billboard(@billboard):Taylor Swift gained a new crown in the fall of 2023: the queen of the movie theater. 🎬 That October, ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ opened to $93 million at the North American box office over its opening weekend, stunning the film business and helping kick off a new wave of theatrically released concert films. Importantly, it also arrived amid a sparse theatrical release calendar due to the overlapping writers’ and actors’ strikes, making it a godsend for movie theaters that were starved for content. Learn more about the rise and impact of concert films — from One Direction and Justin Bieber to BTS and KATSEYE:

2026.08.23 18:35

Taylor Swift gained a new crown in the fall of 2023: the queen of the movie theater. 🎬 That October, ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ opened to $93 million at the North American box office over its opening weekend, stunning the film business and helping kick off a new wave of theatrically released concert films. Importantly, it also arrived amid a sparse theatrical release calendar due to the overlapping writers’ and actors’ strikes, making it a godsend for movie theaters that were starved for content. Learn more about the rise and impact of concert films — from One Direction and Justin Bieber to BTS and KATSEYE: