This is how Swift’s Eras Tour film compared to Barbie, Mario Brothers and the Flash on their opening weekends.
The Taylor Swift concert film took $3.8 million in its opening weekend in Australia, making it the biggest film of the weekend – ahead ofin its second weekend – and giving it the 13th biggest opening weekend of the year, just behindThe Swift film, though, opened on 281 screens, just under half the 573 that showed the superhero movie in its first weekend., the year’s biggest film by some margin, opened with $19.
Box Office Mojo reports that globally, the three-hour-long concert movie had taken $US128 million by the end of the weekend. However, lags in reporting times mean three-quarters of that take came from the US. Although the film has been released simultaneously in multiple territories, Australian fans and cinema owners initially thought they might miss out because the concert tour itself does not arrive here until early next year.
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