BREAKING: Taylor Swift shocks Hollywood again by skipping studios and teaming up directly with AMC Theatres to release her ‘THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL’ movie.

Taylor Swift is returning to theaters, the superstar announced Friday, confirming The Hollywood Reporter‘s previous reporting. The news comes just weeks before the superstar is set to release her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl.

After the initial publication of this story, Swift revealed at 12:12 p.m. ET Friday (fitting for Swift’s 12th album) an official release party for The Life of a Showgirl. The album arrives on Friday, Oct. 3, while the film will be in theaters from Oct. 3-Oct. 5. The movie theater release party will feature the world premiere of the music video for Showgirl single “The Fate of Ophelia.” Tickets will be $12.

“I hereby invite you to a *dazzling* soirée, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl: Oct 3 – Oct 5 only in cinemas,” Swift wrote across social media on Friday. “You’ll get to see the exclusive world premiere of the music video for my new single ‘The Fate of Ophelia,’ along with never before seen behind-the-scenes footage of how we made it, cut by cut explanations of what inspired this music, and the brand new lyric videos from my new album The Life of a Showgirl. Looks like it’s time to brush off that Eras Tour outfit or orange cardigan… Tickets are on sale now. Dancing is optional but very much encouraged.”

Like her tour itself, The Eras Tour film was a phenomenon two years ago, becoming the top grossing concert film of all time with $261.6 million globally. Swift and her team financed the $15 million project herself, bypassing the Hollywood studio system and partnering with AMC Theatres on the project.

AMC Theatres is once again partnering with Swift to distribute the special event. Since the mega-circuit is doubling as distributor — as it did with Eras — it is making the event available to hundreds of other theaters with the help of Variance. They will be closely monitoring the pace of Advance ticket sales in terms of the demand for this sort of offering, versus a behemoth like Eras, sources say.

Like other circuits, AMC is still recovering from a rough summer at the box office and can use all the special event content it can get. September has seen something of a rebound, but domestic revenue is up by only 6 percent over last year. At the beginning of June, revenue was up by more than 20 percent.

Other films set to debut on the Oct. 3-5 weekend of her new album include the anticipated Dwayne Johnson-starrer The Smashing Machine and a limited rerelease of Avatar: The Way of Water in Imax.

The Life of a Showgirl follows a particularly eventful 2025 for the world’s biggest artist. Back in May, Swift announced that she at last purchased the masters for her first six albums, ending one of the most notorious disputes in the music industry after music executive Scooter Braun first bought them with the rest of Swift’s former record label Big Machine back in 2019. (Braun sold Swift’s catalog to Shamrock Capital the next year, and Swift made a deal with Shamrock.)

She confirmed The Life of a Showgirl was on its way on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast last month, and she and Travis announced their engagement weeks later: