The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Minnale101]

Detective pikachu finished with 5069 on Monday 

 

Tuesday I feel will be much bigger 

[Perfundle]

Geez that took a while to count, but I'm certainly not complaining. Also, several people have expressed concern about low presales for Aladdin at their theaters, but I'm certainly not seeing that at mine; it's been pretty healthy the last couple of days.

 

Detective Pikachu San Gabriel Valley (10 theaters), 3 days to opening night

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats sold	Seats Left	Total Seats	Percent Sold
TOTALS	0	78	3524	9495	13019	27.07%

 

13 showings added

2158 seats added

472 seats sold

 

Date				4/10	4/11	4/12	4/13
Tickets Sold				534	198	110	58
Date	4/14	4/15	4/16	4/17	4/18	4/19	4/20
Tickets Sold	28	45	59	63	36	33	28
Date	4/21	4/22	4/23	4/24	4/25	4/26	4/27
Tickets Sold	35	72	57	44	92	64	79
Date	4/28	4/29	4/30	5/1	5/2	5/3	5/4
Tickets Sold	91	126	85	139	255	232	241
Date	5/5	5/6
Tickets Sold	248	472

 

Aladdin San Gabriel Valley (10 theaters), 8th day of presales, 17 days to opening night

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats sold	Seats Left	Total Seats	Percent Sold
TOTALS	0	62	1480	11516	12996	11.39%

 

107 seats sold

 

Date		4/30	4/31	5/1	5/2	5/3	5/4
Tickets Sold		677	208	149	131	87	56
Date	5/5	5/6
Tickets Sold	65	107

 

1.35x Detective Pikachu's first 8 days of presales [Detective Pikachu has 29 days of presales compared to Aladdin's 24]

1.14x Detective Pikachu at T-17 days of presales (cumulative total)

 

[Minnale101]

Movie tickets top 5 is back to updating 

 

endgame 68.7%

 

detective pikachu 7%

 

spiderman 3.3 %

[Taruseth]

7 hours ago, Porthos said:

Far From Home Greater Sacramento Area MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS Seat Report: T-56 Days and counting

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	7	963	1042	7.58%

 

Total Seats Sold Today:                      79

 

No comps at the moment.  Might add some in as showings increase or decide to showcase a couple of theaters. Gonna think on it over the next couple of days.

 

Next update: Thr 5/9

56 days, what???

 

Isn't that early as f*ck...

 

 

And did only previews or the whole weekend go on sale already?

[TwoMisfits]

8 hours ago, Sam said:

A quick look at my local Regal chain, I see that Pikachu is selling well for 2D previews (all theaters I checked have 3-4 preview showings, with 2 being standard 2D). It’s selling pretty good for 7-8PM showings on Friday and Saturday, but are dead for the rest, which set it up well for walk-ups business.

 

I think the big disadvantage of Pikachu at my theaters right now is number of showtimes. At all 5 Regal theaters I looked at, the maximum number of showtimes it got is 5 per day for Fri-Sun frame, counting all formats.

 

Endgame showtimes are not up yet for weekend but its Thursday numbers are 13+ showings so I don’t imagine it’ll go below 10 for the weekend. 

 

Will see how Pika’s number of showtimes change over the next few days. For it to increase I think it’ll need to start pre-selling tickets better for matinees and 10PM onwards showings. 

That's what's gonna decide my final thoughts on the movie - how tight theaters are and how many actual showings it can get...since if you don't have seats, you can't sell them...

 

For the record, my tracked theaters have "virtually" sold out Saturday morning and Friday night shows for Pika...but that's b/c it's still sitting at 1 screen each at both (although at least one has it on its biggest sized screen)...there's no where to go yet, if they don't open more showings for the desired time...

[YM!]

Tuesday will be the mea culpa for Pikachu for showtimes as Marcus updates their final showtimes for the films this weekend.

[cdsacken]

Pika took a long time to ramp up it makes perfect sense for theaters to be cautious in how many screens they might add.

 

Fact is virtually sold out with only 1 or 2 screens makes it harder to justify adding screens. Good WOM could still really help the weekend but protect the theaters from over extending. The heavily reduced screen count for End Game also limits how much they want to remove from it. The Long Shot also might end up doing decent this weekend given the reception.

 

Heck even with End Game they waited until the last possible second to add a ton of screens on the first weekend. If demand really does explode, more screens can be added in time.

 

[Eric Duncan]

Fandango App

Monday

Tues

Wed

Thursday

Blockers

504

1,106

2,931

I Feel Pretty

871

1,610

4,423

Life Of The Party

587

1,310

3,010

Book Club

836

1,599

3,283

Incredibles 2

20,872

23,430

39,337

Antman & The Wasp

6,613

5,990

11,108

Hotel Transylvania 3

1,753

2,674

6,605

14,754

Christopher Robin

1,560

2,442

5,355

11,509

The Spy Who Dumped Me

234

542

1,561

4,222

BlackkKlansman

432

682

1,934

5,017

A Simple Favor

564

2,126

4,410

10,381

White Boy Rick

136

567

1,458

4,587

First Man

654

909

3,610

7,586

Nobody's Fool	436	900	1,719	4,437
The Grinch	3,580	4,860	10,092	17,046

Widows

310

868

2,219

4,179

The Mule

791

1,779

3,882

6,235

Spider-Verse

3,715

5,208

9,858

19,972

Bumblebee	1,553	1,817	3,157
Second Act	353	611	1,204
Marwen	299	403	658

Upside

394

1,431

3,669

8,602

Lego Movie 2

2,552

4,130

8,601

13,320

How to Train Your Dragon 3

3,724

6,674

12,935

21,313

Dumbo

3,069

4,624

9,218

16,140

Shazam

5,099

**391

***2,099

17,154

The Best of Enemies

251

**17

***123

1,246

Little

673

1,098

2,450

5,760

The Hustle	485
Pokemon Detective Pikachu	5,061
Poms	198
Tolkien	165

 

Hustle comps:

96% of Blockers (19.8M)

56% of I Feel Pretty (8.9M)

83% of Life of the Party (14.8M)

207% of Spy Who Dumped Me (25.1M)

86% of A Simple Favor (13.8M)

111% of Nobody's Fool (15.3M)

137% of Second Act (8.9M)

72% of Little (11.1M)

 

I know there was a bit of concern, but it seems judging by presales, this is in an okay, if unspectacular situation right now? Will depend on the next couple days.

 

Pikachu comps:

24% of Incredibles 2 (44.3M)

76% of Ant-Man 2 (58M)

289% of Hotel Transylvania 3 (127.2M)

324% of Christopher Robin (79.7M)

141% of The Grinch (95.5M)

136% of Spider-Verse (48.2M)

330% of Bumblebee (71.5M)

201% of Lego Movie 2 (68.5M)

136% of Dragon 3 (74.8M)

165% of Dumbo (75.8M)

99% of Shazam (53.1M)

 

Taking out a couple outliers, the range for the majority of the comps is basically 65M-80M. Pretty broad, but it'll go on the low end or high end depending on walk-ups.

 

Poms comps:

23% of I Feel Pretty (3.6M)

34% of Life of the Party (6M)

24% of Book Club (3.2M)

25% of The Mule (4.4M)

56% of Second Act (3.6M)

66% of Marwen (1.6M)

50% of The Upside (10.2M)

 

Even for a movie that's not supposed to be pre-sale heavy, this seems pretty soft. Maybe this is just so oldies-driven that it's way less pre-sales driven than even Book Club.

 

Tolkien comps:

38% of BlacKkKlansman (4.1M)

121% of White Boy Rick (10.7M)

25% of First Man (4M)

53% of Widows (6.6M)

66% of The Best of Enemies (2.9M)

 

Eh, I guess 4M could be worse.

[Minnale101]

3 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Fandango App

Monday

Tues

Wed

Thursday

Blockers

504

1,106

2,931

I Feel Pretty

871

1,610

4,423

Life Of The Party

587

1,310

3,010

Book Club

836

1,599

3,283

Incredibles 2

20,872

23,430

39,337

Antman & The Wasp

6,613

5,990

11,108

Hotel Transylvania 3

1,753

2,674

6,605

14,754

Christopher Robin

1,560

2,442

5,355

11,509

The Spy Who Dumped Me

234

542

1,561

4,222

BlackkKlansman

432

682

1,934

5,017

A Simple Favor

564

2,126

4,410

10,381

White Boy Rick

136

567

1,458

4,587

First Man

654

909

3,610

7,586

Nobody's Fool	436	900	1,719	4,437
The Grinch	3,580	4,860	10,092	17,046

Widows

310

868

2,219

4,179

The Mule

791

1,779

3,882

6,235

Spider-Verse

3,715

5,208

9,858

19,972

Bumblebee	1,553	1,817	3,157
Second Act	353	611	1,204
Marwen	299	403	658

Upside

394

1,431

3,669

8,602

Lego Movie 2

2,552

4,130

8,601

13,320

How to Train Your Dragon 3

3,724

6,674

12,935

21,313

Dumbo

3,069

4,624

9,218

16,140

Shazam

5,099

**391

***2,099

17,154

The Best of Enemies

251

**17

***123

1,246

Little

673

1,098

2,450

5,760

The Hustle	485
Pokemon Detective Pikachu	5,061
Poms	198
Tolkien	165

 

Hustle comps:

96% of Blockers (19.8M)

56% of I Feel Pretty (8.9M)

83% of Life of the Party (14.8M)

207% of Spy Who Dumped Me (25.1M)

86% of A Simple Favor (13.8M)

111% of Nobody's Fool (15.3M)

137% of Second Act (8.9M)

72% of Little (11.1M)

 

I know there was a bit of concern, but it seems judging by presales, this is in an okay, if unspectacular situation right now? Will depend on the next couple days.

 

Pikachu comps:

24% of Incredibles 2 (44.3M)

76% of Ant-Man 2 (58M)

289% of Hotel Transylvania 3 (127.2M)

324% of Christopher Robin (79.7M)

141% of The Grinch (95.5M)

136% of Spider-Verse (48.2M)

330% of Bumblebee (71.5M)

201% of Lego Movie 2 (68.5M)

136% of Dragon 3 (74.8M)

165% of Dumbo (75.8M)

99% of Shazam (53.1M)

 

Taking out a couple outliers, the range for the majority of the comps is basically 65M-80M. Pretty broad, but it'll go on the low end or high end depending on walk-ups.

 

Poms comps:

23% of I Feel Pretty (3.6M)

34% of Life of the Party (6M)

24% of Book Club (3.2M)

25% of The Mule (4.4M)

56% of Second Act (3.6M)

66% of Marwen (1.6M)

50% of The Upside (10.2M)

 

Even for a movie that's not supposed to be pre-sale heavy, this seems pretty soft. Maybe this is just so oldies-driven that it's way less pre-sales driven than even Book Club.

 

Tolkien comps:

38% of BlacKkKlansman (4.1M)

121% of White Boy Rick (10.7M)

25% of First Man (4M)

53% of Widows (6.6M)

66% of The Best of Enemies (2.9M)

 

Eh, I guess 4M could be worse.

Thank you for this. 

 

Pikachu doing decent it seems 

 

definitely agree with you regarding the hustle. Doesn’t seem too bad compared to last week 

[Minnale101]

Detective pikachu Tuesday number is gonna be big and distance itself even more 

[Eric Duncan]

I'm pretty busy today, so I'm only gonna focus on Far From Home when it comes to the upcoming movies. Maybe I'll look at some other movies in the future. You can look at some of the other movies right here.

 

Movie/Date

Monday

Spider-Man FFH	13,647
	57 days

 

First day of presales:

228% of Captain Marvel (350M)

46% of Infinity War (119.6M)

 

Day 57:

606% of Captain Marvel (930.6M)

 

So before people go nuts, there are some things to keep in mind. First of all, when Captain Marvel started selling tickets, it did so at around the evening time, while Far From Home started in the late morning. That makes comparisons really tricky right off the bat. And of course, the Tuesday opening. Do we measure the Fri-Sun period or the whole 6-Day period? The last time movies opened on a Tuesday were Vice and Holmes and Watson, which...yeah, aren't good comparisons. Before that (apart from Fathom events) was all the way back in 2012, so we're pretty much in new territory here. But either way, selling close to half of Infinity War's first day is a really good start.

Edited May 7, 2019 by CoolEric258

[Stewart]

4 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

I'm pretty busy today, so I'm only gonna focus on Far From Home when it comes to the upcoming movies. Maybe I'll look at some other movies in the future. You can look at some of the other movies right here.

 

Movie/Date

Monday

Spider-Man FFH	13,647
	57 days

 

First day of presales:

228% of Captain Marvel (350M)

46% of Infinity War (119.6M)

 

Day 57:

606% of Captain Marvel (930.6M)

 

So before people go nuts, there are some things to keep in mind. First of all, when Captain Marvel started selling tickets, it did so at around the evening time, while Far From Home started in the late morning. That makes comparisons really tricky right off the bat. And of course, the Tuesday opening. Do we measure the Fri-Sun period or the whole 6-Day period? The last time movies opened on a Tuesday were Vice and Holmes and Watson, which...yeah, aren't good comparisons. Before that (apart from Fathom events) was all the way back in 2012, so we're pretty much in new territory here. But either way, selling close to half of Infinity War's first day is a really good start.

Just to add to that, because of the capping, and Endgame being huge still, FFH likely sold much more than that. When Captain Marvel tickets were released there was barely anything around.

 

It's entirely possible, perhaps even likely, that FFH sold 3-4x CM's first day. As you say, CM started in evening so is a bit troublesome. Regardless I think this is a fantastic start. 

[Menor the Destroyer]

2 minutes ago, Stewart said:

Just to add to that, because of the capping, and Endgame being huge still, FFH likely sold much more than that. When Captain Marvel tickets were released there was barely anything around.

 

It's entirely possible, perhaps even likely, that FFH sold 3-4x CM's first day. As you say, CM started in evening so is a bit troublesome. Regardless I think this is a fantastic start. 

Even considering the evening start, it was ~8600 vs 5983 in the same time period, and as you said Endgame would reduce the Pulse #s due to the cap.

[FlashMaster659]

Spider-Man: Far From Home - AMC Ontario Mills 30 (Full 6-Day Weekend)

 

Monday Midnight Total

 

126/203 (62.1%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

12:01 AM - 126/203

 

Tuesday Total

 

764/3332 (22.9%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

9:00 AM - 63/203

12:30 PM - 68/203

4:00 PM - 90/203

7:30 PM - 159/203

11:00 PM - 61/203

 

Dine-In Full Service 3D

 

11:00 AM - 0/63 Aud. 13

12:00 PM - 3/78 Aud. 9

2:30 PM - 3/63 Aud. 13

3:30 PM - 4/78 Aud. 9

6:00 PM - 16/63 Aud. 13

7:00 PM - 21/78 Aud. 9

9:30 PM - 2/63 Aud. 13

10:30 PM - 0/78 Aud. 9

 

2D

 

9:30 AM - 9/217 Aud. 18

11:30 AM - 27/167 Aud. 19

1:00 PM - 4/217 Aud. 18

3:00 PM - 9/167 Aud. 19

4:30 PM - 33/217 Aud. 18

6:30 PM - 78/167 Aud. 19

8:00 PM - 101/217 Aud. 18

10:00 PM - 11/167 Aud. 19

11:30 PM - 2/217 Aud. 18

 

Wednesday Total

 

91/3332 (2.7%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

9:00 AM - 8/203

12:30 PM - 5/203

4:00 PM - 8/203

7:30 PM - 63/203

11:00 PM - 5/203

 

Dine-In Full Service 3D

 

11:00 AM - 0/63

12:00 PM - 0/78

2:30 PM - 0/63

3:30 PM - 0/78

6:00 PM - 0/63

7:00 PM - 0/78

9:30 PM - 0/63

10:30 PM - 0/78

 

2D

 

9:30 AM - 0/217

11:30 AM - 0/167

1:00 PM - 0/217

3:00 PM - 0/167

4:30 PM - 2/217

6:30 PM - 0/167

8:00 PM - 0/217

10:00 PM - 0/167

11:30 PM - 0/217

 

Thursday Total

 

46/3332 (1.4%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

9:00 AM - 12/203

12:30 PM - 12/203

4:00 PM - 7/203

7:30 PM - 4/203

11:00 PM - 5/203

 

Dine-In Full Service 3D

 

11:00 AM - 0/63

12:00 PM - 0/78

2:30 PM - 0/63

3:30 PM - 0/78

6:00 PM - 2/63

7:00 PM - 0/78

9:30 PM - 0/63

10:30 PM - 0/78

 

2D

 

9:30 AM - 4/217

11:30 AM - 0/167

1:00 PM - 0/217

3:00 PM - 0/167

4:30 PM - 0/217

6:30 PM - 0/167

8:00 PM - 0/217

10:00 PM - 0/167

11:30 PM - 0/217

 

Friday Total

 

55/3332 (1.7%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

9:00 AM - 3/203

12:30 PM - 8/203

4:00 PM - 9/203

7:30 PM - 20/203

11:00 PM - 6/203

 

Dine-In Full Service 3D

 

11:00 AM - 0/63

12:00 PM - 0/78

2:30 PM - 0/63

3:30 PM - 0/78

6:00 PM - 0/63

7:00 PM - 4/78

9:30 PM - 0/63

10:30 PM - 0/78

 

2D

 

9:30 AM - 0/217

11:30 AM - 0/167

1:00 PM - 0/217

3:00 PM - 2/167

4:30 PM - 0/217

6:30 PM - 0/167

8:00 PM - 3/217

10:00 PM - 0/167

11:30 PM - 0/217

 

Saturday Total

 

93/3332 (2.8%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

9:00 AM - 20/203

12:30 PM - 18/203

4:00 PM - 16/203

7:30 PM - 16/203

11:00 PM - 2/203

 

Dine-In Full Service 3D

 

11:00 AM - 5/63

12:00 PM - 0/78

2:30 PM - 0/63

3:30 PM - 0/78

6:00 PM - 0/63

7:00 PM - 0/78

9:30 PM - 0/63

10:30 PM - 0/78

 

2D

 

9:30 AM - 5/217

11:30 AM - 2/167

1:00 PM - 0/217

3:00 PM - 9/167

4:30 PM - 0/217

6:30 PM - 0/167

8:00 PM - 0/217

10:00 PM - 0/167

11:30 PM - 0/217

 

Sunday Total

 

41/3332 (1.2%)

 

Spoiler

Dolby Cinema

 

9:00 AM - 4/203

12:30 PM - 2/203

4:00 PM - 4/203

7:30 PM - 6/203

11:00 PM - 2/203

 

Dine-In Full Service 3D

 

11:00 AM - 0/63

12:00 PM - 0/78

2:30 PM - 0/63

3:30 PM - 0/78

6:00 PM - 0/63

7:00 PM - 0/78

9:30 PM - 0/63

10:30 PM - 0/78

 

2D

 

9:30 AM - 12/217

11:30 AM - 4/167

1:00 PM - 7/217

3:00 PM - 0/167

4:30 PM - 0/217

6:30 PM - 0/167

8:00 PM - 0/217

10:00 PM - 0/167

11:30 PM - 0/217

 

 

6-Day Weekend Total

 

1216/20195 (6.0%)

[Mulder]

13 hours ago, Mulder said:

Final count of today, only Thursdays-

Aladdin-69 (+1), 7 screenings (2 IMAX, 2 3D, 2 Regular+Fan Screening)

Detective Pikachu-172 (+28), 6 screenings (3 3D, 3 Regular) Final Week

John Wick-86 (+9), 4 screenings (2 IMAX, 2 Regular)

 

HOLY FUCK PIKACHU! While not quite double what it sold yesterday this was a huge boost that it needed. If it keeps this momentum up, I definitely think 70+ is very much in the cards. John Wick also did insanely well today as expected. In total Aladdin sold one ticket today (ouch), DP sold an insane 28, and John Wick sold 9.

First count of today, only Thursdays-

Aladdin-69, 7 screenings (2 IMAX, 2 3D, 2 Regular+Fan Screening)

Detective Pikachu-185 (+13), 6 screenings (3 3D, 3 Regular) Final Week

John Wick-89 (+3), 4 screenings (2 IMAX, 2 Regular)

Pikachu isn't slowing down at all. 

[Mulder]

Btw WB needs to stop with the 4 PM showing stuff. The only Pikachu screening at my theater with under 10 people in it, is the 4 PM 3D show.

[DAJK]

I was starting to think Poms would out-gross Hustle, but Eric's data definitely doesn't support that.

 

Honestly, if the two can combine for 20M this weekend, and Pika can do 70 (and assuming Endgame does another 70) this is bound to be a giant May at the box office, especially what with Wick looking like 50M is possible next week, and even Dog's Way Home getting solid reviews. 

[Mulder]

2 minutes ago, DAJK said:

I was starting to think Poms would out-gross Hustle, but Eric's data definitely doesn't support that.

 

Honestly, if the two can combine for 20M this weekend, and Pika can do 70 (and assuming Endgame does another 70) this is bound to be a giant May at the box office, especially what with Wick looking like 50M is possible next week, and even Dog's Way Home getting solid reviews. 

I'm still on the train of this May being the next March 2017. 

[SchumacherFTW]

Anyone else seeing a big push for 3D on Pika? Only way to get cards here is at 3D shows

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Anyone else seeing a big push for 3D on Pika? Only way to get cards here is at 3D shows

My theater has the prime spots for 3D showings