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The opening night of the new Sphere Las Vegas event space was a star-studded affair!

Sin City’s new concert venue officially opened on Friday night (September 29) and featured the first night of U2‘s Uv Achtung Baby Live At Sphere residency at the location.

In case you missed it, check out an inside look at the incredible concert venue!

There were several stars in attendance at the opening and U2 concert, including expecting parents Josh Duhamel and Audra Mari, as well as Breaking Bad stars Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston.

See all of the celeb attendees inside…

While not pictured here, Variety reports that producer Jimmy Iovine, Kate Hudson, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Paul McCartney were also at the concert.

Keep scrolling below to see all of the celebrities, that were photographed, at the Sphere opening night/U2 concert…

Elizabeth Banks

Oscar De La Hoya & Holly Sonders

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Ever since the Beatles first crossed the Atlantic, in 1964, major concerts have largely taken place at venues built for sports, even though that often means poor sight lines for many fans, and less-than-optimal sound for most everybody. But a new era of live entertainment begins in late September, when U2 christen the “Sphere” in Las Vegas. The 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide geometric shape near the Venetian hotel completely reinvents every aspect of the rock-concert experience from the ground up, and is the culmination of seven years of work, with a budget that reportedly swelled beyond $2 billion.

A company called Sphere Entertainment which specializes in huge dome highly immersive screening announced that it has developed an extremely large format cinema camera titled Big Sky, which owns a single ultra-large Hdr image sensor of 316-megapixel (dimensions of sensor: 3” x 3” that is a 40X resolution increase over 4K cameras). Big Sky can capture content up to 120 frames per second at a resolution of 18K square format. Meet this IMAX on steroids.

The Big Sky camera. Credit: Sphere Entertainment A new era of high-end filmmaking

Sphere Entertainment Co. (a recent spin-off of Madison Square Garden Entertainment) today announced the formal launch of Sphere Studios in Burbank and unveiled Big Sky, an innovative new camera system developed internally that sets a new bar for Image fidelity, eclipsing all current cinematic cameras. Sphere Studios defines itself as a home to an interdisciplinary team of creative, production, technology, and software experts who provide...

James Dolan’s Sphere Entertainment, which was spun off from Msg Entertainment in April, has opened Sphere Studios, a Burbank facility for producers of immersive projects.

The space is dedicated to developing next-generation productions designed to be shown its parent company’s Sphere venues. The flagship Sphere, a high-tech blend of audio and visual technology that has caught the attention of a range of film and media pros, will open in Las Vegas this fall with a run of concerts by U2, followed by the October premiere of an immersive title called Postcard from Earth. Among the site’s many cutting-edge features is what is billed as the world’s highest-resolution LED screen.

Sphere Studios, which features a quarter-sized replica of the Vegas Sphere screen as a means of helping creative teams fine-tune their work, will showcase technology like the Big Sky ultra-high resolution camera system.

“Sphere Studios is not only creating content,...

Sphere in Las Vegas isn’t just a round vehicle for a series of fall U2 concerts — it’s also host to an immersive screen of mammoth proportions that will be its own attractions when there aren’t any world-class rock bands taking over the space. And even when they are, someone has still got to come up with the visual content that will be part-and-parcel with any live residency there. That’s where Sphere Studios will come in, a division of Sphere Entertainment Co. that was announced Monday as the provider for what will appear on the venue’s ultimate big screen in Vegas (and those like it that are planned for Spheres to be built in other cities).

Also revealed Monday as part of the rollout for Sphere Studios was Big Sky, described as “an ultra-high resolution camera system” that is “the first of the Studios’ many groundbreaking immersive innovations.

If you were a billionaire CEO who wanted to create the world’s most audaciously advanced concert venue, what would you do? If the answer is “Stick 157,000 ultra-directional speakers, a three-and-a-half-acre spherical ultra-high-res video screen and vibrating floors into a enormous dome built from scratch,” you’re thinking like actual billionaire James Dolan, whose Madison Square Garden Company broke ground on the Msg Sphere in Las Vegas in September. As Msg Ventures CEO David Dibble tells it, the project began in Dolan’s office. “He turned to me and he said ‘Dibble,...

It’s lucky 13 for the fun and fabulous Coney Island Film Festival! That’s right, 2013 will see the 13th annual edition of this New York City staple that combines the fine art of filmmaking with the rambunctious art of sideshow performing on Sept. 20-22.

The fest opens on the 20th with the documentary More Than the Rainbow, a profile of Matt Weber, an NYC cab driver who moonlights as an art photographer. The film is directed by Dan Wechsler.

Other docs screening at the fest include the uplifting tale of A Clown’s Recovery, directed by Matthew Broomfield; the sports drama of One Wall: Kings of Coney Island, directed by Joe Glickman; the profile of a Coney Island legend in The Commander in Chief, directed by Jim McDonnell; the struggle of Bending Steel, directed by Dave Carroll; and World Circus, directed by Angela Snow.

But, there are also fiction films in the mix,...