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In a movie match-up almost as unlikely as Barbie and Oppenheimer, Taylor Swift’s concert film totally dominated in cinemas alongside Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour already racked in a record-breaking amount of $92.8 million for the opening weekend, and then took in an estimated $31 million extra the following weekend from 3,855 locations globally, according to AMC Theaters.
Within days, it became the highest-grossing concert film ever in North America and quickly accumulated $129.8 million domestically, reported Fortune.
That’s Scorsese’ bad for taking on Swift in cinemas over the weekend.
More was riding on Killers of the Flower Moon, a historical crime drama about a string of murders against the Osage nation in the early 1920s, which cost at least $200 million to make. It is the largest production yet from Apple Studios, who in partnership with Paramount Pictures released Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s bestseller in 3,628 theatres:
“Killers of the Flower Moon” debuted with $23 million, marking the third best opening for the 80-year-old Scorsese, following “Shutter Island” ($41 million in 2010) and “The Departed” ($26.9 million in 2006).
Though Scorsese’s latest opus, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, will have a hard road to reaching profitability, it’s a successful launch for a 206-minute-long adult-skewing drama – a type of movie that, outside “Oppenheimer,” has struggled mightily at the box office in recent years.
The film also added $21 million overseas.
But still, Swift is on top. Screenrant reported that besides Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour being a huge box office success, the movie also broke a total of eight records related to its total gross and ticket presales.
It generated $26 million in pre-sale tickets at AMC Theatres and broke the single-day ticket sales record in less than three hours. It also had the highest first-day ticket sales in 2023, was the first concert movie to surpass $100 million, and was the first concert movie to remain No.1 on the US box office for two weeks.
Go, Taylor, go:
[source:fortune]
