Sorry to Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine , but Taylor Swift has now laid claim to the October 3 release weekend with a new 89-minute “album release party,” rendering any other attempt to see a movie that weekend null and void. The aptly and succinctly named Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl will premiere at 3 p.m. ET and play the whole weekend. On her socials, Swift wrote that the party — or, sorry, “dazzling soirée” — would include “the exclusive world premiere of the music video” for her first single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” as well as “never before seen behind-the-scenes footage of how we made it, cut by cut explanations of what inspired this music, and the brand new lyric videos from my new album The Life of a Showgirl .”

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