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Billie Eilish is making her Disney+ debut with the concert film “Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles,” which arrived on the streaming platform on Friday.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-directed by Oscar-winner Patrick Osborne, “Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles,” features an intimate performance of every song on Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” album (in sequential order) from the legendary Hollywood Bowl.

“I knew that I wanted it [the album] to have some other life in some other dimension that I’ve never experimented in, and that’s Disney,” Eilish told The Hollywood Reporter. “I wanted to do a concert film, and I’ve never done anything like this.

Disney+ said on Thursday that the Billie Eilish concert film Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles will premiere on the streaming service globally September 3. The film, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Osborne, was shot at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and will feature the Grammy winner performing every song in sequential order for the first time.

Check out the trailer that Disney+ dropped this morning.

The premiere date comes on the heels of the July 30 release of Happier Than Ever, Eilish’s follow-up album to her debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which claimed Album of the Year among six Grammys last year. The first five singles on the new album have all hit the Top 40 in the Billboard 200.

The concert film will include animated elements that will take viewers through Eilish’s Los Angeles hometown and its most well-known backdrops.

Billie Eilish will celebrate the release of her forthcoming album in style with a tribute concert to her hometown — “Happier Than Ever: a Love Letter to Los Angeles” — filmed at the Hollywood Bowl and accompanied by the L.A. Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. It airs on Disney Plus Sept. 3.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and by Oscar-winner Patrick Osborne the special will also include animated elements, “taking viewers on a dreamlike journey through Billie’s hometown of Los Angeles and its most iconic backdrops,” according to the announcement.

Naturally, “Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles” features Billie’s brother and musical collaborator Finneas, along with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and Brazilian guitarist, Romero Lubambo, with orchestra arrangements by David Campbell (who happens to be Los Angeles icon Beck’s dad). It was produced by Interscope Films and Darkroom Productions, in associate with Nexus Studios and Aron Levine Productions,...

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