The last leg of pop star Taylor Swift’s current concert tour, which began in March and will run through the end of next year, will be broadcast this fall in cinemas in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the record-breaking artist announced yesterday.
“The Eras Tour was the most important experience of my life, and I announce with great joy that it will soon be shown on the big screen,” the singer, in her thirties, who is achieving overwhelming commercial success, wrote on her social media accounts. The concert movie, titled “Taylor Swift: The Elias Tour,” will be released on October 13 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The leading US movie theater chain, AMC, still heavily indebted, is expected to screen the film four times a day, from Thursday to Sunday. In the United States, tickets for these cinema shows were offered at prices excluding taxes of $ 19.89 for an adult, and $ 13.13 for a child or elderly person, while the “AMC” chain promised on its website to strengthen its server “to manage a five times greater flow of ticket sales.” Ordinary ».
A few hours after the announcement, the release date for the expected second part of the famous horror movie “The Exorcist”, titled “Believer”, produced by Universal Studios, was brought forward by one week, to October 6 instead of 13.
One of the producers of the horror film, Jason Blum, wrote on the social network X: “Look what you made me do. The release date of “The Exorcist: Believer” has been brought forward to October 6, ending his message with the tag “Taylor Wins.”
And the sale of concert tickets in the United States can turn chaotic, as happened specifically with Taylor Swift’s tour, forcing the giant Ticketmaster to defend itself before Congress in Washington over alleged anti-competitive practices.
The musician completed part of her tour in the United States and Mexico, and will finally head to Canada in November 2024. Swift will head on her next tour stops to Argentina, then Europe, Asia and Australia until the end of next year.
And with 146 sold-out concerts in stadiums, the revenue of Taylor Swift’s tour, which began her career at a young age in a bar in Nashville (Tennessee, southern United States), the “capital” of country music, is expected to reach one billion dollars.
