Two issues are actually shaking up Hollywood today: labor unions and Taylor Swift. Thursday morning Swift introduced that she was coming into the autumn film season by releasing a virtually three-hour movie based mostly on her blockbuster Eras Tour. The information despatched mobs of followers to on-line ticket websites and worry down the spines of film studios.
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The movie, titled Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, is scheduled for launch on Friday, October 13, a date that had lengthy been claimed by arguably the season’s largest horror launch, Common and Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer. Nonetheless, hours after Swift’s film started promoting out reveals throughout the nation, that movie’s producer Jason Blum himself took to X, previously Twitter, quoting Swift and saying he was transferring the movie’s launch date. “Look what you made me do,” Blum posted. “The Exorcist: Believer strikes to 10/6/23″ after which he added the hashtag “#TaylorWins.”
The Exorcist now finds itself on a extra aggressive weekend and additional away from the profitable Halloween vacation. It’ll open towards the star-studded GameStop inventory film Dumb Cash, and one other horror movie known as When Evil Lurks. It ought to nonetheless win the weekend, which it was all however assured to do beforehand, however this yr, Friday the thirteenth received’t belong to Jason Voorhees (or The Exorcist). It’ll belong to Taylor Swift. Plus, there are certain to be ramifications in weeks past too. Apple thought it had a free weekend on October 20 with Martin Scorsese’s drama Killers of the Flower Moon, for instance. That’s not the case.
And whereas Blum and Common are the primary to make a transfer because of Swift’s film, a lot of Hollywood may comply with go well with. Indiewire studies most executives had no thought a movie model of possibly the largest live performance tour in historical past was coming so quickly and spent a great portion of the day reacting to it. It’s being launched by AMC, which offers with the studios typically as one of many largest theater chains, however now an enormous variety of its personal screens will probably be enjoying its personal film. What does that imply for every part else? Additionally, Swift’s movie has a set ticket value of $19.89 for adults and $13.13 for youngsters (each numbers the singer references continuously) which is odd as a result of theaters, not distributors, are purported to set ticket costs. Nonetheless, on this case, the distributor is the theater.
The purpose is that what appeared prefer it was going to be a slightly uneventful fall film season continues to be that fall film season, solely now it’s Taylor’s Model.
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