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Ive never been good at doing comps in the past so I haven't really put any down. through coincidentally funny you should ask as in the middle of this run, I suddenly decided to give another crack at comps so I am using the these 3 days till opening to record sales and percentages for future comps against other movies. I will be keeping tabs of movies going forward for comps Ive been want to try and do them and see if I can contribute more to the forums (might take trial and error though). As a result though, Sorry about not having comps for JWD edit-Top Gun looks like 60.37 for Thurs/Friday going by Rorschach recent post (again be gentle with me Im a babe and it takes me a while to learn this stuff lol)-Ill see if I can track down a Canada only numbers.

Its not the same demographic, but just saw (for me) first trailer for Black Adam with an Oct 21 release date, Oct could be an interesting month for releases.

Jurassic Dominion Toronto Ontario Thurs June 9(taken wed June 8 ) 10 Theatres 75 shows Total Sold 1450 Total remaining 18970 total seats 1450 no sellouts percentage 7.1 Friday June 10 10 theatres 118 shows Total sold 2190 total remaining 27453 Total seats 29643 No Sellouts Percentage 7.39 This is so odd for me, esp friday. Hard to say on the numbers for friday, maybe another day of sales-keep getting the feeling that this will be more a walkup/wom movie, which would be a bit of a surprise for this kind of IP. I would have thought that the tagline of "final jurassic" film might get people interested, esp with most of the original cast of original JP in it, but just seems some lukewarm so far. But we shall see how the days and weekend go

I was about to say that's quite the bold strategy! Lets see if it pays off-such accuracy!

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Jurassic Dominion Southwest Ontario Thurs June 9 (taken Wed June 8 ) 10 Theatres 54 shows Total sold 1463 Total Remaining 9699 Total seats 11162 no sellouts percentage 13.11 Friday June 10 10 Theatres 106 shows Total Sold 2887 Total remaining 17431 Total seats 20318 no sellouts Percentage 14.21 I will be posting Toronto numbers shortly for Thurs and Fri

Welcome the forums! Universal has Jurassic, Fast/Furious, Minions/Despicable, Secret Life of Pets, Sing franchises just off top of my head. An underperform won't devastate them I don't think. Keeping this in the context of box office discussion to keep it on track, I think this movie even with a (for them) quieter opening, its summer holidays and I think in that context not to judge on the opening weekend because lots of families with time on their hands will have lots of walkups during June summertime stuff. Enjoy the forum! There are a lot of awesome people here and my joining certainly opened up my eyes as to how the box office really works, alot of knowledge here

yeaaaa....thats going to be a fun time.........gotta wonder how early they do presales for it......lessee Dec 16 is release date. have to think it would at least be post US Thanksgiving, maybe early to Mid Nov.

Ive often wondered how that worked in the US. Up here because of much aforementioned by me practice of Cineplex up here, advance sales very rarely are IMAX. They tend to be Regular, maybe AVX, some very odd IMAX, and of course much less inventory. I know there are some who will buy the Avx as a placeholder, to make sure they have a "seat", then when IMAX and inventory drops on the preceding wed, Ive seen numerous change ups of a regular or Avx seat "lose" some seats and IMAX "gain" the exact number of seats. But at least its a thing that you know the IMAX type theatres won't get put up till closer to the opening day. I can't imagine how US works, unless when there's an email or txt that says "your IMAX showing has been changed to another time, would you like to keep this time, or get a credit/refund for your show?" (I really don't know if it works that way or not), I know Id be a bit torqued if my show suddenly got "lost" esp if I had a busy schedule with no way of getting another time. Especially in the streaming age now where movies are pretty much in a limited run time at the theatre before hitting streaming. EDIT as an amusing little side notewhen Cineplex does put out the IMAX, they also let out a TON of "regular seating" inventory, which studying them on the day of a showing, the regular seats just are kind of their own little empty wasteland , multiple screens of maybe a half dozen people lol

Alright figured Id set up friday anyway....even knowing there will be more tomorrow...but DATA am I rite?? Jurassic Dominion Fri June 10 (taken June 7) Toronto Ontario 10 theatres 67 shows Total sold 1759 Total Remaining 15297 Total Seats 17056 1 Sellout Percentage 10.3 SouthWest Ontario 10 theatres 53 shows total sold 2158 Total remaining 9418 Total seats 11576 No Sellouts Percentage 18.6 As stated earlier expect the seats available/sold to go higher due to adding of additional seats tomorrow as Cineplex likes to do, but its a snapshot. Also Southwest ontario includes London, Sarnia, Chatham, Cambridge, Windsor, Waterloo, Brantford, Kitchener, St Thomas.

Jurassic Dominion Thurs June 9 (taken Tues June 7) Toronto Ontario 10 Theatres 75 Shows Total Sales 1126 (up from 562) Total Remaining 19276 Total seats 20402 (up from 12134) No Sellouts Percentage 5.52 Southwest Ontario 10 theatres 54 showings (up from 35) Total Sales 1175 (up from 598) Total remaining 10002 Total seats 11177 (up from 7842) no sellouts Percentage 10.5 (up from 6.27) Interesting comparison as SW ontario percentage almost double in sales compared to Toronto area-whether that relates to lesser seats might be a thing, but still pretty interesting to see. I will have Friday numbers up tomorrow for both regions (oh BOY I cant wait for the seat availability dump for friday sales.....lol)

Ah, that does clarify thank you. I was merely using black widow as an example, not necessarily making a direct comparison to JW3. I think that's where I got confused, is that the 106 percent without the 2452 tickets sold number I lost context (NOT saying that not including those seat ticket numbers was a problem, not at all, just for me it was missing that bit of context). Now I also see the the comparing of what was actually made in previews vs the percentage at the time. Thank you so much, I understand it more clearly now (not quite confident to try and DO comps myself yet though....Im not brave enough lol)

Okay so Im trying to do something useful and understand comps more. So using JW3 to Black widow. Okay Im guessing T-9 (nine days before opening) means what JW3 is at 6.41 percent avg 9 days out. I think I get that. So I see Black widow at 1.06x 14.01 mil. Does that mean Black widow as at 1.06x percentage at T-9? And the 14.01 million, Im assuming thats the amount it made on the opening day? Or am I reading these numbers all wrong?

Jurassic Dominion Thurs June 9 (taken May 30) Toronto Ontario 10 theatres 45 shows Total Sold 562 (up from 395) Total Remaining 11572 Total Seats 12134 (Cineplex keeps bouncing between 3 extra seats for some reason) No Sellouts Percentage 4.63 (up from 3.63 Southwestern Ontario 10 theatres 36 shows (+1) Total sold 598 Total Remaining 7244 Total seats 7842 (up from 7834) No Sellouts Percentage 7.63 (up from 6.27)

awwwww Its a blast to do contribute to the forum, feels very welcoming. I do feel bad I dont get a chance to do as many days as I can right now, but that its also awesome theres no pressure on anyone-people do and add what they can when they can, because whether its tracking one theatre or tracking a state or larger, all the numbers count. So I will forward the love and myself thank everyone who adds to the site, not just the numbers, but making this place such a friendly and darn warm place to come to

Top Gun Maverick Toronto Ontario Friday May 27 taken Friday May 27 noon(yes I missed Thursday I feel shame) 10 Theatres 154 shows Total Sold 4211 Total Remaining (as of 12 noon) 34383 Total Seats 39584 Percentage 10.91 Sales picking up a bit as of noon today. Will be final count

Kudos for doing a Canada wide Wed count-I admit I never thought about going outside of Ontario (which is totally on me lol). Interesting numbers

Could explain where some of the Thurs day numbers went to. Either those who really want to see first it went for Wed, or they waited till friday (again thats when a lot of the prestige screens pop up for sale). Certainly interesting to see how numbers move about.

Top Gun Maverick Toronto Ontario Thurs May 26 (Taken May 25) 10 theatres 97 shows Total Sold 1570(+333) Total remaining 23910 Total Seats 25480 (-8 yea Cineplex is weird that way lol) no sellouts percentage 6.16 (up from 4.85) Friday May 27 10 theatres 153 shows Total sold 2184 Total remaining 36084 Total seats 38268 1 Sellout Percentage 5.71 So really an interesting observation. While Friday has lower percentage (by not much), it has obviously more seats available. Whats more interesting is that the sales for Friday are considerably larger per theater overall than Thurs. I was thinking the numbers for TG2 on Thurs were kind of smallish (and they didn't change too much) but seems more people didn't care about seeing opening Thursday but rather hit the friday (for those newish to the thread-Cineplex in Canada is....er...different. LOL. The best way to explain it is they kind of go week by week as to predicting how many seats will be available-how many shows might hold over vs how many will be let go. So as a result, premium stuff (AVX, IMAX ect), those seats usually aren't "released" for sale until the Wed before an opening. So advance seats tend to be the regular/VIP small theatre type of thing. As a result I personally don't do a friday count until the Wed before an opening, because thats when a TON of seats for Friday get dropped to sale. I think the US theatre chains for advance sales seem to be more of "yea just buy your premium theatre stuff, we will get you in there, don't worry) type of thing. The reason Thursday is counted fine is because theatres know that the "switchover" happens on friday, so they know up to the Thurs before what the seat count looks like-hence why premium screens are no issues there. Yea Canada is weird...I say this as a Canadian lol

I aint saying nuttin,,,,,,

Something about JDW really is picking at my brain, something seems weird, I dont know what it is. I mean yes its still like 3 weeks away, just something niggling there. I have a couple of faint possiblities but Im not ready to disclose those yet. If we get to a week before JWD and numbers still seem to keeping quiet, then maybe, still too far away though.

Jurassic Dominion Thurs June 9 (taken May 23) Toronto, Ontario 10 theatres 45 shows Total sold 440 (+45) Total remaining 11597 Total seats 12137 no sellouts Percentage 3.63(up from 3.25) Southwest Ontario (Sarnia, London, Cambridge, St Thomas, Chatham, Windsor, and Waterloo) 10 theatres 34 shows Total sold 491 total remaining 7343 total seats 7834 no sellouts percentage 6.27 We shall see how this goes doing a second area. I mean I could go to a main city in different provinces, but I don't want to step on any of my fellow Canadians toes who might be doing those cities. If someone has a request from an area of Canada no one is doing Id be happy to look into it)

Top Gun Maverick Toronto Ontario Thurs May 26 (taken May 23) 10 theatres 97 shows Total sold 1237 (+311) Total remaining 24251 Total seats 25488(+132) No Sellouts Percentage 4.85 (Up from 3.65) Will be doing Jurassic Dominion today, will be adding a second area to Toronto, (Southwest Ontario, Sarnia, Chatham, London ect) as an experiment. I will be separating the two areas so anyone wanting to just use the Toronto numbers to keep consistent feel free, those who want to add the second area go ahead. Just want to see if I can increase my mental toughness to show more data (seeing some of you ladies and gents putting out such massive counts makes me want to try it out lol))

People do both. Myself I count manually (thankfully each showing shows seats sold/seats remaining), but there are some who use software (Python I think?) to do it automatically

Interesting from the prospect of how many shows theatres will fit into scheduled showings in their theatres for upcoming Thor movie. https://www.cbr.com/thor-love-and-thunder-short-runtime-report/ Long story short (aha), just under a 2 hour run time at 115 minutes-one of the shorter runtimes for an MCU movie (First Dr Strange was 112) I would think this would mean we will see more showtimes per day in theatres.