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GHOST TAKE 'SKELETOUR' TO IMAX WITH '2 BIG TO RIG'

Photo: Ethan Miller Ghost spent 70 nights on Skeletour with phones locked in pouches at the door, which means almost nothing from the tour exists on film. What does exist runs to two nights in September 2025 at Mexico City's Palacio de los Deportes, shot on 16mm in front of a combined crowd of roughly 40,000, and it's now the basis of the band's second feature. 2 Big to Rigreaches cinemas and IMAX worldwide beginning Wednesday, August 26 for a limited run. Amir Chamdin directed, with Tobias Forge producing alongside Kristen Mulderig, Rick Sales, Matilda E. Almeida and Jessica Roulston. Shooting on 16mm puts grain and halation on a band that has spent a decade building its whole visual language out of candlelight, robes and stage smoke, and since no other professional footage from the tour exists, this is the version of Skeletour that goes into the record. ORDER RITE HERE, RITE NOW Where 2024's Rite Here Rite Now built a narrative around the mythology, this one stays inside the show. Papa V Perpetua and the Nameless Ghouls work through material spanning all six Ghost albums, including 2025's chart-topping Skeletá, with non-album staples "Mary on a Cross," "Kiss the Go-Goat" and "The Future Is a Foreign Land" folded into the set. Interludes step backstage to follow the crew responsible for turning Forge's staging concepts into a functioning nightly production, which is where the title lands: Skeletour was retired in February 2026 after 70 shows across North America, Europe and Mexico, in part because the scale of the thing had outgrown the rooms that could physically hold it. Territories that never got a Skeletour date were shut out by the same logistics. The Mexico City run itself was meant to be three nights before illness forced the cancellation of the first, and fans holding tickets for that show turn up in the footage from the two that survived. "Ghost captured the final nights of the legendary Skeletour's first leg on 16mm film in Mexico City," said Kymberli Frueh, EVP of Content Acquisitions & Programming at Trafalgar Releasing, framing the release as a farewell to the era before the band steps into its already-announced hiatus. The band's first film became the highest-grossing hard rock cinema event in US history and produced a No. 1 soundtrack, which gives Trafalgar every reason to bet on a second collaboration. Tickets go on sale Thursday, July 23, with screening and showtime updates at 2bigtorig.com.