The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Eric Prime]

My theater's acting weird with Alita too. For whatever reason, it currently has showtimes starting at Wednesday morning and through the day. I don't know if that was a mistake, but it is kinda weird, especially when every other theater's just doing previews.

[filmlover]

Theaters around me also seem to be giving Alita the cold shoulder outside of PLF formats for the most part as well.

[Cap]

It could be a glitch in the website but none of my theaters in our chain have Alita listened in 3-D. 🧐

[YM!]

Alita seems to be sharing the PLF with Lego 2 for the first two days. Also it’s in 3D in the PLF which hasn’t happened since Guardians V2

[YM!]

DP

Edited February 7, 2019 by YourMother the Edgelord

[kitik]

5 hours ago, Boxofficerules said:

Maybe people are confusing it with the music group and accidentally clicking on it. Does a view count if you only watch like 5 seconds?

 

I saw someone mention that you have to watch 30 seconds for it to count as a view, but I have no clue if that's true or not.

[stripe]

3 hours ago, CoolEric258 said:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Fandango App	Monday	Tues	Wed	Thursday
A Wrinkle In Time		4,864		15,601
A Quiet Place	2,177	4,003	10,665
Blockers	504	1,106	2,931
Rampage	705	1,508	4,109
Truth Or Dare	385	760	2,133
Super Troopers	2,825	3,447	6,881
I Feel Pretty	871	1,610	4,423
Avengers: Infinity War	49,836	54,892	68,826	206,000
Overboard	84	409	1,044
Breaking In	727	1,204	2,899
Life Of The Party	587	1,310	3,010
Deadpool 2	23,134	28,896	41,212
Show Dogs	6	128	369
Book Club	836	1,599	3,283
SW: Solo	13,688	15,855	28,533
Action Point	17	48	197
Upgrade	9	119	522
Adrift	63	308	1,268
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Hereditary	659	1,178	3,181
Hotel Artemis	26	166	520
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Tag	314	660	1,448
Jurassic World 2	9,310	12,761	23,266
Sicario 2	788	1,282	3,403
Uncle Drew	274	473	1,201
Antman & The Wasp	6,613	5,990	11,108
Purge (Wed)	2,885	8,308
Hotel Transylvania 3	1,753	2,674	6,605	14,754
 Skyscraper	586	1,019	2,868	 7,134
Mamma Mia 2	4,427	5,099	12,117	17,226
Equalizer	1,418	2,297	 6,073	 11,875
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MI6		*3328	13,575	27,261
Teen Titans		*462	2,125	4,526
Christopher Robin	1,560	2,442	5,355	11,509
The Spy Who Dumped Me	234	542	1,561	4,222
The Darkest Minds	130	244	579	1,777
Eighth Grade (1K expansion)	494	508	720	936
Death of A Nation	148	194	375	1,239
The Meg	1,539	2,944	6,723	16,202
Slender Man	177	418	1,091	3,737
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A.X.L.	32	*60	310	911
Kin	21	141	263	741
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Peppermint	286	863	2,508	4,441
God Bless The Broken Road	6	33	152	282
Predator	1,295	2,476	4,545	13,063
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House With Clocks	897	1,469	3,607	8,074
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Creed II (Wed)	6,712	12,083	15,354	15,870
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Mortal Engines	465	785	1,504	3,475
The Mule	791	1,779	3,882	6,235
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Marwen	299	403	658
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What Men Want	1,383	2,505	5,405
Cold Pursuit	181	827	2,155
The Prodigy	161	359	847
*4pm-12am

 

Lego Movie 2	2,552	4,130	8,601
What Men Want	1,383	2,505	5,405
Cold Pursuit	181	827	2,155
The Prodigy	161	359	847

 

 

 

This is also a solid number for Cold Pursuit. Better than Mile 22, which opened to 13.7M.

[el sid]

Pulse always 8:35-8:49 EST:

The LEGO Movie 2: 110/15 minutes - yesterday at that time it were 120/15; e.g. The Grinch (67.6M OW) had at that time 184/15
What Men Want: 87/15 - yesterday at that time 44/15, nice jump
Cold Pursuit: 30/15 - yesterday 27/15; Miss Bala had 11/15 at that time, Spider's Web 32/15, Hunter Killer 11/15, Serenity 23/15
The Prodigy: 3/15 - not good to that time, yesterday it were 4/15; Escape Room had 36/15 same time and day

And Pulse always 10:50-11:04 EST:

The LEGO Movie 2: 160/15 minutes - yesterday 113/15; e.g. The Grinch had at that time 294/15. I wish I would have counted better sales numbers today but due to the brand name the walk ups will probably be very good and I hope that it can cross the 50M OW mark.
What Men Want: 117/15 - yesterday 52/15; still a bit behind of what The Upside had at the same time (130/15) but it's a good jump compared to yestersay and I would also say it should reach around 25M
Cold Pursuit: 47/15 - yesterday 25/15; Miss Bala had 25/15 at that time, Spider's Web 42/14, Hunter Killer 24/15, Serenity 31/15; I'm more optimistic now that it has a decent start
The Prodigy: 25/15 - yesterday 10/15; way better now, Escape Room had 80/15 same day and daytime but The Possession of Hannah Grace had only 27/15 and that on Friday

And MT:
#1 The Lego Movie 2 21%
#2 The Wandering Earth 10%
#3 What Men Want 7.2% - Night School had at that time 7.1%, The Upside 6.6% but both with way less competition
#4 Glass 4.8%
#5 Cold Pursuit 4.8%

Edited February 7, 2019 by el sid

[MrGlass2]

Fandango Sales Past 24 Hours
Since: 2019-02-06 13:00:00 (US/Central - Chicago)

RANK	PERCENT	TICKETS	MOVIE
1	19.438%	9609	The Lego Movie 2 The Second Part
2	12.384%	6122	What Men Want
3	05.468%	2703	Glass (2019)
4	05.239%	2590	Cold Pursuit
5	05.092%	2517	The Upside
6	03.364%	1663	The Wandering Earth

 

2019-02-07 18:00:34.894186 UTC
1	20.3%	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
2	10%	The Wandering Earth
3	7.1%	What Men Want
4	5%	Glass
5	4.5%	Cold Pursuit

[MattW]

7 hours ago, Napoleon said:

Never heard of The Prodigy before, but the trailer has 36 million views on Youtube 

 

1 hour ago, kitik said:

 

I saw someone mention that you have to watch 30 seconds for it to count as a view, but I have no clue if that's true or not.

I'm pretty sure it's 5 seconds.  Movies that get advertised on youtube will have high view counts and very, very low like counts relative to views because the views didn't come from the actual video page where you can click the like button, but from another video's page as a pre-roll ad.  Compare that to pretty much any other trailer with a similar view count, even ones from 5 or 6 years ago and you have way more likes:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=movie+trailer&sp=CAMSAhAB

 

 

[WrathOfHan]

First LEGO shows at my theater:

 

2D: 20/104

IMAX: 7/372

Running Total: 27/476

 

I'll have the next update+comps later tonight

[YM!]

North Shore Cinema 

 

Lego 2

4:00 - 20/69

4:30 - 6/301 - UltraScreen 

 

 

more later

Edited February 7, 2019 by YourMother the Edgelord

[Eric Prime]

Cold Pursuit	28	1032	2.13%
Lego Movie 2	387	3183	12.16%
The Prodigy	24	1695	1.42%
What Men Want	436	1583	27.54%

 

I should mention first and foremost that I forgot to check Lego's 4PM previews (I'm only used to 7PM studios. STOP DOING PREVIEWS EARLY). Maybe it sold a lot in that timeframe, maybe it didn't, I dunno. Also, neither Cold Pursuit and Prodigy have previews tonight at my theater (they're probably trying to squeeze as much money out of the many holdovers as they can before they disappear), hence the more deflated numbers. Then again, they probably weren't making much anyways

 

Pursuit:

35% of The Commuter (4.8M)

58% of 15:17 to Paris (7.3M)

47% of Death Wish (6.2M)

117% of Sicario 2 (22.2M)

47% of Skyscraper (11.6M)

65% of Mile 22 (8.9M)

61% of The Mule (10.7M)

 

Again, I don't have previews to help the movie out, but...yeah.

 

Anyway, Lego:

114% of Peter Rabbit (28.5M)

102% of Hotel Transylvania 3 (44.9M)

170% of House w/ Clock (45.2M)

213% of Smallfoot (49M)

86% of Grinch (58M)

149% of Spider-Verse (52.8M)

 

The comps in the mid-40s do give me pause, but let's be optimistic and still gun for ~55M

 

Prodigy:

73% of Winchester (6.8M)

37% of Strangers 2 (3.8M)

13% of Quiet Place (6.5M)

171% of Hell Fest (8.8M)

23% of Escape Room (4.1M)

 

Eh? Maybe it reaches the Hell Fest comp?

 

Men:

92% of Acrimony (15.8M)

283% of Uncle Drew (43.1M)

101% of Night School (27.5M)

119% of Nobody's Fool (16.4M)

 

Around the ballpark of Night School's my guess

[DAJK]

Victoria Update:

 

Cold Pursuit 7:20 - 39/87

144% Bad Times at the El Royale (10.3M)

72% First Man (11.56M)

47% Glass (19.13M)

Don't think it'll come close to the Glass comp, but 10M should be doable. 

 

LEGO 6:45 - 40/89

138% Grinch (93M)

Don't really have a lot of kids' movies comps since I only started tracking in October and the theatre I track didn't play Nutcracker or Bumblebee, but this seems really strong. 

 

[Eric Prime]

7 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

First LEGO shows at my theater:

 

2D: 20/104

IMAX: 7/372

Running Total: 27/476

 

I'll have the next update+comps later tonight

 

6 hours ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:

North Shore Cinema 

 

Lego 2

4:00 - 20/69

4:30 - 6/301 - UltraScreen 

 

 

more later

[dxmatrixdt]

Watched The Prodigy tonight.  It was meh - flat, cold, and stiff.  If you liked The Boy, Glass, Godsend, Dark Water, The Disappointments Room, Shut In, Friend Request, The Sixth Sense, and A Cure for Wellness you would like this.

 

I don't think the high YT trailer views were a sign of larger things to come. - the overall movie didn't blow away with action

 

The Prodigy lucked out on the scheduling, like a movie opening before Christmas, but I think this will drop drastically against Happy Death Day 2 on V-day.

It had some jump unique jump scares, but a limited story.

 

My gut is the cinemascore would be somewhere around a C, Escape Room must be looking at another good hold this week against direct competition and is Escape Room a 4-star movie like the legs and cinemascore promise?

 

*The Child's Play trailer looks like this one will roll off the assembly line with a 30M OW and maybe a PG-13 rating in the spirit of IT

Edited February 8, 2019 by romancechemicalsWW12

[WrathOfHan]

Wow Eric, sorry I have a life  Anyways, apparently keeping AMC's site open while my laptop is in sleep mode doesn't work anymore bc the showtimes are redirecting to the listings  Or maybe it's a glitch for a loophole? Idk. Anyways, no comps. Sry.

[Porthos]

Captain Marvel Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-28 Days and counting

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	2	81	7553	10616	28.85%

 

Total Seats Sold Today:              52

 

.4747x as many tickets sold as Infinity War 28 days before release. [Captain Marvel has 58 days of pre-sales compared to Infinity War's 41 days]

 

Day T-28 Comp:

 

IW:        89 tickets sold [1 sellout/116 showings |   4673/11125 seats left  | 58.00% sold] 

[Porthos]

8 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Wow Eric, sorry I have a life  Anyways, apparently keeping AMC's site open while my laptop is in sleep mode doesn't work anymore bc the showtimes are redirecting to the listings  Or maybe it's a glitch for a loophole? Idk. Anyways, no comps. Sry.

Pretty sure he was giffing the lack of crowds for Lego 2.

[Boxofficerules]

1 hour ago, romancechemicalsWW12 said:

 

 

*The Child's Play trailer looks like this one will roll off the assembly line with a 30M OW and maybe a PG-13 rating in the spirit of IT

IT was rated R.