“Taylor Swift has already sold $15 million in presale tickets to the upcoming theatrical release party for her The Life Of A Showgirl album.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
The 35-year-old Grammy winner announced on Friday that fans will have the chance to celebrate the singer’s 12th studio album in theaters beginning on October 3 when the LP officially drops.
The event will play across 540 AMC theaters for one weekend from October 3 through October 5.
Swift’s theatrical release party is expected to rake in around $30-$50 million, per Deadline – and presale ticket sales reached $15 million over the span of 24 hours since the event’s announcement.
The Bad Blood songstress directly reached out to the AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron in late August in regards to the theatrical release, according to the outlet.
While trailers for the event will not be shown as promotion, digital billboards have already been put up.
Ticket prices sit at $12 – which was decided by the award-winning performer herself.
The special theatrical release is slated to be 89 minutes long and will include the music video premiere of the track The Fate Of Ophelia.
Swift also sat down to open up about the songs on the album which will be shown as well as lyric videos.
On Friday, the Love Story singer announced The Life Of A Showgirl theatrical release party on social media in celebration of her new music.
The star dropped her last album The Tortured Poets Department over one year earlier in April 2024.
‘I hereby invite you to a *dazzling* soirée, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl: Oct 3 – Oct 5 only in cinemas!’ Swift penned on her main Instagram page – which boasts 282 million followers.
Fans in attendance will have the chance to see the ‘exclusive world premiere of the music video for my new single “The Fate of Ophelia”‘ as well as ‘never before seen behind-the-scenes footage of how we made it.’
The event is set to additionally show ‘cut by cut explanations of what inspired this music, and the brand new lyric videos from my new album The Life of a Showgirl.’
Swift wrote in conclusion, ‘Looks like it’s time to brush off that Eras Tour outfit or orange cardigan… Tickets are on sale now. Dancing is optional but very much encouraged…’
The songstress is no stranger to raking in box office numbers – and notably released Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in theaters in October 2023.
The movie included her Los Angeles concert from her record-breaking Eras Tour, with the film’s premiere taking place at The Grove in L.A.
Swift had notably made an appearance at the screening, with the concert film garnering $37 million in presale tickets on its first day alone in the U.S.
Domestically, the Eras Tour film made $180.8 million in the box office and around $267 million globally.
Other movies set to hit theaters on October 3 include the A24 project The Smashing Machine, the re-release of Avatar: The Way Of Water and also Bone Lake.
On Saturday, the Instagram account @taylornation dropped a new clip of the star as she discussed the album photos as well as the vinyl/CD packaging.
‘I just wanted the fans to have as many images from this sort of world this album era as possible,’ Swift said while sitting in a chair on what appeared to be a set.
She added, ‘And so I really spent a lot of time figuring out how I could make the best vinyl product and the best packaging and the best CD experience that they could have.’
The star explained that the CDs ‘all have photo cards in them’ while the vinyls ‘each have a poem inside of them, a unique poem. They’ve got more images than we ever planned to put in there.’
Swift added, ‘I think we wanted this album to feel really luxurious. And kind of as a nod to the luxury that a showgirl puts on when she’s onstage.’
The singer stated that she is ‘proud of’ of the album and added that she ‘hopes the fans are happy.’
While Swift prepares for the theatrical release party to hit cinemas early next month, other films have hit theaters over the current weekend.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle from Sony Pictures/Crunchyroll has topped the box office by raking in $17.3 million, per Deadline.
The sports horror film Him landed in second with $13.5 million and The Conjuring: Last Rites in third with $12.95 million
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell’s romantic fantasy A Big Bold Beautiful Journey opened with $3.5 million.
The movie has garnered ‘brutal’ reviews from critics who have slammed the ‘insufferable romantic fantasy.’
Demon Slayer hit theaters on September 12 and has become the highest-grossing anime at the domestic box office, having already raked in $104.7 million – and $555 million globally thus far.