{"id":1973686,"date":"2025-08-22T03:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1973686"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:52:38","slug":"sphere-entertainment-inks-deal-for-second-venue-in-united-arab-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sphere-entertainment-inks-deal-for-second-venue-in-united-arab-emirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphere Entertainment inks deal for second venue in United Arab Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 <\/span>Sphere Entertainment has inked a deal for its second venue in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The company, which recently reincorporated in Nevada<\/a><\/strong>, announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it finalized a 25-year franchise agreement with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the deal, Sphere Entertainment grants Abu Dhabi the exclusive right to build and operate a new Sphere venue. The city government will also have at least 10 years to build additional venues in the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n

Sphere Abu Dhabi will have licenses to use all of Sphere Entertainment’s intellectual property, technology and ancillary content. The contract also carries two 10-year renewel terms that Abu Dhabi can exercise.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Zac Brown Band to headline limited engagement at Sphere Las Vegas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In exchange, Abu Dhabi will pay Sphere Entertainment an undisclosed “franchise initiation fee,” plus royalties based on the ticket sales and other revenues.<\/p>\n

Sphere Las Vegas first opened in 2023 and has served as the home for residencies from U2, Phish, the Eagles, Dead & Company, Kenny Chesney and the Backstreet Boys. <\/p>\n

It’s also shown the films “Postcard from Earth” and “V-U2 An Immersive Concert Film” and hosted the 2024 NHL Draft and UFC 306.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source news3lv.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Sphere Entertainment has inked a deal for its second venue in the United Arab Emirates. The company, which recently reincorporated in Nevada, announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it finalized a 25-year franchise agreement with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism. Under the terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[344743,351951,351950,351952,351953,233657,351948,351949],"class_list":["post-1973686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-department-of-culture-and-tourism","tag-franchise-agreement","tag-intellectual-property","tag-royalties","tag-sphere-entertainment","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-venue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sphere-Entertainment-inks-deal-for-second-venue-in-United-Arab.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}