Box Office: Taylor Swift Asserts Dominance With ‘The Eras Tour’ Record-Breaking $128M Global Debut

  1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour– $96M

The jury is still out on the final tally for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour concert movie, but it’s looking like a $96M domestic debut, with $128M worldwide. That’s a goddamn lot of Swifties who showed up for the movie, directed by Swift herself, and it places right up there with the record October opening of Joker with $96.2M. It’s already the highest-grossing concert film of all-time. Sorry, Justin Bieber! This is after a massive $39M Friday launch, which is A LOT more than what any other film made for the entire weekend. Then again, there were no other major films that dared even cross Swift’s path, and who can blame them?

2. The Exorcist: Believer– $11M/$44.9M

The first of two horror films still in the Top 5, The Exorcist: Believer has managed a decent $44.9M domestic after two weeks, and $84M worldwide. But as I said last week, this doesn’t go far enough to cover the $200M Universal paid for the rights, and as such we’re not going to see director David Gordon Green returning for any sequels.

3. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie– $7M/$49.8M

4. Saw X– $5.7M/$41.4M

5. The Creator– $4.3M/$32.4M

The $79M worldwide tally for Gareth Edwards’ The Creator is really bumming me out. Just sayin’.

6. A Haunting in Venice– $2.05M/$38.9M

7. The Blind– $2.02M/$13.9M

8. The Nun II– $1.6M/$83.7M

9. The Equalizer 3– $960K/$90.5M

10. Dumb Money– $920K/$12.6M

Travis Hopson
Travis Hopson has been reviewing movies before he even knew there was such a thing. Having grown up on a combination of bad '80s movies, pro wrestling, comic books, and hip-hop, Travis is uniquely positioned to geek out on just about everything under the sun. A vampire who walks during the day and refuses to sleep, Travis is the co-creator and lead writer for Punch Drunk Critics. He is also a contributor to Good Morning Washington, WBAL Morning News, and WETA Around Town. In the five minutes a day he's not working, Travis is also a voice actor, podcaster, and Twitch gamer. Travis is a voting member of the Critics Choice Association (CCA), Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), and Late Night programmer for the Lakefront Film Festival.