Did you really believe that the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film would not have a world premiere? Well, think again! AMC Theatres, the largest movie theater chain in the U.S. and the world, recently announced that the highly-anticipated film will have a world premiere event on October 11 in Los Angeles. However, the exact location of the event is yet to be determined.
The highly-anticipated world premiere of the Sam Wrench-directed movie will take place two days before its global release in over 7,500 cinemas on October 13 at 6 p.m. local time. The film is set to be screened in more than 100 countries. It remains unclear if Taylor Swift will attend the premiere in-person, but there are indications that she might be able to promote the film as it secured an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, though this is dependent on whether the ongoing strike continues. It’s also uncertain whether the concert film will be a national simulcast event on Imax and premium screens, like the Talking Heads reunion/40th anniversary live event Imax showing of concert picture Stop Making Sense that generated over $641,000 in one night, becoming the highest-grossing Imax live event picture ever at 165 Imax U.S. auditoriums and the BFI Imax in London. However, with Swift’s massive following, it’s expected that the concert movie will do well at the box office. The film has already surpassed $65 million in presales, and experts predict that it could generate over $100 million during its opening weekend.
A few weeks ago, it was reported that the Eras Tour had garnered more than $65 million in presales from top movie circuits in the US and Canada. However, it is believed that this number is much larger than what was initially reported. There are high hopes for the opening weekend, with some predicting that it could reach $100 million, but even if it falls short at $75 million, it would still surpass the box office numbers of other major rock concert films from the likes of Justin Bieber, Michael Jackson, and Miley Cyrus. It even outperforms the global gross earnings of the Spice Girls’ Spice World movie from 1997, which was a musical and not a concert film.
The Eras Tour has broken the record for one-day advance ticket sales revenue at AMC in the United States, earning over $26 million.
