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Well IF (and thats a big one) my comparison numbers show (if I messed something up, go easy Im still very new at this)....heres Minions I just did for T-13 vs Lightyear at T-7 from my neck of the woods for SW Ontario and Toronto T-13 Thurs .0043 Fri .0053 for Minions T-7 Lightyear .0036 for Thurs and .0011 for Friday. Minions is already outdoing Lightyear almost a week earlier Almost no one out in my neck wanted to see Lightyear I guess.

Thor 4 SW/Toronto Ontario Thurs July 6/Fri July 7 (t-20) thor4 # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent Thurs 20 133 5100 25503 30603 0.1666 Fri 20 278 2844 37559 40403 0.0703 Again no comps as I don't have any at T-20 (and I hadn't planned on starting till t-7 till that little voice said "well why not?" Sigh..... I think the biggest observation here is how Thurs is doubling fridays here-interesting to see, comparing to Lightyear or Minions, guess once again the Marvel tentpole people really want to see it before spoilers on Thurs night.. Yes there are Wed special shows, no Im really not feeling doing the special Wed one offs lol. I mean granted it won't be long before "Wednesdays" are the new "Thursdays" Im sure.

Minions SW/Toronto Ontario Thurs June 30/Fri July 1 T-13 # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent Thurs 15 60 70 16186 16256 0.0043 Fri 15 87 126 23577 32077 0.0053 No I don't have comps for this as I am still building my comps list. At T-7 I will have some comps for Lightyear (which will be interesting to see)

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Lightyear SW/Toronto Ontario June 17 (final count) # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent SW Fri 19 145 1445 30632 32077 0.045 Comp (friday only) JW3 X.2205 (13.01 million)

This is why math was never my strong subject LOL. But thank you for that clarification and that makes total sense put that way, my brain gets it now

How should I be presenting my percentage? I mean right now by imitation admittedly Im using thex .456 (or whatever). But my old school brain says "well thats .45 percent-or half a percent. to me 1.5 percent would be literally 150 percent, so when Im seeing 4.5 or 6.5 Im thinking "so 600 percent in the comp?" Yet with finangling I do get the multiplier with the opening day to work properly and my numbers work out. The decimal places just confuse my old school brain I think. Maybe it will make more sense when I am not using JW3 comps for future movies esp kids films lol

You reminded me of that, that I noted when doing my counts. There seemed to be be more people (prolly families) who were booking the non Imax films like regular 2d. I remember it striking me a tiny bit curious because generally its the big screens that get most sales in mine with 2d being kind of a "last resort" for buyers, but this was one was opposite-was interesting.

Lightyear SW and Toronto Ontario # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent SW Thur 18 75 397 18651 18947 2.09 SW Fri 19 145 807 31226 32033 2.52 Comp JW3 x.1192 59 million (7.03 million) This will be my final Thursday count, tomorrow will get one more count. The numbers are what they are. 80 percent of Thursday was pretty much "no change, no change, no change" with a few numbers plugged in. Friday was a bit better but still for this area Im guessing the hope is wom/walkups. For a Pixar film these numbers seem kind of low at least up here, can't speak for down in the US

Its certainly a new aspect to things Im still getting used to, but its fun. It will be more interesting as I accrue more comps as I do more films and with more T-dates....not sure Im ready yet do pull a heroic 20 (or 40 looking at you NOPE) T dates yet. Because my box office doesn't move much (though dang it if Thor4 isn't being pretty lively) in early presales. Will keep some records as I go but really will try and focus comps wise on T-7 dates.

And Thor4 because why not. Thor 4 July7/8 (taken June 15) thor4 # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent Thurs 20 113 4363 21096 25459 17.14% Fri 20 168 2362 36013 38375 6.16 ttl sold 6725 % avg 10.54% Again that Thurs 17 percent just cruising vs Fri 6.16 (which isn't bad in itself) And no, Sadly I do not not have t-20 something comps for Dr Strange2, so cannot compare them.

and here's just a comparison of Minions which is still a couple weeks out Minions SW/Toronto Ontario Thurs/Fri June 30/July 1 (taken June 15) # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent Thurs 14 56 56 7133 7189 0.78 Fri 15 77 99 21958 22057 0.45

Lightyear Southwest and Toronto Ontario (numbers are totals of SW/Tor for both thurs and Fri # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent Thur 18 75 296 18651 18947 1.56 Fri 19 144 623 31325 31948 1.95 Comp JW3 .849X59 million (5.0 million) (again I have no other comps for day to day. Minions will be my first real start of comps at t-7 with Lightyear. Toronto STILL has 2 theatres on Thurs and 1 on Friday without Lightyear screens yet....I don't think Ive seen this happen in my experience ( pre wed seat dumps yes Ive seen, but Wed is when seat availabilty increases, and still theatres not showing sales)

I can totally see the logic in that. TG2 really kind of bumped in there as a kind of "what if" type of situation. I think what surprised me was it was a couple of Toronto theatres who usually keep up with rest of TO theatres. SW theatres I def would understand, as they range from anywhere from 1-3 seat auditorium to VIP/Alamo type theatres to Megaplexes-so those were the ones I would expect to have late drops to their seat count-not so much Toronto based ones. Have to see what happens when the massive seat drops hit tomorrow for Lightyear-but Ive got this niggling feeling that this is going to possibly be a softer one for Disney esp if Families who are uncertain about it might just wait for D+

With the all the amount of sneakiness and subterfuge and collecting data here sometimes youd think that the movie counts were some high security topics lol

I have still have some theatres that they have Thor4 presales, but don't have Lightyear sales up yet. Like weird

Okay....drum roll as I attempt my first (very bad) comp Lightyear Southwest and Toronto Ontario # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent SW Thur 10 33 73 7773 7846 0.93 SW Fri 10 36 289 6508 6797 4.25 Tor Thurs 8 39 183 12270 12412 1.44 Tor Fri 7 33 192 9559 9751 1.97 Total Seats sold for Thurs/Fri 737/36806 Attempted Comp time! Im using JW3 as my comp because its only one I have for T-3 having just started this fun (ahahahah) exercise (Yes its a horrible and not really applicable comp-but....Lab work lol) JW3 to Lightyear was a WHOPPING 11.85 percent at T-3 JW3 made 59 million opening Thurs/Fri 11.85 percent of 59 million is 6.9 So that would make it x11.85 59 million (6.9)-sound about right? I made extra work for myself by dividing SW and Tor into separate areas as WELL as Thurs/Fri. (For the record I had If I messed this up let me know (For record I had 6218 seats sold for Thurs/Fri shows for JW3 during T-3, compared to Lightyears 737 seats sold)

Copying my table is fine LOL. Wow....compared to Toronto and esp SW Ontario, don't know why such a disparity. I mean okay SW Ontario is a number of cities compared to 1-but 13 percent more-thats just weird. And that Elvis comparison LOL. I mean Minions and Lightyear are doing pretty quiet here (Minions might have explanation of being far away, but not Lightyear). Gotta wonder for Lightyear as I said are families just waiting for Disney plus. Now Lightyear might suddenly go bonkers this weekend, but a quiet leadup no doubt

I just HAD to innocently check Thor presales.... Thor4 Southwest Ontario and Toronto combined Taken June 13 So yea after seeing the amount of seats and stuff I said nope not doing two separate sections for 2 separate days. Will prolly condense the other counts starting tomorrow save what little sanity I have left....ha....hahahahaha I had to double check the numbers of Thurs BOFFO numbers for Thurs. I did find one major error but all else seems to check out....people must not want spoilers I guess. # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent Thurs 18 113 3656 21586 25242 14.48 Fri 18 154 1682 32435 34117 4.93

*seeing all the Love and Thunder posts* I guess Ill take a peek at how Cineplex is doing....*checks*...oh boy.....right lets do a L and T drop and see what we have

Those theatres must really like you to take pity on you like that

Um yea I think I might do NOPE closer to opening. Crawdads is new. Thor....ehhh....MCU tentpole...might have to do an earlier start. Not sure I;; do Elvis or Blackphone because I only have so much sanity.

For anyone interested in comparing to current Minions rise of gru to Lightyear (Which opens a week after Lightyear) Minions Rise of Gru June 29/30 (thurs/fri) EDIT: I might start condensing SW and Toronto together for a more complete picture (unless people WANT to see how a major city compares real time to 10 Theatres in SW Ontario), esp if Im doing more titles. # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent SW Thur 10 36 30 9079 9109 0.33 SW Fri 10 44 43 11575 11618 0.37 Tor Thurs 4 20 48 7147 7195 0.67 Tor Fri 5 30 32 10073 10105 0.32

Now to be fair at least with Cineplex most of the IMAX ect screens don't pop into inventory till Wed so theres the possiblity we might see more movement after that. Come Wed the floodgates might open and Im looking very foolish (not the first time lol).