The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Eric Atreides]

On 7/12/2021 at 11:00 PM, Eric E Coyote said:

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting (Thu)

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	36	94	4797	1.96%

 

Comp

1.424x of The Forever Purge T-3 (1.89M)

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting (Thu)

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	42	145	5426	2.67%

 

Total Shows Added Today: 6

Total Seats Added Today: 629

Total Seats Sold Today: 51

 

Comp

1.576x of The Forever Purge T-3 (2.10M)

[Eric Atreides]

23 hours ago, Eric E Coyote said:

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-4 and Counting (Fri)

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	46	1207	8241	14.65%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 339

 

Comp

0.559x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-4 Before Release (5.43M)

2.390x of Cruella's Thu+Fri 3 Days Before Release (18.42M)

0.745x of F9's Thu 3 Days Before Release (5.29M)

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting (Fri)

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	97	1638	15295	10.71%

 

Total Showings Added Today: 51

Total Seats Added Today: 7,054

Total Seats Sold Today: 431

 

Comp

0.626x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-3 (6.08M)

3.022x of Cruella's Thu+Fri 2 Days Before Release (23.29M)

0.845x of F9's Thu 3 Days Before Release (6.00M)

[keysersoze123]

Space Jam OD (T-3)

MTC1 - 38810/421982 341102.00 2720 shows

MTC2 - 39039/386529 391159.93 2929 shows

 

PS is really picking up big time. I just checked MTC2 today, but MTC1 has increased almost 4x in past 3-4 days and tomorrow I expect show count to increase big time. I think it should cross 100K PS in both MTC. Also the ratio of MTC1/2 shows its playing more like F9 than BW. I am expecting OD in low teens which should be enough to win friday comfortably and even the weekend. 

[Eric Atreides]

On 7/12/2021 at 11:22 PM, Eric E Coyote said:

Snake Eyes Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-10 and Counting (Thu)

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	25	58	4947	1.17%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 10

 

Comp

0.100x of Mortal Kombat's Fri T-10 Before Release (907K)

0.101x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu+Fri T-10 Before Release (1.96M)

0.475x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-10 Before Release (3.66M)

Snake Eyes Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-9 and Counting (Thu)

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	25	72	4947	1.46%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 14

 

Comp

0.101x of Mortal Kombat's Fri T-9 (922K)

0.113x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu+Fri T-9 (2.19M)

0.562x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-9 (4.33M)

[Krissykins]

WB/HBOMax could be coming for their 7th #1 with the day and date releases then if Space Jam hits the top. 

[Porthos]

 

(or rather, later today)

 

EDITED:::

 

7pm Previews on Thursday, Aug 5th.

Edited July 14, 2021 by Porthos

[Krissykins]

It Black Widow opened to $80m I’d expect Suicide Squad will be in the $35-45m range (with HBOMax). 

[TwoMisfits]

2 hours ago, Krissykins said:

If Black Widow opened to $80m I’d expect Suicide Squad Space Jam 2 will be in the $35-45m range (with HBOMax). 

 

I fixed the expectation for you:)...

 

[Eric Atreides]

So despite the fact that Fandango has a big "Get Tickets Now" ad, The Suicide Squad tickets aren't up just yet. Maybe in half an hour?

 

Jungle Cruise tickets are on sale and yes I do plan to track them, even though I know I'll be the only one doing so.

[katnisscinnaplex]

On 7/13/2021 at 8:47 AM, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

Movie	Day	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
Escape Room 2	T-2	Jacksonville	5	16	2,528	32	5	1.27%
		Phoenix	5	13	1,333	37	17	2.78%
		Raleigh	7	24	2,267	33	6	1.46%
Escape Room 2 Total			17	53	6,128	102	28	1.66%
Old	T-9	Jacksonville	3	5	*836	0	0	0.00%
		Phoenix	4	4	*74	0	0	0.00%
		Raleigh	3	6	*582	0	0	0.00%
Old Total			10	9	1,492	0	0	0.00%
Snake Eyes	T-9	Jacksonville	5	16	3,412	13	2	0.38%
		Phoenix	5	9	1,749	14	5	0.80%
		Raleigh	6	15	1,917	20	4	1.04%
Snake Eyes Total			16	40	7,078	47	11	0.66%
Space Jam (Friday)	T-3	Jacksonville	5	30	4,240	340	178	8.02%
		Phoenix	5	37	3,700	258	88	6.97%
		Raleigh	7	32	4,127	400	103	9.69%
Space Jam (Friday) Total			17	99	12,067	998	369	8.27%

 

Movie	Day	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
Escape Room 2	T-1	Jacksonville	5	17	2,579	45	13	1.74%
		Phoenix	5	18	2,660	58	21	2.18%
		Raleigh	7	24	2,267	47	14	2.07%
Escape Room 2 Total			17	59	7,506	150	48	2.00%
Old	T-8	Jacksonville	5	8	1,448	0	0	0.00%
		Phoenix	2	5	796	0	0	0.00%
		Raleigh	5	8	852	0	0	0.00%
Old Total			12	21	3,096	0	0	0.00%
Snake Eyes	T-8	Jacksonville	5	16	3,412	16	3	0.47%
		Phoenix	5	9	1,749	14	0	0.80%
		Raleigh	8	18	2,306	28	8	1.21%
Snake Eyes Total			18	43	7,467	58	11	0.78%
Space Jam (Friday)	T-2	Jacksonville	5	60	9,065	424	84	4.68%
		Phoenix	7	60	7,728	423	165	5.47%
		Raleigh	7	54	5,935	618	218	10.41%
Space Jam (Friday) Total			19	174	22,728	1,465	467	6.45%

 

Jungle Cruise		Jacksonville	5	20	4,332	6	0	0.14%
		Phoenix	8	25	4,122	3	0	0.07%
		Raleigh	5	13	1,742	1	0	0.06%
Jungle Cruise Total			18	58	10,196	10	0	0.10%

 

ER2 pulled back ahead of Forever Purge 150-135 for T-1 

 

Space Jam continues to roll.  You can tell where expectations are based on # of showtimes added.  ER2 added 6; Space Jam added 75.  It's now at 85% of F9's preview sales at this point (6m)

 

Roadrunner has 107 tickets sold for Thursday in 13 shows.

Edited July 14, 2021 by katnisscinnaplex
Added Jungle Cruise

[katnisscinnaplex]

4 minutes ago, Eric E Coyote said:

So despite the fact that Fandango has a big "Get Tickets Now" ad, The Suicide Squad tickets aren't up just yet. Maybe in half an hour?

 

Jungle Cruise tickets are on sale and yes I do plan to track them, even though I know I'll be the only one doing so.

 

You won't be the only one.

[Eric Atreides]

Okay Sqwad tickets are up. Tonight's going to be busy.

[Tinalera]

Space Jam July 14

Toronto Ontario

Yonge Dundas

 

Total Shows 16 (4 VIP, 12 Regular)

  

Total Seats 308 (Vip) 1709 (Regular)

 

Seats Sold 0 (Vip)  26 Regular

 

 

Yonge Eglinton 

 

Totat Shows 8 Regular

 

Total seats

 

 

This one is incomplete my full one is about 2 down LOL (but I got a like so can't bear to delete it LOL)

 

Edited July 14, 2021 by Tinalera

[katnisscinnaplex]

On 7/2/2021 at 2:58 AM, Porthos said:

 

Some folks use scrapers, for one.

 

Since I don't have the technical know-how to build one and since I mainly use Fandango (and thus would get IP banned in short order if I tried to scrape it), I just end up using a shortcut I found that speeds up my count considerably,

 

For example, it took me "just" 45 minutes to check 175 reserved seating shows for tonight's BW track.  Helps when there is no day-to-day difference on any given showing, naturally. Or when there is just a handful/zero tickets sold and I can eye ball it very quickly.  But I think I probably would have given up long ago if I didn't figure out how to easily search the source page of a seat map and just quickly note the number of sold seats, plug it in to my spread sheet, and then move on to the next showing.

 

A bit more of a gory detail in spoilers:

 

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I have a javascript shortcut set up which views the complete HTML source code of any given webpage, thus bypassing the much more inferior "View Source" given by most web browsers.  I understand a few people here do something similar by using the Inspect Element tools of Chrome or other browsers, but that's what works for me.

 

Here is what I use:

 

javascript:var%20sourceWindow%20%3D%20window.open%28%27about%3Ablank%27%29%3B%20%0Avar%20newDoc%20%3D%20sourceWindow.document%3B%20%0AnewDoc.open%28%29%3B%20%0AnewDoc.write%28%27%3Chtml%3E%3Chead%3E%3Ctitle%3ESource%20of%20%27%20%2B%20document.location.href%20%2B%20%27%3C/title%3E%3C/head%3E%3Cbody%3E%3C/body%3E%3C/html%3E%27%29%3B%20%0AnewDoc.close%28%29%3B%20%0Avar%20pre%20%3D%20newDoc.body.appendChild%28newDoc.createElement%28%22pre%22%29%29%3B%20%0Apre.appendChild%28newDoc.createTextNode%28document.documentElement.innerHTML%29%29%3B

 

I have that Javascript saved as a bookmark.  When I load up a seat map, I click on that bookmark, and it loads up the HTML source code of the webpage a seatmap is on  in a new tab.  

 

For Fandango, I then search for "- This seat is unavailable." without the quote marks. The number of hits I get, tells me the number of seats sold, and I punch that into my spreadsheet and then move on to the next showing.  The longest amount of time, actually, is manually opening up each and every showing I have to check.

 

I do have to check a couple of other sites, and I have different search terms for those.  The basic gist is:  Look for whatever symbol marks a sold seat, figure out how that's encoded in the HTML, and search for exactly that.  

 

Takes a bit of trial and error, and also have to account for damaged/unavailable seats if a ticket seller doesn't differentiate between a sold seat and a seat that can never be purchase [I tend to figure that out when I first set up my sheets/check out a brand new showing] but it has immeasurably sped up my counts since when I used to count each by hand.  

 

Other folks might be able to help you automate it on your end, set up some sort of scraper.  That's beyond my technical skills, I'm afraid.

 

I've been meaning to reply to this when I got caught up on things.  My setup is pretty similar; I use Fandango and open up each showing in Chrome.  After loading the seating chart, I use ctrl + shift + i to open the page source, ctrl + f to open the search bar in the page source, then ctrl + v to paste this: map__seat reservedseat (I just leave this on my clipboard with a lot of alt+tabbing and entering numbers)

 

The number of results is your tickets sold.  ctrl + backspace to see total seat count (map__seat).  You can also use map__seat unavailable and map__seat distancedseat to find the number of unavailable seats.  Really all you need is map__seat r or u or d for what I've seen.  

 

My sheet is set up with the following columns to assist with pivot table building:

 

Movie - Date - City - Theater - Format - Time - Auditorium - Capacity - Unavailable - T-0 - T-1 etc. where I'll just hide the T- columns to show the day I'm working on.  Still working on improving some things and hopefully will be able to find ways to save even more time.  Still takes an hour or two to check and record all the showings each day.   

[Tinalera]

Space Jam Taken July 14 for Shows starting July 16

Toronto Ontario

 

(Note VIP pricing is 19.95 here, Regular showing 17.95)

 

Yonge Dundas

 

Total Shows 16 (4 VIP, 12 Regular)

  

Total Seats 308 (Vip) 1709 (Regular)

 

Seats Sold 0 (Vip)  26 Regular

 

 

Yonge Eglinton 

 

Total Shows 8 Regular

 

Total seats   2027

 

Total Sold     35

 

 

Yorkdale

 

Total Shows 8 Regular

 

Total seats 1839

 

Seats sold  160

 

 

Yay Numbers again! Only 3 theatres right now, main reason I'm still figuring stuff out, but also a number of theatres NOT showing sales (yet) for July 16 in Toronto. My layouts were coming out all screwy so I had to do it this way until; I figure out how to properly bring stuff over, but this should give you

 

We are at 50 percent capacity for theatres when they open on Friday, so please take that into account in your figurings. Please let me know if theres any tweaking youd like to see that I can figure out, hope to get more theatres up going forward but this first weekend I might just stick with the three and build up my excel list going forward

Edited July 14, 2021 by Tinalera

[Krissykins]

Tracking via Variety:

 

Space Jam 2 $20m (budget $150m)

Escape Room 2 $7-10m (budget $15m)

[ThomasNicole]

7 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Tracking via Variety:

 

Space Jam 2 $20m (budget $150m)

Escape Room 2 $7-10m (budget $15m)

Both seems extremelly low

 

Aren't they both selling very well?

[Porthos]

24 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

Both seems extremelly low

 

Aren't they both selling very well?

 

Industry tracking is often on the low side, for various reasons.

 

(studio expectations, on the other hand, are often exceedingly low for obvious reasons)

((though, admittedly, sometimes even those aren't low enough))

Edited July 14, 2021 by Porthos

[Krissykins]

43 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

Both seems extremelly low

 

Aren't they both selling very well?

Yeh I’m hoping for $10m+ for Escape Room 2. 

[babz06]

1 hour ago, Krissykins said:

Tracking via Variety:

 

Space Jam 2 $20m (budget $150m)

Escape Room 2 $7-10m (budget $15m)

why does Space Jam cost so much? WB is losing alot of money with this HBO max deal.