Upcharged Tickets for Taylor Swift ‘Eras Tour’ Film Going for $400

The hype for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is so real, some tickets for the filmed concert movie are being resold at the same price of some actual Eras Tour concert tickets.

Just a day after Taylor Swift announced the film, which will bow only in theaters starting Oct. 13 (a nod to her favorite number), tickets are being resold on sites like eBay at exorbitant prices, including opening night tickets in Times Square for $399. 

While certainly not surprising, as fans already once had to deal with fluctuating ticket prices with the actual tour itself, this is certainly a head scratcher, as Swift has already announced that adult tickets are available to purchase for $19.89 plus tax (another nod, this time to her Grammy-award winning album, 1989, which is also due for re-release this October). 

In fact, it seems the rollout for acquiring tickets to this major cinema event was purposefully designed to be less difficult than the tour’s Ticketmaster fiasco, which resulted in Congressional investigation into the ticket-selling company’s practices. In a press release for the concert film, AMC stated that tickets would remain reasonably priced, and shared that the company “upgraded its website and ticketing engines to handle more than five times the largest influx of ticket-buying traffic the Company has ever experienced before.”

Even with these more modest ticket prices, the film has already made $26 million in presale tickets, according to Variety, and based on these early numbers, it’s possible that Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour could perform at the box office in a way other concert experience films don’t usually, with some believing that “a $100 million-plus opening weekend is possible.”

The Eras Tour is Swift’s sixth concert tour, which kicked off earlier this year in March in Glendale, California, and will conclude in November of next year. The tour is an homage to all ten of Swift’s albums, beginning with her 2006 self-titled debut up to her most recent studio album, Midnights, which was released in October 2022. 

When Swift took to Instagram to announce the film, she encouraged fans to bring the same energy they’ve taken to each tour stop to the movie theaters.

“The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon,” she wrote on Instagram. “Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged.”

If you’re not planning to see Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, I suggest you stay out of the theaters on the week of Oct. 13, unless you want your screening of The Exorcist: Believer to be interrupted by large crowds of adoring fans and shrill sing-alongs. 

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour hits theaters on Oct. 13.