'I want to watch it every night': Taylor Swift fans rally for record-breaking concert footage

October 13, 2023

The Eras Tour, the live performance movie model of her commerce-shifting, career-spanning stadium show, isn't always if it is going to be record-breaking however through how plenty. It`s already the maximum profitable live performance movie in US presales, and dropped a cash bomb into the October container workplace calendar; manufacturer Jason Blum moved the most effective of The Exorcist: Believer up every week in order now no longer to compete (“#TaylorWins,” he tweeted).

In phrases of uncooked monetary power, Swift remains winning. The movie, which the 33-year-vintage singer produced and financed herself for about $15m, is projected to absorb as plenty as $125m regionally in its beginning weekend, plus around $60m overseas – a plenty-wished bump for theaters of their post-Barbenheimer slump, because the joint actors and writers moves driven some of premieres to 2024. And in bypassing streamers and studios altogether, Swift has solid a cinematic income lane already reaping outcomes for different artists; Beyoncé`s Renaissance excursion movie, which has a comparable direct distribution cope with AMC, has already sold $7m in tickets for its 1 December release.

But when it comes to opening wallets, Swift is in a league of its own. The first screening has been sold out for weeks and demand for tickets is huge. In fact, it was so well received that Swift made a surprise announcement at Wednesday's premiere in Los Angeles (which Beyoncé attended, among other things). The movie will be released on Thursday, one day earlier than scheduled.