Taylor Swift Steals the Spotlight as ‘Release Party of a Showgirl’ Hits No. 1 at Box Office

Taylor Swift’s The Official Release Party of a Showgirl is disconnected to a spectacular commencement with a No. 1 debut astatine the home box office.

The popular superstar’s constricted theatrical lawsuit — a one-weekend-only acquisition giving fans a behind-the-scenes look astatine the making of her 12th workplace album, The Life of a Showgirl — is expected to bring successful betwixt $28 cardinal and $32 cardinal from 3,702 theaters, according to projections from Swift’s squad and organisation spouse AMC Theatres (per The Hollywood Reporter). Rival workplace estimates are adjacent higher, with immoderate predicting the movie could surpass $35 cardinal successful its opening weekend.

Females made up astir 90% of opening-day audiences connected Friday (Oct. 3), according to THR.

Dwayne Johnson’s A24 wrestling play The Smashing Machine is struggling successful its debut, projected to gain $6 million, which is beneath archetypal expectations of $12–$14 million.

The Official Release Party of a Showgirl has been met with rave reviews from fans, earning a coveted A+ CinemaScore, matching the assemblage effect to Swift’s 2023 record-breaking performance movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.

Running 89 minutes, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl features the premiere of the euphony video for the album’s opening track, “The Fate of Ophelia.” It besides includes exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the video shoot, lyric videos for the set’s tracks, and idiosyncratic reflections from Swift herself connected the originative process down the music.

The peculiar lawsuit is showing successful theaters lone from Oct. 3-5. Check retired Billboard‘s 8 biggest takeaways from the theatrical takeover here.

This isn’t Swift’s archetypal container bureau triumph. In 2020, she released the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary Miss Americana, followed by The Eras Tour performance movie successful 2023, which went connected to gross $179.2 cardinal domestically, becoming the highest-grossing performance film of each time.