The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Biggestgeekever]

1 minute ago, Porthos said:

Really thinking more and more it's an overflow error somewhere.  Just seems logical as a culprit from what little I know/remember about computer programming

 

Just a wonder/miracle it didn't break for any of the other 200m OWs previously.

Endgame must still be running so presale heavy that its fandango sales are greater than BP and Infinity War's OW, which is pretty crazy.

[Porthos]

3 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:

Endgame must still be running so presale heavy that its fandango sales are greater than BP and Infinity War's OW, which is pretty crazy.

That and the rise in purchasing tickets at places in Fandango and Atom at the spur of the moment in general.  It's common knowledge here that pre-sales/online sales have gone up each and every year.

 

If my supposition is right, that is.  If it is, we should expect to see more Pulse breakdowns in the future as grabbing tickets via joints like Fandango grows in popularity

Edited May 3, 2019 by Porthos

[Joyous Legion]

Wow, PS start, OW, and now 2nd wknd too. This movie’s a menace.

[Porthos]

4 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Wow, PS start, OW, and now 2nd wknd too. This movie’s a menace.

I think it's WB this time, man.   @Minnale101 was too close to cracking the code with their Pulse analysis regarding Pika Pika and WB had Fandango kneecap Pulse before they could bust it all wide open. 

[HouseOfTheSun]

Always a pleasure to see people who have no experience with Presales tracking extrapolate an opening weekend number with absolute confidence. 

[Minnale101]

Just now, Porthos said:

I think it's WB this time, man.   @Minnale101 was too close to cracking the code with their Pulse analysis regarding Pika Pika and WB had Fandango kneecap Pulse before they could bust it all wide open. 

I guess have to wait until Sunday lol. But yeah would have been nice to know friday final total and Saturday total 

 

endgame stop destroying fandango hahaha 

[Nova]

We all had to start tracking movies someway. And regardless of how much experience some of us have, we get movies wrong regardless of how "confident" we are. 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Nova

[HouseOfTheSun]

12 minutes ago, Nova said:

We all had to start tracking movies someway. And regardless of how much experience some of us have, we get movies wrong regardless of how "confident" we are. 

I mean I get that. But a a couple of people are sticking their fingers in their ears at any mention of data that doesn’t go with their wishes. To track you’ve gotta Consider everything. 

[Porthos]

Decided to watch the Pulse stream. 

 

This:

 

Updated by @akvalley: 2019-05-03 15:55:56 Central (Lock time Fridays 11:00:00)
BUY TIME	TICKETS	MOVIE TITLE
--------------------------------------------------
2019-05-03 15:00:00	578	Avengers Endgame (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	106	Avengers Endgame 3D (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	58	The Intruder (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	55	Long Shot
2019-05-03 15:00:00	45	Avengers Endgame The IMAX 2D Experience (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	33	UglyDolls
2019-05-03 15:00:00	25	Captain Marvel (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	16	Avengers Endgame An IMAX 3D Experience (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	12	Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019-05-03 15:00:00	10	Breakthrough (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	10	The Curse of La Llorona
2019-05-03 15:00:00	9	Shazam!
2019-05-03 15:00:00	7	Dumbo (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	5	John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum
2019-05-03 15:00:00	5	Little (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	3	Us (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	3	Penguins (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	2	El Chicano (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	2	Hesburgh
2019-05-03 15:00:00	2	Bolden
2019-05-03 15:00:00	2	Fandango Early Access Rocketman
2019-05-03 15:00:00	2	Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Amazing Grace (2019)
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Chonda Pierce Unashamed
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	First Friday Shorts
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Intruder
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Pokémon Detective Pikachu 3D
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Batman (1989) 30th Anniversary [80 Years of Batman Celebration]
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	What We Left Behind Looking Back at Star Trek DS9
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Double Feature Bad Black and Who Killed Captain Alex
2019-05-03 15:00:00	1	Pet Sematary (2019)

 

was four minutes worth of sets of sales before it hit the 1000 cap.  Maaaaybe 4 minues and a few seconds.  It started displaying tickets sometime in the 1:01 PDT minute, briefly made it a few sets into 1:05 before folding back.  

 

That's still 'only' 3,750 sets of tickets for the entire 15 minute period (and yes I remember that Pulse only displays a subset of all Fandango sales), presuming an even distribution, so who the frell knows what is going on over in Pulselandia.

 

Maybe it's the total set of sales that Pulse draws from that is causing the trouble and not the subset Pulse actually displays.

Edited May 3, 2019 by Porthos

[Mulder]

"

2019-05-03 15:00:00	2	Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection"

This came up? 

[TalismanRing]

11 minutes ago, HouseOfTheSun said:

I mean I get that. But a a couple of people are sticking their fingers in their ears at any mention of data that doesn’t go with their wishes. To track you’ve gotta Consider everything. 

This happens all the time, especially with fan driven movies.  

Number crunching invariably either leads to cheering or shooting the messenger. 

[Nova]

Welp the Pulse stream didn't update the last hour. Guess its officially broken. Looks like we gotta wait until Monday to get things back up again. 

 

[Nova]

20 minutes ago, HouseOfTheSun said:

I mean I get that. But a a couple of people are sticking their fingers in their ears at any mention of data that doesn’t go with their wishes. To track you’ve gotta Consider everything. 

I mean I get that as well, but if we are talking about the same user, they do acknowledge that it's their first time doing this and they've used different movies to compare. They're just working on their own methods and even if they fuck this movie up in terms of tracking, it's something that they can learn from and fine tune their skills for future films.....which is something we all did. I mean thats at least my hope for them as a user. 

 

*Now if youre talking about a different user who literally mentions the same site over and over again to try and force a narrative I see what you're saying. 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Nova

[Perfundle]

17 minutes ago, Porthos said:

That's still 'only' 3,750 sets of tickets for the entire 15 minute period (and yes I remember that Pulse only displays a subset of all Fandango sales), presuming an even distribution, so who the frell knows what is going on over in Pulselandia.

 

Maybe it's the total set of sales that Pulse draws from that is causing the trouble and not the subset Pulse actually displays.

How many tickets should we be expecting in that time period?

[HouseOfTheSun]

8 minutes ago, Nova said:

I mean I get that as well, but if we are talking about the same user, they do acknowledge that it's their first time doing this and they've used different movies to compare. They're just working on their own methods and even if they fuck this movie up in terms of tracking, it's something that they can learn from and fine tune their skills for future films.....which is something we all did. I mean thats at least my hope for them as a user. 

 

*Now if youre talking about a different user who literally mentions the same site over and over again to try and force a narrative I see what you're saying. 

The first user you’re tslking about I have no issue with (although my comment This thread makes it seem so. I just can’t post in the other one bc I threw a bit of a tantrum) . The other one....

Edited May 3, 2019 by HouseOfTheSun

[Brainbug]

1 minute ago, HouseOfTheSun said:

The first user you’re tslking about I have no issue with. The other one....

 

Its a wildcard! A WILDCARD!

[Nova]

5 minutes ago, HouseOfTheSun said:

The first user you’re tslking about I have no issue with (although my comment This thread makes it seem so. I just can’t post in the other one bc I threw a bit of a tantrum) . The other one....

Okay then. We are on the same page now 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Nova

[Mulder]

1 minute ago, Brainbug said:

 

Its a wildcard! A WILDCARD!

WB better update their sources! 

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Its a wildcard! A WILDCARD!

[Porthos]

7 minutes ago, Perfundle said:

How many tickets should we be expecting in that time period?

Beats the heck out of me.  I was more seeing if I could find an easy to identify overflow culprit.  Like, more than 1000 sets in under a minute would be an obvious red flag. 1000 sets within five minutes?  Not so much. 

 

Might just be the overall sets of tickets Pulse is drawing from.  

 

Or it might just be a creaky five and a half year old program/set of APIs that is desperately in need of updating on the back end (Pulse looks to have been established way back in Oct 2013).