Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' Hits Box Office With $33M, 'The Smashing Machine' Falls Flat With $6M | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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Taylor Swift ruled the weekend box office with her 'The Life of a Showgirl' album release party...while Dwayne Johnson's 'The Smashing Machine' fell flat, despite writer-director Benny Safdie's best efforts.

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00:00Taylor Swift ruled the weekend box office with her The Life of a Showgirl album release party,

00:04while Dwayne Johnson's The Smashing Machine fell flat, despite filmmaker Benny Safdie's best

00:09efforts. Swift's special album release event towered over the competition at the domestic

00:20box office with an estimated weekend bounty of $33 million. Overseas, it earned a better-than-expected

00:26$13 million for a global haul of $46 million. That's a record-breaking number for what's

00:32being described as a cinematic experience that played for only three days in cinemas.

00:36The 89-minute big-screen event included a mix of lyric videos, songwriting commentary,

00:42and the world premiere of Swift's music video for The Fate of Ophelia,

00:45as well as behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the music video, which she directed.

00:49You took me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.

00:56Meanwhile, Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed awards contender One Battle After

01:00Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, fell to second place in its sophomore outing.

01:04And The Smashing Machine, starring Johnson and Emily Blunt, came in third with an estimated $6

01:09million, marking the worst wide start of Johnson's career, despite his performance being praised

01:14as potentially Oscar-worthy. Over the weekend, The Hollywood Reporter spotted filmmaker Seth

01:19de-promoting The Smashing Machine to Swift's fans leaving a screening of the official release

01:23party of a showgirl at the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles.

01:27I'm just trying to convince people I think they want theater to go into the next one.

01:36For all the latest box office news and numbers, head to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' Hits Box Office With $33M, 'The Smashing Machine' Falls Flat With $6M | THR News Video

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