The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

[keysersoze123]

8 hours ago, Porthos said:

 

 

(don't try to claim you weren't one of the pioneers of sellout watches back in the day )

Definitely Tele and later Grim looked at LA sellouts before tracking was cool. Back then only other updates were from notfabio or NRG tracking data. OW used to be truly shocking 🙂

But @spizzer was the one who started tracking sellouts for DC theaters probably from BOM forum days in late noughties. Something similar was done at KJ for big movies as well. 

[Porthos]

23 hours ago, Porthos said:

 

Inside Out 2 Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-28 days and counting

 

	Capped	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	0	153	23781	24051	270	1.12%

 

Total Seats Sold Today

39

 

Day 3  Comps            SHITTY-ASS COMPS EDITION - DON'T TAKE TOO SERIOUSLY

	%		Sold Day 3	Total Sold		Sellouts Shows	Seats Left Total Seats	Perct Sold		Final Sold	% of Final		Comp
Sonic 2	108.00		34	250		0/73	11015/11265	2.22%		3951	6.83%		6.75m
Minion 2	169.81		38	159		0/165	25041/25200	0.63%		6591	4.10%		18.25m
TLM	44.12		68	612		0/154	21382/21994	2.78%		6561	4.12%		4.54m
Wonka	272.73		26	99		0/109	18836/18935	0.52%		1975	13.67%		9.55m
Aqua 2	146.74		10	184		0/78	13770/13954	1.32%		2629	10.27%		6.60m
GBFE	91.53		47	295		0/114	18603/18898	1.56%		2197	12.29%		4.30m

FINAL SOLD NOTES: "Final sold" is the number of tickets sold for the movie in question at stop of tracking while "% of final" is the percentage of Inside Out 2's current tickets sold versus that final number.

 

Regal:        68/10075  [0.67% sold]
Matinee:      29/2674  [1.08% | 10.74% of all tickets sold]
3D:              10/3852  [0.26% | 3.70% of all tickets sold]
PLF:           114/9686  [1.18% | 42.22% of all tickets sold]

 

===

 

Fairly strong day today, actually.  Strong enough that I kept the D-x comps for one more night.  Gunna shift over to T-x tomorrow though, come hell or high water.  Was concentrated at a couple of theaters (including a small group sale at one showing), but still, sales are sales.

 

Still debating what comps to bring in starting at T-27, as I doubt I'll have many good ones to choose from.  Then again, why should tomorrow be much different from the last couple of days, when it comes to... unrepresentative comps? 

 

Inside Out 2 Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-27 days and counting

 

	Capped	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	0	153	23721	24051	330	1.37%

 

Total Seats Sold Today

60

 

T-27 Comps            SHITTY-ASS COMPS EDITION - DON'T TAKE TOO SERIOUSLY

	%		Sold T-27	Total Sold		Sellouts Shows	Seats Left Total Seats	Perct Sold		Final Sold	% of Final		Comp
Shaz 2	200.00		47	165		0/93	15378/15543	1.06%		1663	19.84%		6.80m
TLM	53.92		68	612		0/154	21382/21994	2.78%		6561	5.03%		5.55m
Barbie	40.84		41	808		0/96	11809/12617	6.40%		12077	2.73%		9.23m
Wonka	333.33		26	99		0/109	18836/18935	0.52%		1975	16.71%		11.67m
Aqua 2	157.14		16	210		0/78	13744/13954	1.50%		2629	12.55%		7.07m

FINAL SOLD NOTES: "Final sold" is the number of tickets sold for the movie in question at stop of tracking while "% of final" is the percentage of Inside Out 2's current tickets sold versus that final number.

 

Regal:     89/10075  [0.88% sold]
Matinee:   34/2674  [1.27% | 10.30% of all tickets sold]
3D:            19/3852  [0.49% | 5.76% of all tickets sold]
PLF:         142/9686  [1.47% | 43.03% of all tickets sold]

 

===

 

What a strange pre-sale pattern.  Yeah, I gots nothing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Threw in Shazam 2 and Barbie simply due to having nothing suitable at T-27, and I wanted something that was backloaded in pre-sales.  Was prepared to make a smart-aleck comment about the unsuitability of the pre-sale pattern of Barbie, but after today's update...

 

...

 

Okay, yeah.  Still no.  But what a weird pattern.  Was there some sort of promo that dropped today that I'm not aware of?  Either way, just a great day (for this type of movie at this point in pre-sales).

[charlie Jatinder]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

 

Inside Out 2 Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-27 days and counting

 

	Capped	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	0	153	23721	24051	330	1.37%

 

Total Seats Sold Today

60

 

T-27 Comps            SHITTY-ASS COMPS EDITION - DON'T TAKE TOO SERIOUSLY

	%		Sold T-27	Total Sold		Sellouts Shows	Seats Left Total Seats	Perct Sold		Final Sold	% of Final		Comp
Shaz 2	200.00		47	165		0/93	15378/15543	1.06%		1663	19.84%		6.80m
TLM	53.92		68	612		0/154	21382/21994	2.78%		6561	5.03%		5.55m
Barbie	40.84		41	808		0/96	11809/12617	6.40%		12077	2.73%		9.23m
Wonka	333.33		26	99		0/109	18836/18935	0.52%		1975	16.71%		11.67m
Aqua 2	157.14		16	210		0/78	13744/13954	1.50%		2629	12.55%		7.07m

FINAL SOLD NOTES: "Final sold" is the number of tickets sold for the movie in question at stop of tracking while "% of final" is the percentage of Inside Out 2's current tickets sold versus that final number.

 

Regal:     89/10075  [0.88% sold]
Matinee:   34/2674  [1.27% | 10.30% of all tickets sold]
3D:            19/3852  [0.49% | 5.76% of all tickets sold]
PLF:         142/9686  [1.47% | 43.03% of all tickets sold]

 

===

 

What a strange pre-sale pattern.  Yeah, I gots nothing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Threw in Shazam 2 and Barbie simply due to having nothing suitable at T-27, and I wanted something that was backloaded in pre-sales.  Was prepared to make a smart-aleck comment about the unsuitability of the pre-sale pattern of Barbie, but after today's update...

 

...

 

Okay, yeah.  Still no.  But what a weird pattern.  Was there some sort of promo that dropped today that I'm not aware of?  Either way, just a great day (for this type of movie at this point in pre-sales).

LOL what.

 

How is Barbie comping that high? There gotta be something wrong.

 

MiniTC2 comp is ~3.5M.

MTC1 shall be around same as well.

[Porthos]

45 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

LOL what.

 

How is Barbie comping that high? There gotta be something wrong.

 

MiniTC2 comp is ~3.5M.

MTC1 shall be around same as well.

 

 

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Barbie Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-27 days and counting

 

	Capped	Sellouts	Showings	Seats left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	0	96	11809	12617	808	6.40%

 

330 [IO2 T-27] / 880 [Barbie T-27] ≈ 40.84%

.4084 x 22.6 = 9.23m

 

Math checks out, as they say. 

 

 

[charlie Jatinder]

23 minutes ago, Porthos said:

330 [IO2 T-27] / 880 [Barbie T-27] ≈ 40.84%

.4084 x 22.6 = 9.23m

 

Math checks out, as they say. 

Hmm. Barbie had weird low start in Sacto in that case.

[Porthos]

16 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Hmm. Barbie had weird low start in Sacto in that case.

 

As I check T-27 (-ish) Barbie numbers from Flat Lannister and katniss, Sacto looks to be broadly in line with theirs as well.  Did look ahead at your reported Barbie numbers, and it just looks like MiniTC2 was a harbinger of what was to come. 🙂

 

Bit hard to say in the case of Flat Lannister's numbers, as I didn't have a RotB to xreference against.  But using JWD as a standin seems to point well enough.  In fact, I also seemed to be decently "ahead" of katniss, judging by their JWD and Scream VI comps.

 

Mind, do think the promotion at MTC1 was putting more than a bit of the thumb on the scale for locations that had it and Sacramento has exactly zero MTC1 theaters in the region.  Doesn't explain MiniTC2, except perhaps a little bit of your own dark magic at play. 😉 

Edited May 18 by Porthos

[Grand Cine]

4 hours ago, keysersoze123 said:

 

 

Garfield MTC1

Early Shows(5-19) - 8274/11208 110331.96 140 shows

Previews(T-6) - 4513/324000 63742.17 2034 shows

Friday - 4840/461745 68764.18 2893 shows

 

4 days later.  Almost no pace so far. Sunday shows are near sellout and so limited growth. Probably close to 300K (500K) considering low ATP and its 1PM show. Previews are like 35% of Panda 4 and Friday is under 1/3rd. That said this will under index in MTC1 as Panda also did that. Still struggling to see this as a breakout. 

 

Looking at the current state, it looks like half of IF as well !!! Of course that had Reynolds and did not finish that great. 

I saw the comparaison for Trolls 3 which is the best comp for me for Garfield :

 

Previews(T-7) - 4308/312489 61796.26 2066 shows

Friday - 7227/415591 103188.75 2632 shows

 

Ok Garfield has 1 day in plus

But The previews are on par with Trolls 3 so with EA , i think at this point 1,5M .

The real problem for me is Friday which is really bad because it's around 60% of Trolls 3 so around 4,8M .

 

So Friday is around 6,3M ( previews + true friday) , with a 25% jump for Saturday and 10-15% drop for Sunday , the OW will be around 17-18M which is not good at all . I hope he will go up in the final week.

 

 

 

 

[charlie Jatinder]

On 5/17/2024 at 2:20 PM, charlie Jatinder said:

Inside Out 2 MiniTC2 T-28 Days

 

Previews - 265/52275 (203 showings)

 

Comps

4.73x Kung Fu Panda 4 first day - $18M

 

2.12x Haunted Mansion - $6.6M

2.5x Wonka first day - $8.75M

Inside Out 2 MiniTC2 T-27 Days

 

Previews - 304/52272 (203 showings)

 

Comps

4.61x Kung Fu Panda 4 first day - $17.5M

 

2.14x Haunted Mansion - $6.6M

2.84x Wonka first day - $10M

 

Just playing
0.14x Barbie - $3.2M

Edited May 18 by charlie Jatinder

[katnisscinnaplex]

23 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Furiosa	T-6	Jax	6	53	21	132	8,801	1.50%
		Phx	7	31	21	109	5,404	2.02%
		Ral	8	48	15	116	6,572	1.77%
	Total		21	132	57	357	20,777	1.72%
Garfield	T-6	Jax	5	31	4	23	3,285	0.70%
		Phx	7	40	2	28	6,350	0.44%
		Ral	7	36	3	40	4,949	0.81%
	Total		19	107	9	91	14,584	0.62%
Garfield (EA)	T-2	Jax	2	2	9	97	173	56.07%
		Phx	2	2	6	51	110	46.36%
		Ral	1	1	4	41	73	56.16%
	Total		5	5	19	189	356	53.09%

 

Garfield (EA) T-2 adjusted comps

 -Sing (EA) - .25x

 - Ghostbusters (EA) - 5.4x (2m)

 - Sonic 2 (EA) - .62x (806k)

 - Lightyear (EA) - 1.83x (924k)

 - Haunted Mansion (EA) - .719x (121k)

 

Garfield (Thu) T-6 adjusted comps

 - Sonic 2 - .151x (860k)

 - Haunted Mansion - .273x (666k)

 - TMNT - .259x (1.03m)

 - Elemental - .417x (1m)

 - Kung Fu Panda 4 - .291x (1.1m)

 - IF - .487 (1m?)

 

Furiosa T-6 adjusted comps

 - Bullet Train (Total) - .828x (3.9m)

 - Suicide Squad - .84x (3.65m)

 - Cocaine Bear - 2.19x (4.56m)

 - John Wick 4 - missed

 - Equalizer 3 - 1.417x (5.38m)

 - F9 - .343x (2.58m)

 - No Time to Die (Total) - missed

 - Kingdom of Apes - .597x (4.02m)

 - Creed III (Total) - .715x (3.9m)

 

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Furiosa	T-5	Jax	6	53	14	146	8,801	1.66%
		Phx	7	31	17	126	5,404	2.33%
		Ral	8	48	15	131	6,572	1.99%
	Total		21	132	46	403	20,777	1.94%
Garfield	T-5	Jax	5	31	3	26	3,285	0.79%
		Phx	7	40	1	29	6,350	0.46%
		Ral	7	37	12	52	5,039	1.03%
	Total		19	108	16	107	14,674	0.73%
Garfield (EA)	T-1	Jax	2	2	26	123	173	71.10%
		Phx	2	2	10	61	110	55.45%
		Ral	1	1	1	42	73	57.53%
	Total		5	5	37	226	356	63.48%

 

Garfield (EA) T-1 adjusted comps

 -Sing (EA) - .237x

 - Ghostbusters (EA) - 5.14x (1.9m)

 - Sonic 2 (EA) - .59x (773k)

 - Lightyear (EA) - 1.65x (831k)

 - Haunted Mansion (EA) - .761x (128k)

 - Puss in Boots (EA) - .45x

 

Lightyear probably the best comp here size-wise.  Probably ends around 750-800k

 

Garfield (Thu) T-5 adjusted comps

 - Sonic 2 - .159x (908k)

 - Haunted Mansion - .282x (686k)

 - TMNT - .277x (1.1m)

 - Elemental - .453x (1.1m)

 - Kung Fu Panda 4 - .299x (1.14m)

 - IF - .535 (908k)

 - Puss in Boots (OD) - .514x (1.96m)

 

Furiosa T-5 adjusted comps

 - Bullet Train (Total) - .856x (4.03m)

 - Suicide Squad - .852x (3.7m)

 - Cocaine Bear - missed

 - John Wick 4 - missed

 - Equalizer 3 - 1.439x (5.47m)

 - F9 - .354x (2.66m)

 - No Time to Die (Total) - missed

 - Kingdom of Apes - .575x (3.87m)

 - Creed III (Total) - .713x (3.89m)

[katnisscinnaplex]

23 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Bad Boys 4	T-20	Jax	5	56	51	51	9,816	0.52%
		Phx	6	39	43	43	7,802	0.55%
		Ral	8	44	56	56	6,582	0.85%
	Total		19	139	150	150	24,200	0.62%
Bad Boys 4 (EA)	T-19	Jax	1	1	4	4	198	2.02%

 

Day 1 adjusted comps

 - M:I 7 (Total) - .588x (5.17m)

 - F9 - .566x (4.26m)

 - Furiosa - 1.185x

 - Ghostbusters FE - .748x (3.29m)

 - Godzilla x Kong - .41x (3.69m)

 - Kingdom of Apes - 1.73x (11.42m)

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Bad Boys 4	T-19	Jax	5	56	0	51	9,816	0.52%
		Phx	6	39	10	52	7,802	0.67%
		Ral	8	44	14	70	6,582	1.06%
	Total		19	139	24	173	24,200	0.71%
Bad Boys 4 (EA)	T-18	Jax	1	1	0	4	198	2.02%

 

Day 2 adjusted comps

 - M:I 7 (Total) - .489x (4.3m)

 - F9 - .521x (3.92m)

 - Furiosa - 1.08x

 - Ghostbusters FE - .77x (3.39m)

 - Godzilla x Kong - .407x (3.67m)

 - Kingdom of Apes - 1.7x (11.23m)

[katnisscinnaplex]

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New*	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Inside Out 2	T-26	Jax	5	62	2	25	10,727	0.23%
		Phx	6	64	9	43	12,492	0.34%
		Ral	8	73	18	62	9,043	0.69%
	Total		19	199	29	130	32,262	0.40%

 

T-26 comps

 - Super Mario Bros (OD) - .323x (12.27m)

 - Barbie (Total) - .164x (3.06m)

 - Haunted Mansion (Total) - 1.066x (3.3m)

 - Garfield (Total) - 1.566x

 

I've been avoiding posting as to not bring down spirits, but it is what it is.  Early sales just haven't been there lately except for the extreme fans.  Hopefully this continues and they stop with the month+ ticket windows, but who knows.  Much easier to count five seats than 25 I guess.

[TwoMisfits]

3 hours ago, Porthos said:

 

As I check T-27 (-ish) Barbie numbers from Flat Lannister and katniss, Sacto looks to be broadly in line with theirs as well.  Did look ahead at your reported Barbie numbers, and it just looks like MiniTC2 was a harbinger of what was to come. 🙂

 

Bit hard to say in the case of Flat Lannister's numbers, as I didn't have a RotB to xreference against.  But using JWD as a standin seems to point well enough.  In fact, I also seemed to be decently "ahead" of katniss, judging by their JWD and Scream VI comps.

 

Mind, do think the promotion at MTC1 was putting more than a bit of the thumb on the scale for locations that had it and Sacramento has exactly zero MTC1 theaters in the region.  Doesn't explain MiniTC2, except perhaps a little bit of your own dark magic at play. 😉 

 

In many places, Barbie started wildly underbooked (I know it went 10, to 15, to 25 shows here week to week of presales at my locals) - maybe the same in Sacto?

[vafrow]

On 5/17/2024 at 6:28 AM, vafrow said:

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, T-8 Thursday previews, western GTA (southern Ontario)

 

Total Sales: 99

New Sales: 25

Growth: 34%

Theatres tracked: MTC4

Total theatres: 5

Showtimes: 22

Radius: 19 km

Tickets per showtime: 4.5

Ticket premium in effect: Yes

 

Tickets by Showtime Slot 

Late Afternoon: 6/3

Early Evening: 62/7

Late Evening: 31/7

 

Tickets by Format

Dolby: 17/4

IMAX: 68/6

VIP: 11/5

4DX: 3/2

 

Comps

0.163x Dune 2 for $1.6M

1.320x KOTPOTA for $6.6M

0.471x HG:BoSS for $2.7M

 

Average: $3.6M

 

It's starting to heat up.

 

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, T-6 Thursday previews, western GTA (southern Ontario)

 

Total Sales: 105

New Sales: 6

Growth: 6%

Theatres tracked: MTC4

Total theatres: 5

Showtimes: 22

Radius: 19 km

Tickets per showtime: 4.8

Ticket premium in effect: Yes

 

Tickets by Showtime Slot 

Late Afternoon: 8/3

Early Evening: 64/7

Late Evening: 33/7

 

Tickets by Format

Dolby: 19/4

IMAX: 72/6

VIP: 11/5

4DX: 3/2

 

Comps

0.160x Dune 2 for $1.6M

1.265x KOTPOTA for $6.3M

0.461x HG:BoSS for $2.6M

 

Average: $3.5M

 

A bit of a step back today 

[TwoMisfits]

20 minutes ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New*	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Inside Out 2	T-26	Jax	5	62	2	25	10,727	0.23%
		Phx	6	64	9	43	12,492	0.34%
		Ral	8	73	18	62	9,043	0.69%
	Total		19	199	29	130	32,262	0.40%

 

T-26 comps

 - Super Mario Bros (OD) - .323x (12.27m)

 - Barbie (Total) - .164x (3.06m)

 - Haunted Mansion (Total) - 1.066x (3.3m)

 - Garfield (Total) - 1.566x

 

I've been avoiding posting as to not bring down spirits, but it is what it is.  Early sales just haven't been there lately except for the extreme fans.  Hopefully this continues and they stop with the month+ ticket windows, but who knows.  Much easier to count five seats than 25 I guess.

 

I like the Garfield comp - probably gonna be most on point with having adult nostalgia fans for a brand and then family/kid audience.

 

Normally, I hate non-Disney comps for Disney movies, but this one seems like it could be on point...

[katnisscinnaplex]

21 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Santikos Tracking

 

If - 1,166/15,059 (101 shows)

 - Super Pets - .792x (5.64m)

 - Paws of Fury - 3.109x (6.02m)

 - Minions - .129x (4.84m)

 

Adjusted for 1.75m previews gives me ~9m for true Friday 

 

Strangers - 1,188/9,956 (71 shows)

 - Abigail - 4.47x (13.55m)

 - Tarot - 7.665x (14.07m)

 - Don't Worry - 1.37x (8.7m)

 - Smile - 1.45x (9.01m)

 

Adjusted for 1.2m previews would be ~5.75m true Friday

Santikos Tracking

 

If - 1,443/14,695 (97 shows)

 - Super Pets - 1.021x (7.89m)

 - Paws of Fury - 3.403x (7.53m)

 - Minions - .228x (7.44m)

 

Adjusted for 8.25m Fri gives me ~10.75m for Saturday 

 

Strangers - 732/10,060 (72 shows)

 - Abigail - 3.183x (12m)

 - Tarot - 4.383x (10.38m)

 - Don't Worry - 1.21x (7.01m)

 - Black Phone - .596x (4.48m)

 

Adjusted for 3.8m Fri would be ~4.45m Saturday

[TheFlatLannister]

6 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

LOL what.

 

How is Barbie comping that high? There gotta be something wrong.

 

MiniTC2 comp is ~3.5M.

MTC1 shall be around same as well.

Tbf I’m seeing the same thing for Orlando. Inside out was ahead of it as of T-27 

[Flip]

13 hours ago, YM! said:

 

The Garfield Movie    5/23/24    T-6 days til previews, 5 screens (1 per theater but Brookfield Square), 16 showings (12 2D/4 3D)

12 tickets sold (4 at Menominee Falls, 8 at Majestic Cinema) (8 2D/4 3D)   

• Meh, kids animation doesn't really make much notion until the Monday for release and Garfield seems indicative of that. Did not do Early Access as I think only Majestic is doing it in the four theaters I am sampling. Thinking the 1.5-2M previews range folks were spitting out makes sense. Nothing screams breakout though and the fact it's getting one screen, maybe two at most for previews makes me feel like OW might be similar to IF.

 

OW would be decently higher since Saturday and Sunday will be boosted by the holiday weekend 

[toutvabien]

18 hours ago, keysersoze123 said:

Captain Marvel had very strong sales on its OD despite early start. So OD is all about fans. It does not matter if you start 2 weeks before or 9 weeks. They will still book. So it would be interesting to compare OD sales not only with CM for @Porthos but also the big openers in 2022/23 period from MTC perspective. 

 

1) DS2 - 230k ish

2) Thor 4 - 136k ish

3) Wakanda - 110k

4) Ant 3 - 88K

5) Guardians 3 - 70k ish. 

 

I wonder where Deadpool 3 will land. Anything is fine as long as it does pull in a Marvels 🙂

 

Would Disney also go for any early shows? Like the trilogy shows and many others. 

How did Marvels fare? Also, what about NWH?

I'd think Thor 4 is a fair comparison for DP&W considering it was a hyped July opener? Can we expect better IM due it being last weekend of the month vs early July for Thor?

[AniNate]

4 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New*	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Inside Out 2	T-26	Jax	5	62	2	25	10,727	0.23%
		Phx	6	64	9	43	12,492	0.34%
		Ral	8	73	18	62	9,043	0.69%
	Total		19	199	29	130	32,262	0.40%

 

T-26 comps

 - Super Mario Bros (OD) - .323x (12.27m)

 - Barbie (Total) - .164x (3.06m)

 - Haunted Mansion (Total) - 1.066x (3.3m)

 - Garfield (Total) - 1.566x

 

I've been avoiding posting as to not bring down spirits, but it is what it is.  Early sales just haven't been there lately except for the extreme fans.  Hopefully this continues and they stop with the month+ ticket windows, but who knows.  Much easier to count five seats than 25 I guess.

 

Serious question: What reason would there be to stop advance presales? 130 is still more than 0 and I don't think it costs studios or exhibitors that much to open them early, if there is even an incurred cost at all. I assume the only thing stopping them from opening sales even earlier is nailing down the fine print of distribution contracts.

 

 

Edited May 18 by AniNate

[emoviefan]

Starting to feel like Furiosa might have hit it's  wall and the early strong sales were the super fans and Cinephiles. And people who do the quick check of RT and see the Tomato meter as being lower than Fury Road currently might be like eh.  These are the times we live in I guess. Hopefully it will pick back up during the week and at least do 40-50+ for the 4 day weekend.