Taylor Swift leads movie box office in the US with a movie of the new album

In an unprecedented victory for a release announced just two weeks ago, the debut film on the American Pop Superlast album Taylor Swift led the US box office with approximately $ 33 million.

“Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of A Showgirl”, aired in theaters for three days to coincide with the release of the singer’s latest album, “The Life of A Showgirl”, was shown in over 3,700 rooms in the United States and Canada and in another 3,588 rooms internationally. The film raised about $ 13 million outside the country, according to AMC, totaling $ 46 million globally.

“In the name of AMC theaters and the entire theatrical screening industry, expressed our most sincere gratitude to iconic Taylor Swift for bringing his brilliance and magic to theaters this weekend,” AMC CEO Adam Aron said on Sunday in a shared statement with CNN. “His view of adding a film element to the incredible release of his album was nothing less than a triumph.”

Unlike Swift’s “The Eras Tour” movie in 2023, which broke show movie records, “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of A Showgirl” is the only album release movie to finish first at the domestic box office and is the most box office album debut movie, according to AMC.

“Taylor Swift understands the importance of cinema as a cultural reference point. Your fans may all be together without having to go to one of their shows,” said Paul Dregarabedian, ComScore’s head of market trends.

David A. Gross, who writes the franchisere industry newsletter, has described the success of the movie as something that “no other music artist on the planet can do.”

“One battle after another,” by Warner Bros. Pictures, which debuted last weekend, was second in the box office, raising about $ 11 million this week, a 49% drop over the previous week.

“Fighter’s Heart: The Smashing Machine,” from A24, premiered this weekend and was third with modest $ 6 million, below estimates that predicted about $ 10 million (about $ 55 million).

“This is what October is,” said Dergarabedian, noting that “it’s not about summer popcorn” or about big debuts, as good criticism is necessary during the awards season.

Shawn Robbins, Fandango’s director of analysis and founder of Box Office Theory, noted that the drama on mixed martial arts was below expectations, despite the star of Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

“There will be a lot of speculation about if it was due to the announcement of the Taylor movie (Swift) … (but) There is not many public in common,” said Robbins.

The fourth place at the weekend box office went to “Gabby’s Dolls House – The Universal Pictures” movie “($ 5.2 million, about $ 28 million), followed by” Summoning Evil 4: The Last Ritual “($ 4 million, about $ 21 million), Warner Bros.’s success. September.

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu on Yaiba – Cruanchyroll Infinite Castle,” belonging to Sony, is still firm, ending in sixth place with a total household collection of $ 124.6 million (about $ 670 million). The unexpected success of September, which broke records for anime movies, has made Hollywood reevaluate future releases of what some consider a niche genre.

But this will be put to the test on October 24, when Crunchyroll releases “Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Arco da Reze”, continuation of the anime series “Chainsaw Man”. The film exceeded “Infinite Castle” in Japanese theaters when it debuted abroad on September 19, raising $ 23.7 million in its first 15 days, according to the film’s advisory.

“Chainsaw Man” is a popular franchise, said Robbins, and now it is expected to perform better at home box office than what he would have before the success of “Infinite Castle.”

“But the anime is always very difficult to predict because this audience is still growing and (gender) also usually has a large concentration of audiences in the early days,” he said.

See also: Taylor Swift is summoned to testify in the case Blake Lively x Justin Baldoni