Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering
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Audiences didn’t have a lot of new choices, nor a mega late-December blockbuster to ring in the first weekend of the new year at the movies, but the studio titles on offer are still drawing crowds and seeing strong holds, particularly with ongoing holidays in many international box office markets. Milestones are also being set
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With awards shows’ ratings dropping annually, many have pinned that on mainstream viewers tuning out because their favorite tentpoles are overlooked in the Best Picture categories. Popular Best Picture candidates and hosts have traditionally been tied to Oscars’ ratings. However, the Golden Globes has continually had respect for popcorn pics between their drama and musical/comedy
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Taylor Swift: ‘The Eras Tour concert film has become the highest-grossing concert film of all time, earning an impressive $178 million domestically since its debut on Thursday, October 12. Among the list of the top-grossing concert films at the domestic box office are the recently rereleased Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, Talking Heads concert film
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Imax and Pathé Live in partnership with Mercury Studios and Queen Films will release Queen Rock Montreal globally for four days in January digitally remastered for Imax. The film of a live concert in Montreal in November of 1981, directed by the late Saul Swimmer, will hit 450+ Imax locations globally for four days starting Jan. 18 in the UK,
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Theater chain AMC will make a handsome profit from distributing Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and from its box office grosses, which passed $232 million globally, said CEO Adam Aron. He declined to give any numbers until year end since both Swift — and Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé, which launches Dec. 1 — fall
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AMC Entertainment swung to a profit last quarter and saw revenue jump 45%, besting Wall Street forecasts. CEO Adam Aron found the numbers “quite satisfying.” But, he said, the short-term impacts of the writer’s and actor’s strikes will cause additional and needless challenges for AMC in 2024. Without taking sides as to who is to
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Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s was still plenty game this weekend, crossing $100M at the international box office and $200M worldwide. The sophomore frame overseas, where this is a pure theatrical play, dipped 54% to deliver $35.6M in 74 markets for a $103.5M offshore cume and $217.1M global. Fazbear and crew have surpassed the reported
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Imax CEO Rich Gelfond predicts the long SAG-AFTRA strike will settle relatively soon. If, instead, it drags on, theater chains will face a rocky second half of 2024 but he sees the large-format exhibitor standing apart. “An exhibitor who programs a multiplex needs lots of movies,” he told Wall Streeters after Imax reported a record
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No one knew how big this was going to be, or is going to be but Universal/Blumhouse’s feature take on beloved horror videogame, Five Nights at Freddy‘s is eyeing a $50M+ start possibly even more. At that level, it’s the second-best opening of this autumn’s B.O. behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ($92.8M). Note the
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There were two major new entries this weekend at the international box office, one local (Tamil thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet) and one from Hollywood. Starting with the latter, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon from Apple, Paramount and Imperative Entertainment, had a big opening with $21M in 63 offshore markets and No. 1s in
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The AMC distributed Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour returned yesterday, Thursday, at around noon after a three day pause, pulling in $5.9M per industry estimates. This takes the running total of the Sam Wrench directed concert film to $98.7M at 3,855 theaters. Meanwhile, Apple Original Films big splash into wide theatrical releases with Martin Scorsese’s
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The AMC-distributed Taylor Swift concert movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which paused weekday play from Monday-Thursday, is looking at a 60%-70% dive in its second weekend with $27M-$37M off its first weekend of $92.3M. Those industry projections are based on the front-loaded nature of female-skewing pics, per sources. Disney’s Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus:
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Refresh for latest…: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour may have missed the century mark in regards to a domestic opening, but the 12x Grammy winner was always guaranteed that number worldwide, with AMC reporting this AM that the Sam Wrench-directed concert pic has racked up $126M-$130M. The international box office opening is estimated at $31M-$33M.
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SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator and National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is very happy with Taylor Swift and not so happy with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos. We spoke with Crabtree-Ireland today at New York Comic-Con where he took the stage for a panel about AI. Talks collapsed on Wednesday night between studios and SAG-AFTRA following the guild’s
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The AMC distributed Taylor Swift: Eras Tour concert movie officially made $2.8M in Thursday night previews. We told you last night that the rough estimate was below $5M. The pic played in 2,700 theatres with showings last night beginning at 6 p.m. local time. Remember, these previews aren’t indicative of how the weekend will go.
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Two experimental films executive produced by Steven Soderbergh — Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity and Godfrey Reggio’s Once Within A Time – join Neon’s anticipated Anatomy Of A Fall, Cannes Palme d’Or winner, in theaters today, a bit of counter-programming on a weekend dominated by Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.  Divinity, in a dark and creepy future populated by bodybuilders hooked on an
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EXCLUSIVE: There’s a reason why her last name is Swift. The 12x Grammy award winner, the day after the world premiere of her AMC-distributed concert movie, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, found her way back to Kansas City for the Chiefs’ NFL game vs. the Denver Broncos. Why? Because her movie is opening tonight, dummy.
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EXCLUSIVE: Heading into the Swift snowfall this weekend at the box office, here’s what we can tell you about the AMC-distributed film. As has already been reported, a $100M+ projection per distribution sources is in store and another $50M+ overseas (for $150M WW debut); but part of the stats indicating this come from box office
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EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that advance tickets sales for the Taylor Swift: Eras Tour concert movie have reached $65M-plus. That’s a figure comprised of the top three U.S. circuits –AMC, Regal and Cinemark–, Canada’s Cineplex and Mexico’s Cinépolis, we hear. That figure–a month before opening– already bests the U.S./Canada advance ticket sales of mega-superhero movies
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