The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Stewart]

6 minutes ago, Porthos said:

I do want to point out one thing about this. This is where Black Panther stood on Feb 9th, one week before release:

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	4	73	3785	7601	50.20%

 

Infinity War has nearly sold as many tickets (3200+ vs 3800+) as of noon this morning.  Let that sink in for a sec.

 

 

Legit got goosebumps when reading that. Also let's not forget how far ahead of every other superhero film BP was via Deep Wang!

[Deja23]

3 minutes ago, Porthos said:

I do want to point out one thing about this. This is where Black Panther stood on Feb 9th, one week before release:

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	4	73	3785	7601	50.20%

 

Infinity War has nearly sold as many tickets (3200+ vs 3800+) as of noon this morning.  Let that sink in for a sec.

 

 

So IW will definitely take the lead for most presales in 24 hours from Black Panther. That’s not surprising, but that it’s beating it in less than 8 hours is impressive. Black Panther was stronger on the east coast though. 

[Brainbug]

The MCU is a success story of extraordinary scale. I mean, they have a real chance to release TWO 600M+ DOM/1,2B+ WW grossers within half a year. Thats madness lol.

[narniadis]

Going to miss Deep Wang's updates in regards to Avengers now...

[Durden]

#Avengers: Infinity War has already broken advance ticket sales records on @Fandango becoming the best-selling superhero movie ever — and it only took six hours https://t.co/WKLZ4IlaKv

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) 16 de março de 2018

[Deja23]

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Already The Best-Selling Superhero Movie In Advance Ticket Sales, Beating ‘Black Panther’

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Avengers: Infinity War has already broken advance ticket sales records on Fandango becoming the best-selling superhero movie ever — and it only took six hours. Tickets went on sale at 6AM PST/9AM EST today.

Edit: oops, didn’t see it was already posted. 

Edited March 16, 2018 by Deja23

[Stewart]

8 minutes ago, Durden said:

What the actual fuck???

 

EDIT: Okay so what Deadline ACTUALLY means is that AIW outsold the first 24 hours of every other superhero in just 8 hours. Still absolutely crazy, but deadline's first line of that article is objectively incorrect.

Edited March 16, 2018 by feasby007

[MCKillswitch123]

8 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

The MCU is a success story of extraordinary scale. I mean, they have a real chance to release TWO 600M+ DOM/1,2B+ WW grossers within half a year. Thats madness lol.

It feels like yesterday that they were making history by breaking 200M OW for the 1st time ever... or putting obscure comic book characters like Iron Man and Guardians Of The Galaxy in the 300 DOM area.... or having three 300+ DOM and 850+ WW releases in the same year. And here we are, talking about how they could be the 1st franchise to have two movies in a year cross 200M OW, 500M DOM (don't know about 600 for IW), and 1B WW. Unbefuckinglievable.

 

Besides Harry Potter and Star Wars, MCU has got to be the most impressive franchise on a commercial standpoint ever. Critical standpoint doesn't lag much behind either tbh.

[Barnack]

49 minutes ago, feasby007 said:

What the actual fuck???

 

Misleading title (people misunderstood those click bait news about black panther quite a lot also because of how misleading they are), it outsold all SH movies first 24 hours of sales, it is not the biggest selling super heroes ever yet.

 

That one tidbit is funny:

 

–87% have seen all of the MCU movies.
–71% saw Black Panther on the big screen

 

Black Panther DVD and Blu-ray release date is estimated for May 2018 

Edited March 16, 2018 by Barnack

[The Panda]

38 minutes ago, Barnack said:

 

Misleading title (people misunderstood those click bait news about black panther quite a lot also because of how misleading they are), it outsold all SH movies first 24 hours or sales, it is not the biggest selling super heroes ever yet.

 

That one tidbit is funny:

 

–87% have seen all of the MCU movies.
–71% saw Black Panther on the big screen

 

Black Panther DVD and Blu-ray release date is estimated for May 2018 

Yeah, in 24 hours isn’t really as impressive. It’s what would be expected.

[Eric Prime]

Ready Player One	110	1866	4.18%
Avengers	475	2806	16.93%

 

 

For the record, my theater took a couple of hours before all the other ones to have tickets up. Don't ask me when, since I don't quite remember, but selling this much in a few hours is very strong, with Friday night and Saturday being the strongest days.

[WrathOfHan]

Previews for IW at my theater:

 

7:00: 72/124

7:00 3D: 5/113

7:15: 29/78

7:30 3D: 0/78

7:45: 26/78

8:00 3D: 2/78

10:30: 2/124

10:30 3D: 0/113

Total: 136/786

 

These sales are 27% of what BP finished with and 40% of Ragnarok. no1curr about 3D here, so they'll gradually fill up over the next few weeks. More shows are bound to be added the week of release too

[grey ghost]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

I do want to point out one thing about this. This is where Black Panther stood on Feb 9th, one week before release:

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	4	73	3785	7601	50.20%

 

Infinity War has nearly sold as many tickets (3200+ vs 3800+) as of noon this morning.  Let that sink in for a sec.

 

 

 

These numbers are insane.

 

I think we have confirmation that BP actually amplified the already legendary hype for IW.

[Porthos]

5 hours ago, Porthos said:

Gonna do a full update later tonight.

 

But for right now:

 

Greater Sacramento Infinity War Report:

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	91	5525	8783	37.09%

 

One showing has two seats left and six others are front two rows or less.

 

No comps to BP or TLJ as I wasn't tracking that early for either run, but that 3200+ tickets have been sold already is, obviously, a VERY good sign for IW

Laundry night tonight, so the full report will be on the later side (post 10pm probably), but another quick update.

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	1	98	5008	9318	46.25%

(tracking 10 theaters will full reserved seating plus two more with partial reserved seating and three theaters without reserved seating)

 

More or less since Noon/1pm.  Probably will start slowing down now, but this is a hella impressive first day.

Edited March 17, 2018 by Porthos

[TwoMisfits]

End of night MT.com - Of the released movies, ICOI did not give up the top spot...

 

30.8% Avengers: Infinity War

13.6% I Can Only Imagine

11.6% Black Panther

9.8% Tomb Raider

9% Wrinkle in Time, A

[Mojoguy]

I Can Only Imagine is bound to drop hard on Saturday, right?

[narniadis]

1 hour ago, Mojoguy said:

I Can Only Imagine is bound to drop hard on Saturday, right?

You would think but then again... 

[Premium George]

7 hours ago, grey ghost said:

 

These numbers are insane.

 

I think we have confirmation that BP actually amplified the already legendary hype for IW.

How is this a confirmation?

[grey ghost]

15 minutes ago, Premium George said:

How is this a confirmation?

Okay, not objective evidence, Mr Buzzkillington.

Edited March 17, 2018 by grey ghost

[Porthos]

(xpost with the main Infinity War thread)

 

GREATER SACRAMENTO SELLOUT UPDATE: T-41 Days and counting  

Sellouts: 

1/103 (+1/+103)

 

2D:  0/65 (+0/+65)

3D:  1/38 (+1/+38)        

 

<<Reserved Theater Info: 70 showings [+70]>>

 

Almost Sold Out (95%+ sold out)

0 (nc)         

 

Nearly Sold Out (90% to 94% sold out)

1 (+1)

 

Front Two Rows Only (or equivalent)

16 (+16)

 

Heavily Sold (75% to 89% sold out)

0 (nc)

 

Weekend Showings

Fr: 0/214 (+0/+214)    

St: 0/215 (+0/+215)

Su: 0/209 (+0/+209)  

 

—

 

Reserved Seating Breakdown (70/103 showings [+70/+103]):

100%:     1 (+1)

90-99%:  1 (+1)

80-89%:  8 (+8)

70-79%:  6 (+6)

60-69%: 11 (+11)

50-59%: 6 (+6)

40-49%: 6 (+6)

30-39%: 10 (+10)

20-29%: 6 (+6)

10-19%: 1 (+1)

0-9%:    14 (+14)

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	1	103	5511	10173	45.83%

 

 

As I said over in the mothership thread, simply a monster day for IW in the Greater Sacramento area.  IW has already sold more tickets than BP had on the Monday before it was released:

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	6	81	3766	8279	54.51%

 

4662 tickets sold (and counting) versus a cumulative 4513.

 

Yeah.  Good day for Marvel.  Just a bit, that is.