Taylor’s treat

How about a little treat before the weekend? Taylor Swift has a secret cinema project coming to theaters that will have something to do with her upcoming album, The Secret Life of a Showgirl. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the secret movie project and the album will drop on the same weekend of October 3. 

Details remain under wraps, so it’s not clear if this will be a visual album, or a narrative film—short or feature in length—to go along with Taylor’s new music. It’s also not known who directed the new project, but I bet it’s Swift. I’m going to bet big and say Taylor Swift directed a hybrid project somewhere between a visual album and a narrative film. Like it won’t be a “movie” movie, but it will be more than just a string of music videos. A visual concept album, if you will, depicting the life of said showgirl. Taylor Swift has always had a flair for the cinematic, and she has directed plenty of music videos, plus the making-of documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. 

But if this secret project really is coming out in October, I am just going to need everyone to pump the brakes. October is an absolute car crash of releases, it’s WAY overstuffed and undoubtedly good movies will get lost in the shuffle. Not Taylor’s thing, she’s too big to fail that way, but if her project does open on October 3, it opens alongside The Smashing Machine and Good Boy, that horror movie about a dog saving his family from ghosts. The next weekend is even worse, with a brutal pileup of Tron: Ares, Roofman, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Anemone, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

The film release schedule could have used a lot better planning in October, which is how I know Taylor Swift kept her project under wraps as long as she could. If distributors knew she had something coming to cinemas in October, many of them, especially with smaller films, would have gotten out of her way. As it is, I won’t even be surprised if she ends up out-earning films with major stars like The Smashing Machine and Roofman. Taylor Swift is like gas, she fills whatever space she occupies.

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