A documentary about the making of her album “The Life of a Showgirl” makes Taylor Swift the queen of the box office on the first weekend of October, celebrating the record’s blockbuster release with a box office smash as a side dish.

Record sales, Spotify downloads, “intimate look” documentaries, everything the woman touches turns to gold. Well, the exeption might be The Kansas City Chiefs.

Deadline.com extrapolates that her $15 million Friday opening of a documentary she only announced she was offering to AMC theaters a couple of weeks back adds up to a $30 million+ weekend. Her fanbase could push that much higher, but we’ll see. She’s older, they’re older, and fanatics or not, only two weeks of pre-sales should keep this south of $40.

The other wide release this weekend is the bio-pic that was supposed to put Dwayne Johnson on the awards season map. “The Smashing Machine,” about the life of UFC brawler Mark Kerr, puts Johnson in makeup to make him resemble “The Thing” from “Fantastic Four,” and pairs him up with his “Jungle Cruise” sidekick, Emily Blunt.

Fans aren’t going for it. Reviews have been passable, far from ecstatic, and a $6 million opening weekend won’t help the aging action star’s quote and won’t keep the picture in theaters long enough to build any sort of groundswell of buzz. It’s Johnson’s worst-ever opening, and there’s schadenfreuide attached to the film as well, as Johnson irked a lot of the people who’d be voting him into awards by sticking his two cents worth into politics last year. Opening in third place when it was supposed to be a $20 million+ top dog is humbling for the wrestler-turned-acting diva, and the writing could be on the big guy’s wall.

“One Battle After Another,” on the other hand, is rolling through a $17 million weekend, which should push it past $50 million in North America by midnight Sunday. The global take should be in the $100 million range come Monday morning.

A second-place finish to the latest Tay-Tay mania is a big boost for Paul Thomas Anderson’s topical, awards bait, all-star comic thriller.

Everybody who was going to see “Gabby Dollhouse: The Movie” has pretty much seen it as it tumbles to fourth place with a just-under $5 million second weekend.

“Conjuring: The Last Rites” is proving to be the horror title to beat all the way to Halloween, hanging in the top five for one last weekend, making another $3-4 million, inching towards the $175 million domestic box office mark.

“Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” is still making a little money — $3.3 million this weekend, putting it in sixth.

“Strangers: Chapter 2” got no one’s attention and is fading away $2.8 million second weekend (seventh).

Twentiesth Century Studios re-released the second “Avatar” film to hype us for the upcoming third one, and “Way of Water” may clear another $2.5 million.

IFC’s “Good Boy” cracked the top ten, a trained dog horror thriller? Yeah, I requested a review lunk but balls were dropped. Sorry I missed it. This is on track to earn $2.25 and come in ninth.

“The Long Walk” enjoys its last weekend in the top ten in tenth with $1.7 million.

Those three new releases and the “Avatar” re-release push “Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” “Downton Abbey,” the indie June Squibb comedy “Eleanor the Great” and “Him” out of the top ten.

As always, I’ll update these figures as the weekend progresses.