The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Porthos]

2 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

Is that good?

Should be good this far out.  Can't say for sure since my counts last time were bad because of a flawed methodology. 

[Xinau]

Eyeballing this site and using the stopwatch on my phone (extremely scientific):

 

https://www.fandango.com/dataviz/index.html#

 

I'm seeing a rate of about 90-100/min. FWIW.

Edited December 11, 2017 by Xinau

[Porthos]

15 minutes ago, Xinau said:

Eyeballing this site and using the stopwatch on my phone (extremely scientific):

 

https://www.fandango.com/dataviz/index.html#

 

I'm seeing a rate of about 90-100/min. FWIW.

That's the mistake I made before. The count on the stream to the right isn't timed accurately (that is, there can be less or more tickets being sold per minute than what drops down in a minute's time).  It's the actual timestamps on the icons on the left hand corner which matter.  As seen here:

 

 

It's the thing that says 9:50pm that matters.  If one wants to see how many sets of tickets are being sold, one has to keep an eye out on that time stamp (it constantly fluctuates due to what timezone the ticket is sold in) and start when it changes from, say. 9:50 to 9:51 and then stop when it hits 9:52.

 

Damned irritating to do on an iPad, BTW, since the font is so small.

Edited December 11, 2017 by Porthos

[Xinau]

Ah.

 

You are wise in the ways of science.

[Porthos]

39 minutes ago, Xinau said:

Ah.

 

You are wise in the ways of science.

Only because I've had experiments blow up in my face. 

 

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Another interesting thing is, that stream DOES NOT update if you keep it on long enough,at least on the iPad.  First off, it is always several minutes behind (I've seen it be over a half hour behind).  Secondly, I've seen it 'reset' from, say 8:54 back to 8:48 and endlessly repeat the same loop over and over again.  Not sure why, but I suspect a buffer is loaded up when the Pulse program is started, but that's just a guess.

 

FWIR, it got up to 300+ sets of tickets sold on Preview Night for R1.  No idea about TFA, as I wasn't looking at the right thing then. 

 

EDIT::: I'd love to check to make sure I got that number right, but the old thread got sent down the memory hole (just found out now ).  

 

Ah well.  Find out soon enough just how much TLJ does on premiere night.

Edited December 11, 2017 by Porthos

[WrathOfHan]

9 hours ago, Barnack said:

No 4DX for TLJ......... flop...

4DX is counted under 3D  

[FlashMaster659]

MT

 

TLJ - 49.3%

Coco - 12.2%

Wonder - 4.8%

JL - 4.3%

DA - 3.5%

 

The final surge has begun.

[Boxofficerules]

I’m surprised there are any tickets left at this point.

[WrathOfHan]

I just saw that AMC is running a BOGO on DH2 tickets at the box office through Wednesday. Perhaps the Thursday drop will be a bit more severe in addition to the Star Wars blow?

Edited December 11, 2017 by WrathOfHan

[filmlover]

The Shape of Water should have no difficulty booking as many theaters now on Christmas (when it goes wide), and maybe Three Billboards can hold onto at least half a screen at some places over the holidays. Call Me by Your Name and I, Tonya (although it's staying in NY/LA until after the new year) will benefit as well.

Edited December 11, 2017 by filmlover

[Lordmandeep]

39 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

I’m surprised there are any tickets left at this point.

 

 

There are a  lot of non-reserved tickets left in theatres around me for the weekend and a lot during the day on Saturday and Sunday.

 

[FlashMaster659]

MT

 

TLJ - 53.1%

Coco - 10.9%

Wonder - 4.2%

JL - 4%

DA - 3.4%

[SoSaysI]

Just did a 5 minute pulse tracking where the average tickets per minute (using time stamps in upper left corner) was bout 85 sets of tickets per minute.  Never have looked at this before so hopefully that is accurate.

[FlashMaster659]

1 hour ago, FlashMaster659 said:

MT

 

TLJ - 53.1%

Coco - 10.9%

Wonder - 4.2%

JL - 4%

DA - 3.4%

TLJ - 58.6%

Coco - 8.9%

JL - 3.6%

Wonder - 3.3%

DA - 3%

[Porthos]

Pulse top five:

 

Last Jedi

Last Jedi 3D

Last Jedi IMAX 3D

Last Jedi IMAX 2D

Coco

 

No sign of Ferdinand yet.  Could be though that since it's a kids movie, the presales will start showing up later.  Maybe a little concerning though that I watched it for three or four minutes and didn't see one ticket sold for it.  Might have missed it though, so can't be sure.

Edited December 11, 2017 by Porthos

[Porthos]

5 minutes ago, Porthos said:

No sign of Ferdinand yet.  Could be though that since it's a kids movie, the presales will start showing up later.  Maybe a little concerning though that I watched it for three or four minutes and didn't see one ticket sold for it.  Might have missed it though, so can't be sure.

Oh dear.

 

Thr 5pm showing of a decent, though not fantastic, theatre in town:

 

 

Ummm.... 

 

EDIT:::

 

There aren't any tickets sold for the 7:45pm showing either at the same place. 

Edited December 11, 2017 by Porthos

[Brainbug]

1 minute ago, Porthos said:

Oh dear.

 

Thr 5pm showing of a decent, though not fantastic, theatre in town:

 

 

Ummm.... 

 

Kids/animated movies rely heavily on walk-ups, or? So maybe, its not that catastrophic... 

[Porthos]

5 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Kids/animated movies rely heavily on walk-ups, or? So maybe, its not that catastrophic... 

Absolutely true.  But there should be SOME tickets sold in advance, especially for a 5pm Preview Night showing.

 

Most of the showings in Sacramento are at non-reserved seating, so I don't know if it was just that one place or not.  Checked Friday showings and...

 

 

 

Four tickets sold for the 4:25pm Friday showing.  There ARE 19 tickets sold for the 7:15pm Fri showing at least.  

 

(None for the other three showings)

 

*looooong pause*

 

Was @That One Guy stanning for this film by any chance?

Edited December 11, 2017 by Porthos

[TwoMisfits]

10 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Kids/animated movies rely heavily on walk-ups, or? So maybe, its not that catastrophic... 

Is this an Atom theatre?  With them offering the possibility of 3 for 1 tickets, I see those theaters getting any presales this movie may have (which won't be much til Sat showings...like The Star, I see this not reporting previews b/c it literally won't have any)...

[Porthos]

Of course, Ferdinand SHOULD benefit from TLJ sellout spillover. So take the above with several grains of salt.

 

Still.  Not a great sign. 

Edited December 11, 2017 by Porthos