Taylor Swift's New Movie Conquered the Box Office Over the Weekend, but Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's The Smashing Machine Flopped Hard

Taylor Swift's caller movie, Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, deed fig 1 connected the planetary container bureau illustration with $46 cardinal ($13 cardinal internationally / $33 cardinal domestic).

The movie launched alongside Swift’s highly-anticipated caller medium The Life of a Showgirl. Such was the excitement that AMC relaxed the chain's accustomed impermanent etiquette rules for showings, with dancing, singing and shaking it each disconnected "welcomed."

Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl includes a archetypal look astatine the album's pb azygous "The Fate of Ophelia" and a behind-the-scenes peek astatine its filming. Swifties besides got to spot lyric videos for different songs and Swift's "never-before-seen idiosyncratic reflections" connected her latest material.

It seemed to bash the trick, with the awesome container bureau haul coming lone 2 weeks aft Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl was announced. This is Swift’s 2nd chart-topping container bureau debut, pursuing 2023’s The Eras Tour, which opened to a immense $93.2 million. But it volition beryllium a little stay, with Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl lone disposable successful theaters from October 3-5.

Fans ticker a screening of Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl astatine Westfield Century City connected October 3, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.

While Swift volition beryllium celebrating, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson volition beryllium near scratching his caput aft his Oscar contender The Smashing Machine flopped hard. A24’s caller movie, which sees Johnson transformed successful the relation of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC combatant Mark Kerr, made conscionable $6 cardinal astatine the home container office. That’s a vocation debased for the WWE star, whose 2010 thriller Faster made $8.5 million, not adjusted for inflation.

According to Variety, A24 has thing of a catastrophe connected its hands here, arsenic it reportedly spent $50 cardinal to nutrient the movie “and galore millions much connected promotional efforts.”

IGN's The Smashing Machine reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "The Smashing Machine punches hard for the astir part, but stops abbreviated of a knockout."

Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio’s One Battle After Another has crossed the $100 cardinal people astatine the planetary container bureau aft 2 weekends successful theaters. That’s capable to marque it the highest-grossing movie of manager Paul Thomas Anderson’s career, overtaking There Will Be Blood, which made $76.4 cardinal globally backmost successful 2007. But the atrocious quality is that One Battle After Another reportedly needs astir $300 cardinal to interruption adjacent theatrically, and that present seems unlikely.

IGN's One Battle After Another reappraisal returned a 10/10. We said: "Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio yet squad up, and the effect is simply a 10/10 masterpiece."

And if you're wondering conscionable however overmuch involvement determination remains successful James Cameron's Avatar franchise, Avatar: The Way of Water's week-long re-issue, which includes a sneak peek astatine the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, brought successful $10 cardinal ($3.2 cardinal home and $6.8 cardinal international) this weekend. Prior to this weekend, the movie had already earned $2.32 billion, lasting arsenic the 3rd highest-grossing movie globally of all-time.

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