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Elvis Is Losing To Twenty One Pilots In Concert Movie Box Office Battle, Despite Huge Advantage

Mar 2, 2026


EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is on its way to Heartbreak Hotel. EPiC, which is part documentary and part concert movie, is composed of unseen footage that director Baz Luhrmann found when researching his 2022 biopic Elvis, which starred Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. The movie, which has a Certified Fresh 96% score from critics and a Verified Hot 99% score from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, debuted in IMAX theaters on February 20 before a wide expansion on February 27. Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is projected to earn a 3-day total of $3.4 million from 1,903 theaters at the domestic box office by the end of Sunday. This sees it rising a scant 6% from the $3.2 million it earned from 325 theaters during its debut. That total will most likely not be enough for the Baz Luhrmann movie to outpace a rival concert documentary, the new release Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined – Live in Mexico City. The movie follows one night of the “Stressed Out” and “Heathens” hitmakers’ Clancy World Tour, which ran from August 2024 through October 2025. Twenty One Pilots is projected to earn a 3-day total of $3.6 million in 833 theaters, taking No. 4 on the domestic chart over EPiC at No. 5. Both movies have fallen behind the narrative features Wuthering Heights (No. 3), GOAT (No. 2), and Scream 7 (No.1).

Twenty One Pilots’ performance is something of an upset, considering the fact that it is playing in 1,070 fewer theaters than EPiC. Additionally, EPiC follows a musician whose popularity is much longer-lasting and wider-reaching than the band, which formed in 2009, 32 years after Elvis Presley’s death. EPiC’s wide expansion has seen its per-screen average dwindle from $9,893 to $1,787. Meanwhile, Twenty One Pilots has debuted with a strong per-screen average of $4,322. While it wouldn’t have been able to compete with the Elvis Presley movie if it had maintained its debut average, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’s superb audience reception does not seem to have translated to ticket purchases during its sophomore weekend, potentially indicating that it has already reached the majority of its core demographic.

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Release Date

February 27, 2026

Runtime

90 minutes

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Producers

Baz Luhrmann, Colin Smeeton, Jeremy Castro, Matthew Gross, Schuyler Weiss

Cast

Elvis Presley

Self (archive footage)

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