Dispatch, Barbenheimer. Your head will spin with this upcoming big-budget movie duo.
On Friday, October 13—the same day as the newest entry in the “Exorcist” horror series—a concert video of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” will be released in theaters, creating yet another potentially wacky double feature. Exorswift, please.
The simultaneous release of “Barbie” by Warner Bros. Discovery and “Oppenheimer” by Universal earlier this summer resulted in a double-feature cultural phenomenon and record-breaking box office receipts.
Could two young girls possessed by the devil and pop star royalty like Taylor Swift have the same effect?
Swift said on Thursday on X, the platform that replaced Twitter. “The Eras Tour has been the most significant, 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’s concert movie chronicles her massively successful tour, which raked in millions and was on track to smash the record for tour sales earlier this summer when it reached $1 billion.
There will be at least four showtimes each day on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in every AMC Theatre site in North America.
The movie theater chain reported that the tour’s first leg in the United States attracted more than 3 million spectators, surpassing previous musical attendance records.
Blumhouse’s follow-up to “The Exorcist,” “The Exorcist: Believer,” is set 50 years after the first movie. Universal will handle the distribution of it. Leslie Odom Jr. from “Hamilton” and Ellen Burstyn from the cult classic about demonic possession from 1973 both appear in the movie.
NBCUniversal and CNBC are both owned by Comcast.
NBCUniversal is the company that releases “Oppenheimer” and “The Exorcist: Believer.”