The Las Vegas Sphere is doing the time warp again for its next out-of-this-world experience – the 50-year-old classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Amid the wild success of the “Wizard of Oz at the Sphere,” Sphere Entertainment announced Tuesday, June 16, the production of a new super-sized experience – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Sphere,” coming in 2027.
Sphere Studios will use its technologies to enhance the original beloved 1975 film for projection on Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED screen, complete with immersive visuals and spatial audio.
The highly interactive aspects of the “Rocky Horror” cult-classic experience – in which viewers dress up in character costumes, shout back raunchy lines at the screen, sing “Time Warp” and throw props – will continue in the enhanced Sphere version.
“Since ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ premiered in 1975, it redefined audience participation and became a cultural phenomenon,” New York Knicks owner Jim Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment, said in a statement. “We have the opportunity to take that spirit of immersion to an entirely new level.”
The cult classic movie stars Tim Curry in his iconic, breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a flamboyant “sweet transvestite” scientist from Transsexual, Transylvania. The film also features Susan Sarandon as the innocent Janet Weiss and Barry Bostwick as her strait-laced fiancé Brad Majors, whose car trouble leads them to Frank-N-Furter’s bizarre castle.
The “Rocky Horror” announcement comes nearly a year after “The Wizard of Oz” debuted at Sphere on Aug. 28, transporting audiences into the classic 1939 film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. The $100 million project transformed the movie into a fully immersive experience, with the Kansas twister swirling across Sphere’s wraparound screen while wind effects, rumbling seats and spatial audio made audiences feel as if they were traveling to Oz themselves.
“The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” has generated over $400 million in ticket sales and sold more than 3 million total tickets since opening in Las Vegas, according to a Sphere release.
As USA TODAY’s Melissa Ruggieri wrote: “There is no succinct way to describe the transformative encounter that begins upon entry into the venue’s atrium, which welcomes viewers into the Land of Oz with Sphere-typical grandiosity.”
When is the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ coming to the Sphere?

Nicole Brown Simpson’s ex revealed the “unhinged” behavior that led to the end of their relationship was all due to her former husband O.J. Simpson.
Joseph Perrulli explained his new book, The Forgotten Briefcase, dives into their relationship, Nicole’s death and the past 33 years that Joseph “purposefully tried to forget.”
“I rediscovered who this woman was,” the 65-year-old entrepreneur said in a new interview. “She was far different than what had been portrayed — more spiritual and more down-to-earth — and I felt it was incumbent upon me to tell her story.”
Joseph explained that Kris Jennerintroduced him to Nicole, and the pair fell in love shortly after she and O.J. divorced in 1992. Kris’ then-husband, Caitlyn Jenner, warned Joseph about O.J. just before a dinner date with both couples.
“She’s a wonderful girl, great mother,” Caitlyn said. “She’s not caught up in all the Beverly Hills stuff. Her only problem is O.J.”
As their new relationship blossomed, things began to get strange when it came to O.J., the author told People, as Joseph claimed neighbors reported seeing O.J. hiding in the bushes outside of Nicole’s house.
“He said he just happened to be driving by and wanted to make sure everything was okay,” Joseph recalled. “He also said he really didn’t have a problem with me. He felt I was a gentleman.”
At one dinner date between Joseph and Nicole, she confessed O.J. had beaten her “really badly” during their 17-year relationship.
“She was shaking. It happened so quickly, is how she said it. She blacked out. When she came to, she felt she couldn’t talk about it because it would hurt the children,” Joseph revealed. “She thought she was going to die.”
“She said, ‘I just prayed something like that would never happen again. But it did,'” he added. “Through tears, she said, ‘I’d rather die than go back to that man.'”
Throughout the several months that Joseph and Nicole were together, he recalled feeling like O.J. was always “lurking.”
During a trip to Laguna Beach, Calif., with Nicole’s family, one family member calmly told Joseph that O.J. was in town and headed toward their barbecue.
“I didn’t think I could live my life like this, feeling like this man’s lurking everywhere I go,” Joseph said. “As hard as it was, I left the next day and decided to end the relationship.”
The same night, Joseph had a dream he and Nicole died in a car accident together after driving off a cliff.
“When I woke up, I collected all the things we’d shared — the books, my journals, the letters — and I put it in my briefcase, and I hid it,” he shared. He didn’t open it again until 2024, inspiring his memoir.
Joseph saw Nicole, and O.J., a few more times before she died in June 1994.
During the Jenners’ annual Christmas party in 1993, Joseph ran into O.J. at the bar. Panicked, he calmly greeted O.J., whom he described as “unhinged” and “sweating.”
“You look well,” Joseph told him.
“He placed his champagne flute down and stared at me, and said, ‘It’s only an illusion,'” he added. “He turned around and stormed out.”
‘It Could Have Been Me’
Joseph learned that Nicole had been killed outside of her home alongside Ron Goldman through a phone call from a friend.
“I thought, ‘Oh, he did it. He killed her,'” he said. “I certainly felt Ron Goldman could have been me. Absolutely.”
O.J. pleaded not guilty to Nicole and Ron’s deaths, but was later found liable in 1997. He died of prostate cancer in 2024.
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Days after Jim Dolan won a long sought-after chip with his New York Knicks, the billionaire mogul is ready to roll the dice on a major movie bet at his unique orb-shaped venue, The Sphere.
The next movie in the works for a reimagining at the 17,600-seat venue is an experiential take on Jim Sharman’s 1975 cult feature The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which has become a staple of community screenings and has been adapted multiple times for Broadway. At the Sphere, Rocky Horror will unspool sometime in 2027.
While its Wizard of Oz experience had a price tag of around $100 million to bring the adaptation of the 1939 Judy Garland feature to the Vegas masses — including recreating a tornado inside the venue — it’s unclear if Rocky Horror will carry a similar budget. A Sphere rep declined comment on the adaptation’s price tag. The project is being put together in a deal with Primary Wave Music and 20th Century Studios.
“Through Sphere Studios, we are building a slate of original experiences that push the boundaries of technology and storytelling for this new medium, while always keeping the audience at the center of the experience,” Dolan stated in unveiling the project. “Since The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, it redefined audience participation and became a cultural phenomenon. With Sphere, we have the opportunity to take that spirit of immersion to an entirely new level.”
Oz, which bowed on August 28 of last year, has now reeled in $400 million in sales and sold 3 million tickets since its premiere. That’s an additional $30 million in sales since the company disclosed its earnings on May 5.
If Oz was a test case in the viability of adapting classic movie IP for an experiential venue, it appears to have passed with flying colors financially. That title included Hollywood-grade work from the likes of producer Jane Rosenthal, VFX expert Ben Grossmann and Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame. The creative team for Rocky Horror has yet to be revealed.
For those comparing the $400 million Oz sales figure with blockbuster theatrical movies, the back-of-the-napkin math works out to about $133 a ticket, far more than the, say, $12-$15 a ticket for a typical film. Notably, only one film, Universal and Illumination’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, has grossed more than $400 million domestically so far this year.
And Oz won’t be going anywhere, if anything it may be more firmly ensconced in the Sphere’s Vegas portfolio. “I think the biggest learning is that we can do multiple shows, even different shows, concert and features like Wizard of Oz all in the same day that the building can handle it, that the market can handle it,” Dolan told analysts in May.
The Sphere, a longtime vision for the mogul (who fronts his own band JD and the Straight Shot), had launched with concert experiences from the likes of U2, the Eagles, Dead & Company, Backstreet Boys and Metallica. Phish, No Doubt, Kenney Chesney are among the names packing the venue this year.
On deck, the Sphere’s studio is developing extreme sports film From The Edge, co-directed by Free Solo helmers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, as an original feature with a to-be-determined premiere date.
Dolan has plans to bring the Sphere concept to other major cities (“We’d like to move as quickly as we can to building multiple Spheres,” he has said). Early this year the company signed a deal to develop a smaller Sphere in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
Asked about other potential adaptations and its talks with studio rightsholders about IP adaptations, Dolan replied in its May call with analysts, “The leverage is that we’re the only venue that does this. So it’s not like somebody else can take that product and go put it into a big immersive environment like a Sphere. So it’s really up to us which ones we choose.”

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: food poisoning . . . on a plane!
1980s heartthrob Corey Feldman had a medical emergency during a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles on Monday and was met by paramedics at the gate who rushed him to the hospital.
After spending the night there and getting numerous tests to see if the tummy turbulence was pancreatitis or gallstones, his rep tells us it was just a good old-fashioned case of food poisoning.
It is unclear if the “Goonies” star was a victim of airport dining.
“Corey is doing much better and is now out of the hospital,” the rep tells us.
A source close to Feldman told TMZ the ’80s teen star was feeling sick on the flight and was checked out by a doctor who happened to be a fellow passenger.
“Corey wants to thank everyone for all of the love and well wishes,” his rep told us. “He has definitely seen a lot of the messages and really appreciates everything.”
Feldman is releasing a new single called “What Am I Here 4” on June 22 and is celebrating his birthday with two performances in California the weekend of July 25.
Feldman was in Chicago to attend an anniversary celebration for the 1986 classic “Stand By Me,” along with co-stars Jerry O’Connell and Wil Wheaton.
Late Sunday night, Feldman shared a carousel of photos and videos to Instagram of him driving to Chicago for the event. He stopped by Michael Jackson’s childhood home in Gary, Indiana, for an impromptu visit to “pay respects” to the late singer.
Jackson died at the age of 50 after suffering a heart attack caused by a drug overdose on June 25, 2009.
“We’re on our way to Chicago to tear it up,” Feldman, who competed on “Dancing With the Stars” last fall, said in a video on social media. “Gonna be a great night. Lots of people coming — thousands.”

Rapper Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022.
The victim appeared before the court on Tuesday and asked for the maximum sentence, according to WBRZ. She spoke of the incident where Mystikal “choked her, pulled braids out of her hair and forcibly raped her.” After she spoke, the rapper told the courtroom, “If I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence.”
Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was arrested in 2022 for first-degree rape and false imprisonment. This past March, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges of third-degree rape. According to WBRZ, he filed a motion this past Friday to withdraw his plea because he “did not have sufficient opportunity to fully consider the consequences” before confessing to the crime. The filing stated that he was “under significant emotional distress and felt substantial pressure to make an immediate decision.”
The rapper, best known for the hits “Shake Ya Ass” and “Danger (Been So Long),” was arrested in 2022 on accusations of beating, choking and robbing a woman at his home in Ascension Parish. The victim, who was not named in the report, said he took her keys and phone and raped her while she searched for the money he had taken. He then allowed her to leave after forcing her to send him money via CashApp.
The 55-year-old would have been facing a life sentence had he been convicted of initial charges that included first-degree rape, simple criminal damage to property, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, and false imprisonment in the assault.
Mystikal faced similar domestic abuse charges in 2004 after sexually assaulting his hairstylist and subsequently spent six years in prison. In 2012, he was jailed for three months on misdemeanor domestic abuse charges, and five years later, he was charged with rape and kidnapping before the case was dropped.