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Beyoncé is following in Taylor Swift's footsteps to release a concert film of her record-breaking Renaissance World Tour.
The movie will hit AMC theaters in December and will showcase the arena tour of her seventh studio album, Renaissance.
Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé will open in the U.S., Canada and Mexico on Friday, December 1. Premiere dates for cities around the world will be announced soon.
More than 2.7 million people attended the arena tour from all around the world, with many more expected to enjoy it on the big screen.
A trailer for the upcoming movie shows rare behind-the-scenes footage of Queen Bey rehearsing for the show and sharing special moments with her three children, Blue, 11, and twins Rumi and Sir, 6.
"When I'm performing I am nothing but free," she says in the trailer.
"The goal for this tour was to create a place where everyone is free."
The movie will air Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, for a minimum of four weeks, with multiple showtimes programmed throughout the day.
In the U.S., tickets will start at $22 plus tax and the movie is also available to watch at IMAX and other premium large-format screens.
The global release of the concert movie will no doubt help boost Beyoncé's personal fortune after the tour surged her personal worth to $540 million in a year.
Forbes has updated its estimates of her personal fortune by a whopping $90 million from 2022's $450 million. This includes tour revenue, which, according to various reports, is expected to hit $2 billion after she completes her 43 stops.
Beyoncé kicked off the tour in May in Stockholm, and there was huge demand for the tour because it had been seven years since The Formation Tour, her last headline worldwide outing, which earned more than $256 million.
Her concert film follows Swift's plan to bypass traditional studio film distributors and negotiated directly with AMC to release her The Eras Tour concert film.
Premiering on October 14, the Eras film became AMC's highest advance ticket sales in the company's 103-year history.
Beyoncé and Swift's success in 2023 marks a year when women-led entertainment bolstered local economies. Along with the Barbie movie, which is the highest-earning film in the entire world, experts quizzed why studio and music executives didn't realize sooner that female-led entertainment could be wildly successful.
"We are a vastly under-served audience. we're 51 percent of the population. The majority [of] male executives think we don't matter, don't spend, don't need to be marketed to," screenwriter Julie Bush wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on July 22. "Up to now, Hollywood did not think women were important. execs think the audience is men and boys and their moms / wives / girlfriends will see what they want to see."
Update: 10/02/2023, 4:10 a.m. ET. This story was updated to include additional information.
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