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

[Pinacolada]

The Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday screenings of The Lost City will be rolled into the Thursday preview numbers right? I imagine they'd amount to more than $400k

[katnisscinnaplex]

The Fantastic Beasts IMAX site is only showing 10 shows.  I can't imagine that would have much (any) impact on box office.  Maybe 80k if they all sell out?  Hopefully it's good publicity at least

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Eric Says Trans Rights said:

Not in Philly. I don't have to care about this 😎

 

Until they add a showing in Philly or Sacto without telling us. 

 

32 minutes ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

The Fantastic Beasts IMAX site is only showing 10 shows.  I can't imagine that would have much (any) impact on box office.  Maybe 80k if they all sell out?  Hopefully it's good publicity at least

 

Only ten is strange tho.  Really do wonder if they're gonna add more or not at some point.

 

[Porthos]

5 hours ago, Menor Reborn said:

Today I think is when Venom started a ramp up, Morbius is gonna need to do the same to avoid that comp crashing down.

 

Yep.

 

Locally:

 

 

T-8: 107 (yesterday)

T-7: 179

T-6: 180

T-5: 183

T-4: 453

T-3: 576

T-2: 718

 

Started accelerating with the equivalent of tonight's sales, but just shot out of a cannon on Sunday. 

Edited March 24, 2022 by Porthos

[Tinalera]

The Lost City

Toronto Ontario Greater Toronto area

Friday March 25 Taken Thurs March 24

13 Theatres

86 shows

Total sold 500

Total Remaining 21293

Total seats 21793

Percentage 2.29

[katnisscinnaplex]

5 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

Day	Movie	Area	TC	Shows	Seats	Sold	New	% Sold
T-0	Lost City	Jacksonville	6	30	4,710	243	80	5.16%
		Phoenix	7	21	3,233	203	37	6.28%
		Raleigh	8	22	2,895	240	86	8.29%
	Lost City Total		21	73	10,838	686	203	6.33%

 

Lost City T-0 comps (Thu sales only)

 - Jungle Cruise - 1.01x (2.72m)

 - Uncharted - .545x (2.02m)

 - Free Guy - 1.2x (2.63m)

 - Death on the Nile - 2.03x (2.23m)

Average: 2.4m; Prediction: 2.4m Thu/2.8m total previews

Day	Movie	Area	TC	Shows	Seats	Sold	New	% Sold
1-Hr	Lost City	Jacksonville	6	30	4,710	405	162	8.60%
		Phoenix	7	21	3,233	255	52	7.89%
		Raleigh	8	22	2,895	343	103	11.85%
	Lost City Total		21	73	10,838	1,003	317	9.25%

 

Lost City T-1hr comps (Thu sales only)

 - Jungle Cruise - .91x (2.46m)

 - Free Guy - 1.15x (2.54m)

Average: 2.5m; Prediction: 2.5m Thu/3m total previews

[el sid]

The Lost City counted today at 11am EST for Thursday, March 24:
 

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 166 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 103 (11 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 23 (2 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 28 (4 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 23 (3 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 151 (5 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 251 (7 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 745.
Up 43.5% since yesterday.

Comps (both counted on Thursday for Thursday): Uncharted had 1.294 sold tickets

and Death on the Nile 466.
 

The Lost City counted today at 11am EST for Friday, March 25:
 

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 215 (9 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 62 (11 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 47 (9 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 29 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 26 (6 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 151 (7 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 165 (11 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 695.

Up 34% since yesterday.

Comps (all movies counted on Thursday for Friday): Uncharted (44.0M OW) had 1.180 sold tickets,
Jungle Cruise (35.0M OW) had 817,

Death on the Nile (12.9M OW) had 487 sold tickets

and Marry Me (7.9M OW) had 210.
 

The final jumps were again decent and all comps point to around 25M-30M OW so this range is my guess. Rather the higher than the lower end.
 

RRR had today 203 sold tickets for today (in 4 theaters).
Belle (1.6M OW) had also on Thursday for Thursday 64 sold tickets in 7 theaters.

For tomorrow RRR had today 103 sold tickets (again in 4 theaters).
Belle had on the same day 83 sold tickets in 7 theaters.

So on the one hand very high ticket prices and quite decent presales but on the other hand disappointing jumps till today (14% and 5%) and I don't expect many walk-ups.
I saw that boxofficepro's prediction are 6.4M and that sounds good I think.

Edited March 24, 2022 by el sid

[EmpireCity]

Doctor Strange goes on sale Wednesday, April 6th.  3pm shows.  

[Skim Beeble]

I don't think I'll ever understand the reasoning of these absurdly early start times.

[Porthos]

1 minute ago, Skim Beeble said:

I don't think I'll ever understand the reasoning of these absurdly early start times.

 

Shoving in more showtimes on Thursday is the answer.  Especially if theaters are still having staffing problems for late night viewings.

 

(and if they aren't having staffing problems, then they can shove even more showings in)

 

Probably just shifts money from FSS into Th, but there might be something of an effect to grab folks who have to see something immediately/can't see something on a weekend before they try to get it illicitly/just read a synopsis online and/or just move on to the Next Big Thing. 

 

So it could be argued that there is a slight increase in overall gross.  But mostly it's just to build up hype/awareness going into the OW and grab money ASAP.

[Porthos]

15 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Doctor Strange goes on sale Wednesday, April 6th.  3pm shows.  

 

Sigh.

 

At least it's not 2pm.

 

(speaking of 2pm, getting really close to the time where I personally pull the ripcord on tracking as it gets to be waaaaaaaaaay too many shows for Yours Truly to want to even contemplate attempting to track)

[Skim Beeble]

Im guessing 3pm is gonna be the new 7pm.

[EmpireCity]

11 minutes ago, Skim Beeble said:

I don't think I'll ever understand the reasoning of these absurdly early start times.

 

Money.  

[Brainbug]

Remember when previews meant midnight showings?

 

I do.

 

I feel old.

[Old Spice]

Salt Lake City, Cinemark Sugarhouse Preview Night report for The Lost City at 3:00 PM MST.

 

Total tix sold:

66/445 14.8% (Five screenings.)

 

.7586 of Ghostbusters = $3.41M

.7591 of Uncharted= $2.94M

.3350 of Eternals = $3.18M

 

Friday:

69/676 10.2% (Eight screenings.)

 

 

[Eric is Quiet]

52 minutes ago, Skim Beeble said:

I don't think I'll ever understand the reasoning of these absurdly early start times.

Capitalism.

[Brainbug]

55 minutes ago, Skim Beeble said:

I don't think I'll ever understand the reasoning of these absurdly early start times.

 

[narniadis]

Remember the angst about 9 years or so ago when previews dropped from 9/10pm overall to 7pm..... then pre-covid the drop to 5/6pm now 3pm is the "new early" eventually it will be all day Thursday and they will still try to grin and say its just previews 😂🤷‍♂️

[ThomasNicole]

1 hour ago, EmpireCity said:

Doctor Strange goes on sale Wednesday, April 6th.  3pm shows.  

Do you know if there's a date set for The Northman presales?

[Tinalera]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

 

Sigh.

 

At least it's not 2pm.

 

(speaking of 2pm, getting really close to the time where I personally pull the ripcord on tracking as it gets to be waaaaaaaaaay too many shows for Yours Truly to want to even contemplate attempting to track)

As a variant to what someone earlier said, how long before heck Monday is the new opening "week(end)? Then they can pile all their amounts from Mon to Fri and say WOW look at our MASSIVE opening "Friday"! It really is getting out of hand