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Lightyear to me will be fascinating to watch how it does. Have to wonder if Lightyear does well, do we see a Woody film as well-maybe Woody toy is based on an in universe cartoon that's inspired by a real life historical cowboy in universe? Its certainly an interesting idea of doing an almost meta in universe property take.

Top Gun Maverick Toronto Ontario Thurs May 26 (taken May 19) Total theatres 10 Total shows 95(up from 60) Total sold 926 (up from 661) Total remaining 24430 Total seats 25356 (up from 16776) Percentage 3.65 (Down from 3.93) More shows, more seats added, 1 week away Top Gun hovering around 3-4 percent still, not seeing a huge influx in increased sales-the movie will do well here I think, just think it will be more of a weekend walk up type film than advance sales. Starting to possibly maybe lean towards thinking it might not do as well in Canada as previous Top Gun did when numbers are done (adjusting for inflation) based on nothing except my gut and speculation-will do well in US, esp on Memorial day weekend.,

Jurassic Dominion Toronto Ontario Thurs June 9 (taken May 19) 10 theatres 45 shows Total Sold 395 (previous 232) Total Remaining 11742 Total Seats 12137 (+3) No Sellouts Percentage 3.25 (previous 1.91) JD moving up a little bit more, maybe a bit slower than I was expecting, but again a movie 3 weeks away with other shows currently showing and Top Gun coming up on the radar maybe not a lot of decision making yet. I am pondering adding a 2nd geographic location for seating in the London area, JD is still early enough I could add it and when adding I would have Toronto and London Areas as separate counts. Not entirely positive yet, haven't decided if Im up for that type of fun yet....

Only speculative reason I can think might be the case is that perhaps with the strong Thurs numbers, maybe theres a worry of sellouts on Fri/Sat so people are buying them up now. Only other thing I can think of is might be many who want to see this on the big screen, and with movies from various studios going out of theatres and into streaming quicker, might be a bit of a race to see it before it goes small screen. Again just pure speculation

To be fair the first one did pretty decent up here but it was more about the cool jets, the soundtrack, Tom Cruise doing no wrong box office wise. However the world and events were in a different place and Social Media as we know it wasn't even a twinkle in an eye yet. Im going to be interested to see at the end of it what and how much disparity there might be between CDN and US markets.

Jurassic Dominion Thurs June 9 (taken May 13) Toronto Ontario 10 theatres 46 shows Total sold 345 (+113) Total remaining 11786 Total Seats 12131 Percentage 2.84 (up from 1.91) Movie that is just under a month away, so nothing huge moving on the front right now. Maybe Doctor Strange 2 kind of has people taking a breather right now? Still far too early to make any calls, though will say I expected maybe a little bit more sales just by the IP, but again too early really.

Top Gun Maverick Toronto Ontario Thurs May 26 (Taken May 13) 10 Theatres 60 shows Total sold 667 (+350) Total remaining 16109 Total Seats 16776 percentage 3.98 (up from 1.89) Bit tricky up here, have to see where it goes. May 26 is one week past our May 24 weekend (don't ask lol), where people hit the cottages. We've been having beautiful weather up here, and that might lead to what some might consider a lower rate of presales. Im sure the movie will do well, but where we are this might be a case of more walkups and WOM.

Doctor Strange 2 Friday May 6 (taken may 4) Toronto Ontario 10 theatres 193 shows Total Sold 12638 total remaining 35749 Total seats 48387 No Sellouts Percentage 26.12

As far as Top Gun, up here I think presales just started, so it's hard to get a look but there are people buying early. The first one was well received up here at the time, it was seen as lots of jet flying and great soundtrack and well Tom Cruise who could absolutely do no wrong as a box office hit. I think this will be a good success, lots of people wanting that feel good movie-sequel based on a property will definitely have the nostalgia feelings going, and people want to feel good right now.

Doctor Strange 2 Toronto Ontario Thurs May 5 (taken May 4) 10 theatres 115 shows Total Sold 11974 (+3839) Total Remaining 17429 Total Seats 29403 No Sellouts Percentage 40.72 (previous 32.7) Will be posting Friday numbers later Did not do a Jurassic count today because numbers pretty much unbudged from previous count

Top Gun Maverick Toronto Ontario Thurs May 26 (Taken May 4) 10 theatres 61 shows Total Sold 317 Total Remaining 16459 Total Seats 16776 No Sellouts Percentage 1.89

Presales have hit Cineplex so I guess I start another count tomorrow....

Doctor Strange 2 Toronto Ontario Thurs May 5 (Taken May 3) 10 Theatres 114 shows Total Sold 10573 (+2438) Total remaining 18561 Total Shows 29314 No Sellouts Percentage 36.6 (up from 32.7)

Jurassic Dominion Toronto Ontario Thurs June 9 (taken may 3) 10 theatres 46 shows Total Sold 232 (+160) Total Remaining 11902 Total Seats 12134 (+123) No Sellouts Percentage 1.91 (up from .6)

For me with Cineplex its the Wed before opening, when they totally DUMP a whole new batch of seats and shows for me to count. Its why I don't even attempt Friday show count until the Wed before, the sheer dumping of amount its just easier to do Fridays then.

Do I want to know what that translated into hours staring at numbers?

Jurassic Dominion Toronto Ontario Thurs June 9 (taken April 28) 10 theatres 45 shows Total sold 72 Total remaining 11953 Total Seats 12025 Percentage .6 No Sellouts Observation in general that the studios for big tentpole films really seem to have nailed that fear of missing out idea and even Cineplex is getting in on it-people are buying tickets for a for a film not out for 6 weeks (now I know that has been par for course with the US ticket sales for awhile, but Cineplex with its "well lets see how many seats we can assign any given week" mentality, is getting people to buy 6 weeks in advance.) With the combination of big tentpoles and with movies now going to streaming less than 2 months from opening day in theatres, there is that almost live theatre vibe of "better get tickets for the big show before its gone!" type of thought. Rather interesting to watch really

Doctor Strange and Multiverse of Madness Toronto Ontario Thurs May 5 (taken April 28) 10 theatres 112 shows (+29) Total Sold 8251 (+1299) Total Remaining 20570 Total Seats 28821 (+7565) No Sellouts Percentage 28.63 (formerly 32.7) Oh, its only AFTER I post this I note that Jurassic tickets are on sale now for cineplex....sigh

Doctor Strange and Multiverse of Madness Toronto Ontario Thurs May 5 (taken april 23 10 theatres 83 shows total sold 6952 (+1076) Total Remaining 14304 Total Seats 21256 No Sellouts Percentage 32.7

I wonder if the greying is to stop any kind of tracking programs to count (I don't remember if you are manual or python)? I know I do manual with mine and for each theatre theres a "seats sold/seats unsold" number and I track by that. Im surprised that the seats no longer have rows/numbers on them-have they become just "general admission" type seats I wonder?

Im trying to understand what Unbearable Weight is supposed to be? A passion product of Cage? A meta-commentary "look at us make fun of hollywood" type movie? Something else?

Ummmmm https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1218646-ezra-miller-arrested-again-in-hawaii This hit the wire today.

Doctor Strange and Multiverse of Madness Toronto, Ontario Thurs May 5 (taken April 19) 10 theatres 83 shows Total Sold 6419 (+543) Total Remaining 14843 Total Seats 21262 No Sellouts Percentage 30.1 (up from previous 27.5)

Yea, with the overall feeling of the post covid, not suprised we are going to see a huge push of trailers of anticipated movies over this summer, sort of a kind of "welcome back to movie going" feeling (if that makes any sense).

Doctor Strange and Multiverse of Madness Toronto Ontario Thurs May 5 taken Friday April 15 10 theatres 83 shows Total Sold 5786 Total Remaining 15254 Total Seats 21040 0 Sellouts Percentage 27.5