The power of Taylor Swift compels you. And it’s also worked its ways on producer Jason Blum, who cast out his The Exorcist: Believer to an earlier October release date to avoid a clash with Swift’s concert film.
Blum explained his reasoning in an interview with EW. “The one thing that scares me to death is Taylor Swift!” Blum said. “We had this amazing Friday the 13th in October, which is the single best day to release a scary movie,” said Blum.
no doubt shaking his head. He originally paid homage by writing the tag #Exorswift” on Twitter when the Eras announcement came out.
Later that same day, things changed. “Look what you made me do,” Blum wrote, quoting a Swift song. “The Exorcist: Believer moves to 10/6/23 #TaylorWins.” “Obviously, we moved off that [date] and we bowed our head to Taylor Swift,” Blum said. “It was too risky to see if ‘Exorswift’ was going to take or not.
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