Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie forces The Exorcist: Believer date change

The demon Pazuzu cowers in fear from nothing — except Swifties. Horror movie impresario Jason Blum has said Belief in The Exorcist, David Gordon Green’s reboot of the venerable horror franchise, is moving its release date forward by a week to Oct. 6 after the surprise announcementTaylor Swift’s Eras Tour Concert Movie will be released on Oct. 13th. You Believe’s original release date.

“Look what you made me do,” Blum tweeted, referencing the lead single from Swift’s Reputation album. “#TaylorWins,” he added.

Swift’s late announcement that Taylor Swift: Eras Tour would claim the date flies in the face of Hollywood’s carefully managed release schedule, never mind the fact that a Friday the 13th release date, in October of all months, should by rights belong to a horror movie.

But the scale of Swift’s fame and the passion of her fanbase bow to no one. According to Deadline, The Eras Tour movie, which is exclusive to AMC theaters in North America, racked up a huge $10 million in ticket presales within hours of its announcement — figures that one stunned distribution executive told Deadline equated to the launch of a Marvel movie. Eras Tour has sold out in record time.

Small wonder that Blum’s production company Blumhouse, and its distribution partner Universal, decided to get out of the way. Believer in The Exorcist, which sees Green take on another horror franchise renovation job after his successful run of Halloween movies, doesn’t face much competition on Oct. 6, beyond the GameStop meme stock movie You can’t Dumb Down Your Money.