Stephen Colbert has lined up Jon Bon Jovi as his visitor for his annual Montclair Movie Competition dialog, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.
The Late Present host will sit down with the Bon Jovi frontman on the New Jersey Performing Arts Heart in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, Oct. 26 for an in-depth dialogue of the New Jersey rocker’s profession.
The Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame band has offered greater than 130 million albums and carried out in additional than 50 nations for greater than 40 million followers. The group can also be the topic of this 12 months’s Hulu docuseries Thank You, Goodnight, which makes use of archival footage, songs and performances to chart the rise of the group from New Jersey golf equipment to a number of the largest levels throughout the globe.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Jon Bon Jovi to the Montclair Movie Competition and to share what guarantees to be a particular night of dialog,” Montclair Movie inventive director and co-head Tom Corridor stated in an announcement. “As an artist who embodies empathy and group, Jon’s work represents the values that encourage the whole lot we do at Montclair Movie. We look ahead to an exquisite night time.”
Tickets for the occasion will go on sale on Wednesday for Montclair Movie and NJPAC members and on Friday for most of the people. All proceeds from the night will profit Montclair Movie, the New Jersey primarily based arts group with which Colbert has lengthy been concerned, which runs the Montclair Movie Competition.
Along with the pageant, Montclair Movie owns and operates Montclair’s artwork home theater The Clairidge and supplies year-round movie schooling, storytelling and group applications all through New Jersey.
Previous contributors in Colbert’s Montclair conversations embody John Oliver, J.J. Abrams, Steve Carell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Meryl Streep and Martin Scorsese,
Colbert’s spouse, Evelyn McGee Colbert is the president of Montclair’s board of trustees, with Colbert on an advisory board with Abrams, Jonathan Alter, Jon Stewart, Richard Curtis, Abigail Disney, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Patrick Wilson, Laura Linney, Julie Taymor and others.
The thirteenth Montclair Movie Competition — that includes screenings of Conclave, Nightbitch, The Piano Lesson, Unstoppable, 2073 and extra films — is ready to happen from Oct. 18-27.
