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'Eyes of the World': Part Dion concert film, part family album
By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY
Call it the trailer of two Celines.
A chart-topping diva and a globe-trotting mom both star in the new concert film Celine: Through the Eyes of the World, scheduled for limited theatrical release next spring by the Hot Ticket, Sony Pictures' alternative-content division. The trailer, which was viewed by USA TODAY, will begin showing in theaters early next year.
"I know there are some impressive numbers out there," Dion says, rattling off key stats of her 2008-2009 Taking Chances world tour, which played to 3 million people in 93 cities spanning 25 countries. "But for me, the most special parts were having my mother on the road and allowing my son (Rene-Charles) to see the world."
The documentary's many cameras followed the Canadian siren onstage and backstage across multiple continents. One moment she's belting out a song to 250,000 people in Quebec City, the next she's softly dueting with a girl in a South African township. Over here, Dion is getting mobbed by fans; over there, she's saying a prayer with her husband, Rene, inside their private jet.
And always, whether squarely in frame or just out, there's her 8-year-old son.
"Rene-Charles was already being home-schooled when we lived in Las Vegas (during Dion's five-year concert residency at Caesars Palace), so we thought, 'Let's just continue that and let him have the experience of his life,' " says Dion, now comfortably ensconced in the family's rented home in Jupiter Island, Fla., while their new residence is being built.
"He loved it. But now that we're back, I see we made the right choice. Rene-Charles has friends, loves sports, he has roots. We'd never take him away now," she says.
In that sense, Eyes of the World plays as one long Dion family vacation, African safaris and strolls through parks mixed in with grandly choreographed tunes to keep the pace lively.
This blending of biography and discography is fast becoming a post-concert tour staple, says Rory Bruer, Sony's president of worldwide distribution.
"For fans, this is a chance to both hear an artist in a theater setting with great sound, as well as take a look inside their lives," says Bruer, whose company is also behind next April's release of Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D. "It isn't like seeing the person live, but it does add that huge element of intimacy."
But Dion's movie won't linger. It will screen in major U.S. cities just "seven or eight times over a couple of weeks," Bruer says.
Dion, too, is moving on. Next up: a summer album and a possible return to Las Vegas, school schedules permitting.
"I can see performing in Vegas, but only when Rene-Charles has vacation," says Dion, whose big trips these days amount to the seven-minute drive to and from her son's school. "My biggest joy is seeing him have a life."
TRYING FOR ANOTHER BABY
Celine Dion and husband Rene Angelil are pursuing a fourth in-vitro fertilization procedure after a recent attempt failed, the singer tells USA TODAY.
"We feel great, and we're putting lots of energy into this," says Dion. "But having said that, we are parents already. We'd love to be blessed again, but it's not like everything rises or falls on this news."
Son Rene-Charles, 8, had gotten his hopes up for a sibling when Dion announced she was pregnant last summer. When she learned the implantation didn't take, she decided to use the experience as a teaching moment.
"I told him this is all about nature, and nothing in nature is 100% just look at the weather," she says. "I also said to him, 'Look at what a fighter you were. You wanted to be in this world, and so here you are.' "
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Edited by Koolan, 12 December 2009 - 01:51 PM.
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They might screen it in Columbus, OH though. Wouldn't be able to get away to Columbus though to see it 
So does this mean no tour dvd or is this part of the tour dvd or what? I'm confused. It doesn't really say anything about a tour dvd....just a documentary. I hope it will be on dvd as well as the tour. With it only being released in "major" cities, seven or eight times. I'm guessing it'll be places like NYC, LA, Vegas and Miami or somewhere.
soo many news, good news, can't wait for the DVD! since i don't have a chance to see it on theaters haha =)
very cool news!! 
