Rite Here Rite Now

Rite Here Rite Now is a 2024 American concert film directed by Tobias Forge and Alex Ross Perry. It features the Swedish rock band Ghost performing at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on the final two North American dates of their 2023 Re-Imperatour concert tour. The live concert footage was directed by Jim Parsons. The film includes a narrative story based on a web series produced by the band, which incorporates fictional characters and lore surrounding them. Rite Here Rite Now was released in cinemas globally by Trafalgar Releasing on June 20 and 22, 2024. The film documents two Ghost shows performed during their Re-Imperatour concert tour, which were held at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on September 11 and 12, 2023. Unlike other shows on the tour, a strict no-phone policy was implemented for attendees of the Kia Forum shows to prevent recordings and flash photography. In addition to concert footage, Rite Here Rite Now is intercut with a narrative story based on fictional lore surrounding the band. Throughout the band's career, frontman Tobias Forge has performed under different fictional personas portrayed as popes belonging to and promoting a Satanic ministry; for Ghost's album Impera and its two subsequent tours, Forge performed as "Papa Emeritus IV". In Rite Here Rite Now, Papa Emeritus IV repeatedly ventures backstage during the concert to visit his associate, Sister Imperator, and to converse with the spirit of Papa Nihil, who is depicted as having served as Ghost's frontman in the 1960s.