Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film has surpassed $100 million in global advance ticket sales, distributor AMC Theatres has announced. This covers pre-sales at movie theaters around the world, including AMC and others.
The movie releases on October 13 to coincide with Swift’s favorite number. In total, it’ll play at more than 8,500 theaters globally in 100+ countries, according to Variety.
AMC did not say how the $100 million figure breaks down between North America and the rest of the world. In North America, Variety reports that only five movies in 2023 have surpassed $100 million for their opening weekends, including Barbie ($162 million), The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146 million), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($120 million), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($118 million), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($106 million).
The Eras Tour movie is probably expected to be very front-loaded in terms of box-office performance, including pre-sales, as her fans are known to be extreme when it comes to being fast and first. Her fans, known as Swifties, are also extremely passionate and could see the film a number of times, which would help pump up the box office numbers in October and beyond.
Swift’s shadow looms large, as Blumhouse changed the release date for its new Exorcist movie–read our review of The Exorcist: Believer–to get out of the way of the Eras Tour movie. It was scheduled to debut on the appropriately spooky date of Friday, October 13, but Blumhouse shifted it up a week to get out of Swift’s way. Producer Jason Blum said he is terrified of Taylor Swift.
The film is a movie version of Swift’s ongoing Eras Tour, which is poised to be one of the most lucrative tours in music history. Swift has more dates across America in October and November, before she goes to South America later in November and then to Japan and Australia in February 2024. After that, the tour heads to Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, London, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Austria, before wrapping up in Canada in November 2024.
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