Taylor Swift’s live performance movie has already damaged theater information greater than a month forward of its October 13 launch. AMC Theaters mentioned Friday that the singer’s Eras Tour live performance film “shattered information for single-day advance ticket gross sales income,” with $26 million of tickets bought on Thursday.
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It beat the earlier file holder, “Spider-Man: No Means House,” which bought $16.9 million price of tickets in at some point forward of its launch in 2021, AMC mentioned in an announcement.
Swift’s film crushed the day by day file lower than three hours after tickets turned obtainable, prompting the theater chain to say that it’ll add further showtimes the place attainable.
Film theaters have been recovering from a pandemic-era viewers stoop, pushed by summer time blockbuster hits like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” (“Barbie” is distributed by Warner Bros. Photos, which is owned by CNN’s dad or mum firm, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
However the ongoing Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes and the deadlock with studio negotiations imply that the pool of films making its option to theaters may dry up over the following yr. Whereas studios usually distribute films to theaters, AMC is appearing because the Eras Tour movie distributor in what it referred to as “the inaugural step of a brand new line of enterprise for AMC Leisure.”
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