Taylor Swift Angers Movie Studios By Breaking The Mold With Her The Eras Tour Movie

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Taylor Swift isn't just shaking it off: she's shaking things up in Hollywood with a bombshell deal that has reportedly left studios seething. The pop icon is bringing her "Eras Tour" concert to theaters on October 13, and has made the radical move of cutting out the middleman — a Hollywood studio distributor like Disney, Paramount, or Universal— and making a deal directly with AMC Theatres to distribute the film on its screens, while also distributing in other theaters via a sub-distribution deal with Variance Films.

Here's why this is such a big deal. Traditionally there are three parties involved in bringing movies to theaters: the producer, the distributor, and the exhibitor. The first two are often housed under the same roof; for example, Disney owns Pixar Animation Studios (a production company) and also distributes Pixar movies by making deals with exhibitors (theaters). Box office ticket sales are then split between the exhibitors and the distributor, with the studio usually taking a bigger cut of opening weekends, and theaters taking a larger percentage later on in a movie's theatrical run.

Up until recently, there was a sharp dividing line between movie studios and theaters: studios were not allowed to own movie theaters, due to a landmark antitrust decision in 1949. But this decision was overturned in 2020, which means that Disney could now theoretically launch a chain of Disney theaters, and an exhibitor like AMC can get into the distribution game.

So, when the Swift family found Hollywood's studios seeking to control the when and where of "Eras Tour" hitting theaters (as is typical of a movie release), they instead turned to AMC Theatres, saying: "I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."

Intentionally or not, this is a power move, and studios are reportedly angry about it. 

According to a report by Puck News, the Swift family hired director Sam Wrench to shoot "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" for a budget of around $10-20 million, and were directly discussing distribution with studios. However, at least one distributor was thinking of a 2025 release, long after the live tour had ended, and the Swifts wanted it to play in theaters alongside the tour. So, they began negotiating directly with AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron, put together a deal in secret over a number of weeks, and announced it without any of the studios getting a heads-up.

IndieWire reports that there's "major anger" at the studios over being blindsided by this news. According to Puck News, Universal Pictures is "extra-pissed." Not only was the studio considering picking up "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" for distribution, it's now had to move "The Exorcist: Believer" off its cool horror release date of Friday the 13th of October, to avoid getting crushed under Taylor's kitten heel.

A concert film is a pretty different set-up from a scripted studio movie, and it remains to be seen whether a deal like this — which cuts out the major Hollywood distributors entirely with a direct deal between producers and an exhibitor — could actually represent a threat to the established producer-distributor-exhibitor structure. But this isn't the only place where cracks are starting to show in the studio system. 

 

https://www.slashfilm.com/1383696/hollywood-studios-taylor-swift-eras-tour-losing-millions/

 

The Music Industry always INNOVATE!  And she said F THE POWER THAT BE!   First she fought spotify for fair royalties, and now big studios for their unfair monopoly

 

 

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Also, learning for a certain part of the article, if TCB movie still planned for release, the delay is most likely nothing to do with the strikes, but more to when that movie was planned for release by executives of whichever studio that bought the rights from Gaga. 

[bionic 43,801]

Honey, she IS the patriarchy  

[weed 71,436]

Love that

[Lanadelduck 1,924]

The studios need a major reality check. 

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27 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

So, they began negotiating directly with AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron, put together a deal in secret over a number of weeks, and announced it without any of the studios getting a heads-up.

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[PunkTheFunk 123,747]

Maybe it's me getting more cynical as I get older but this story just reeks of rich people finding ways to get richer by double crossing other rich people.

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3 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

Maybe it's me getting more cynical as I get older but this story just reeks of rich people finding ways to get richer by double crossing other rich people.

This was my exact thought too. Being a cynic sucks sometimes lol 

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Mother breaks the stadiums Mother breaks the Movie theaters

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1 hour ago, bionic said:

Honey, she IS the patriarchy  

Patriarchy and  in one sentence.. wild 

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In case people bring up Gaga and the Chromatica Ball, I think that although it sucks that the release seems so late, Gaga is doing well by associating with a distributor. She’s well into the acting business by now, so angering a major distributor now could amputate her career and potential future roles. Hollywood isn’t very forgiving to people who break their big egos.

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Awww! Poor babies.

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I know Taylor is not exactly an underdog, but it's nice to see an actual artist saying how it goes instead of a bunch of suits.

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2 hours ago, RAMROD said:

So, when the Swift family found Hollywood's studios seeking to control the when and where of "Eras Tour" hitting theaters (as is typical of a movie release), they instead turned to AMC Theatres, saying: "I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."

Intentionally or not, this is a power move, and studios are reportedly angry about it. 

Taylor to the Hollywood studios

[Lady Adga 8,664]

Her power