Taylor Swift’s ‘Official Release Party of a Show Girl’ Pulverizes Dwayne Johnson’s ‘The Smashing Machine’ at Weekend Box Office

Taylor Swift dominated the container bureau implicit the play with her peculiar Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl movie event, topping the U.S. illustration with an estimated home haul of $33 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

How large a play did Swift have? Her three-day-only lawsuit for the 89-minute movie that is fundamentally an extended trailer for her caller The Life of a Showgirl LP easy soared good supra the container bureau of 2 large Hollywood stars appearing successful films with Oscar buzz. In total, adding successful overseas summons income of $13 million, the Showgirl tally earned a full of $46 cardinal implicit the play portion playing connected much than 3,700 screens.

The movie that opened connected screens connected Friday to coincide with the the singer’s merchandise of her 12th workplace medium is simply a mash-up of euphony videos — including the Swift-directed 1 for the azygous “The Fate of Ophelia” — behind-the-scenes footage, lyric videos and idiosyncratic reflections from Swift connected the originative process down the music.

While Swift soared, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s MMA drama, The Smashing Machine, tanked, bringing successful conscionable $6 cardinal from much than 3,300 theaters, making for the worst wide opening of the wrestler-turned-actor’s vocation successful a melodramatic relation that was being touted arsenic imaginable Oscar bait. And, according to THR, Johnson tin hardly blasted Swifties for his passionateness task film’s mediocre open, arsenic astir 90% of Showgirl summons buyers were pistillate portion the Smashing Machine assemblage tilted heavy antheral astatine 70%-plus.

In summation to smashing the Machine, Swift besides easy soared implicit Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed One Battle After Another, the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring play that fell to 2nd spot successful week two. Receipts were down 49% from week 1 to $11.1 cardinal successful North America, for a 10-day home full of $42.8 million, with a full of $101.7 cardinal globally to date.

The Showgirls movie — announced conscionable 2 weeks earlier opening with small promotion — follows connected the heels of Swift’s past large surface triumph, the 2023 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour performance film, which opened to a grounds $93.2 cardinal domestically arsenic it swiftly climbed to go the top-grossing performance film of each clip with $261.6 cardinal successful planetary summons sales.