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ARTICLE VIEW:
Swifties flock to movie theaters for ‘Taylor Swift: The Official
Release Party of a Showgirl’
By Auzinea Bacon, CNN
Updated:
8:37 PM EDT, Sun October 5, 2025
Source: CNN
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.
“Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,” released
in theaters for a three-day run to coincide with Swift’s latest
album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” 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.
“On behalf of AMC Theatres and the entire theatrical exhibition
industry, I extend our sincerest appreciation to the iconic Taylor
Swift for bringing her brilliance and magic to movie theatres this
weekend,” AMC CEO Adam Aron said Sunday in a statement shared with
CNN. “Her vision to add a cinematic element to her incredible album
debut was nothing less than a triumph.”
Unlike Swift’s 2023 “The Eras Tour” movie, which broke concert
movie records, “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” 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.
“Taylor 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,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace
trends at Comscore.
David A. Gross, who writes industry newsletter FranchiseRe, described
the movie’s success as something “no other musical artist on the
planet can do.”
Warner Bros. Pictures’ “One Battle After Another,” which opened
last weekend, was No. 2 at the box office, grossing about $11 million
this week and falling 49% from last week.
Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.
A24’s “The Smashing Machine” debuted this weekend and finished
third with a lackluster $6 million, short of estimates that it could
earn around $10 million.
“This is what October is all about,” Dergarabedian said, noting
that it’s “not about the summer popcorn” or how big a movie
opens, because good reviews are needed during the heat of awards
season.
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.
“There will be a lot of finger-pointing as to whether or not it was
because Taylor (Swift) announced her film … (but) there’s not a lot
of a crossover audience there,” Robbins said.
The No. 4 movie this weekend was Universal Pictures’ “Gabby’s
Dollhouse: The Movie” ($5.2 million), followed by “The Conjuring:
Last Rites” ($4 million), a Warner Bros. hit from September.
Sony-owned Crunchyroll’s “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” 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.
But that will be tested on October 24 when Crunchyroll releases
“Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc,” which is a continuation of
the “Chainsaw Man” TV anime series. It surpassed “Infinity
Castle” 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’s public relations firm .
“Chainsaw Man” 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 “Infinity Castle.”
“But 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,” he said.
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