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Taylor Swift, whose ultra-lucrative Eras Tour is still going, has officially become a billionaire. According to a new analysis by Bloomberg News, the 33-year-old pop superstar now has a net worth of $1.1 billion. The tour is a major component of her fortune, with about $700 million in ticket sales…

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond predicts the long SAG-AFTRA strike will settle relatively soon. If, instead, it drags on, theater chains will face a rocky second half of 2024 but he sees the large-format exhibitor standing apart. "An exhibitor who programs a multiplex needs lots of movies," he told Wall…

No one knew how big this was going to be, or is going to be, but Universal/Blumhouse’s feature take on beloved horror video game, Five Nights at Freddy‘s is eyeing a $50 million-plus start and possibly even more. At that level, it would make it the second-best domestic box office opening of the fall…

MONDAY AM WRITETHRU: There were two major new entries this weekend at the international box office, one local (Tamil thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet) and one from Hollywood. Starting with the latter, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon from Apple, Paramount and Imperative Entertainment had a big…

MONDAY AM: Great holds for the highest-grossing concert movie of all time as AMC’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ,with a revised second weekend of $33.2 million at the domestic box office after a $9.55M Sunday. That’s a bigger Sunday than the $8.8M estimated yesterday, and overall, the three-day total is…

The AMC-distributed Taylor Swift concert movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which paused weekday play from Monday-Thursday, is looking at a 60%-70% dive in its second weekend with $27M-$37M off its first weekend of $92.3M. Those industry projections are based on the front-loaded nature of female-skewing…

Monday AM: AMC reports that Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour posted a global first weekend of $123.5M; broken out that’s $92.8M domestic and another $30.7M from 94 international territories in 4,527 venues. No disrespect here to AMC which has done a great job with the movie, and the Swifts should be happy with…

2nd Monday AM Update: AMC just made it official…opening weekend for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is $92.8M, still second-best domestic start for October. Per Screen Average is $24,073. Days broken out are:Friday – $37,525,947 million Saturday – $32,003,145 Million Sunday – $23,275,586…

SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator and National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is very happy with Taylor Swift and not so happy with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos. We spoke with Crabtree-Ireland today at New York Comic-Con where he took the stage for a panel about AI. Talks collapsed on…

Taylor Swift seems set to do for the UK cinema industry what she has pulled off for the live entertainment industry, i.e. provide a much-needed cash injection. The pop superstar's Era Tour movie – a high-production presentation of her record-breaking global tour – has opened at the top of the UK and…

Taylor Swift has the highest-grossing concert tour of the year, and she’s set out to conquer movie theaters, as well. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which opened Thursday, has already sold more than $100 million in advance ticket sales in 8,500 theaters across 100 countries around the world. It could make $1…

Two experimental films executive produced by Steven Soderbergh — Eddie Alcazar's Divinity and Godfrey Reggio's Once Within a Time – join Neon's anticipated Cannes Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall in theaters today, a bit of counterprogramming on a weekend dominated by Taylor Swift: The Eras…