By Eva Rothenberg, CNN
Taylor Swift’s concert film has previously damaged theater information more than a thirty day period forward of its Oct 13 release. AMC Theaters explained Friday that the singer’s Eras Tour live performance motion picture “shattered data for solitary-working day progress ticket income earnings,” with $26 million of tickets marketed on Thursday.
It beat the previous file holder, “Spider-Person: No Way Dwelling,” which marketed $16.9 million worthy of of tickets in a single day in advance of its launch in 2021, AMC claimed in a statement.
Swift’s film crushed the every day document much less than three several hours immediately after tickets grew to become readily available, prompting the theater chain to say that it will add additional showtimes exactly where doable.
Motion picture theaters have been recovering from a pandemic-period audience slump, driven by summer months blockbuster hits like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” (“Barbie” is dispersed by Warner Bros. Pics, which is owned by CNN’s mum or dad organization, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
But the ongoing Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes and the impasse with studio negotiations necessarily mean that the pool of motion pictures making its way to theaters could dry up in excess of the future calendar year. Whilst studios generally distribute films to theaters, AMC is acting as the Eras Tour film distributor in what it named “the inaugural step of a new line of company for AMC Leisure.”
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