Coco to come to life in live concert

Popular animated movie Coco will come to life onstage as an all-star live concert.

Live Nation, which is promoting the event, announced in a press release that Coco Live in Concert will play at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in November.

Coco Live in Concert will take place November 8 and 9, in honour of Diá de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, which falls October 31-November 2 this year. The Hollywood Bowl will be transformed into the Land of the Dead, with attendees encouraged to wear costumes.

Coco will play on the Hollywood Bowl movie screen while accompanied by a full live orchestra.

Coco follows Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), a 12-year-old boy who is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead. The movie opened in theatres in November 2017 and grossed over $807 million at the box office.

DC Unveils new creative team for Batman comic

James Tynion IV and Tony Daniel will take over the fate of the Dark Knight in 2020. Tom King will wrap up his run on DC’s Batman comic book at the end of this year, as he prepares to launch the new Batman/Catwoman series with artist Clay Mann.

Current Justice League and Justice League Dark scribe James Tynion IV will become the new writer for the series with January’s No. 86, teaming with artist Tony Daniel. The news was broken by DC publisher Dan DiDio at an event in New York, with Tynion, former Batman writer Scott Snyder, current Detective Comics writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Brad Walker in attendance.

More information about their plans will be released soon, as per DC.

PlayStation announces plans to live stream

PlayStation has announced on their official blog plans to live stream a new instalment of its State of Play series that will also showcase new PlayStation 4 games, content from PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios and other updates.

It will not cover the company’s plans for a next-generation console, often referred to as PlayStation 5.

Other PlayStation exclusive titles on the horizon include samurai epic Ghost of Tsushima and the supernatural based Death Stranding starring Norman Reedus, which will be released on November 8.

Sony first began live streaming State of Play presentations in March after the company decided not to hold a PlayStation press conference at E3 2019.

Published in Dawn, Young World, September 28th, 2019