Swift doesn't need a major studio to create a major pop culture moment.

… Swift’s team worked around the major studios—represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, in the ongoing labor negotiations—altogether when it came to producing and releasing Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. The film was self-funded, with Swift reportedly spending $10 to $20 million to produce it and her parents working directly with AMC Theaters on distribution. … Though Swift’s film may not do Barbie numbers, she is set to break even more records when it opens next month. Already, it’s on track to make up to $100 million in its first weekend—and could open as high as $145 million, according to BoxOffice.com. That’s unprecedented for a concert film, and would put it in the top five theatrical openings this year.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    archive link to full article: https://archive.ph/dira5

    “She came to us and said she wanted to do this, but only if she could do it the right way under a union contract,” Crabtree-Ireland said during a talk at a Toronto Independent Film Festival last week. “And we said, that’s great. And so she fulfilled all the same criteria as anybody else and has an interim agreement for that production.”

    so whatever you think of her, the Writer’s Strike is obviously down to one problem: assholes