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So lightyear for where I am with its lower numbers with Thurs/Fri not far off, Im gonna go with a hunch. I think this will be a something families wait for Disney Plus. I think combo of it technically not being a Toy Story movie and theres a different voice actor for Buzz, I just see more families waiting for the streaming. Im also going to go way out on a limb and suggest that Minions might be the movie for families head to theatres to see-not that one property is more popular than the other, but Minions being a prequel I think theres more of a "known quantity" with it. It will certainly be interesting to see how the comps do to Lightyear.

Thank you. It will take some time and experimenting for me as well-until I get comfortable will just try this new table format, yes its' bigger but more concise (I hope lol)

This is still Excel. I will play around with Google to see about playing with it, but even if this is "big" at least its a little tidier than previous and better for at a glance Lightyear(taken June 13) Total Seats Sold combined SW and Tor Thurs 201/18683-percentage 1.08 Fri 362/16227-percentage 2.23 Right-SW means Southern Ontario. Tor is Toronto, Thurs is Thurs, Fri is friday. Seats Rem is seating remaining, ttl Seat is total seats of sold plus remaining. Yes I know prolly obvious but just clarifying with table for any confusions (knowing me I just added more...hahahah....sad laugh) # theatre #show Seats Sold Seats Rem Ttl seat Percent SW Thur 10 33 59 6167 6226 0.95 SW Fri 10 36 225 6572 6797 3.31 Tor Thurs 8 39 142 12270 12412 1.14 Tor Fri 7 29 137 9243 9430 1.45

Ah okay. I don't have much (any) experience with google sheets so that will be a kind of more labwork lol. Thank you I will experiment with it.

How are you formatting your cells into your post? Just wondering using Excel how I might be able to do it without everything being GIGANTIC whenever I try and do it.

Lightyear Friday June 17 (Taken June 12) SW Ontario 10 theatres 37 shows Total sold 173 Total remaining 6734 Total seats 6907 Percentage 2.5 Toronto Ontario 7 Theatres 28 shows Total sold 118 Total remaining 9315 Total seats 9433 Percentage 1.25 Combined SW and Toronto sold 291/16340 Percentage 1.78 Lightyear is....odd. Less than a week till shows and some theatres still not having listings for presales. Tells me possibly that as the crunch of movies start coming in post covid, certain theatres not quite ready to decide prolly till after weekend to open up showings based on what they are keeping that's already in theatres. So possibly hard to make a judgement here on if it's selling "well" or not. Hoping by Mon or Tues (Def wed when the mass seat dumps start) we start seeing a better idea. The other question-which could be telling-are families wanting to see Lightyear-or are they saving their pennies for Minions? Thats another consideration.

Lightyear Thurs June 16 (taken June 12 SW Ontario 10 Theatres 33 Shows Total Sold 30 Total Remaining 6198 Total seats 6228 Percentage .48 Toronto Ontario 8 Theatres 39 shows Total sold 117 Total Remaining 12295 Total seats 12412 Percentage .94 Combined Southwest and Toronto numbers sold 147/18640 Percentage .79 When I start doing my comps I will being total comps for combined numbers sold for the days in question-I don't think Im up to doing comps for SW AND Toronto AND SW/Toronto combined....might be a bit much. But good news! Im coming up in a couple of days to be able to do comps to JW3 (yea I know not the best comps-but good practice)

I will check out "this might be a thing" and keep an eye on it. I could certainly do a special track of it is desired

After seeing Combined Thurs/Fri numbers THATS the reason I don't make predictions (I predicted 17 mil on Friday just on a lark and seeing it made pretty much double that....yea) LOL. I am not predicting Sat because Im horrible at predictions LOL

Right Im setting up my Minions so for those who really want Thurs Numbers almost 20 days out, well here you go.... Minions Rise of Gru Thurs June 30 (taken June 11) SW Ontario 9 Theatres 33 Shows Total Sold 30 Total Remaining 7939 Total Seats 7969 No Sellouts Percentage .38 Toronto 4 Theatres 19 Shows Total sold 42 Total Remaining 7153 Total seats 7195 No Sellouts Percentage .58 Total seats sold for SW and Toronto 72/15194 Percentage .47 I cannot guarantee I will be doing 20 days of Thurs sales for Minions, I will aim for a T-7 the same as Friday for day to day, but I will post when I can up to that point.

Lightyear Friday June 17 (taken June 11) SW Ontario 10 theatres 33 shows Total Sold 153 Total Remaining 5890 Total seats 6043 No Sellouts Percentage 2.53 Toronto Ontario 7 Theatres 73 shows Total sold 107 Total remaining 9323 Total seats 9430 No sellouts Percentage 1.13 Total for SW and Toronto Seats sold 260 Percentage 1.68 percent Total Thurs and Fri sales for reference (approx) (NOT COMPS) Bad Guys 9.0 Boss Baby 2 9.1 Paw Patrol 4.5 Sonic 2 32.3 Toy Story 4 59.0

Lightyear Thurs June 16 (taken June 11) SW Ontario 10 Theatres 32 shows Total Sold 28 (up from 23) Total remaining 5544 Total Seats 5572 No Sellouts Percentage .5 percent Toronto Ontario 8 Theatres 39 shows Total sold 109 Total Remaining 12303 Total seats 12412 No Sellouts .88 Percent Total seats Sold SW and Toronto Ontario 137 Total Seats 17984 Percentage 1.1 Combined Thurs and Fri final sales reference approx (NOT COMPS) Bad Guys 9.0 Mil Boss Baby 2 9.1 Paw Patrol 4.5 Sonic 2 32.3 Toy Story 4 59 Reminder I do not have numbers to comp yet as for comparisons-Im hoping Minions I will be able to do comps with Minions when Lightyear hits its OD

Going to start Minions and with Minions a week after Lightyear that will really be my first comparison I can do at the t-7 mark so it will be nice to have that comp literally a week behind. For Minions I will track thurs for now and only start tracking Fridays at T-7 just to try and keep it consistent. Still working the lab and still trying to figure out what works best-thank you everyone for the likes and the support (and the patience!)

EDIT I have edited the numbers as apparently Mojo does indeed include Previews with their OD numbers-numbers are now as theyh appear (approx) on Mojo

Okay, then I must have misread something somewhere. If Previews are included in OD number then I can delete the extra added on-thank you!

Lightyear Friday June 17 SW Ontario 10 theatres 34 shows Total sold 93 Total remaining 6308 Total seats 6332 no sellouts Percentage .38 Toronto Ontario 7 Theatres 35 shows Total sold 124 Total remaining 6679 Total seats 6803 percentage 1.82 Southwest and Toronto Total Seats Sold 148/12415 Percentage 1.19 Combined Thurs and Fri final sales reference approx (NOT COMPS) Bad Guys 9.0 Mil ( Thurs/fri 1.1/7.9) Boss Baby 2 9.1 (1.3/7.8) Paw Patrol 4.5 (no thurs number (?)) Sonic 2 32.3 (6.3/26) Toy Story 4 59 (12/47) I cannot do comps as I do not have previous pre sale days to go by for my theatres. I have last 3 Days of Jurassic Dominion so for an experiment I might do Dominion comps to Lightyear at T3 mark (even though those prolly won't be comparable LOL) So Im using Mojo Friday numbers as they dont seem(?) to have Thurs included-hence me finding Mojo Friday and googling Thurs numbers. IF there is a place that includes Thurs/Fri numbers OR if Mojo actually does include it in their friday count-let me know-or if anyone can suggest an easier place to find Thurs/Fri numbers would be appreciated.

I dont know how to insert a meme-but I would insert that Ben Stiller Meme "Do It! Do It!"

You know what? YEAH! Go big or go home I always say! (looking for the exit)

Are we giving our guesses for friday? 17,454,311 is my call-not a dollar more!

Right more Lightyear Labwork- Lightyear Thurs June 15 SW Ontario 10 theatres 33 shows Total Sold 24 Total remaining 6308 Total Seats 6332 No sellouts Percentage .38 Toronto Ontario 8 Theatres 41 shows total sold 93 Total remaining 12320 total seats 12413 Percentage .75 SW and Toronto Total seats 117 sold out of 18745 .62 percent Combined Thurs and Fri final sales reference approx (NOT COMPS) Bad Guys 9.0 Mil ( Thurs/fri 1.1/7.9) Boss Baby 2 9.1 (1.3/7.8) Paw Patrol 4.5 (no thurs number (?)) Sonic 2 32.3 (6.3/26) Toy Story 4 59 (12/47) I cannot do comps as I do not have previous pre sale days to go by for my theatres. I have last 3 Days of Jurassic Dominion so for an experiment I might do Dominion comps to Lightyear at T3 mark (even though those prolly won't be comparable LOL) So Im using Mojo Friday numbers as they dont seem(?) to have Thurs included-hence me finding Mojo Friday and googling Thurs numbers. IF there is a place that includes Thurs/Fri numbers OR if Mojo actually does include it in their friday count-let me know-or if anyone can suggest an easier place to find Thurs/Fri numbers would be appreciated. If nothing else the reference numbers above are good for maybe someone to grab as a ref when they do their own numbers Thank you for being so patient as I try and work my own way of working towards eventual real comps

Right, my bad I had an unexpected engagement this morning which I didn't get back home to till pretty close to now, so my Final Friday numbers are all over the place with shows already started/sold out and I don't think I can reasonably get an accurate count for Dominion for today-Im sorry about that Usually I do a final count of Friday first thing in morning, before theatres open-but didn't expect to be gone that long.

Jurassic Dominion Friday June 10 (taken June 9) Southwest Ontario 10 theatres 106 shows Total Sold 3657 Total Remaining 16669 Total Seats 20326 No sellouts Percentage 17.99 Toronto Ontario 10 theatres 129 shows Total sold 2894 Total remaining 29590 Total seats 32484 No Sellouts Percentage 8.91 Reference sales for Friday opening (NOT comp) TG2 made 52 million on friday (mojo number)

Jurassic Dominion Thurs June 9 (Final Count-12:40 EST) Southwest Ontario 10 theatres 54 shows Total Sold 1760 Seats remaining 9402 Total Seats 11162 No sellouts Percentage 15.77 Toronto Ontario 10 theatres 75 shows Total sold 1792 Total remaining 18619 Total seats 20411 no sellouts Percentage 8.78 Total Combined Sold 3552 Total Combined Seats 31573 Percentage 11.25 Going by Mojo Friday numbers for ref (NOT comps-just the opening fri numbers for reference) TG2 shows 52 million The Batman shows 56 mil Again disclaimer its tricky finding Canada only numbers which would be better comparison, but what can a canuck do? On the bright side I have been consecutively tracking Dominion since T-3 so at least I'll have T-3 onward comp numbers for myself for future films, have started lightyear at t-7 (which means Im going from tracking every few days to now tracking daily. this is all new to me. I think for my sanity I'll keep my tracking at most to t-7, I don't quite have availablity for tracking 20 plus days out consistently)

Right here goes my experimentation with comps. Please note that this will be a kind of work in progress lab for a bit as I play with formats and info styles-so please go easy on me if Im doing something and your first response is NONONONONO-Im trying to go into deeper water here. Also please note that because Im in Canada trying to get specific Canada comps might be tricky until I can find a source for Canada numbers. So numbers will be the combined US/Canada numbers-please try not to lose your minds trying to figure out comp stuff-like I said, this is going to be a bit of a labratory, so don your safety goggles lol. Will be using Lightyear as my first test subject. Lightyear SouthWest Ontario Thurs June 16 (taken June 10 10 theatres 33 shows Total sold 23 Total Remaining 6309 Total seats 6332 no sellouts Percentage .36 percent Friday June 17 10 theatres 34 shows Total sold 77 Total remaining 6529 Total seats 6606 no sellouts Percentage 1.17 Total seats sold for 2 days 100 out of 12915 percentage of .77 (Sorry thats .77 percent not 77 percent lol) my comp here is Boss Baby 2 it had an opening friday (going to assume thats including Thurs) of 7,805,390 So if I do my (awful) math right (ha) im getting 6.006 out of 77 percent out of 7.8 million, which would give a comp of 6.6 million. I know I messed up so hey chime in if you wish lol EDIT okay .77 percent not 77percent lol-mind you if one does a rule of thumb and x a factor of 100 making .77 a 77 percent- a 6.6 estimation for a Thurs/Friday isn't exactly out of the ballpark for a comp. Like I said, my labratory lol

Im about to start Lightyear comps for up here, so thank you for those as I try teaching myself comp stuff-is it okay if I copy those comps onto my sheets for now and future use (Im totally in the deep end here so I don't know if there are any unwritten rules here about copying info-obviously my comp numbers will be different because of different tix numbers, but even just having the names is a good start-even if I just put the final Thurs/Fri sales numbers to start before easing into mathy stuff)