London advertising division, before moving to a CG manager role in the film and episodic division which is where she started her career in VFX management.

She moved back to Sydney in 2013, consulting exclusively for Framestore and continuing to build and manage the teams in LA, New York, London and Chicago

The Melbourne studio has been a fully-integrated part of Framestore’s global creative and technological ecosystem since July 2022.

UNIVERSAL CONCEPT

Universal Music Japan part of Universal Music Group has opened a concept retail store dedicated to supporting music super-fans. The four-floor superstore is in Harajuku, a fashionable district of Tokyo. It will serve as a hub for UMG artists and fans from around the world to connect offlineand feature dedicated fan experiences, product launches and retail pop-up shops.

Launched inside the store is the RS NO.9 HARAJUKU flagship store, a brand born from the ‘RS No.9’ store in London which opened in London’s Carnaby Street and is aimed at fans of The Rolling Stones.

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WORKSHOP

The Athens Film Office has unveiled the film and television writers who will join the 2023 edition of The Owl Screenwriting Workshop (Nov. 7-10) that aims to promote screenwriting voices from throughout the world and connect them to film and television producers who are ready to develop projects in Greece. The writers will have the opportunity to explore their stories and characters alongside A-list mentors and influential dealmakers from major studios, platforms, producers and agents.

Mentors include CBS International executive and former ITV head of scripted acquisitions Dave Clarke; former Film4 executive and Warp Film CEO Peter Carlton; Swiss screenwriter and showrunner Marianne Wendt (Netflix‘s “New Heights”) and Marc Lorber, former SVP of international coproductions at Lionsgate.

Film participants at the workshop include Kamal John Iskander (U.S., “Montreal Girls”); Olga Malea (Greece, “The Cow’s Orgasm”); Giulio Rizzo (Italy, “Body Odyssey”); Lucas Rinker (Germany, “Holy Shit!”); and Meredith Vuchnich (Canada, “Beans”).

Television participants include Martynas Mendelis and Domante Urmonaite (Lithuania, “Troll Farm”); Wiktor Piatowski (Poland, “The Pack”); Laura Good (Canada, “The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco”); Theo Papadoulakis (Greece, “The Island”); and Athena Xenidou (Greece, “Unwitnessed Memories”).

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