Meg Ryan’s Return To Romantic Comedy ‘What Happens Later’ Waits Out Incoming Taylor Swift Storm At Box Office

Meg Ryan was scheduled to return to her big-screen romantic comedy stomping ground on October 13, however, Taylor Swift spoiled it. No prob, the Ryan-directed and -starring holiday feature What Happens Later from Bleecker Street will now go on November 3, the last weekend of AMC’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert movie. Hopefully by that time, the Swifties will be interested in other movies.

What Happens Later reps the third movie to shift out of the October 13 frame due to the Swift concert after The Exorcist: Believer (now October 6) and Lionsgate/Kingdom Story’s Ordinary Angels which is now TBD.

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Ryan and David Duchovny play Willa and Bill, ex-lovers who’ll see each other for the first time in years when they find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight.

Bleecker Street is calling Ryan’s return to rom-coms, the #Megaissance. The movie reps her second feature as director after 2015’s Ithaca.

While the original Top Gun at $357 million worldwide is Ryan’s top-grossing film, her Tom Hanks romance pics You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle are second and third, respectively, with $251M and $228M in worldwide box office, respectively.

Ryan received three Golden Globe noms for Best Actress in a Comedy Musical for You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle as well as Rob Reiner’s 1990 rom-com When Harry Met Sally…, another big summer hit that year minting $93M stateside.

Industry projections –at the low end– have Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour at a $70M+ opening on Oct. 13-15.

Below is Bleecker Street’s tweet and the trailer for What Happens Later.

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