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Film to Screen at the Band’s Hollywood Bowl Shows on October 30 and 31; ‘The Black Parade (20th Anniversary)’ Expanded Collection Out Now
My Chemical Romance Prelude to The End, a collaborative short film with visual artist Lauren Tsai, is available to watch now. The film follows last Friday’s release of The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) on Reprise Records, a re-issue celebrating twenty years of the seminal, 4x Platinum-certified landmark album.
Tsai has merged the visual world of her project The Dying World, which first premiered as a short film at the 2025 Annecy Film Festival, with “The End,” the first song from The Black Parade. “Prelude to The End” is produced by Tsai’s independent studio UNREAL INC. and will screen ahead of the final dates of the band’s historic five nights at the Hollywood Bowl on October 30 and 31.
Watch “Prelude to The End” here.
“Prelude to The End” centers on Astrid, the protagonist of The Dying World, as she navigates life at an uncanny boarding school in New England that has been overtaken by trash. As the school attempts to force her into compliance by throwing out her cherished sketchbook, Astrid falls down the school’s trash chute, landing in a world inhabited by forgotten ideas, and comes to encounter an idea of her own which has been plaguing her.
In addition to Tsai voicing the film’s protagonist Astrid, “Prelude to The End” features vocal contributions from Billie Eilish (who voices Astrid’s friend), Phoebe Bridgers (who voices Astrid’s sister), Hideo Kojima (who voices The Teacher) and John C. McGinley (who voices The Dean) and others. The film features a live recording of Flying River, Violin Concerto by Pascal Dusapin, performed by Utopia Orchestra at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli, with solo violin by Daniel Lozakovich.
Upon its release in 2006, The Black Parade hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Tastemaker Albums. The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) features the full album along with six bonus tracks — three fan-favorite B-sides previously scattered across different releases, and three live selections captured during the original 2007 album tour at the band’s hometown club, Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey, including the never-before-released “Someone Out There Loves You.” The iTunes exclusive version adds “Live from Hoboken” takes of “Mama” and “Cancer.”
My Chemical Romance will conclude the U.S. leg of their The Black Parade 2026 Tour this weekend, concluding an unprecedented five-night stint at the Hollywood Bowl on Halloween night. The tour continues on to Asia next week.
Speaking about the collaboration, Tsai shares: “It was an absolute dream to work on this project for The Black Parade and The Dying World. I have deep respect for MCR and Gerard’s creative legacy. It has been an honor for him to find inspiration in a world that I’ve created, in the same way I have always admired the worlds that he has built throughout his career.”
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