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Ah yeah good spot

"The Seed Bearer" Is this just the old potential name or is this official now?

Suddenly got very excited as my tracker was showing 90,000 for Tuesday ... turns out it can't handle numbers below 10,000 as they're displayed differently by cgv

Yup my scraper is still going, I've been filling the gaps in the spreadsheet as and when I see them. 0020 was 85000. Interestingly, by 0420 we hit 90000, which is what Friday ended with! So a big Saturday jump inbound

Try higher, already up to 158k at 3:20am. Holding steady in PS at -14/15%, and I'd expect slightly more walkups % wise. I'll try for 700k for the day, i.e. -10%. Last week was 184k at 3:20am where it stayed until 7:20am when it started rising (185, 188, 194). Regardless, this is very very nice holds (better than Coco's -23% even)

Just booted it up and replaced the title for Inside Out 2 (인사이드 아웃 2) and... It actually works! Currently it just outputs to my computer, nowhere online. But, I can fill in all gaps as neeeded 183,000 for 2:20am

I still have my script which was polling the daily cgv total every 20 minutes, I could probably see if it still works. Depends if we're hoping for something magical I believe Ava2 was the last time I used it

I am back and ready to rumble 💃 For reference, here is the original run comparison of IO1 to Coco: It's looking to start much stronger, so I doubt we'll get those insane weekend 2 increase and week 3 hold

Anyone else having issues with Cineworld today? Been trying for ages to book a ticket for One Life, and keep getting error code 8 in the app and "SeatsUnavailable" on the website. Tried contacting Cineworld, but no luck on phone, twitter or email. I'm half hour away and don't want to make the trip in person only to be turned away! Also tried other showings of other films... All the same issue. It never lets you go beyond ticket selection.

Think you mean Friday, Saturday has only just begun

Let the legs begin! £50m total?

Yes, releases on Friday here. We're expecting generally decent numbers for it

just to add to this from UK Christmas Eve is muted, because evenings will be very quiet Christmas Day cinemas (along with shops and many other venues) are forced to close by law, so should get $0 from UK on Sunday. Monday + Tuesday are bank holidays though and should be huge (equivalent of a Saturday)

It was 106

yep let me fill in the gap

Nope I'm British Just always enjoyed tracking SK due to the info we can get out of it regularly. I just like numbers

Decent enough number. From what I was seeing at CW Crawley Friday was dead before 3pm, and only really had 2 sessions of decent showing times, with it falling quiet after 10/11pm. Saturday however is already looking much better sold and distributed (in premium formats anyway) across the whole day. Hoping a decent Saturday increase, will predict jump to £5.5m.

Damn you got lucky. We had 12 minutes of adverts and a further 23 minutes (yes TWENTY THREE) of trailers... a full 35 minutes before the film even started...

Wow, a lot to unpack here. Went to the first evening showing of it today (OD in UK), at a sold out IMAX 3D showing with ~450 people. Weirdly not much for audience to react to, I distinctly remember one moment where everybody laughed, but outside of that nothing which the whole audience reacted to. Preface to this, I have watched the original Avatar maybe 10-12 times since its release. Three times in theaters, once when it released, once on a random re-release about 5 years ago and then the official remaster in September. It is probably one of my favourite movies ever. First, let's talk the good stuff: The water! Almost everything related to the water scenes was pure beauty, it felt like I was transcended to another world. The kids, all the children had epic moments and really shined well. The single "fuck" allowed in PG13 movies was perfectly placed Spider was a very interesting and complex character I "bought" Quaritch's backup plan and return, it felt suitable for the character The submersion of the water ship was very epic and sometimes reminiscent of Titanic (intentionally). Kiri was a very interesting character to follow, especially her connection to Eywa. Time flew by, never felt long or slow. Now... the problems I had: The first part about the family went by too quick and felt very rushed. I didn't connect with the kids to begin with because it was rushed in their introduction. The first act felt unnatural to me, because the Na'vi were too human. Too focused on technology, and too much war scenes, it felt off-tone. A few scenes clearly hadn't finished rendering, notably a few seconds here and there when the whole sea clan went to notify their whales of the danger. It was like the water dripping from the characters wasn't lit properly, quite offputting in that short time frame. Kiri's voice was straight up wrong. It felt like an adult, I could not imagine her being a child. The jumping between the kids learning the way of the sea people and Spider's time with Quaritch felt very abrupt and offputting, like it suddenly just cuts to the other scenes. And finally, the parts I felt were vacant from the film, which made me really enjoy Avatar 1: Eywa - yes she was here a bit, but she had a much more prominent role in A1, and here she just never really made much of an appearance. Similar to the above, but the connection between all living things was not emphasised much here. It was constantly prioritised by Grace and the Na'vi in A1, but here it's like an after thought. Little things like the wisps didn't seem to be a big deal here, and when animals were killed they were not given "prayers" like Neytiri taught Jake to do in A1. The Sully's never really had a moment of complete distraught. In A1, there was a very very notable moment (which still makes me goosebump and tear up to this day), when it feels like all hope is lost, everybody is dying, there's no chance in hell they can win. And then at the very last moment there's a switch when Eywa starts acting, and Neytiri screams "Eywa has heard you!!". This was a pivotal moment of joy in A1 which was never replicated in A2 because they never really got to a point where it was needed. "Community moments", in A1 we had several scenes (typically around the Tree of Souls) where all of The People would gather to pray and commune to Eywa. In A2 this was lacking that sense of community. Outside of the main Na'vi, you never really saw or interacted with anybody else. Lack of "good humans". In A1 you had a band of rebels which were very very likeable. Here, you had Spider (who grew up with Na'vi anyway) and the leftover good ones from A1. There was no "trudy" or anybdoy like that for people to root for. (Who doesn't love a good rebellion?) Overall, a very pretty and beautiful film, with many good moments and characters, but lacking some key feelings and emotions from Avatar 1. I would give it a 7.5 out of 10. (Avatar 1 is a 9 / 10 for me)

My IMAX showing at 7:30pm is 10 seats away from sold out, that's 440 seats sold! Last time I saw this one sell out was TFA (didn't check Endgame). (With £19-20 for IMAX ticket at this screen, looking like almost £8k from a single showing). Gonna be a blast with being so packed though 😁 In fact, all IMAX and 4DX have been selling very very well. 3D has been good, 2D has been rather... Crap. So expect very high ATP for A2 here, but I'm not sure how high it can go given the vacant screens in 2D.

so more like $21.5M on Wednesday? Seems decent enough all things considered

The real challenge is finding way to expose the results publicly to people

5k increase per hour so far... hope for an evening pickup. (My script worked, so I filled in 9:20am with 104k, so don't worry about forcing yourselves to stay awake or anything like that :))

Okay I think I have it all set up... will feed back in the morning if it manages to retrieve all the figures If it does work, I'll see if I can find a way to get this accessible to everybody here.

I'm back and ready for the ride of SK I was pleasantly surprised to see the spreadsheet I started back in 2018 for Coco, and heavily used for tracking Endgame is still in action! Thanks all those who kept it alive since then. And @pepsa I saw your name floating around, hello again! I don't have everything setup with hourly snapshots of cgv like we used to, I'll try to get it set up again so we have more data to work with!