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Lady Gaga's 'MAYHEM Requiem' concert film arrives May 14 on Apple Music and in AMC theaters
The film, shot at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, premieres May 14 on Apple Music and screens simultaneously at 15 AMC theaters across the US.
Closing the Mayhem era with a film
Lady Gaga has announced the release of Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem, a concert film that formally closes out her Mayhem album cycle. According to Billboard, the film premieres on Apple Music on Thursday, May 14 at 8 p.m. PT, and will be free to watch at the time of the premiere, without a subscription. After that, the full performance and a spatial audio live album will be available on demand for Apple Music subscribers only.
On the same evening, the film will also screen at 15 AMC theaters across the United States, playing simultaneously with the streamer premiere.
A carefully staged farewell
The film was shot on January 14 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, a venue with a capacity of 1,850. The staging leaned into theatricality: the opera house Gaga had built for her Mayhem Ball tour appeared in ruins, and Gaga performed as a Phantom of the Opera-type figure moving through the wreckage. The set included reinterpreted versions of tracks from the album, among them "Abracadabra," "Disease," and "Die With a Smile." The film was produced by Morningview.
The tour behind the film
The Mayhem Ball tour, which wrapped its final shows in New York in April, took Gaga across five continents over the course of the run. As Billboard reported, the tour grossed $419.5 million and sold just under two million tickets, figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. That makes it the highest grossing tour of Gaga's career and one of the 10 highest grossing pop tours of all time.
The MAYHEM Requiem film, then, is less a promotional move and more a genuine epilogue, a staged goodbye to an album and a tour that, by any measure, landed.