Horror producer Jason Blum could also be able to tackle demons, but he feels he is not any match for Taylor Swift.
The film veteran and founding father of Blumhouse, who has produced hits like “Insidious” and “The Purge,” said he made the choice to maneuver the discharge of his latest film “Exorcist: Believer” up from Friday, Oct. 13 – a coveted date for a scary movie – after the “Cruel Summer” singer announced in August that the concert film of her “Eras” tour would open that day.
“We had this amazing Friday the thirteenth in October, which is the one best day to release a scary movie,” he told Entertainment Tonight.
“Obviously, we moved off that and we bowed our head to Taylor Swift,” Blum said of the brand new “Exorcist: Believer” Oct. 6 release date.
“It was too dangerous to see if ‘Exorswift’ was going to take or not. People will still have the ‘Exorswift’ opportunity, so perhaps we got to have our cake and eat it too.”
When the “Style” singer made the surprise announcement in August that “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” would premiere in theaters on Oct. 13, Blum immediately suggested a “Barbieheimer” – seeing each “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” – form of theatergoing experience with “Exorswift” on his social media, but he quickly decided he didn’t wish to compete against the musical icon in his opening weekend.
“Look what you made me do,” he joked on Twitter on the time, adding the hashtag #TaylorWins.”
“The one thing that scares me to death is Taylor Swift!” he jokingly told ET.
Swift’s “Eras” tour has turn out to be a cultural phenomenon that not only sold out shows over the past 12 months, but crashed Ticketmaster last 12 months due to excessive demand for tickets.
“The Exorcist: Believer,” which hits theaters 50 years after the unique shocked moviegoing audiences in 1973, follows two young girls who start exhibiting strange behavior much like Regan MacNeil, played by Linda Blair, during her demonic possession.
Ellen Burstyn, who played Regan’s mother in the unique, is returning to the franchise in “Believer” for the primary time.
