Friday, December 5, 2025

Taylor Swift Weekend: $33 Million Made from Infomercial Movie for New Album, More than 5 Times Box office for The Rock’s Wrestling Movie

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Ka ching!

Taylor Swift Weekend continues.

“The Official Album Party Release Infomercial” made $33 million in three days.

The “film” plugs her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

More than five times the number of people who plunked down $12 tickets for Swift saw The Rock’s wrestling movie, “The Smashing Machine.” The Rock took in $6 million, a devastating all time low for his career.

This comes as Hitsdailydouble.com predicts sales of 3 million albums, including streaming and downloads.

At that rate, the same number of people who saw the movie this weekend also bought the album.

On Rotten Tomatoes there are no actual reviews from critics. But the audience adored it, at 96%!

Records have been broken all over the place. “Most Ever” in every category: sales in one day of 12 songs you won’t remember 10 years from now, etc.

Plus, overnight Taylor issued four CDs of extras that could have been included in the initial release. They’re 8 bucks apiece. So an extra $32 on top of the $14 for the original CD, or $30-something for vinyl, plus the merchandise.

All for many songs that sound just like other music.

It’s fantastic!

Keep refreshing…

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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