Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour' concert film opens a day earlier on Long Island
Taylor Swift attends the world premiere of "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" Wednesday at AMC The Grove 14 in Los Angeles. Credit: Invision / AP / Chris Pizzello
It was a change of plans for Taylor Swift fans: The singer’s much-anticipated concert film, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” began screening in theaters Thursday night, a day ahead of schedule.
The singer announced the move in an Instagram post Wednesday evening. “Look what you genuinely made me do,” the post read. “Due to unprecedented demand we’re opening up early access showings of The Eras Tour Concert Film on THURSDAY in America and Canada!!” Fandango listed showtimes at Long Island theaters beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday.
“The Eras Tour,” which captures Swift during her six-night stint in August at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, California, is expected to be a post-summer blockbuster with potential to rival the box-office grosses of “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer.” Industry analysts have predicted an opening weekend haul of as much as $200 million — well past the $162 million debut of “Barbie,” which went on to become this year’s top-grossing movie with $1.4 billion worldwide.
So fearsome is the prospect of “The Eras Tour” that the major studios are opening no other wide releases against it this weekend. The film has already earned $100 million in advance ticket sales according to its distributor, AMC Theatres.
Swift’s tour, devoted to the different eras of her career, is itself an economic juggernaut. Before kicking off in March in Glendale, Arizona, advance ticket sales reached 2.4 million in a single day — a Ticketmaster record for any artist. As Swift’s tour progressed, predictions for her overall gross have risen to $2.2 billion. The tour is set to stretch almost to the end of next year, with a final date scheduled for November.
Deepannita Das, of Copiague, attends an early screening of "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" at the Showcase Cinema De Lux in Farmingdale Thursday. Credit: Jeff Bachner
But apparently not all Swifties got the memo. On Thursday evening, the Showplace Cinema De Luxe in Farmingdale sold just two tickets for its 6 p.m. showing.
One of them was to Deepannita Das, 28, a family medicine resident from Copiague, who said she didn’t get a chance to see the “Eras” tour live “because it was so hard to get tickets. So I hope I’m having half the experience of the tour. I’ve been a fan of Taylor Swift since seventh or eighth grade, kind of when she started, and I grew up with her.”
Hundreds more fans are expected to see the movie in Farmingdale beginning Friday.
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