Taylor Swift, already the queen of pop, can now boast that she is also the queen of the box office. His film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour grossed $96 million at the North American box office last weekend, making it the highest-grossing filmed concert of all time.
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“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” alone was shown on more than 3,850 screens in the U.S. and Canada, generating more than 70% of North American box office revenue from Thursday to Sunday.
The concert film by the American pop megastar took by far the top spot at the box office, well ahead of the horror film “The Exorcist: Devotion,” which had to make do with a gross of $11 million.
The Eras Tour also grossed between $31 and $33 million at the international box office on its first weekend in theaters, reports the trade magazine Variety.
Thanks to these spectacular initial results, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” has already moved to the top of the list of the most profitable concert films of all time at the box office, ahead of “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never”, which grossed 73 million euros at the box office in 2011 and This Is It, released a few months after Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, with $72.1 million.
If the Eras Tour’s early results are revised upward, Taylor Swift’s concert film could even break the record for the best opening in history in the month of October, currently held by the drama Joker ($96 million, in 2019).