The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Are those 3day or 4day? 

[filmlover]

21 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

Are those 3day or 4day? 

4-day I assume since that's the range Bad Boys has been tracking in the past few weeks.

[Eric Quinn]

Bad Boys for Life Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	79	1,402	15,251	9.19%

 

Total Shows Added Today: 39

Total Seats Added Today: 6,407

Total Seats Sold Today: 470

 

Comp

1.527x of Once Upon 2 days before release (8.86M)

0.734x of It: Chapter Two (7.71M)

0.548x of Joker (7.29M)

5.231x of Gemini Man (8.37M)

4.522x of Terminator (10.63M)

7.302x of 21 Bridges (5.11M)

 

Adjusted Comp

0.254x of The Lion King (5.84M)

1.956x of Hobbs & Shaw (11.35M)

 

Even more impressive than today's sales was the boost in showtimes. Granted part of it was some theaters getting their shows up, but...you don't get to nearly double the previous showtimes just on a few theaters finally getting Thursday shows up. We'll see how higher the movie will go, though again, don't expect previews to even reach the low-end.

[Eric Quinn]

Dolittle Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	38	80	6,509	1.23%

 

Total Shows Added Today: 11

Total Seats Added Today: 1,178

Total Seats Sold Today: 18

 

Comp

0.769x of Dora 2 days before release (961K)

1.333x of Abominable (867K)

0.460x of Addams Family (575K)

0.329x of Maleficent (757K)

2.424x of Playing with Fire (1.09M)

0.277x of Jumanji (1.3M)

 

It's...better. At the very least, I feel more confident in 1M previews, though of course, that's kind of damning with faint praise. Take what you can get I suppose.

[el sid]

For time reasons (and because of many unnerving error reports) only Dolittle today but tomorrow I will again count Bad Boys for Life, promised . And the other reports here are so positive that I don't worry at all anyway.
 

Dolittle, counted today at 10am EST:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 27 (total tickets sold for Thursday) / 28 (total tickets sold for Friday, 5 showtimes)
Boston (AMC Assembly Row 12): 34 / 26 (8 showtimes)
Boston (Boston Common 19): 14 / 20 (10 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 22 / 16 (12 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 8 / 17 (4 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): showtimes): 3 / 23 (3 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Center Point 11): 15 / 25 (6 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 82 / 88 (7 showtimes)
LA (AMC Bay Street): 24 / 22 (5 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 88 / 43 (12 showtimes)
Total tickets sold in 10 theaters till today for Thursday: 317 and for Friday: 308.

That's a jump of 52% and 76% compared to its Monday sales.
Comps: Maleficent 2 had on Wednesday 1.190/1.444 sold tickets, Frozen 2 had 2.944/5.206. A better comparison could be Dora and the Lost City of Gold (17.4M OW) which had on Thursday 567/459.
So if Dolittle's sales double till tomorrow and I think that's ambitious but not impossible, around 20M OW (4-day) could happen or maybe a bit more.

[DAJK]

Bad Boys and Dolittle are both selling awful here. But Victoria is in the middle of a snowstorm (which never happens here... it paralyzes the city) so I can understand why people are reluctant to buy tickets ahead of time when the weather over the next few days is supposed to be very unpredictable. 

 

Unfortunately, I could see this week here being a complete wash. 

[lorddemaxus]

1 minute ago, lorddemaxus said:

 

Tickets on sale on the 29th

If anyone was still wondering when Birds of Prey tickets are gonna go on sale.

 

This is later than when Joker tickets went on sale right? 

Edited January 15, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[Eric Quinn]

2 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

If anyone was still wondering when Birds of Prey tickets are gonna go on sale.

 

This is later than when Joker tickets went on sale right? 

That's only 8 days of presales if that holds.

 

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Nova]

9 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

If anyone was still wondering when Birds of Prey tickets are gonna go on sale.

 

This is later than when Joker tickets went on sale right? 

That’s very late for movies in general especially at Cinemark. 

[lorddemaxus]

1 minute ago, Nova said:

That’s very late for movies in general especially at Cinemark. 

Cinemark starts presales after other theater chains start presales? I thought they all start at the same time.

 

The 29th makes a little bit of sense considering that that is day the reviews will supposedly be out but I think they should start presales a week earlier. Didn't even realize that was just 8 days away from the movie's release date.

[dudalb]

15 hours ago, Eric Dolittle said:

Dolittle Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	38	80	6,509	1.23%

 

Total Shows Added Today: 11

Total Seats Added Today: 1,178

Total Seats Sold Today: 18

 

Comp

0.769x of Dora 2 days before release (961K)

1.333x of Abominable (867K)

0.460x of Addams Family (575K)

0.329x of Maleficent (757K)

2.424x of Playing with Fire (1.09M)

0.277x of Jumanji (1.3M)

 

It's...better. At the very least, I feel more confident in 1M previews, though of course, that's kind of damning with faint praise. Take what you can get I suppose.

And this was before the reviews for Dolittle came out......

[keysersoze123]

On 1/9/2020 at 9:28 AM, keysersoze123 said:

Another Update

 

Dolittle - overall 519 shows 1659/89985 23944.53 
Bad Boys - overall 681 shows 6669/158567 106163.90
 

This does not look like a contest. Bad Boys could do well considering there is more than a week to go. 

Update MTC1.

Dolittle - overall 902 shows 5232/145992 76025.06
Bad Boys - overall 1028 shows 28624/216079 430796.76

 

Dolittle is gonna bomb for sure. Very low previews and probably OW in teens. Bad Boys looks like opening in high end of tracking. 

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Cinemark starts presales after other theater chains start presales? I thought they all start at the same time.

 

The 29th makes a little bit of sense considering that that is day the reviews will supposedly be out but I think they should start presales a week earlier. Didn't even realize that was just 8 days away from the movie's release date.

The Cinemarks in my area usually have showtimes and tickets available before other theater chains at least for the mid budget films. For a movie like BOP I’d imagine all theater chains would put showtimes up around the same time but still 8 days is late for a film. 

[Cooper Legion]

1 minute ago, keysersoze123 said:

OW in teens.

Assume you mean the 3-day here? 4-day would be delicious for the drama though.

[dudalb]

OUch. I just read that the 175 Million budget figure for Dolittle was before the expensive reshoots. Universal is going to take a huge,huge,hit on this.

 

 

[keysersoze123]

12 minutes ago, Arendelle Legion said:

Assume you mean the 3-day here? 4-day would be delicious for the drama though.

Oops. yes. Need to ruminate to project for 4-day. I have not tracked long enough to project for MLK weekend. Just back after a long flight. Will look at OD numbers as well. But the numbers seen here are very low. Among lowest for a high profile movie that I have tracked. 1/4th of where 1917 was last week. This has RDJ and big budget. 

[filmlover]

Is it known what RDJ was paid for Dolittle? Cause I feel like a potential club could've been made there for either opening weekend or total depending on the amount. 

[dudalb]

33 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Is it known what RDJ was paid for Dolittle? Cause I feel like a potential club could've been made there for either opening weekend or total depending on the amount. 

A lot of details are now leaking out about the making of this film,and it seems to have been a FUBAR of "Cleopatra" (1963) proportions. Just about everything that could go wrong did. 

[keysersoze123]

51 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

Update MTC1.

Dolittle - overall 902 shows 5232/145992 76025.06
Bad Boys - overall 1028 shows 28624/216079 430796.76

 

Dolittle is gonna bomb for sure. Very low previews and probably OW in teens. Bad Boys looks like opening in high end of tracking. 

MTC2

 

Dolittle - overall 1041 shows 3491/136206 39813.00

Bad Boys -  overall 1555 shows 21267/243481 256402.00

 

Same theme as MTC1. I had thought Bad Boys would be MTC1 heavy like Gemini Man was, but this is no where like that. 

 

Since this is MLK weekend I would like to look at OD PS to project OW. But with horrible reviews dolittle needs a miracle to salvage its BO. 

[Nova]

Dolittle has sold 7 tickets for tomorrow night at my local theater. Previews starting at 5PM. 
 

Bad Boys 3 has sold 123 tickets for tomorrow night. Previews starting at 4PM.