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

[Menor the Destroyer]

5 hours ago, Product Driven Legion said:

I remember when you had to burn another 3 hours when they immediately expanded a bunch from the initial sets… because they realized they were way to small 

NWH initial sets were way too low at least in some places. In MTC2 they started barely higher than BW, then quickly almost doubled when they realized the demand.

[katnisscinnaplex]

21 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

Day	Movie	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
T-10	Uncharted	Jacksonville	6	46	7,536	135	135	1.79%
		Phoenix	6	19	4,030	135	135	3.35%
		Raleigh	7	25	3,553	116	116	3.26%
	Uncharted Total		19	90	15,119	386	386	2.55%
T-2	Death on the Nile (EA)	Jacksonville	5	5	1,392	30	30	2.16%
		Phoenix	1	1	410	7	7	1.71%
		Raleigh	2	2	412	0	0	0.00%
	Death on the Nile (EA) Total		8	8	2,214	37	37	1.67%
T-3	Blacklight	Jacksonville	6	15	1,761	3	3	0.17%
		Phoenix	6	13	1,362	6	6	0.44%
		Raleigh	7	12	858	8	8	0.93%
	Blacklight Total		19	40	3,981	17	17	0.43%
	Death on the Nile	Jacksonville	6	23	4,789	27	27	0.56%
		Phoenix	5	16	3,461	43	43	1.24%
		Raleigh	8	16	2,010	95	95	4.73%
	Death on the Nile Total		19	55	10,260	165	165	1.61%
	Marry Me	Jacksonville	6	16	2,328	29	29	1.25%
		Phoenix	6	13	1,942	34	34	1.75%
		Raleigh	8	15	1,747	29	29	1.66%
	Marry Me Total		20	44	6,017	92	92	1.53%

 

 

Death on the Nile comps

Last Duel - 2.7x (947k)

Ghostbusters - .18x (748k)

Free Guy - .54x (1.19m)

Average - 962k

 

Marry Me comp

West Side Story - .84x (675k)

 

Blacklight comp

The Protege - .52x

 

Uncharted comps

TSS - 1.278x (5.24m)

NTTD - .82x (4.25m)

Dune - .597x (3.05m)

Average - 4.18m

Day	Movie	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
T-1	Death on the Nile (EA)	Jacksonville	5	5	1,392	31	1	2.23%
		Phoenix	1	1	410	7	0	1.71%
		Raleigh	2	2	412	0	0	0.00%
	Death on the Nile (EA) Total		8	8	2,214	38	1	1.72%
T-2	Blacklight	Jacksonville	6	15	1,761	7	4	0.40%
		Phoenix	6	14	1,434	6	0	0.42%
		Raleigh	7	12	858	10	2	1.17%
	Blacklight Total		19	41	4,053	23	6	0.57%
T-2	Death on the Nile	Jacksonville	6	23	4,789	34	7	0.71%
		Phoenix	6	18	3,569	58	15	1.63%
		Raleigh	8	16	2,010	112	17	5.57%
	Death on the Nile Total		20	57	10,368	204	39	1.97%
T-2	Marry Me	Jacksonville	6	16	2,328	39	10	1.68%
		Phoenix	6	14	1,988	46	12	2.31%
		Raleigh	8	15	1,747	32	3	1.83%
	Marry Me Total		20	45	6,063	117	25	1.93%
T-9	Uncharted	Jacksonville	6	46	7,536	139	4	1.84%
		Phoenix	6	19	4,030	146	11	3.62%
		Raleigh	7	25	3,553	118	2	3.32%
	Uncharted Total		19	90	15,119	403	17	2.67%

 

Death on the Nile comps

Last Duel - 2.46x (880k)

Ghostbusters - .187x (776k)

Free Guy - .58x (1.28m)

Average - 972k

 

Marry Me comp

West Side Story - .81x (646k)

 

Blacklight comp

The Protege - .49x

 

Uncharted comps

TSS - 1.275x (5.23m)

NTTD - .76x (3.98m)

Dune - .588x (3m)

Average - 4.07m

[grim22]

Barely got my IMAX tickets for a good seat. My Irvine Spectrum IMAX show pretty much sold 75% in the first minute. One of the best true IMAX screens in the nation.

 

 

 

 

[keysersoze123]

Near sellouts in almost everywhere I looked. This is breaking out for sure. Definitely on the upper end of tracking or beyond. 

 

Edit: ticket prices are way higher for 3/1 imax shows. Lincoln sq is $30 and even in bay area its at $25.

Edited February 8, 2022 by keysersoze123

[Old Spice]

The Lowes Lincoln Square 13 IMAX is one of my favorite theaters to track and that has two showings, at 5:00 and 9:15, and both are basically down to the front two rows at this point.

[excel1]

14 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

This obviously won't have any impact on numbers overall. You are basically shifting few people to watch it a day or two early.

 

allowing these same people time for more repeat viewings

[excel1]

13 hours ago, Porthos said:

 

Well....

 

Local Number of Showtimes [so far]:

 

Tue:     3 showtimes.

Wed:    7 showtimes (probably not final).

Thr: 233 showtimes.

 

Two of those ain't like the other.  Now it is true that is 10 PLF showtimes (Tue: IMAX | Wed: IMAX + XD + 4DX + DBOX + others possibly), so they'll take a chunk out of later showings.  But it's still 10 vs 233.

 

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Also, GOODNESS GRACIOUS are theaters starved.  I have NEVER seen an initial set like that one before.  Not even No Way Home was that many (225 vs 233 [+10 more]).

 

 

Theaters AND moviegoers are starved.

 

Epic breakout incoming...1989, 2008, and 2022....

[grim22]

17 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

Near sellouts in almost everywhere I looked. This is breaking out for sure. Definitely on the upper end of tracking or beyond. 

 

Edit: ticket prices are way higher for 3/1 imax shows. Lincoln sq is $30 and even in bay area its at $25.

 

From Reddit:

 

Quote

I work at an AMC and we just got a memo that Blockbuster Pricing will be put into place for The Batman. This means that during its first week of release, tickets will cost $.70 - $1 extra. I don’t have verifiable proof yet, but when tickets go on sale, the pricing increase will be clearly identified for people to see. This will most likely be put into place for other blockbusters coming up, like Jurassic World: Dominion, but possibly not films like Uncharted. Thoughts?

 

[filmlover]

Belfast and Dune are coming back to a bunch of theaters near me after Oscar nominations this weekend. The Power of the Dog is also coming to a number of Cinemarks (thanks to the Netflix deal) as well.

[charlie Jatinder]

4 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

allowing these same people time for more repeat viewings

trivial

[Porthos]

6 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

From Reddit:

 

 

 

Looks like Cinemark was ahead of the curve last year when they started doing this locally back in November. 

 

Edited February 8, 2022 by Porthos

[AdrianL]

44 minutes ago, grim22 said:

Barely got my IMAX tickets for a good seat. My Irvine Spectrum IMAX show pretty much sold 75% in the first minute. One of the best true IMAX screens in the nation.

 

 

 

 

So it is a true Imax? The last time I saw a movie there was Guardians 1 and I didn't really notice lol maybe I'll check out a future film there soon

 

Showings for the early Imax in my area in San Diego are pretty full at all theaters. Excited to see how presales go on the 10th. Got my tickets

[katnisscinnaplex]

Palladium was sold out in the first 20 minutes as expected.  The other theaters that I track were 328/1402 sold, with ATP of $21.00.  Four theaters with 1 show each.

[keysersoze123]

MTC2 does not have that many Imax screens. i see only 10 shows for Mar 1 but ticket sales have been strong. 1070 tickets sold in 45 minutes for those shows. Ticket prices are not inflated at MTC2. 

 

Let us see how the action is on 10th. I expect some demand have been pulled forward and so start may be slower?

[charlie Jatinder]

Now not really a comp, but NWH sold 1042 seats on 3 IMAX shows in its first 24 hours in Harkins while Eternals was 115 on 2 shows.

 

Batman so far has 137 sold.

 

[AdrianL]

Wow, so I see Wednesday 3/2 Dolby screenings at 7... lol so I guess 3 days of previews

[keysersoze123]

AMC 3 sellouts in boston area as well. At this point its given all these imax shows will sellout ahead of show and with inflated ticket price at AMC, its going to gross 2-3 million across tuesday/wednesday as there are other premium formats having shows on 2nd 

[grim22]

55 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

AMC 3 sellouts in boston area as well. At this point its given all these imax shows will sellout ahead of show and with inflated ticket price at AMC, its going to gross 2-3 million across tuesday/wednesday as there are other premium formats having shows on 2nd 

Back of envelope calculation for Tuesday is like 375 screens, 300 seats on average in IMAX, 22.5$ on average considering that NYC, LA and the big cities are going for 30$ is 2.55M, about 2.3M if we say 90% of tickets will be sold out by March 1. All of SoCal is pretty much gone right now.

[ZackM]

22 hours ago, keysersoze123 said:

I hope @ZackM can track OD sales @ Alpha. To my knowledge MTC2 has stopped working? @Menor Reborn have you checked MTC2 since NWH times? It was not letting us track. 

I'm planning on it.

[XXR & Friends]

My theater is doing a Wednesday IMAX. Looking at 130/151 sold at this point.