# Katy Perry's concert film took £21,000 in the UK

> A £4 million film, 150 cinemas, and takings of £21,000. The numbers behind Katy Perry's trip to the big screen.
- Title: Katy Perry's concert film took £21,000 in the UK · Dailymail
- Summary: A £4 million film, 150 cinemas, and takings of £21,000. The numbers behind Katy Perry's trip to the big screen. Selling a million concert tickets does not…
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- Published: 2026-09-13T00:29:18+00:00
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## One of the bestselling, once
Katy Perry sat among the biggest-selling pop stars in history. Album sales have thinned, and her concert film has now handed her a new low.
## Four million in, 21 grand out
The film cost £4 million to make. Its limited UK cinema run earlier this month brought in £21,000.
## Two nights in Paris
It was shot across two nights of her Lifetimes tour in Paris last year, with a large crew and a budget to match.
## Built as a fan party
The idea was to gather millions of fans in cinemas to celebrate her music together. That was the pitch.
## 150 cinemas, empty rooms
Around 150 cinemas and IMAX theatres across the UK put on screenings. Most played to largely empty auditoriums.
## Leeds sold nothing
At one Leeds showing, not a single ticket was sold.
## Two fans in Coventry
A Coventry screening drew exactly two die-hard fans.
## IMAX in Milton Keynes
One IMAX screening in Milton Keynes pulled 17 people. A second managed ten.
## Seventeen in Edinburgh
Across two Edinburgh screenings combined, 17 fans bought tickets.
## Leicester Square, 42 seats
Even at the flagship Vue in London's Leicester Square, only 42 of 201 seats sold, taking £881.58.
## Beaten by a wildlife film
Super Nature, a crowd-sourced wildlife documentary out around the same time, sold nearly twice as many tickets.
## The insider verdict
A source close to the release called the interest dire and said the numbers speak for themselves.

> This has been an incredibly poor showing and just shows how far her star has fallen
## It never made its money back
The takings will not cover what it cost to shoot, according to the same insider.

> It certainly hasn't paid for itself.
## No US numbers at all
How it did in America is unknown. No box office figures have been released.
## £844 in New Zealand
Overseas takings were thinner still. New Zealand returned £844 and Colombia £3,717.
## The Taylor Swift yardstick
Swift's Eras film took £12 million in the UK and £198 million worldwide in 2023, the highest-grossing concert film ever made.
## The tour actually worked
Lifetimes sold more than a million tickets over 91 nights worldwide. The live demand was real. The film could not borrow it.
## She once matched Jackson
Her 2010 album Teenage Dream produced five US number ones, equalling Michael Jackson's record from a single album.
## Then 143 landed
Her 2024 album 143 met savage reviews on release, and the slide got harder to argue with.
## Mocked on the way down
Her Lifetimes dancing went viral as a school talent show comparison, the Blue Origin flight drew jokes, and at 41 she is now dating Justin Trudeau.
## Key takeaway

Selling a million concert tickets does not mean anyone wants to buy a ticket to watch it again.