Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at the Movies and the Missed Opportunity of EXORSWIFT | Santikos CEO Tim Handren

This Week on The Boxoffice Podcast: Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk look at the impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film on the release schedule—and the missed opportunity of having a BARBENHEIMER-style phenomenon after Universal’s Exorcist: Believer

abandoned its release date and deprived the public of the EXORSWIFT at the box office. In our feature segment, Rebecca speaks with Santikos CEO Tim Handren on the circuit’s aggressive expansion from a regional Texas chain to one of the country’s ten-largest movie theater brands.

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Episode Resources:

• TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR Concert Film Sets Presale Records for AMC Theatres, Fandango
• Weekend Box Office: THE EQUALIZER 3 Leads Labor Day Frame
• Universal Pictures to Unleash THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER a Week Early on October 6th

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:54 Movies watched this weekend
• 03:18 Post pandemic first $4 billion milestone, labor day weekend box office
• 05:08 Taylor Swift Eras Tour in theaters
• 14:14 Five Nights at Freddy’s
• 15:12 The Exorcist: Believer 
• 16:48 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
• 18:10 The Nun II
• 19:58 Texas trade show
• 20:58 CinéShow 2023
• 24:43 Santikos acquires new theaters
• 27:32 Focus on rebranding within the theater employees
• 30:02 Implementing more family entertainment concepts
• 31:43 Offloading burdened on the GMs
• 33:54 Improvement on overall audio and visual experience