‘Exorcist: Believer’ Changes Release Date to Avoid Same Weekend as Taylor Swift Concert Film: ‘Taylor Wins’

Following the announcement that the Taylor Swift Eras Tour is coming to theaters, another movie is in the works.

Exorcist: Believerpreviously scheduled for Friday, Oct. 13, has been moved up a week, producer Jason Blum revealed Thursday.

Referring to Swift’s iconic song, the director published on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, “Look what you made me do.”

Blum’s post continued — “The Exorcist: Believer moves to 10/6/23” — and ended with the hashtag “#TaylorWins”

Beginning on October 13, the concert film version of Swift’s The Eras Tour, which kicked off on March 13 and is scheduled to run through November 23, 2024, will be shown on the big screen.

Taylor Swift The Eras Tour concert film: Everything you need to know

Taylor Swift performs on stage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at State Farm Stadium on March 18, 2023 in Swift City, ERAzone (Glendale, Arizona)

Taylor Swift.

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The “All Too Well” singer, 33, announced the news Thursday with a post on Instagram: “The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electrifying experience of my life so far and I’m so excited to tell you that it will be on the big screen soon.”

She added: “Period costume, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing are encouraged.”

Exorcist: Believer is a sequel to the Oscar-winning 1973 horror film starring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair. Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green and Peter Sattler, it stars Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz and Burstyn — reprising his Oscar-nominated role as Chris MacNeil.

Blum (54) is a producer best known as the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions. His company has brought dozens of horror films to the big screen, including Paranormal activity and Treacherous film franchises, get out, The invisible man and this year’s M3GAN. At the premiere of the latter in December, Blum was dressed in the costume of the film’s main doll.

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“The Exorcist: The Believer”.

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Last year, during the promotion Exorcist: BelieverBlum told Deadline, “I’m really excited The exorcist [sequel]. The first person I approached when we took over the film was David Gordon Green. I thought what David did with Halloween he was excellent and I think he really found a great balance of respecting the original intellectual property but also bringing something new to it. So it didn’t feel like I was renewed.”

The Eras Tour, comprised of Swift’s greatest hits from more than a decade of her songwriting career, has broken ticket sales records across the country. On July 22 and 23 at Seattle’s record-breaking Lumen Field, her concerts even generated seismic activity “equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake,” CNN reported.

Celebrate Swift’s prolific career with a new special issue of PEOPLE, Taylor Swift fearless superstarwhich will be available on newsstands and Amazon.com starting September 8.

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