Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, the multibillion-dollar giant that has dominated the cultural calendar this year, may be on hiatus before getting back on track internationally, but the momentum will rest for only so long: the show hits theaters this fall.
The concert film ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ will be released on October 13 in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Swift announced on social media Thursday, with US AMC theaters opening at least four showtimes Thursday through Sunday. promise per day.
“The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life to date and I am thrilled to tell you that it will soon be on the big screen,” said Swift. “Era clothes, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing are encouraged.”
Anticipating the massive demand that followed the tour since its announcement, causing ticketing systems to crash around the world, AMC promised in a press release that it had “bolstered the capacity of its ticket server to handle traffic at more than five times the current record for the tour. most tickets ever sold within an hour.” (However, the company added that it was “also aware that no ticketing system in history seems to have been able to meet the surging demand from Taylor Swift fans when tickets first became available in the to be sold.”)
Tickets are on sale now. Prices start at $19.89 for adults and $13.13 for kids, significantly less than what fans paid for the tour itself – especially in the robust secondary market – as the concert industry adjusts to sometimes prohibitive costs for the biggest events.
Swift, 33, wrapped up this year’s North American dates last week with four shows in Mexico. However, her downtime will be short-lived. In addition to the film version of the concert, the singer will release ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’, the fourth of re-recorded original albums, two weeks later on October 27. In November the Eras Tour will continue in Argentina. will tour the world in 2024, with dates – including nine additional US shows – extending through November 2024.
“1989 (Taylor’s Version),” the new edition of her 2014 pop blockbuster, marks Swift’s seventh release in just three years, a period of artistic productivity that has fueled pent-up, post-pandemic demand for the singer’s live show. DailyExpertNews critic Jon Caramanica, in a review of the first concert in March, said the Eras Tour showed “how many pivots Swift has undertaken in her career, and how the risks involved can have vastly different consequences. ”
Industry magazine Pollstar estimates that the singer has sold about $14 million in tickets for each show to date. By the end of next year, the 146 stadium data could reach sales of $1.4 billion or more.
