Taylor Swift is preparing to take a cinematic victory lap, as box-office analysts project her special cinematic event, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl running from Oct. 3-5, to dominate this weekend to accompany her new album, The Life of a Showgirl . The movie, announced two weeks ago and minimally promoted since, is tracking at between $35 million to $40 million, Variety reported , noting it would be Swift’s second chart-topping opening in as many years.

The new theatrical venture, designed as part-album launch, part-experiential event, signals a typically Swiftian and extraordinary fusion of fandom and business acumen, arriving at the perfect moment to energize theaters nationwide after another lackluster post-pandemic year of returns . Neither a standard biopic nor

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