\n In an unprecedented win for a theatrical release announced just two weeks ago, the album debut event from American pop superstar Taylor Swift topped the domestic box office with about $33 million domestically.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cTaylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,\u201d released in theaters for a three-day run to coincide with Swift\u2019s latest album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d played in more than 3,700 theatres in the United States and Canada and in another 3,588 cinemas internationally. The movie earned an estimated $13 million internationally, according to AMC, bringing its global earnings to $46 million.\n <\/p>\n
\n Unlike Swift\u2019s 2023 \u201cThe Eras Tour\u201d movie, which broke concert movie records, \u201cThe Official Release Party of a Showgirl\u201d is the only album-debut movie to finish first at the domestic box office and is the highest-grossing album-debut movie at the box office, according to AMC.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cTaylor Swift just realizes how important a movie theater is as a cultural touchstone. Her fans can all be together without having to go to one of her concerts,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore.\n <\/p>\n
\n David A. Gross, who writes industry newsletter FranchiseRe, described the movie\u2019s success as something \u201cno other musical artist on the planet can do.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Warner Bros. Pictures\u2019 \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d which opened last weekend, was No. 2 at the box office, grossing about $11 million this week and falling 49% from last week.\n <\/p>\n
\n Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n A24\u2019s \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d debuted this weekend and finished third with a lackluster $6 million, short of estimates that it could earn around $10 million.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is what October is all about,\u201d Dergarabedian said, noting that it\u2019s \u201cnot about the summer popcorn\u201d or how big a movie opens, because good reviews are needed during the heat of awards season.\n <\/p>\n
\n Shawn Robbins, director of analytics at Fandango and founder and owner of Box Office Theory, noted that the mixed-martial arts drama fell below expectations despite the star power of Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere will be a lot of finger-pointing as to whether or not it was because Taylor (Swift) announced her film \u2026 (but) there\u2019s not a lot of a crossover audience there,\u201d Robbins said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The No. 4 movie this weekend was Universal Pictures\u2019 \u201cGabby\u2019s Dollhouse: The Movie\u201d ($5.2 million), followed by \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d ($4 million), a Warner Bros. hit from September.\n <\/p>\n
\n Sony-owned Crunchyroll\u2019s \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d has continued to hold on, finishing sixth overall with domestic earnings totaling $124.6 million. The unexpected September hit that broke anime movie records has Hollywood weighing future releases of what some consider a niche genre.\n <\/p>\n
\n But that will be tested on October 24 when Crunchyroll releases \u201cChainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie: Reze Arc,\u201d which is a continuation of the \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d TV anime series. It surpassed \u201cInfinity Castle\u201d in Japanese theaters when it opened abroad on September 19, raking in $23.7 million during its first 15 days, according to an announcement from the movie\u2019s public relations firm on X<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d is a popular franchise, Robbins said, and is now expected to perform better at the domestic box office than it would have prior to the success of \u201cInfinity Castle.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cBut anime is always so challenging to predict because that audience is still growing and (the genre is) also very front-loaded a lot of the time,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an unprecedented win for a theatrical release announced just two weeks ago, the album debut event from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-191707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}