The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[AhmiiZafii]

15 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Welcome.

 

Some people work at theaters and have inside info but you can check out Fandango for individual theaters or theaters in a certain zip code to seat how sales are going there

 

We also have aps made my @akvalley      that collect the sales date from the Fandango Pulse https://www.fandango.com/dataviz/index.html#

 

http://akvalley.pythonanywhere.com/static/Fandango_track.txt

 

http://akvalley.pythonanywhere.com/static/fandango_past24hours.txt

 

http://akvalley.pythonanywhere.com/static/fandango_report.txt

 

Movietickets.com also gives a rolling 24 hours sales % for the top 5 movies

OH so can I help with a theater that is not getting covered right now?

[XXR vs XXR]

1 minute ago, AhmiiZafii said:

OH so can I help with a theater that is not getting covered right now?

 

Of course. The more, the better.

[FlashMaster659]

2 hours ago, VenomXXR said:

 

Endgame is already at 3153 after 7 hours.  Yesterday at this time it was at 3377.

 

Even being conservative, it should hit 22k today.

Now at 5943

[FlashMaster659]

Box Office: Can 'Avengers: Endgame' Crack the $300M Ceiling in U.S. Debut?

 

"So far, early tracking shows Avengers: Endgame debuting domestically to $200 million to $260 million. However, when the movie sold more advance tickets in its first 24 hours than any picture in history, the speculation spiraled. Box office sources tell THR they believe a realistic range is $250 million to $280 million.

 

Atom Tickets reported Tuesday morning that Endgame has sold twice as many advance tickets in its first week than its four previous biggest sellers combined;  Aquaman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Avengers: Infinity War and Captain Marvel."

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/box-office-can-avengers-endgame-crack-300m-ceiling-us-debut-1200381?

Edited April 9, 2019 by FlashMaster659

[TalismanRing]

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Atom Tickets reported Tuesday morning that Endgame has sold twice as many advance tickets in its first week than its four previous biggest sellers combined;  Aquaman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Avengers: Infinity War and Captain Marvel.

 

Ah a weekly update - not from Fandango but Atom.

[TalismanRing]

25 minutes ago, AhmiiZafii said:

OH so can I help with a theater that is not getting covered right now?

Of course, as said the more the merrier.  I don't think we've had reports from several of the larger cities like Chicago, Washington DC or even L.A. (have we?)  etc or a ton of smaller locations.

[XXR vs XXR]

21 minutes ago, FlashMaster659 said:

Atom Tickets reported Tuesday morning that Endgame has sold twice as many advance tickets in its first week than its four previous biggest sellers combined;  Aquaman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Avengers: Infinity War and Captain Marvel."

 

That’s insane. Linear math tells me that previews will be right around $220m....👀

[Legion Again]

5 minutes ago, VenomXXR said:

 

That’s insane. Linear math tells me that previews will be right around $220m....👀

Give it a low internal multi for 1B DOM Ow then    

 

But also, the fact that Atom’s 4 biggest presellers include CM and AQM instead of BP, RO, or TFA is a good sign of how they’re a new fast growing platform and the 13 month difference form IW presales probably corresponded to a much higher jump in overall presales for them than Fandango (or presales overall).

Edited April 9, 2019 by Thanos Legion

[XXR vs XXR]

21 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Give it a low internal multi for 1B DOM Ow then    

 

But also, the fact that Atom’s 4 biggest presellers include CM and AQM instead of BP, RO, or TFA is a good sign of how they’re a new fast growing platform and the 13 month difference form IW presales probably corresponded to a much higher jump in overall presales for them than Fandango (or presales overall).

 

I don’t believe Atom was even around for R1 or TFA. I believe it came out in 2017.

 

So it definitely doesn’t mean as much as if AMC or Fandango said this, but it’s still crazy. 

[stfletch]

10 minutes ago, VenomXXR said:

 

I don’t believe Atom was even around for R1 or TFA. I believe it came out in 2017.

 

So it definitely doesn’t mean as much as if AMC or Fandango said this, but it’s still crazy. 

Very true. But you might expect Atom to be canibilzing the more established online retailers a bit, but yet we are still seeing best ever numbers on those platforms too.

[FlashMaster659]

[Legion Again]

The direct quote 

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It sold tickets in the millions in one day (Fandango would not give Business Insider an exact figure), besting the record held by "The Force Awakens."

This is INSANITY.    

 

No wonder Pulse crashed.

Edited April 9, 2019 by Thanos Legion

[Premium George]

4 hours ago, Rebeccas said:

Before I piss meself

On the Maoyan app, NED!

[Premium George]

Wait, so that assumed number of 400k was way off. Fuck pulse for crashing. We could have seen a number above million.

[XXR vs XXR]

6 minutes ago, Premium George said:

Wait, so that assumed number of 400k was way off. Fuck pulse for crashing. We could have seen a number above million.

 

That’s what he’s saying, but that also implies that the IW number is off significantly as it was less than 50k on Pulse. 

[Porthos]

2 hours ago, Cappoedameron said:

Detective Pikachu tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon likely with a final trailer drop.

 

@CoolEric258 feels my pain, I'm sure. 

[stfletch]

Well bugger. I tried doing extrapolations in a few other different ways and got figures in the 700k-800k for the first day Fandango sales. I didn't post because I thought that was way too high!

[Porthos]

Just now, stfletch said:

Well bugger. I tried doing extrapolations in a few other different ways and got figures in the 700k-800k for the first day Fandango sales. I didn't post because I thought that was way too high!

Thing is, since Pulse is sets of tickets, if the avg was something like 2.5 or 3 per sale, you could have been right on target!

[stfletch]

4 minutes ago, Porthos said:

Thing is, since Pulse is sets of tickets, if the avg was something like 2.5 or 3 per sale, you could have been right on target!

Wow, I didn't know it tracked sets, rather than actual tickets.

 

I was actually using your data to try and extrapolate Fandango first day. 

 

Your day 1 to day 3 numbers were 14,975 : 566 a factor of 26.5.

 

If we multiply day 3 Fandango sales (30,292) by 26.5 you get 803k!

Edited April 9, 2019 by stfletch

[Porthos]

3 minutes ago, stfletch said:

Wow, I didn't know it tracked sets, rather than actual tickets. 

Isn't it?  That's what I've always presumed.  Maybe akvalley's tracker actually scrapes multiple ticket purchases per sale.

 

But, like, if it wasn't sets per ticket, shouldn't you see multiple tickets per theater when they get bought?  Like, someone buys a pair of tickets on a single visit wouldn't two ticket purchases pop up on that tracker instead of one if it was tracked separately?

Edited April 9, 2019 by Porthos