{"id":193102,"date":"2025-10-06T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193102\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:55:09","slug":"the-official-release-party-of-a-showgirl-tops-australian-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193102\/","title":{"rendered":"The Official Release Party of a Showgirl tops Australian box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift has already dominated record sales and stadium tours, so now she\u2019s moving onto her next conquest: the silver screen.<\/p>\n

Her recent album launch film, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, topped the Australian box office over the weekend, grossing over $2.89 million after just three days in theatres.<\/p>\n

The movie, which was released alongside her new album The Life of a Showgirl, <\/a>beat family favourites such as The Bad Guys 2 ($2.4 million), which is in its third week of release, and Hollywood heavy-hitters like Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another ($1.47 million), which has been in theatres for two weeks.<\/p>\n

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The Official Release Party of a Showgirl topped the box office in Australia over the weekend.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n

Though the box office for Release Party didn\u2019t quite live up to that of Swift\u2019s previous foray into cinema \u2013 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour grossed $3.8 million in its opening weekend \u2013 cinema executives still consider it an impressive result for a less \u201cconventional\u201d film format.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Taylor Swift movie demonstrates the almost unbelievable ability of today\u2019s stars to shift people from their couches and into venues, including cinemas, which, let\u2019s face it, is the ultimate place to experience it,\u201d said Benjamin Zeccola, chief executive of Palace Cinemas, which screened over 100 sessions of the film between Saturday and Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power comes from the seemingly personal relationship we have with celebrities today. We know their cats\u2019 names, what they had for breakfast and their boyfriend\u2019s faults. We witness their engagements and marriages, and separations and affairs. It\u2019s a parasocial relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s film performed similarly well overseas, claiming the top spot at the box office in the US and Canada over the weekend. The sing-along movie, distributed by AMC Entertainment Holdings, took in $US33 million (nearly $50 million) in ticket sales. That compares with a median estimate of $US35 million from industry tracker Boxoffice Pro.<\/p>\n

The picture generated an additional $US13 million internationally, according to AMC, which said the event had been announced only two weeks ago and that it didn\u2019t host the Thursday night previews or Friday morning screenings that other films typically do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has already dominated record sales and stadium tours, so now she\u2019s moving onto her next conquest:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-193102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}