{"id":71155,"date":"2025-09-18T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71155\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:21:10","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-and-sphere-panels-headline-infinity-festival-programming-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71155\/","title":{"rendered":"‘KPop Demon Hunters’ And Sphere Panels Headline Infinity Festival Programming Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tInside looks at the making of KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> and Tomorrowland<\/a>\u2018s collaboration with Sphere<\/a> on a high-tech version of an open-air music festival are two highlights of next month\u2019s Infinity Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe eighth annual event is set for October 9 and 10 at two neighboring L.A. venues: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the newly opened Sony Pictures Imageworks Mid-Wilshire campus. This year\u2019s festival, organized around the theme of \u201cInnovators in the Age of Change,\u201d will bring together notable figures from the realms of entertainment, technology and design.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kpop conversation will feature Michelle Wong, the film\u2019s producer, as well as Jacky Priddle, VFX Producer, and Josh Beveridge, Head of Character Animation at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The trio will take attendees behind the scenes of the smash animated feature, which became Netflix\u2019s most-viewed original film upon the streaming release over the summer. The Sony Pictures Animation title, produced under a distribution and programming agreement between the companies, also drew strong returns<\/a> from a weekend-only theatrical engagement of its sing-along version.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother standout session will explore a collaboration between EDM festival promoter Tomorrowland and Sphere Entertainment, resulting in a reimagining of an open-air festival inside Sphere in Las Vegas. Tomorrowland, whose namesake electronic dance music festival takes place in Belgium, teamed up with U.S.-based festival creator Insomniac, to create UNITY. The partnership yielded a new experience of live entertainment. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival\u2019s opening and plenary session, which will be attended by of HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium, will host Minister-President Matthias Diependaele. The festival\u2019s partnership with Belgium yielded the Tomorrowland-Sphere session and will also drive session about the use of AI<\/a> in audio production; immersive music production;\u00a0adapting broadcast IP for games; and the immersive technology sector.<\/p>\n

\n\tKeynote sessions are on tap from Jed Harmsen, VP and GM of Cinema & Group Entertainment, Dolby Laboratories, as well as top executives at Nvidia, HP, AMD, the Belgium Economic Mission, Dolby, AWS and the AI Studio Lab in association with ETC at USC.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cInfinity\u00a0Festival\u00a0has always been about uniting the most innovative voices from Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and this year we\u2019re raising the bar,\u201d Natalie Novak and Erik Weaver of the\u00a0Infinity\u00a0Festival\u00a0programming team said in a joint statement. \u201cFrom AI and gaming to immersive storytelling and studio innovation, our speakers embody the future of entertainment. We\u2019re thrilled to create a space where bold ideas meet real-world applications to spark what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with programming and showcases, the festival will also feature the annual Monolith Awards. Organizer plan to announce more information next week about programming focused on gaming, sports, immersive and 5G. <\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline is a presenting media sponsor of Infinity Festival. The fest\u2019s founder and CEO is Mark Lieber and its Chief Creative Officer is Adam Newman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside looks at the making of KPop Demon Hunters and Tomorrowland\u2018s collaboration with Sphere on a high-tech version…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[291,18,117,6319,19,49066,17,4923,337,14713,37985,49067],"class_list":{"0":"post-71155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-festivals","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-infinity-festival","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-sphere","18":"tag-techline","19":"tag-tomorrowland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}