Madonna’s groundbreaking, critically acclaimed, controversial and visually stunning MDNA concert will be available in the US on August 27th (August 26th globally), it was announced today by Universal Music. The two hour MDNA extravaganza was the most successful tour of
Last night at the Billboard Music Awards, before Madonna took the stage to accept her award for Top Touring Artist, an over-2 minute trailer of the MDNA Tour DVD was shown. While a release date for the DVD has not
Its official! The MDNA Tour DVD / Blu-Ray will be released on August 26 worldwide and August 27 in the US. This is what we know about Madonna’s past DVD releases: The Drowned World Tour was Madonna’s last concert to
Last night at the Billboard Music Awards, before Madonna took the stage to accept her award for Top Touring Artist, an over-2 minute trailer of the MDNA Tour DVD was shown. While a release date for the DVD has not been officially announced, the tour will be aired on EPIX HD and EPIXHD.com on June 22.
While the broadcast will only be available to those in the US, we have a special treat for international Madonna fans. Be sure to follow myMDNA on Facebook and Twitter to find out how you can watch the MDNA Tour on June 22 no matter what country you are in.
Madonna has confirmed her participation as presenter in ‘The Sound of Change Live’ concert, presented by CHIME FOR CHANGE. Recently founded by Gucci, the organization hosts campaigns for improved Education, Health and Justice for women and girls worldwide. The four-hour concert, which takes place at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday 1 June, is supported by an impressive line-up of world-class artists and internationally renowned presenters, lending their voices to CHIME FOR CHANGE.
The confirmed line-up is: Aishwarya Rai * Archbishop Desmond Tutu * Beyonce * Blake Lively * Ellie Goulding * Florence + the Machine * Freida Pinto * Gloria Steinman * Gordon and Sarah Brown * HAIM * Humaira Bachal * Iggy Azalea * Jada Pinkett Smith * James Franco * Jennifer Lopez * Jessica Chastain * John Legend * Laura Pausini * Leymah Gbowee * Madonna * Mpho Tutu * Rita Ora * Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy * Timbaland * Zoe Saldana *
Madonna said, “60 percent of the children in the world NOT in school, are girls! 2/3 of the world’s illiterate are WOMEN! I Do NOT accept this. We need to change this and we WILL CHANGE THIS!”
The concert will start at 5.30pm and finish at 10:00pm and each artist will perform special sets with some exciting collaborations expected. Throughout the concert short films will be shown highlighting issues such as: 60% of children not in school are girls, 800 women die daily in pregnancy or childbirth – most of whom would live with access to proper care, and despite gains, just 21% of seats in national parliaments are held by women.
Madonna accepted the 2013 Billboard Award for Top Touring Artist tonight. Below are some photos and video of her FULL appearance at the show, including and intro from Will.I.Am, the MDNA Tour Trailer, Madonna’s acceptance speech, and a backstage interview!
Its official! The MDNA Tour DVD / Blu-Ray will be released on August 26 worldwide and August 27 in the US.
This is what we know about Madonna’s past DVD releases:
The Drowned World Tour was Madonna’s last concert to be broadcast LIVE on HBO (previously both The Blond Ambition Tour and The Girlie Show were aired live on the pay network in the USA). The concert was filmed on August 26 in Madonna’s hometown of Detroit and aired live. An edited version (different camera angles, etc) of the show was released on DVD on November 13, 2001 in all regions.
The Re-invention Tour was originally intended to be broadcast on CBS. The last two nights of the tour in Lisbon were filmed and CBS reportedly offered Madonna $10 million to broadcast a two hour special of the concert. For unknown reasons (many have speculated different reasons as to why, but no official statement was ever made), this never aired. Footage from the concert recorded in Paris was included in Madonna’s documentary “I’m Going to Tell You a Secret” which premiered on MTV on October 21, 2005. A DVD/CD of the documentary was released on June 20, 2006.
The Confessions Tour was recorded on August 15 and 16 (Madonna’s birthday) at Wembley Arena. After an agreement with HBO could not be reached, NBC was contracted to air The Confessions Tour – Live from London on November 22, 2006. The television version was edited to omit the “Sorry Interlude”, “Drowned World/Substitute for Love”, “Paradise (not for me)”, and “Lucky Star”. The performance of “Live to Tell” was also heavily edited in the US. On January 26, 2007, the full show was released on DVD.
The Sticky and Sweet Tour DVD was filmed in December of 2008. On June 15, 2009, SKY 1 announced they would broadcast (an edited version of) the recording on July 6, 2009, right after the opening of the second leg of the tour. On September 19, the full, unedited version of the concert was aired on Latin American TV, while Americans had to wait until October 30, 2009 to view the show on EPIX and April 2, 2010 to view it on VH1. It was announced on January 12, 2010 that the DVD / Blu – Ray / CD would be released world wide on March 30, 2010 (April 6, 2010 in North America).
This is what we know about the MDNA Tour :
November 16, 2012 - Madonna.com that the DVD for The MDNA Tour would be filmed in Miami on November 19 and 20.
We are happy to announce that Madonna’s MDNA Tour DVD will be filmed in Miami on November 19th & 20th!
If you are to attend one of Miami shows, get ready “to dance & sing, to get up and do your thing” as you could make it in the final cut…
This quickly put to rest any rumors that the recording of Madonna’s show at Olympia on July 26, 2012, which was live streamed via youtube would be the only recording of the MDNA Tour to be released.
A few days after the Miami shows, on November 29, DOMYPROD, a French production company who produced the short promo video “Inside the DNA of MDNA” , as well as “Madonna : Live at Olympia” posted the following on their website :
DOMYPROD crossed the Atlantic to join Madonna at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on the last leg of her North American Tour for the international release of the MDNA Tour DVD by Stéphane SENNOUR / DOMYPROD and Danny Tull.
They also posted several pictures from Miami including photos of the staff in the editing room.
Rumors were abundant throughout the coming months that the DVD would be released on March 18, 2013. These rumors were never officially confirmed and turned out to be false.
February 11, 2013 – Good Morning America aired an interview with Cynthia McFaddon and Nicole Winhoffer, Madonna’s personal trainer. During the segment, footage of “Give Me All Your Luvin’” was aired, the first official footage from what we can expect to be the DVD of the MDNA Tour.
February 14, 2013 - Madonna posted this shot from the Miami MDNA concert on her Instagram page with the comment ‘Working on the edit of the live concert!’
March 17, 2013 - Madonna attended the GLAAD Awards to present Anderson Cooper with the Vito Russo Award. Before her speech a video of “Nobody Knows Me” was shown to guests. This footage again looked to be taken from the official release. Fans who were in attendance were smart enough to capture what the could and post clips online.
March 18, 2013 - Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, took to Twitter to answer a fan’s question on when we would actually see the DVD:
@michaelsette7 all I can tell you is that she is working on it everyday. Will give you more info when we have it.11:28 PM – 18 Mar 13
March 31, 2013 - Madonna again took to Instagram to update us on the MDNA Tour progress by posting a picture of her editor Danny Tull’s fingers as he continues to edit the live footage.
“The fingertips of my editor l Danny Tull after working 3 months on the DVD of MDNA concert! We still aren’t finished! G’@D. Bless you Danny boy!”
May 4, 2013 - Brahim posted a photo of the MDNA crew from the rehearsals, the day MDNA went to number 1 on the charts. In the comments he said “very soon the DVD !! Looks amazing
May 6, 2013 - fansite Madonnarama posted a teaser on the iphone app Vine of a behind the scenes video which is supposedly from the tour DVD – read all about that here.
May 6, 2013 - Guy O. told twitter that the DVD is still not completed! We still anxiously await the release date!
May 9, 2013 - Madonna.com announced the concert will air on EPIX in the US on June 22.
Premium network EPIX will premiere Madonna’s MDNA tour – an EPIX Original Concert Event – on June 22 at 8:00 pm ET. One of the most spectacular and controversial extravaganzas of 2012, Madonna: the MDNA Tour was filmed primarily in Miami as well as other locations. The MDNA Tour was the most successful and highest grossing tour of 2012 and was seen by over 2.2 million Madonna fans during the course of the 88 sold-out shows around the globe. The concert includes performances of several of her biggest hits including “Vogue”, “Like A Prayer” and “Hung Up.” She also performs songs from her MDNA album including “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” “Girl Gone Wild”, “Gang Bang” and “Turn Up the Radio.” The album debuted at No.1 in over 30 countries. Madonna, along with her seven member band, outstanding troupe of 27 dancers (all clothed in 1500 costumes) and state of the art visuals and sound electrified crowds around internationally with what the Material Girl termed “the hardest but most thrilling and challenging show I’ve ever done.”
May 13-17, 2013 – Madonna goes wild on Instagram, teasing more pictures of the MDNA Tour DVD:
May 16, 2013 - the first official teaser for the EPIX Broadcast of the DVD was released.
May 17, 2013 - Entertainment Tonight released a nearly 2 minute clip from the performance of Give Me All Your Luvin.
May 19, 2013 – Before Madonna accepted her Billboard Award for top touring artist, a full trailer for the MDNA Tour DVD Aired. That night she confirmed to EXTRA that the tour DVD will be released in September!
NOTE : The Blu-Ray cover image at top of this post was brilliantly created by fan Andre Guedes, however it is not the official artwork .
2012′s biggest and most successful tour, Madonna’s MDNA Tour, is getting beamed straight into your home on June 22 thanks to EPIX and ETonline scored an exclusive clip that shows how this broadcast will present a new and dynamic visual experience for fans.
So check out an exclusive clip of Madonna performing Give Me All Your Luvin’ and tune in to the full concert experience, June 22 on EPIX!
She’s one of the young stars of the moment, and Madonna didn’t let her go. After Kelly Osbourne,Georgia May Jagger and Taylor Momsen, Rita Ora is the new face of the brand Material Girl.
According to rumors, for this role the singer signed a 500.000-pound contract.
“Lourdes is Rita’s fan and went to a lot of her concerts, so she convinced her mum to take her into consideration ”, a source tells The Sun. “They met at the Met Gala last week and Madonna liked her, so it was successful. Rita hopes it can be a way to win the States”.
Madonna has been very active on Instagram the past few days as she puts the final touches on the MDNA Tour DVD! Check out the pictures below and don’t forget to watch the broadcast of the MDNA Tour on EpixHD on June 22. Keep up with all the MDNA Tour DVD / Blu-Ray news by bookmarking this link!
Well Madonna definitely does’t seem to have a fan in Wendy Williams. The talk show host decided to bypass Madonna in her Met Gala fashion critique saying she’s “old and tries to hard”. This isn’t the first time Wendy Williams has been negative towards Madonna. When Madonna flashed her breast in Istanbul last summer, Wendy said on her show “Old lady, how desperate can we get.” It should be noted that Wendy is only 6 years younger than Madonna.
The Madonna comments occur around the 4 minute mark:
Madonna announced today that her MDNA Tour, the highest grossing tour of 2012, will air on premium channel EPIX on June 22. Known for her phenomenal tours, Madonna pulled out all the stops on MDNA. Lets count down the top performances of the tour.
