The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[el sid]

The Rhythm Section, counted today at 10am EST:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 14 (total tickets sold for Thursday) / 20 (total tickets sold for Friday, 6 showtimes)
Boston (AMC Assembly Row 12): 21 / 8 (2 showtimes)
Boston (Boston Common 19): 21 / 22 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 7 / 3 (4 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 3 / 3 (4 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): showtimes): - / 6 (4 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Center Point 11): 6 / 1 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 48 / 50 (4 showtimes)
LA (AMC Bay Street): 9 / 20 (5 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 30 / 21 (3 showtimes)
Total tickets sold in 9/10 theaters till today for Thursday: 159 and for Friday: 154.

Peppermint would have been such a good comp 😣. Angel Has Fallen had on Wednesday 472/388 sold tickets, Charlie's Angels had 218/398.
So far it looks like it will stay under the 10M mark.

 

Gretel And Hansel, also counted at 10am EST:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 19 (total tickets sold for Thursday) / 27 (total tickets sold for Friday, 6 showtimes)
Boston (AMC Assembly Row 12): 23 / 18 (5 showtimes)
Boston (Boston Common 19): 18 / 31 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 11 / 3 (4 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 0 / 2 (4 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): showtimes): 4 / 6 (5 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Center Point 11): 7 / 3 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 51 / 61 (5 showtimes)
LA (AMC Bay Street): 17 / 14 (5 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 49 / 25 (3 showtimes)
Total tickets sold in 10 theaters till today for Thursday: 199 and for Friday: 190.
 

Comps: Scary Stories had on Wednesday 645/475, Crawl 261/209, Countdown 170/131 and Underwater 179/170. The Turning had on Thursday 239/219 sold tickets so G&H is at least doing better than this film.
It could be worse but here's room for improvement too. From watching the trailers I don't know what to expect, some details look quite good but others just strange...

[keysersoze123]

Quick update. in just 2 hours at Empire 25 Birds of Prey is at 659/7910(38 shows). That is super strong start. As I said Joker sold 1000+ tickets on 1st day. 

 

That said its not close to Joker overall though its PS start is strongest I have seen minus SW9/Joker. It has started with 1224 shows at MTC1 and 1259 at MTC2. Not very big but it will go up big time next tuesday. I am expecting at least 4000-5000 shows between the 2 MTC. Target previews should be 8m. but its early days yet. 

[Boxofficerules]

Anything for Fantasy Island, keep seeing trailers saying the tickets are on sale now

[Eric Duncan]

Just now, Boxofficerules said:

Anything for Fantasy Island, keep seeing trailers saying the tickets are on sale now

Only looking at Thursday numbers. But the lack of Thursday previews has me...concerned.

[ZackM]

I'll start tracking BOP tonight.

[YM!]

12 minutes ago, ZackM said:

I'll start tracking BOP tonight.

I’m starting tomorrow

[Boxofficerules]

26 minutes ago, Eric #RIPKobe said:

Only looking at Thursday numbers. But the lack of Thursday previews has me...concerned.

What you mean lack of previews?

[Eric Duncan]

Just now, Boxofficerules said:

What you mean lack of previews?

There...are no Thursday previews?

[Boxofficerules]

Just now, Eric #RIPKobe said:

There...are no Thursday previews?

No tickets sold or no previews?

[Eric Duncan]

Just now, Boxofficerules said:

No tickets sold or no previews?

No previews. It will not be showing at all on Thursday. It will debut on Friday. There are no Thursday shows at all.

[Boxofficerules]

1 minute ago, Eric #RIPKobe said:

No previews. It will not be showing at all on Thursday. It will debut on Friday. There are no Thursday shows at all.

Wow, that’s pretty strange. Has that ever happened before? Other than with kids films.

[The Horror of Lucas Films]

44 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

Quick update. in just 2 hours at Empire 25 Birds of Prey is at 659/7910(38 shows). That is super strong start. As I said Joker sold 1000+ tickets on 1st day. 

 

That said its not close to Joker overall though its PS start is strongest I have seen minus SW9/Joker. It has started with 1224 shows at MTC1 and 1259 at MTC2. Not very big but it will go up big time next tuesday. I am expecting at least 4000-5000 shows between the 2 MTC. Target previews should be 8m. but its early days yet. 

 

I knew that all this talk about it having zero buzz made no sense, an Harley Quinn movie won't make less than $200m.

[Eric Duncan]

6 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

Wow, that’s pretty strange. Has that ever happened before? Other than with kids films.

Plenty of times. Recent examples are Arctic Dogs, Motherless Brooklyn, The Goldfinch and The Kitchen. Do with that information what you will

[TheDarkKnightOfSteel]

People should also consider that this will (maybe) skew females and not the typical cbm  fans, who are rushing to book tickets.

[Tinalera]

Birds of prey feb 6, toronto ontario canada taken jan 29 2020.

 

Yonge dundas

 

Vip

6 2/77
700 0/77
915 0/77
1015 0/77

 

Avx
740 1/381
1040 0/381

 

4dx 
710 4/78
1010 0/78

 

 

Yonge eglington

 

Vip
600 2/91
700 2/95
900 0/91
1000 0/95

 

Avx
700 0/347
1000 0/347

Eglington town

Imax
710 6/348
1015 0/348

 

 Regular
630 0/260
945 0/260

 

Don Mills

 

Vip
600 0/113
700 4/115
900 0/113
1000 0/115

 

Yorkdale 

 

Avx
740 1/349
1030 0/349

Screen x
710 0/226
1000 0/226

 

Scotiabank place
Imax
700 21/416
1000 4/416

Regular
6 77/538
9 77/538 
(Note exact sane numbers for both times might be dupilicate?)

 

Queensway

Vip
600 0/123
700 2/136
900 5/123
1000 0/136

Avx
730 3/376
1015 2/376
800 6/224
1045 0/224

 

222/8740 (2.5 percent seats sold)

Very very early obviously. I happily note reg seating is back to showing seats sold where applicable. 
Its an r rated dc film with a small budget. Im interested in the legs here. Theres a core that will see this opening weekend, but wom will be key. I dobt know how much critics will have an effect. I do see this as one of those "youll get it or you wont" type films. 

Edited January 29, 2020 by Tinalera

[Nova]

Of course my local theater doesn’t have BOP tickets up yet 🙄 The other theaters in my area I think are expecting a big OW for it. It has more showtimes than Shazam for Thursday night already for example. Nothing too crazy yet though. I took a peep at two theaters and sales right now are a bit soft for CBM but I’m expecting with good reviews it’ll have an up tick in sales in this last week. 
 

I’ll do a full count similar to what I did for Frozen 2 starting tomorrow (1 week out) but my data might be a bit funky cause 2 of the theaters I used to track Frozen 2 STILL DO NOT HAVE TIMES UP! WHAT THE FUCK! 

[DAJK]

3 hours ago, TheDarkKnightOfSteel said:

People should also consider that this will (maybe) skew females and not the typical cbm  fans, who are rushing to book tickets.

Female-target films are huge pre-sale sellers though. Fault in our Stars?

[DAJK]

Still with DC fans/brand taken into consideration, 8M previews would still be great. Would suggest something like 60-63M IMO. 

[lorddemaxus]

4 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Still with DC fans/brand taken into consideration, 8M previews would still be great. Would suggest something like 60-63M IMO. 

I doubt it's as frontloaded as Joker. Should be a lot closer to Shazam.

Edited January 29, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[TLK]

7 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

I doubt it's as frontloaded as Joker. Should be a lot closer to Shazam.

It will be more frontloaded than Shazam as it is a sort of sequel. Shazam was a completely unknown property for most non-comic book reading public.