The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[We0uthere]

It is now 75% on Movietickets. I guess @Rumpot prediction of it being 80% by Friday was pretty spot on. 

[WrathOfHan]

All of the September 22 releases are on sale now. It doesn't look like Ninjago is having previews because no theater has Thursday showings up for it.

Also, it looks like Battle of the Sexes won't be starting out in NY/LA on the 22nd because the Altamonte Mall AMC has tickets on sale for that weekend. I'm guessing it launches in around 400 theaters and hits 1,500+ on the 29th.

[Rumpot]

44 minutes ago, We0uthere said:

It is now 75% on Movietickets. I guess @Rumpot prediction of it being 80% by Friday was pretty spot on. 

It may just barely hit 80 thanks to Thor presales being added to the mix now.  

[KeepItU25071906]

2 minutes ago, Rumpot said:

It may just barely hit 80 thanks to Thor presales being added to the mix now.  

Yeah Thor's sales has started and it seems good.

[WrathOfHan]

Oh shit, Thor is getting both of my AMC's biggest auditoriums including the 3D showings  

 

Kingsman has the biggest, Ninjago has the 2nd biggest (no idea if it has a separate 3D screen because showings are still being uploaded), and I'm assuming Friend Request has an average one like Thursday night because weekend showings aren't up yet.

[WrathOfHan]

Tonight at my theater:

 

It:

 

7:00: 47/78

7:30: 24/124

8:00: 0/78

8:30: 16/78

 

Home Again still has just those two tickets for 7:00

 

 

[Hiccup23]

What are we thinking for IT's preview number? 6M? 10M?

[YM!]

No showings yet for Kingsman, Thor or Ninjago at North Shore.

[DAJK]

I got to set up Thor's showtimes last night! Previews start at 7 I think, I wasn't allowed to set any showtimes before then.

[Barnack]

10 hours ago, Hiccup23 said:

What are we thinking for IT's preview number? 6M? 10M?

 

Not really any perfect comparable but a list of horror preview number:

 

Paranormal Activity 4 2012 $4.500 M

Paranormal Activity 2 2010 $6.300 M

Paranormal Activity 3 2011 $8.000 M

 

Annabelle: Creation 2017 $4.000 M

Annabelle: 2.1

 

Conjuring 2: 3.4

Conjuring: 3

 

I must imagine that beating Paranormal Activity 3 (8m) by a large amount is certainly in play and that doubling conjuring 2 (6.8m) would be a floor.

 

The biggest  non YA / Comic  book movie / Star Wars / jurassic park a bit less classical type preview were:

 

Beauty and the beast: 16m

Pirate world end: 16m

Furious 7: 15.8m

Fate of the furious : 10.8m

Godzilla: 9.3m

 

I think getting around Godzilla/Fate 8 is possible yes.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 8, 2017 by Barnack

[Rumpot]

24 minutes ago, Barnack said:

 

Not really any perfect comparable but a list of horror preview number:

 

Paranormal Activity 4 2012 $4.500 M

Paranormal Activity 2 2010 $6.300 M

Paranormal Activity 3 2011 $8.000 M

 

Annabelle: Creation 2017 $4.000 M

Annabelle: 2.1

 

Conjuring 2: 3.4

Conjuring: 3

 

I must imagine that beating Paranormal Activity 3 (8m) by a large amount is certainly in play and that doubling conjuring 2 (6.8m) would be a floor.

 

The biggest  YA/Comic  book movie/Star Wars jurassic park less classical type preview were:

 

Beauty and the beast: 16m

Pirate world end: 16m

Furious 7: 15.8m

Fate of the furious : 10.8m

Godzilla: 9.3m

 

I think getting around Godzilla/Fate 8 is possible yes.

 

 

 

 

I think 10M+. Rated R movies especially horror have good walk up business for the night showings.  If that plays out on top of the high presales it'll be impressive..and there are plenty of places and times to watch it.

[WrathOfHan]

While I was getting my ticket for Good Time, I asked the employee what was going on with the hurricane. She said she expects the theaters owned by this chain to be closed on Sunday and Monday, but nothing has been decided yet. Surrounding entertainment has been cancelled for the weekend, so I won't be surprised if they're doing an early Saturday close like AMC

[MattW]

2 hours ago, Hiccup23 said:

What are we thinking for IT's preview number? 6M? 10M?

I was thinking 7-8 but Barnack's post has me at more like 8-10. I didn't know PA3 did 8m at midnights, that's huge.

[JB33]

13 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

While I was getting my ticket for Good Time, I asked the employee what was going on with the hurricane. She said she expects the theaters owned by this chain to be closed on Sunday and Monday, but nothing has been decided yet. Surrounding entertainment has been cancelled for the weekend, so I won't be surprised if they're doing an early Saturday close like AMC

As a side note, stay safe out there Wrath.

[dxmatrixdt]

1 hour ago, Barnack said:

 

Not really any perfect comparable but a list of horror preview number:

 

Paranormal Activity 4 2012 $4.500 M

Paranormal Activity 2 2010 $6.300 M

Paranormal Activity 3 2011 $8.000 M

 

 

 

Those are just amazing numbers for the Paranormal Activity series.  These were at midnight too!  I could not imagine how packed it must have been at midnight for these low budget supernatural horror movies..... Did people actually wait hours in line to get good seats?  Front row for a Paranormal Movie at midnight????   and the awful reception they got!  What an interesting experience.

[dxmatrixdt]

Does anyone know how this compares to Logan???

[TalismanRing]

Fandango Meter (1pm EST)

 

IT: 140 sales avg per minute (same as SM:HC at 1pm).  Annabelle was doing 46.5 per minute at... 7:30pm

Home Again: 5 per minute

[Barnack]

1 minute ago, TalismanRing said:

IT: 140 sales avg per minute (same as SM:HC at 1pm).  Annabelle was doing 46.5 per minute at... 7:30pm

 

I imagine that is Annabelle sequel and not the original ?

 

That is really impressive and still in line with a .......... 100m OW.

[picores]

2 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Fandango Meter (1pm EST)

 

IT: 140 sales avg per minute (same as SM:HC at 1pm).  Annabelle was doing 46.5 per minute at... 7:30pm

Home Again: 5 per minute

 

Encouraging for IT....

[TalismanRing]

2 minutes ago, Barnack said:

I imagine that is Annabelle sequel and not the original ?

 

That is really impressive and still in line with a .......... 100m OW.

Yes the sequel.   I don't think we even had Pulse for the original and I wasn't ale to start tracking with it until this summer.

 

Also Aliens was doing 50 per minute at 9pm Thursday