The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread (December 2021 - July 2023)

[Inceptionzq]

On 2/12/2022 at 4:42 PM, Inceptionzq said:

The Batman Megaplex

 

Tuesday(5 showings): 2230(+56)/2741 in 5 theaters

Thursday(89 showings): 1348(+181)/26164 in 15 theaters

 

0.221x NWH's Day 3 sales

4.37x Eternals' T-19 sales

2.06x Black Widow T-19 sales

 

Friday(144 showings): 1015(+202)/44721 in 15 theaters

0.096x NWH's Day 3 sales

2.47x Eternals' T-20 sales

1.04x Black Widow T-20 sales

 

Saturday(151 showings): 457(+100)/46551 in 15 theaters

0.092x NWH's Day 3 sales

1.83x Eternals' T-21 sales

 

Sunday(101 showings): 72(+25)/32941 in 15 theaters

0.076x NWH's Day 3 sales

0.986x Eternals' T-22 sales

The Batman Megaplex

 

Tuesday(5 showings): 2265(+35)/2741 in 5 theaters

Thursday(90 showings): 1516(+168)/26353 in 15 theaters

 

0.221x NWH's Day 5 sales

4.36x Eternals' T-17 sales

2.07x Black Widow T-17 sales

 

Friday(144 showings): 1152(+137)/44721 in 15 theaters

0.095x NWH's Day 5 sales

2.40x Eternals' T-18 sales

1.07x Black Widow T-18 sales

 

Saturday(151 showings): 565(+108)/46551 in 15 theaters

0.094x NWH's Day 5 sales

2.04x Eternals' T-19 sales

 

Sunday(101 showings): 107(+35)/32941 in 15 theaters

0.089x NWH's Day 5 sales

1.35x Eternals' T-20 sales

[Inceptionzq]

On 2/12/2022 at 4:48 PM, Inceptionzq said:

The Batman Alamo Drafthouse

 

Thursday(222 showings): 6500(+657)/31377 ATP: $15.01

0.285x NWH's Day 3

2.05x Eternals T-19

 

Friday(332 showings): 6064(+873)/47626   ATP: $15.26

0.327x NWH's Day 3

2.35x Eternals T-20

 

Saturday(350 showings): 4952(+896)/50209   ATP: $14.87

0.308x NWH's Day 3

2.02x Eternals T-21

 

Sunday(337 showings): 1871(+395)/48084   ATP: $14.73

0.261x NWH's Day 3

1.36x Eternals T-22

The Batman Alamo Drafthouse

 

Thursday(222 showings): 7130(+630)/31377 ATP: $15.00

0.297x NWH's Day 5

2.04x Eternals T-17

 

Friday(332 showings): 6743(+679)/47626   ATP: $15.17

0.338x NWH's Day 5

2.34x Eternals T-18

 

Saturday(350 showings): 5677(+725)/50209   ATP: $14.73

0.309x NWH's Day 5

2.02x Eternals T-19

 

Sunday(337 showings): 2292(+421)/48084   ATP: $14.62

0.265x NWH's Day 5

1.49x Eternals T-20

[Tinalera]

Out of the groundhog hole....

 

Uncharted for Thurs Feb 17 (Taken Feb 14)

Toronto Ontario (Greater Toronto Area)

61 shows

13 theatres

 

Total Sold 449

Total remaining Available 13878

Total seats 14236

Percentage 3.15

 

A smaller amount than I usually track, using Uncharted to get back slowly into the groove of things. Good to be able to do this again, and hopefully after feb 17 for theatres (which are going back to full capacity) no more restrictions on it all. Heck something approaching a normality to life will be great too

 

 

[Eric Lasagna]

Dog Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	36	195	5001	3.90%

 

Comp

1.373x of West Side Story T-3 (1.1M)

1.318x of Death on the Nile T-3 (1.45M)

3.047x of Marry Me T-3 (1.6M)

 

It seems decent so far, but the big issue is that this is including today's Valentine's Day previews, which could make it harder for this to gain much momentum in the coming days. At the very least, this will be interesting.

[Eric Lasagna]

On 2/14/2022 at 12:15 AM, Eric Poirot said:

Uncharted Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-4 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	55	489	10285	4.75%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 40

 

Comp

0.349x of F9 T-4 (2.48M)

0.807x of The Suicide Squad T-4 (3.31M)

0.343x of Venom 2 T-4 (3.97M)

0.548x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife T-4 (2.46M)

Uncharted Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	61	560	11343	4.94%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 71

 

Comp

0.346x of F9 T-3 (2.46M)

0.758x of The Suicide Squad T-3 (3.1M)

0.318x of Venom 2 T-3 (3.69M)

0.534x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife T-3 (2.4M)

 

Yeah this movie's boned. Oh well!

[Eric Lasagna]

On 2/14/2022 at 12:25 AM, Eric Poirot said:

The Batman Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-18 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	2	178	4360	35175	12.40%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 141

 

Comp

0.574x of Black Widow's Final Count (7.58M)

0.918x of Shang-Chi's Final Count (8.08M)

0.832x of Venom 2's Final Count (9.65M)

0.826x of Eternals' Final Count (7.85M)

 

Adjusted Comp

0.329x of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker T-18 (13.17M)

The Batman Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	2	179	4543	35317	12.86%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 183

 

Comp

0.598x of Black Widow's Final Count (7.9M)

0.956 of Shang-Chi's Final Count (8.41M)

0.867x of Venom 2's Final Count (10.06M)

0.861x of Eternals' Final Count (8.18M)

0.403x of No Way Home T-17 (20.17M)

 

Adjusted Comp

0.337x of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker T-17 (13.5M)

 

Hooray for a new comp. No Way Home is still arguably the best one we got and it does paint a very clear picture, though granted I'm using final counts for almost everything else. The NWH comp should decline for a couple days to account for NWH's big fan rush in its first week, but that's not anything too concerning and understandable for a big movie just starting out their presales run, so keep that in mind before going into doom and gloom.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Dog seems dead here. Cinemark doesn't have it on sale, though Cinemark presales are always weak. I also argue it's not a PS type of film. At the AMC, the 4pm on Thursday sold 1, the 7pm has 2. On Friday, the 4 has 0 but the 7 has 10. 

 

UNCHARTED:

AMC THURSDAY (157)

4pm DOLBY- (36)

7pm DOLBY- (83)

8pm IMAX- (26)

430 (1)

730 (11)

CINEMARK THURSDAY (17)

4pm XD (8)

5pm (0)

4pm XD (7)

8pm (0)

10 XD (2)

 

AMC FRIDAY (121)

4pm DOLBY- 12.

5pm IMAX- 2

7pm DOLBY- 100

8pm IMAX-5

430- 0

730- 2

CINEMARK FRIDAY (10)

12 (0)

1 XD (2)

3 (7)

4XD (6)

6 (0)

7 XD (2)

9 (4)

10 XD (0)

[Porthos]

On 2/13/2022 at 11:06 PM, Porthos said:

 

The Batman Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-18 days and counting

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	248	28780	32298	3518	10.89%

 

Total Seats Sold Today

126

 

T-18 Unadjusted Comps 

	%		Sold T-18	Total Sold		Sellouts/Shows	Seats Left/Total Seats	Perct Sold		Comp
ET	226.97		71	1550		0/96	13991/15541	9.97%		21.56m

PRE-SALE NOTE:  Eternals tickets had been on sale for seven days at this point while The Batman has been on sale for six/four days (two days of those days were "Fan First" only ticket sales).

 

T-18 Adjusted Comp 

	%		Sold T-18	Total Sold		Sellouts/Shows	Seats Left/Total Seats	Perct Sold		Comp
BW	159.76		92	2095		0/117	17035/19130	10.95%		22.08m
Bats (BW adj)	---		116	3347		0/197	23045/26392	12.68%		---

COMP NOTE: The Batman comp has been adjusted to reflect the return of Ontario theaters to the DOM market (what would be normally be the comp/0.955).

ADJUSTMENT NOTE: Bats (BW adj) is the amount of seats sold that does not include the theaters which had unreliable data polluting their seat maps at that point in BW's track.

PRE-SALE NOTE:  Black Widow tickets had been on sale for ten days at this point while The Batman has been on sale for six/four days (two days of those days were "Fan First" only ticket sales).

 

Tuesday Sales:        643/815     [78.09% sold]     [-1 tickets]

Wednesday Sales:   895/1301   [68.79% sold]   [+21 tickets]

Thursday Sales:    1980/30182   [6.56% sold] [+106 tickets]

---

Regal:  967/10475  [9.23% sold] [+50 tickets]

Matinee: 144/4799 [3.00% | 4.09% of all tickets sold]

 

======

 

Even though I'm losing NWH for a day, shifted over to T-x comps tonight as I think it makes more sense right now, hence the pretty hefty hit in comps.  NWH returns tomorrow, as little good as it does now.  Now let's see where it stabilizes this week as the "pre-sale lull" approaches.

 

The Batman Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-17 days and counting

 

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	248	28624	32298	3674	11.38%

 

Total Seats Sold Today

156

 

T-17 Unadjusted Comps 

	%		Sold T-17	Total Sold		Sellouts/Shows	Seats Left/Total Seats	Perct Sold		Comp
ET	226.93		69	1619		0/96	13922/15541	10.42%		21.56m
NWH	27.67		13279	13279		0/225	14920/28199	47.09%		13.83m

PRE-SALE NOTE:  Eternals tickets had been on sale for eight days at this point while The Batman has been on sale for seven/five days (two days of those days were "Fan First" only ticket sales).  This was the first day of sales for No Way Home at this point in pre-sales.

 

T-17 Adjusted Comp 

	%		Sold T-17	Total Sold		Sellouts/Shows	Seats Left/Total Seats	Perct Sold		Comp
BW	159.57		94	2189		0/117	16941/19130	11.44%		22.06m
Bats (BW adj)	---		146	3493		0/197	22899/26392	13.24%		---

COMP NOTE: The Batman comp has been adjusted to reflect the return of Ontario theaters to the DOM market (what would be normally be the comp/0.955).

ADJUSTMENT NOTE: Bats (BW adj) is the amount of seats sold that does not include the theaters which had unreliable data polluting their seat maps at that point in BW's track.

PRE-SALE NOTE:  Black Widow tickets had been on sale for eleven days at this point while The Batman has been on sale for seven/five days (two days of those days were "Fan First" only ticket sales).

 

Tuesday Sales:        651/815     [79.88% sold]     [+8 tickets]

Wednesday Sales:   918/1301   [70.56% sold]   [+23 tickets]

Thursday Sales:    1980/30182   [6.97% sold] [+125 tickets]

---

Regal:  996/10475  [9.51% sold] [+29 tickets]

Matinee: 156/4799 [3.25% | 4.25% of all tickets sold]

 

===

 

Looks like the Super Bowl did in fact have an affect, as numbers jumped locally by a decent margin.  Just enough to keep the current pace though.  Roped NWH back in.  Pace against NWH will take a hit for the next couple of days, so we'll just have to see where it stabilizes at.

Edited February 15, 2022 by Porthos

[charlie Jatinder]

Pretty ordinary last few days for Batman in regional comps.

[Madhuvan]

Box office watchers gather

[katnisscinnaplex]

On 2/9/2022 at 9:42 PM, katnisscinnaplex said:

So I did a thing...

 

Chain	Theaters	Sold	Capacity	% Sold	Sales
AMC	179	41,246	56,177	73.42%	$973,879.32
Century	2	439	531	82.67%	$7,484.98
Cinemark	9	1,931	2,594	74.44%	$30,483.61
CMX	1	179	265	67.55%	$3,254.22
Harkins	1	356	445	80.00%	$5,696.00
Malco	3	532	835	63.71%	$9,304.96
Marcus	2	427	589	72.50%	$6,785.28
Megaplex	5	1,848	2,738	67.49%	$26,666.64
Other	15	3,142	4,787	65.64%	$57,955.00
Premiere	2	294	448	65.63%	$3,982.90
Regal	91	18,583	27,816	66.81%	$372,262.94
Santikos	1	435	449	96.88%	$7,416.75
Grand Total	311	69,412	97,674	71.06%	$1,505,172.60

 

This was taken throughout today so obviously will be higher now.  Definitely won't be able to do this every day, but sales looking really good across the board.  I pulled every show that had reserved seating on Fandango; think I'm missing maybe 20 shows from what I could tell on the official movie site list.  

Chain	Theaters	Sold	Capacity	% Sold	Sales
AMC	179	45,307	56,374	80.37%	$1,068,345.28
Century	2	474	531	89.27%	$8,058.22
Cinemark	11	2,650	3,323	79.75%	$41,964.53
CMX	1	203	265	76.60%	$3,690.54
Harkins	1	398	445	89.44%	$6,368.00
Malco	3	617	835	73.89%	$10,768.96
Marcus	2	476	589	80.81%	$7,506.76
Megaplex	5	2,270	2,738	82.91%	$32,756.10
Other	13	3,017	4,058	74.35%	$56,104.20
Premiere	2	334	448	74.55%	$4,515.78
Regal	91	20,346	27,816	73.14%	$406,723.19
Santikos	1	441	449	98.22%	$7,519.05
Grand Total	311	76,533	97,871	78.20%	$1,654,320.61

 

  IMAX 3/1 release update.  One theater removed the showing and another one is temporarily closed.  I did find a couple that I missed before though. 

[katnisscinnaplex]

23 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

Day	Movie	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
T-0	Dog (EA)	Jacksonville	4	4	318	118	118	37.11%
		Phoenix	3	3	303	52	52	17.16%
		Raleigh	5	5	522	102	102	19.54%
	Dog (EA) Total		12	12	1,143	272	272	23.80%
T-3	Dog	Jacksonville	6	15	1,440	32	32	2.22%
		Phoenix	6	15	1,813	17	17	0.94%
		Raleigh	8	16	1,644	26	26	1.58%
	Dog Total		20	46	4,897	75	75	1.53%
T-3	Uncharted	Jacksonville	6	46	7,536	225	225	2.99%
		Phoenix	6	21	4,242	237	237	5.59%
		Raleigh	7	26	3,637	214	214	5.88%
	Uncharted Total		19	93	15,415	676	676	4.39%

 

Dog (Thu) comp

Marry Me - .82x (428k)

 

Uncharted comps

TSS - 1.1x (4.49m)

Dune - .573x (2.92m)

Free Guy - 2.216x (4.88m)

Average - 4.1m

Day	Movie	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
T-2	Dog	Jacksonville	6	15	1,440	34	2	2.36%
		Phoenix	6	15	1,813	18	1	0.99%
		Raleigh	8	16	1,644	35	9	2.13%
	Dog Total		20	46	4,897	87	12	1.78%
T-2	Uncharted	Jacksonville	6	46	7,536	260	35	3.45%
		Phoenix	6	23	4,393	272	35	6.19%
		Raleigh	7	30	3,887	246	32	6.33%
	Uncharted Total		19	99	15,816	778	102	4.92%

 

Dog (Thu) comp

Marry Me - .82x (428k)

 

Uncharted comps

TSS - 1.066x (4.37m)

Dune - .516x (2.63m)

Free Guy - 2.216x (4.88m)

Average - 3.96m

[excel1]

26 minutes ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

 

Chain	Theaters	Sold	Capacity	% Sold	Sales
AMC	179	45,307	56,374	80.37%	$1,068,345.28
Century	2	474	531	89.27%	$8,058.22
Cinemark	11	2,650	3,323	79.75%	$41,964.53
CMX	1	203	265	76.60%	$3,690.54
Harkins	1	398	445	89.44%	$6,368.00
Malco	3	617	835	73.89%	$10,768.96
Marcus	2	476	589	80.81%	$7,506.76
Megaplex	5	2,270	2,738	82.91%	$32,756.10
Other	13	3,017	4,058	74.35%	$56,104.20
Premiere	2	334	448	74.55%	$4,515.78
Regal	91	20,346	27,816	73.14%	$406,723.19
Santikos	1	441	449	98.22%	$7,519.05
Grand Total	311	76,533	97,871	78.20%	$1,654,320.61

 

  IMAX 3/1 release update.  One theater removed the showing and another one is temporarily closed.  I did find a couple that I missed before though. 

 

Many more showings needed

[filmlover]

Encanto is coming back to a lot of theaters near me this weekend. Disney looking to cash in on the "We Don't Talk About Bruno" mania lol.

[XXR vs XXR]

20 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

Many more showings needed

Not gonna happen for Wednesday. That’s why the amount of tickets available went up less than 0.3% in a week.

[keysersoze123]

8 minutes ago, PenguinXXR said:

Not gonna happen for Wednesday. That’s why the amount of tickets available went up less than 0.3% in a week.

Never say Never. Lincoln Sq has 2 shows while the rest have 1. its possible for theaters to add another late Imax show.

 

Though it may not happen as already there are enough shows to build early hype. No reason to dilute the thursday. 

[katnisscinnaplex]

1 hour ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

 

Chain	Theaters	Sold	Capacity	% Sold	Sales
AMC	179	45,307	56,374	80.37%	$1,068,345.28
Century	2	474	531	89.27%	$8,058.22
Cinemark	11	2,650	3,323	79.75%	$41,964.53
CMX	1	203	265	76.60%	$3,690.54
Harkins	1	398	445	89.44%	$6,368.00
Malco	3	617	835	73.89%	$10,768.96
Marcus	2	476	589	80.81%	$7,506.76
Megaplex	5	2,270	2,738	82.91%	$32,756.10
Other	13	3,017	4,058	74.35%	$56,104.20
Premiere	2	334	448	74.55%	$4,515.78
Regal	91	20,346	27,816	73.14%	$406,723.19
Santikos	1	441	449	98.22%	$7,519.05
Grand Total	311	76,533	97,871	78.20%	$1,654,320.61

 

  IMAX 3/1 release update.  One theater removed the showing and another one is temporarily closed.  I did find a couple that I missed before though. 

Looks like 487 shows on Wednesday, not much change from last week

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, keysersoze123 said:

Never say Never. Lincoln Sq has 2 shows while the rest have 1. its possible for theaters to add another late Imax show.

 

Though it may not happen as already there are enough shows to build early hype. No reason to dilute the thursday. 

 

I won't say that theaters are having difficulty filling Thursday thanks to all of the Tue/Wed showings, but I will say they are filling up far slower than normal.  Are starting to fill up though.

 

Frankly there is next to zero reason for more Wed shows with all of the good seats still available on Thursday.

 

Sure, a couple of theaters might add a Wed showing here or there.  I'm just saying it's not needed.  Not with the overbooking that occurred on Thursday.

 

(the ironic thing here is, if theaters over-reacted to a slimmer than wanted Summer/Fall when they set the initial NWH sets, looks like they over-reacted to the success of NWH when they set their  initial Batsy sets)

Edited February 15, 2022 by Porthos

[Tinalera]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

 

I won't say that theaters are having difficulty filling Thursday thanks to all of the Tue/Wed showings, but I will say they are filling up far slower than normal.  Are starting to fill up though.

 

Frankly there is next to zero reason for more Wed shows with all of the good seats still available on Thursday.

 

Sure, a couple of theaters might add a Wed showing here or there.  I'm just saying it's not needed.  Not with the overbooking that occurred on Thursday.

 

(the ironic thing here is, if theaters over-reacted to a slimmer than wanted Summer/Fall when they set the initial NWH sets, looks like they over-reacted to the success of NWH when they set their  initial Batsy sets)

Up here it will be interesting to see how attendance goes for Batman. It opens on March 1, the day we drop almost all mandates here in Ontario (except masking which for whatever reason will be at a later date). No Vaccination checks, fully capacity theatres, other than masks no limits of any kind. I think that weekend will be a big one in Ontario of the freedom plus Bats movie coming out.

Tracking presales when they start (no they haven't started here in Ontario) will be interesting.

 

[cax16]

5 minutes ago, Tinalera said:

Up here it will be interesting to see how attendance goes for Batman. It opens on March 1, the day we drop almost all mandates here in Ontario (except masking which for whatever reason will be at a later date). No Vaccination checks, fully capacity theatres, other than masks no limits of any kind. I think that weekend will be a big one in Ontario of the freedom plus Bats movie coming out.

Tracking presales when they start (no they haven't started here in Ontario) will be interesting.

 

Batman tickets went on sale last Thursday here. 
 

I did a count from about 24 theatres Sunday. We have a fan first event on Wednesday(March 3)and then the normal Thursday start, some places have tickets available up until March 10th already. 

Edited February 15, 2022 by cax16