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[Ball Lightning]

The Walk won't do well this weekend in my opinion.. There is nothing to grab in the audience! Should be another good weekend for The Martian

[JJ-8]

Speaking of. My $ went to the Martian tonight in the brisbane city myer centre. In 3d which i say is the only way to see this epic film. I loved it.

Edited October 16, 2015 by Jajang

[Ball Lightning]

Absolutely horrendous opening weekend ahead for The Walk. Came 7th on Thursday and will drop even further once we hit the real weekend.

The Martian still way ahead at first with what looks like another 20% drop.

[Rthmessiah]

Yeah walk looking around 500k wkend and TM 25-30% drop

[DeeCee]

I'll go out on a limb here and say that looks bad for The Walk.

[DeeCee]

Most Popular Films For Period Weekend, October 15 - 18, 2015 WIR = Weeks In Release
No	WIR	Title	$	%	Total $
1	3	THE MARTIAN (M), FOX [570/ $5,544]	3,160,047	-30%	17,854,130
2	3	THE INTERN (M), WARNER BROS [294/ $3,832]	1,126,495	-25%	6,495,863
3	1	CRIMSON PEAK (MA15+), UNIVERSAL [199/ $4,214]	838,563	N/A	838,563
4	1	LEGEND (MA15+), STUDIOCANAL [194/ $3,776]	732,630	N/A	732,630
5	2	BLACK MASS (MA15+), WARNER BROS [257/ $2,307]	592,976	-48%	2,105,830
6	1	THE WALK (PG), SONY PICTURES [461/ $1,139]	524,973	N/A	624,208
7	2	MISS YOU ALREADY (M), ENTERTAINMENT ONE [212/ $1,966]	416,761	-28%	1,274,322
8	1	GOODBYE MR. LOSER (M), CHINALION FILM [11/ $31,391]	345,305	N/A	412,487
9	5	ODDBALL (G), ROADSHOW [254/ $1,281]	325,280	-56%	9,773,342
10	4	SICARIO (MA15+), ROADSHOW [108/ $2,058]	222,215	-48%	4,855,163
11	1	BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE (M), MADMAN [47/ $4,440]	208,677	N/A	241,739
12	4	PAN (PG), WARNER BROS [224/ $928]	207,941	-66%	6,815,254
13	6	PIXELS (PG), SONY PICTURES [212/ $815]	172,853	-66%	12,753,595
14	5	EVEREST (M), UNIVERSAL [128/ $1,341]	171,652	-57%	10,044,024
15	6	MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (M), FOX [110/ $1,253]	137,781	-65%	13,486,491
16	1	UNINDIAN (M), FRIENDS INDIA [65/ $1,652]	107,408	N/A	110,104
17	2	LEARNING TO DRIVE (M), MADMAN [46/ $1,917]	88,179	-16%	243,918
18	4	THE VISIT (M), UNIVERSAL [57/ $1,409]	80,317	-70%	2,972,566
19	3	MACBETH (MA15+), TRANSMISSION [30/ $1,570]	47,100	-28%	287,288
20	1	THE THRONE (M), DREAMWEST PICTURES [12/ $3,828]	45,933	N/A	45,933

 

[Ball Lightning]

Star War tickets are already on sale, and they're selling fast! We have already sold more tickets than any midnight since the last Harry Potter.

[juni78ukr]

Top10 in USD. 

 

http://www.kinobusiness.com/kassa_world_prokata/other_countries/avstraliya/index.php?date=18.10.2015

[JJ-8]

Just a quick glance around. I wondering if Star Wars will open on more screens than Harry. If it's selling so fast already I'm thinking that cinemas will be adding more screens. I mean the 2 biggest cinemas at chermside (vmax) are all but sold out at midnight already.

[DeeCee]

Sydney IMAX has 9 screenings back to back from 12:01am Thursday.  The midnight one is already sold out.

 

The other sessions seem to be about 50-90% sold as well.  If they all roughly sell out I'm guessing that 1 screen on 1 day will gross over $100,000.

Edited October 20, 2015 by DeeCee

[DeeCee]

One leading chain, Event Cinemas, reported that 1200 tickets sold in the first minute when they went on sale at 8am on Tuesday.

Within 10 minutes, the chain had sold 10,000 tickets. And in three hours, director J.J. Abrams' new instalment of the sci-fi saga had clocked up 30,000 tickets.

In Sydney, the most popular Event cinemas for Star Wars fans were George Street in the city, Bondi Junction, Miranda and Parramatta.

A spokesman for the chain said its previous best one-day advanced ticket sales were for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, with 7,726, and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Part 2, with 7,258.

The first Star Wars movie in a decade quickly topped the chain's entire pre-sales for The Avengers, 26,988 tickets, before that ensemble superhero movie went on to take $53.2 million at the Australian box office.

http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/star-wars-out-of-this-world-ticket-sales-for-the-force-awakens-20151020-gkdvc7.html

IN 12 HOURS IT HAS ALREADY TOPPED THE ENTIRE PRESALES OF THE AVENGERS.

THE HYPE IS STRONG IN THIS ONE.

[Ball Lightning]

We already have planned the same number of screens as we did for HP7.2, and those were mostly added in the last few days. We're about 40% of the way to beating its final midnight admits already.

Obviously midnight screenings have become more common since (We basically had none between SW3 and HP6/Twilight), but it's still out of this world impressive!

[JJ-8]

Thats just umm jaw dropping. 30k tickets sold already by event. Wonder what the total presales are Australia wide.

[JJ-8]

I'd say Harry's grip on all those records is becoming rather slippery. Possible records: Mids OD. Ow. And it gets boxing in its second weekend. Gotta think we're talking 50+ here.

[Arthur Pendragon]

Wow at Star Wars

[eXtacy]

Those numbers are simply insane

Edited October 21, 2015 by eXtacy

[DeeCee]

I'd say Harry's grip on all those records is becoming rather slippery.

Possible records:

Mids

OD.

Ow.

And it gets boxing in its second weekend. Gotta think we're talking 50+ here.

By Boxing Day?

[JJ-8]

Ok. Let's see: OD - 8m Fri - 5.5m Sat - 6m Sun - 5.5m (Ow - 25m) 10m from weekdays possible? So that's 35m first week. Thurs (24th) - 3m Fri (Christmas) - 1m Sat (boxing) - 6m Sun - 5m 2nd weekend - 15m 50m total after 11 days. Ok that's crazy.

[JJ-8]

Btw for the weekdays avatar had a 11m OW and 8m weekdays. And a 8.7m 2nd weekend and 9.6m 3rd weekend. Avatar also pulled 10m weekdays in its 2nd week. Not saying it will follow avatar all the way but avatar is the closest example we have. Theoretically we could be 75m after the 3rd weekend. Lol

[DeeCee]

Work is pretty quiet today so I've just checked the first day at Sydney IMAX. It has 487 seats available for sale (the front row is kept clear). All sessions are in 2D 70mm film. Tickets have been on sale for 25 hours.

Thursday 17 December 2015

12:01 - 487/487 SOLD OUT

03:00 - 268/487

06:00 - 128/487

09:00 - 225/487

12:00 - 315/487

15:00 - 313/487

18:00 - 476/487

21:00 - 475/487

That's 2687 already sold on just the first day alone. There's also a Friday 12:01am session with about 250 tickets sold. An adult ticket is AUD35.

In contrast it looks like about 25 tickets have been sold to the 6:15pm session of The Walk tonight.

Edited October 21, 2015 by DeeCee