Following in the concert-film footsteps of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, the R&B superstar — who in June was honored with the 2024 Icon Award at the Apollo Theater’s annual spring benefit and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards — will be hitting theaters Sept. 12-15 with “Usher: Rendezvous in Paris.”
Filmed in 2023 over Usher’s eight-show run at La Seine Musicale during Paris Fashion Week, the movie features the 45-year-old singer performing his chart-topping tunes like “Love in This Club,” “My Boo,” and, of course, “Yeah!”
The film will be bringing love in this cinema just a month after Usher launches his Past Present Future Tour in Atlanta on Aug. 14. The North American trek hits New York for four sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Sept. 6, 7, 9 and 10.
Usher will be taking the vibe of his hot-ticket Las Vegas residency , which ended last December, on the road.
“The reality is that, naturally, I want the rest of the world to have access to what people felt from these theater shows that I had here in Las Vegas,” Usher told The Post in February.
“I’m going to curate it in a much different way because now I’m playing, obviously, bigger spaces, but I get a chance to immerse people in this experience and bring it live directly to you.”
This major Usher moment comes 30 years after the crooner released his self-titled debut album as a 15-year-old on Aug. 30, 1994 — and 20 years after he released his blockbuster “Confessions” LP on March 23, 2004.
“If you go back to ‘Confessions,’ from the moment I did that album, it was like … ‘I’m gonna tell you some really difficult things, and I hope you can understand that,’” he said of his “brutally honest” classic. “You know, part of this is, you know, healing me by being able to say these things and being able to get this off my chest.”
And with his Past Present Future Tour, Usher is not done confessing yet.
“This entire phase of my life is really about respecting and honoring and praising the past … being available and in the moment and authentic, clear, happy, joyous, creative and collaborative in the present, leading us into the future that looks much different than the past,” he said.
“There’s so many different things that we have yet to do.”
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