Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé has become the fifth highest-grossing concert film ever.
Looking at the movie’s international net gross in the two months since its Dec. 1, 2023 release, Box Office Mojo says Renaissance made just under $44 million in ticket sales worldwide. Ahead of Beyoncé’s movie is Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which sits at No. 1 with $260 million in global ticket grosses (and counting, as it’s still playing in select theaters).
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, released in 2011, sits in the No. 2 spot with $99 million in gross sales. Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
, released in 2008, comes in at No. 3, earning a little under $71 million globally. One Direction: This Is Us, released in 2013, sits at No. 4, with $68 million worldwide ticket sales.Beyoncé’s Renaissance film is still playing in select theaters and currently ranks as one of the 25 highest-grossing pictures of 2024 in the U.S. The concert film sees the decorated Grammy winner working behind the scenes to put her 56-show world tour together and offers glamorous highlights of the live show along with the multiple high-fashion looks she and her dancers wore throughout.
Queen Bey premiered the film at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles in November 2023 to a star-studded guest list that included her husband, Jay-Z, Destiny’s Child bandmates Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, LaTavia Roberson, and LeToya Luckett, Kris Jenner, Gabrielle Union, Lizzo, and Janelle Monáe, among many others.
Academy Award-winning director Ava DuVernay also attended and took to Instagram following the premiere to give a stellar review.
“The woman is a director in every sense of the word and beyond,” Ava wrote. “Every decision that a director makes in the course of our work, she does brilliantly.”
The Origin director applauded Beyoncé for showing how even at her level of fame and stardom, she still faces challenges as a Black woman.
“She talks candidly about having to fight to be heard as a Black woman leader working at a high level of difficulty,” wrote DuVernay. “Having to endure being second-guessed often and gaslit constantly.”
“We actually see moments of this happening to her on camera. People directly doubting, shortchanging, and gaslighting her. I haven’t seen that described in a film before.”
Filmed from the Renaissance Tour’s opening show in Stockholm, Sweden, to the finale in Kansas City, Missouri, the movie beautifully captures the ride Beyoncé took concertgoers on during each of her 56 tour stops.
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