The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Deja23]

Trying my hand at this for IT at the Cinemark near me.

 

Thursday:

7:00PM 107/152

8:00PM 59/137

9:00PM 47/125

10:15PM 45/152

 

Friday:

10:45AM 18/125

12:25PM 5/152

2:05PM 17/125

3:45PM 8/152

5:25PM 39/125

6:15PM 16/89

7:05PM 50/152

8:45PM 85/125

9:35PM 40/89

10:25PM 26/152

 

I'm too lazy to do it for the other days... 

Edited September 6, 2017 by Deja23

[XO21]

No tracking for Mother!? It'll be very interesting nonetheless

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by XO21

[WrathOfHan]

It's starting to pick up the pace over here:

 

Thursday: 23/78

 

Friday:

 

10:15: 8/78

1:15: 0/78

4:30: 7/78

7:00: 32/124

10:15: 13/124

 

Saturday:

 

10:15: 11/78

1:15: 0/78

4:30: 10/78

7:00: 25/124

10:15: 0/124

 

Sunday's morning show has sold 9/78

[Rumpot]

IT back on MT at 5.7% and I would think very unlikely it leaves for at least 3 weeks I'd think

[Rumpot]

3 days ago I scanned around and found 2 random theaters with relatively low IT sales compared to the rest (probably looked at 20-25 in TX, WA, CA, NY, Northern VA) - both 7pm  Thursday shows.  An AMC Dolby theater in Sugarland , TX went from 2 tickets to 14 now. An AMC in Bellevue, WA went from 11 tickets to 25 now.  

 

I'll report more on my local theaters soon but those were less important of a gauge I thought as they will definitely be full

Edited September 4, 2017 by Rumpot

[YM!]

On 9/2/2017 at 5:25 PM, YourMother said:

IT

North Shore Cinema (9/7/17: 5 days before release)

7:00 - 52/301 Ultrascreen 

10:00 - 11/301 Ultrascreen 

12:00 - 7/144

 

70/746 - 9.3% of tickets sold

 

Outpacing Dunkirk and Apes

IT

North Shore Cinema (9/7/17: 3 days before previews, 4 days before release)

7:00 - 73/301 Ultrascreen 

10:00 - 18/301 Ultrascreen 

12:00 - 7/144

 

98/746 - 13.1% of tickets sold

 

IT

South Shore Cinema (2nd Most Popular Theater in Wisconsin) (9/7/17: 3 days before previews, 4 days before release)

7:00 - 81/170 Superscreen

10:00 - 47/170 Superscreen

12:00 - 6/130

 

134/470 - 28.5% of tickets sold

Edited September 4, 2017 by YourMother

[YM!]

Marcus Palace, the most visited theater in Wisconsin, seems to be having good presales for IT.

[Boxofficerules]

Those numbers don't seem to good.

[We0uthere]

Yeah I think IT hype got overblown and people got carried away after the tracking was higher then expected. I'll be surprised if it does more then $50-60M OW / $160-180M DOM.

[That One Girl]

3 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

Yeah I think IT hype got overblown and people got carried away after the tracking was higher then expected. I'll be surprised if it does more then $50-60M OW / $160-180M DOM.

An insider on here said it was selling as well as (or even better than) films that opened in the $100M range...

[Rumpot]

6 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

Yeah I think IT hype got overblown and people got carried away after the tracking was higher then expected. I'll be surprised if it does more then $50-60M OW / $160-180M DOM.

Based on? 

[We0uthere]

2 minutes ago, Rumpot said:

Based on? 

Presales and looking at the cinemas around my area (Toronto, Ontario).

[That One Girl]

3 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

Presales and looking at the cinemas around my area (Toronto, Ontario).

 

Lmfao @ basing your entire prediction on how it's doing in two cities in Canada.

Edited September 4, 2017 by That One Guy

[We0uthere]

2 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Lmfao @ basing your entire prediction on how it's doing in two cities in Canada.

It's actually one city lmao, and it's a big one. A big enough sample size to see how big the buzz is, if it ain't hit here it's not hitting anywhere. $50-60m is still big. I don't see it bigger then that though.

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, We0uthere said:

It's actually one city lmao, and it's a big one. A big enough sample size to see how big the buzz is, if it ain't hit here it's not hitting anywhere. $50-60m is still big. I don't see it bigger then that though.

 

New York City at various 7 PM shows across the city (spoiler tags)

 

Spoiler

AMC Empire:

 

 

AMC 34th Street:

 

 

AMC Lincoln Square:

 

 

AMC Kips Bay:

 

 

Regal Union Square (4DX):

 

 

AMC 84th Street:

 

 

Regal Battery Park:

 

 

 

Want me to find more presales numbers outside of Toronto?  Because I can and will.

[Barnack]

10 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

if it ain't hit here it's not hitting anywhere

Is Canada always 1:1 with the US on American movie, specially something like IT, I suspect it will be a disproportionately USA heavy success over all other market.

[Rumpot]

I've scrolled around several huge markets and it is selling quite well for this point in time. Par with SMH around here in Northern VA/DC area (my local)

[We0uthere]

1 minute ago, That One Guy said:

 

New York City at various 7 PM shows across the city (spoiler tags)

 

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AMC Empire:

 

 

AMC 34th Street:

 

 

AMC Lincoln Square:

 

 

AMC Kips Bay:

 

 

Regal Union Square (4DX):

 

 

AMC 84th Street:

 

 

Regal Battery Park:

 

 

 

Want me to find more presales numbers outside of Toronto?  Because I can and will. 

 

I never said there were bad presales..? Just not the $70-80m OW type is all I'm saying. 

 

I have been tracking IT for a week now and it was top 5 on Movietickets for like a day where it even hit #1 for a few hours, but it dropped later in the day and hasn't returned to top 5 since. 

 

I've also been tracking IT on fandango but sadly I don't know how that website works with it's box office meter. I made a post on the IT thread about it:

 

"I've been following the Fandango Box Office Meter for the past week or so, and I've noticed a pattern in the sales: It appears during the day The Hitman's Bodyguard dominates the sales, and you see a few sales of IT here in there but as it approaches night time the IT sales start to increase, and at around midnight/12:00PM EST, IT starts to completely dominate and basically takes Hitman's spot and more. Even when Hitman is getting sales during the day it does not dominate as hard as IT does when it comes to night time. Annabelle Creation's sales also increase by a bit during night time. 

 

I was wondering how Fandango works exactly..? Based on this pattern it seems it doesn't show live sales, but the time of screening maybe? because horror movies do tend to be for night time. I don't know because that doesn't really sound right either.. so if anyone would want to explain that'd be great.

 

EDIT: I decided to count the sales for a quick minute(3:20AM EST) and they are as follows (they have been going at this pace for the past few hours so even though I only recorded for a minute, this isn't skewed):

 

IT: 38 sales

Annabelle Creation: 4 sales

THB: 5 sale"

[WrathOfHan]

It is selling very well at Disney Springs. Meanwhile, Home Again has their biggest auditorium and has sold nothing  

 

mother! has sold 1 ticket for Thursday and 2 for Friday while American Assassin hasn't sold anything yet.

[Deep Wang]

9 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

I have been tracking IT for a week now and it was top 5 on Movietickets for like a day where it even hit #1 for a few hours, but it dropped later in the day and hasn't returned to top 5 since.

Huh?  It's number 3 right now, and I doubt it just showed up.