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

[AniNate]

Do I dare wonder... $9m combined previews?

[katnisscinnaplex]

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
It Ends With Us	T-21	Jax	5	17	31	31	1,511	2.05%
		Phx	4	16	2	2	1,866	0.11%
		Ral	7	24	32	32	1,842	1.74%
	Total		16	57	65	65	5,219	1.25%
It Ends With Us (EA)	T-20	Jax	3	3	24	24	331	7.25%
		Phx	3	3	8	8	306	2.61%
		Ral	2	2	4	4	114	3.51%
	Total		8	8	36	36	751	4.79%

 

Combined Day 1 comps

 - Monkey Man - 2.89x (3.39m)

 - Furiosa - .777x (2.23m)

 - Quite Place 3 - .612x (3.41m)

 

I don't have any good day 1 comps unfortunately.  I started Crawdads at T-11 which had 177 combined at that point.  This should be ahead by then.  

[CIDMoosa]

8 minutes ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
It Ends With Us	T-21	Jax	5	17	31	31	1,511	2.05%
		Phx	4	16	2	2	1,866	0.11%
		Ral	7	24	32	32	1,842	1.74%
	Total		16	57	65	65	5,219	1.25%
It Ends With Us (EA)	T-20	Jax	3	3	24	24	331	7.25%
		Phx	3	3	8	8	306	2.61%
		Ral	2	2	4	4	114	3.51%
	Total		8	8	36	36	751	4.79%

 

Combined Day 1 comps

 - Monkey Man - 2.89x (3.39m)

 - Furiosa - .777x (2.23m)

 - Quite Place 3 - .612x (3.41m)

 

I don't have any good day 1 comps unfortunately.  I started Crawdads at T-11 which had 177 combined at that point.  This should be ahead by then.  

So 20m is locked?

[charlie Jatinder]

27 minutes ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Combined Day 1 comps

 - Monkey Man - 2.89x (3.39m)

 - Furiosa - .777x (2.23m)

 - Quite Place 3 - .612x (3.41m)

You either had very good starts for all these films or End With Us is doing meh in your centres.

[excel1]

1 hour ago, AniNate said:

Do I dare wonder... $9m combined previews?

 

Walk ups are going to push this big time. $12.5m incoming.

[AniNate]

The original Twister's opening adjusts to about $80 mil in today's dollars. That'd be a pretty solid result if it could get anywhere close to that.

[wildphantom]

Walk-ups in the U.K. look pretty decent. Could be better but we’ve got a mini heatwave for a couple of days. 
 

I don’t doubt the legs will be solid for the movie, it’s just a shame it can’t catch a break with its limited time in PLF which best showcases the movie. 

[excel1]

12 minutes ago, AniNate said:

The original Twister's opening adjusts to about $80 mil in today's dollars. That'd be a pretty solid result if it could get anywhere close to that.

 

It was 80% of the fresh opening weekend record at the time. It was much more like a $250 million opener today. It was a huge deal. 

[mikeymichael]

10 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

It was 80% of the fresh opening weekend record at the time. It was much more like a $250 million opener today. It was a huge deal. 

 

What's crazier are the holds it put up for 2nd and 3rd weekends. Went 41-37-37, and it faced Mission Impossible's huge opening on that 3rd weekend. Insanity. 

Edited July 18 by mikeymichael
grammar

[excel1]

TWISTER 1996 has one of the most effective teaser trailers ever made, btw. Looks it up. 

[el sid]

Trap had today counted for Thursday (August 1) 103 sold tickets (with shows in 5 theaters). 14 days left. 

 

Comps (all four movies counted on Monday of the release week which means Trap has 11 days left) The Watchers (1M from previews) had 73 sold tickets, 

Knock at the Cabin (1.5M) had 303,

Tarot (715k) had 92

and The Strangers: Chapter One (1.2M) had 215 sold tickets.

 

Abigail (1M) had with 6 days left 97 sold tickets. 

And Old (1.5M) had on Monday of the release week for Friday (= 10 days left for Trap to come closer or overtake which will very probably happen) 150 sold tickets. 

 

So overall an ok start. It needs more and bigger cinema halls in California, some are almost full. 

Edited July 18 by el sid

[titanic2187]

So far, two of the most indicative overseas markets like Australia or Mexico, neither are doing good numbers, I wouldn't even call it decent. The initial start at the UK also doesn't look good for Twisters. If Twisters did open to >60m, that would be the most American Sniper kind of BO I've seen in a while. But let's not forget USA is the most tornado prone country in the world, which could explain why the movie about tornadoes also skewing American. 

[Tinalera]

Deadpool Wolverine

Thur July 25 Fri July 26 (T-7)

Vancouver and Calgary Canada

 

		# theatre	#show	Seats Sold	Seats Rem	Ttl seat	Percent	added shows
Vancouver	Thurs	4	35	1806	4572	6378	0.2831	11
	Fri	3	29	1546	3958	5504	0.2808	4
		# theatre	#show	Seats Sold	Seats Rem	Ttl seat	Percent
Calgary	Thurs	4	26	1729	6601	8330	0.2075	25
	Fri	4	29	1262	3709	4971	0.2538	2

 

Intreresting that Calgary almost doubled their amountof shows for Thursday. Overall 1 week out looking between 20 to almost 30 percent sold

[AniNate]

I skimmed some Mexico theaters and it really doesn't seem like Twisters is maintaining interest there, stark contrast between the seating charts on either side of the Rio Grande.

 

 

Edited July 18 by AniNate

[THUNDER BIRD]

It's a relatable topic for Americans

[JustLurking]

25 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

So far, two of the most indicative overseas markets like Australia or Mexico, neither are doing good numbers, I wouldn't even call it decent. The initial start at the UK also doesn't look good for Twisters. If Twisters did open to >60m, that would be the most American Sniper kind of BO I've seen in a while. But let's not forget USA is the most tornado prone country in the world, which could explain why the movie about tornadoes also skewing American. 

Italy meh as well. In france it is opening at #4.

[jeffthehat]

23 hours ago, jeffthehat said:

Indiana

Twisters T-1

Sales	Seats	Shows
2103	39510	246

TC=28, pulled 11AM EST

Comps

1.16x Ghostbusters FE T-1 = $5.5m

0.90x Godzilla x Kong NE T-1 = $9.0m

1.81x Bad Boys 4 T-1 = $10.1m

 

AVG = $8.20m

 

Ghostbusters comp is probably closer to where it's heading than the average, but we'll see. Surprised to see it growing so much against GxK and Bad Boys 

Indiana

Twisters T-0

Sales	Seats	Shows
3150	40661	260

TC=28, pulled 11AM EST

Comps

0.93x Dune 2 T-0 = $9.3m

1.85x Bad Boys 4 T-0 = $10.4m

3.16x Furiosa T-0 = $11.0m

0.93x AQP D1 T-0 = $14.0m

 

AVG = $11.16m

 

Lol. Idk where this will end up but it went crazy here. I think other trackers have more represenative samples though 

Edited July 18 by jeffthehat

[Rorschach]

13 hours ago, Rorschach said:

Twisters (Wednesday Night Outlook)

Cinemark Davenport 18 + IMAX

Thursday: 239/3,307 (7.2% sold) [+88]

4 IMAX showings: 40/1,552

3 XD showings: 25/714

12 2D showings: 174/1,041

 

Comps:

Apes: $11.83M

Furiosa: $9.4M

Avg: $10.62M

 

Friday: 363/4,519 (8% sold) [+121]

5 IMAX showings: 86/1,940

5 XD showings: 68/1,190

15 2D showings: 209/1,389

 

Comps:

Apes: $33.44M

Furiosa: $24.89M

Avg: $29.17M

 

Thurs + Fri: 602/7,826 (5% sold) [+209]

 

Comps:

Apes: $45.86M

Furiosa: $32.99M

Avg: $39.43M

 

 

Stupidly insanely great day today. Looking like it's gonna be an absolute F5-sized monster here. Not even gonna bother predicting final ranges tomorrow because these numbers are probably stratospheric compared to how it'll actually perform nationwide. Still, far and above what I expected from it.

 

Just... WOW!!!

Twisters (Thursday Afternoon Outlook)

Cinemark Davenport 18 + IMAX

Thursday: 323/3,307 (7.2% sold) [+84]

4 IMAX showings: 56/1,552

3 XD showings: 37/714

12 2D showings: 230/1,041

 

Comps:

Apes: $11.45M

Furiosa: $10.09M

Avg: $10.77M

[VanillaSkies]

6 minutes ago, jeffthehat said:

Indiana

Twisters T-0

Sales	Seats	Shows
3150	40661	260

TC=28, pulled 11AM EST

Comps

0.93x Dune 2 T-0 = $9.3m

1.85x Bad Boys 4 T-0 = $10.4m

3.16x Furiosa T-0 = $11.0m

0.93x AQP D1 T-0 = $14.0m

 

AVG = $11.16m

 

Lol. Idk where this will end up but I'd guess other trackers have more representative samples. 

This is without EA?

Definitely over performing in the midlands as expected then. 

[TheFlatLannister]

16 hours ago, TheFlatLannister said:

FLORIDA 

 

TWISTERS

 

Thursday 

 

T-1

SHOWINGS	SEATS SOLD	TOTAL SEATS	PERCENT SOLD
822	6794	169207	4.0%

^{*numbers taken as of 6:00PM EST}

SEATS SOLD SINCE YESTERDAY

1176

 

SHOWINGS ADDED SINCE YESTERDAY

0

 

COMPS

T-1

(0.946x) of Bad Boys $5.58M

(2.301x) of Fall Guy $5.29M

(1.763x) of Furiosa $6.17M
Comps AVG: $5.68M 

 

It was always going to be hard for it to keep up with Bad Boys as that had absurd late growth. Not seeing enough to convince me this can get to $6M. Probably will stick with $5.5M+

FLORIDA 

 

TWISTERS

 

Thursday 

 

T-0

SHOWINGS	SEATS SOLD	TOTAL SEATS	PERCENT SOLD
845	9603	173953	5.5%

^{*numbers taken as of 2:00PM EST}

SEATS SOLD SINCE YESTERDAY

2809

 

SHOWINGS ADDED SINCE YESTERDAY

23

 

COMPS

T-0

(0.945x) of Bad Boys $5.57M

(2.725x) of Fall Guy $6.27M

(1.883x) of Furiosa $6.59M
Comps AVG: $6.14M 

 

Did not match Bad Boys crazy late growth. Calling it at $6M Thursday previews. So expecting $8.5M total previews. But yeah Florida is definitely not showing anything close to double digits previews