If you weren’t able to score much-coveted tickets toTaylor Swift’s twoEras Tourperformances in the Bay Area this summer, the pop sensation has announced that a concert film is set to hit theaters this fall.
“The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon,” Swift said viaInstagramon Thursday, Aug. 31. “Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged.”
AMC Theaters plans to host at least four screenings per day of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” from Thursday to Sunday following the Oct. 13 opening date of the film at all of its U.S. theaters.
In an effort to avoid asystemwide crashlike the one that took down Ticketmaster when the tour was announced last fall, AMC vowed to Swifties that it has “bolstered its ticket server capacity to handle traffic at more than 5 times the current record for the most ever tickets sold in an hour.”
The company added that it was “also aware that no ticketing system in history seems to have been able to accommodate the soaring demand from Taylor Swift fans when tickets are first placed on sale.”
Tickets are priced at Swift-friendly prices — $19.89 for general admission, in honor of the forthcoming “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” and $13.13, in a nod to her favorite number, for children and seniors. Advance sales began Thursday morning.
While the prices are higher than usual movie tickets, they are a fraction of the cost of passes for the actual concerts, which originally sold for anywhere between $49 to $449, and went for as high as $45,000 per seaton the resale market.
Swift wrapped up the North American leg of the Eras Tour with a four-show run in Mexico last week. More than 68,500 fans each night attended the singer’s sold-out concerts atLevi’s Stadiumin Santa Clara on July 28 and 29.
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