Taylor Swift Eras Tour Concert Film Coming to Movie Theaters

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, the billion-dollar juggernaut that has dominated the cultural calendar this 12 months, could also be on a break earlier than choosing up internationally, however its momentum will solely relaxation so lengthy: The present is coming to film theaters this fall.

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” live performance movie might be launched within the United States, Canada and Mexico on Oct. 13, Swift introduced on social media Thursday, with U.S. AMC Theaters promising not less than 4 showtimes per day from Thursday to Sunday upon opening.

“The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon,” Swift stated. “Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged.”

Anticipating the white-hot demand that has adopted the tour since its announcement, crashing ticketing methods world wide, AMC promised in a news launch that it had “bolstered its ticket server capacity to handle traffic at more than 5 times the current record for the most ever tickets sold in an hour.” (The firm added, nonetheless, that it was “also aware that no ticketing system in history seems to have been able to accommodate the soaring demand from Taylor Swift fans when tickets are first placed on sale.”)

Tickets are on sale now. Prices begin at $19.89 for adults and $13.13 for kids, considerably lower than what followers paid for the tour itself — particularly on the strong secondary market — because the live performance business adjusts to typically prohibitively excessive prices for its greatest occasions.

Swift, 33, wrapped this 12 months’s North American dates with 4 exhibits in Mexico final week. Her downtime, although, might be transient. In addition to the film model of the live performance, the singer will launch “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” the fourth of rerecorded unique albums, two weeks later, on Oct. 27. By November, the Eras Tour will choose up in Argentina earlier than touring world wide in 2024, with dates — together with 9 extra U.S. exhibits — persevering with into November 2024.

“1989 (Taylor’s Version),” the brand new version of her 2014 pop blockbuster, marks Swift’s seventh launch in exactly three years, a interval of creative productiveness that has fueled pent-up, post-pandemic demand for the singer’s reside present. Jon Caramanica, a critic for The New York Times, stated in a evaluate of the primary live performance in March that the Eras Tour placed on show “how many pivots Swift has undertaken in her career, and how the accompanying risks can have wildly different consequences.”

The commerce publication Pollstar has estimated that the singer bought about $14 million in tickets for every present thus far. By the top of subsequent 12 months, the 146 stadium dates may attain $1.4 billion or extra in gross sales.