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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.

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.