(Los Angeles) American pop superstar Taylor Swift packed theaters across North America over the weekend with “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” filmed during her eponymous tour.
Published yesterday at 4:01 p.m.
It is estimated that the film grossed $96 million in its first weekend. “This is an exceptional debut,” said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
The box office results for this work, which contains scenes from three different concerts, were certainly below certain forecasts between Friday and Sunday, but they were still “gigantic numbers,” according to the expert.
So far, the award for the most successful films filmed at concerts has gone to Justin Bieber with “Never Say Never,” which grossed a total of $73 million in 2011, and to the film “This Is It,” which was released in theaters a few months after his death Michael Jackson in 2009 with $72.1 million.
Taylor Swift broke those records in just three days, making it the best weekend at the North American box office since the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer this summer.
The AMC theater chain, which is distributing the film, encouraged audience members to dance, sing and act as if they were at a real concert.
Far behind, in second place, is The Exorcist: Believer, which achieved sales of $11 million, according to specialty firm Exhibitor Relations.
Leslie Odom Jr. and Ann Dowd star in this new horror film, 50 years after the original.
In third place is the animated children’s film PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie with seven million dollars in ticket sales at the box office.
This was followed by another horror film, Saw X ($5.7 million), which received positive reviews in the press.
Science fiction film “The Creator,” in which John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe and Allison Janney compete against artificial intelligence, is in fifth place with $4.3 million.
The rest of the top 10
6. A Haunting in Venice ($2.1 million)
7. The Blind Man (2 million)
8. The Nun II (1.6 million)
9. The Equalizer 3 ($960,000)
10. Dumb Money ($920,000)