‘Taylor Swift: Eras Tour’ Concert Film Sellouts Outpacing ‘Barbie’, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ – Box Office

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1. Heading into the Swift snowfall this weekend at the box office, here’s what we can tell you about her AMC-distributed film. As already has been reported, a $100M+ projection is in store, per distribution sources, and another $50M+ overseas for $150M global debut. But part of those stats come from box office analytics firm EntTelligence, which is observing sellouts for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour significantly outstripping Barbie and, percentage-wise, that of Spider-Man: No Way Home compared to each movie’s first evenings.

   Another big indicator of big business: 99% of the presales activity for the entire weekend is for The Eras Tour. 

   Also, with young female-skewing movies known to be frontloaded in their preview/opening days at the box office, EntTelligence says, “There is a very even disbursement of sales over the three days.”

   EntTelligence defines sellouts as showtimes having capacities of 75% or greater, since front rows and seat for the disabled do not necessarily draw attendance. Eras Tour won’t be having Thursday previews because Swift wants the film launching on her lucky day of Friday the 13th, so the first shows are at 6 p.m. that night.

   As of Monday, per EntTelligence, there were more than 4,200 showtimes “sold out” out of 13,000 showtimes or 32%, which is massive for the first evening of a tentpole. Do you know how many showtimes were “sold out” on Barbie‘s first night of previews? 500. (Barbie‘s opening weekend was $162M off a first day/previews of $70.5M). Spider-Man: No Way Home, which had an opening of $260.1M off a Friday/previews of $121.9M in 2021, only had 18% of its Thursday night showtimes sold out. All sellouts here are compared four days before each film’s first night. One of every three showtimes is sold out for Eras Concert on opening day.

   EntTelligence is currently monitoring more than 11.5M seats via 65k showtimes for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. No one is expecting the film to open stateside on par with Barbie and Spider-Man: No Way Home, by the way, given that Eras Tour has 65K showtimes available in its run-up to Friday versus 105K showtimes for No Way Home before its Friday opening and 63K showtimes for Barbie.

   Although the pic is being released by AMC, with booking by Gotham-based distributor Variance, The Eras Tour is playing all circuits in the U.S. down to the Greenfield Garden Cinemas in Greenfield, MA, and the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, VT. The concert movie will play for at least four frames only on weekends and not weekdays.  

   Over the entire weekend, 6,800 showtimes have capacities north of 75%.

   Current top-selling cities for Eras Tour concert film are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.

   While Swift originally had movie tickets priced at $19.89 and $13.13 — the first number reflecting the year she was born (and an album title) and the latter her lucky number — EntTelligence shows that the actual market average for movie tickets stand at $20.82 for general admission (that includes large format), $14.16 for a child’s ticket, and $14.42 for a senior citizen ticket.

   Heading into the weekend, EntTelligence also shows that Saturday admissions for Eras Tour are spread out as follows: 19% attending before 1 p.m., 33% between 1-5 p.m., 37% between 5 and 8 p.m. and 11% after 8 p.m.

   AMC has not reported the theater count yet stateside or internationally on Eras Tour. The circuit said last week that Eras Tour crossed $100M in global advance ticket sales.

2. Have fun sitting with your popcorn listening to songs about ex boyfriends.

3. There’s no denying it, the woman can draw them in

4. She has the cash/ connections in the industry to make milestones like this happen. Also comes off obnoxious her trying to infiltrate the movie sphere with her recorded borderline karaoke performances capitalizing on her psycho fanbase.