Lordmandeep Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Seeing the same problem as yesterday.For the reserved seating shows pre sales are huge but walk ups are small...Usually these showings fill up mostly through pre sales and then get full and sold out by walk ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixiesvision Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Seeing the same problem as yesterday.For the reserved seating shows pre sales are huge but walk ups are small...Usually these showings fill up mostly through pre sales and then get full and sold out by walk ups.Do you work at a theater? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Maybe $3m stronger.The apparent poor walkup business says otherwise. And you could argue that it was just the lack of the Joker/Heath Ledger, but in all honesty, the shooting is the much more likely culprit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Won't the THG fans shout at you: "Catching Fire!" "Mockingjaypart1!" "Mockingjaypart2"!(héhé)As much as I love THG, even I'm going to say that it's highly unlikely they break any OW record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 (edited) no in Canada Cineplex theaters owns the market so you can just check out the local theaters around you and get a good idea whats going on.Canada does not operate in sync with America always.For example, TA increase more around 20% from Friday non midnights around here on Saturday.Canada is a less front loaded marketing.Even here in Canada, I expect TDKR to stay at least flat from Saturday and likley increase a bit. Edited July 21, 2012 by Lordmandeep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojoguy Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 As much as I love THG, even I'm going to say that it's highly unlikely they break any OW record.All THG sequels will be released in November. They aren't breaking any OW records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Won't the THG fans shout at you: "Catching Fire!" "Mockingjaypart1!" "Mockingjaypart2"!(héhé)I'm afraid that is bound to happen. :)With TDKR, sub-175M predicts were considered stupid, even if I am a big Batman fan (this was the best trilogy ever IMO, better than TS, SW or LOTR).With THG, I have already been labelled as a hater, though I am actually indifferent to it.... only franchises I hate are Twilight and Chipmunks.But I will say the same thing I said with TDKR, 200M is not gonna happen without 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 As much as I love THG, even I'm going to say that it's highly unlikely they break any OW record.Catching Fire won't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Seeing the same problem as yesterday.For the reserved seating shows pre sales are huge but walk ups are small...Usually these showings fill up mostly through pre sales and then get full and sold out by walk ups.If you had to guess..... what would the Saturday number be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantomex Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 When TA opened opening weekend prediction were all around TDK adjusted or 180 million."They were loonies (and there weren't actually that many of them). But beating its OW attendence was in play."Yeah I still say it getting to 200 million because it appeared opening day was going to massive.Then with the Midnights I knew it was over.I agree. 77M? Still a good number, but not quite the number it could have done, if this incident didn't occur. From all the tweets and people who I know, most didn't want to go on OD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpospoke Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 These are extremely minor variables next to both the shooting and everything this movie had in its favor. Reviews are slightly worse but still great, and the huge goodwill from TDK should have made selling more tickets in the opening weekend a cake walk. What is "minor" when we are talking about 200m OW? 5m? 10m? 15m? 200m is a lot of people....and there are a percentage of those people who read reviews to decide whether or not to spend $100 to take their family to a movie. Seeing, "Good but not as good as TDK" is going to have a negative effect on those customers. If it was so minor RT wouldn't be as big a deal as it is. I know the Batman fanboy nation was certainly pouncing on every negative review....there is a reason for that. Why is Leger's death "minor" but these deaths "major"? And how do we know this won't ADD to the BO for TDKR? It's free publicity after all (no such thing as bad publicity). It could have the same effect as the Ledger death for all we know. There always are assumptions about what any given movie is "expected to do" or "supposed to do"....but how often are those assumptions and expectations wrong? That's why the "disappointing" word is thrown around so much when various movies make a ton of money....but not as much as "expected". We tend to use examples of other movies and "expect" every movie to act the same way. We....don't know as much about what a movie is "supposed to do" as we think frankly. Wow, the 6am showing here is sold out! I found that surprising because yesterday's showing at the same time had like only 10 people. Nice to see people see the movie regardless of what happened. I see no reason to believe very many people will decide to not go to the movies because of this. The media will play it up...because that's what the media does for a living. If they find one person who says they are staying home, they'll put that person on TV. Will they put the people on TV who are going to see TDKR out of morbid curiosity who weren't planning to go before? "Let's see that Batman movie they've been talking about on the news" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Catching Fire won't do it.It won't..... but predictions will sure start escalating when the release gets near...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mango Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On a completely unrelated note for Jul 21, 2012 08:14 AM PST # Comments The Dark Knight Rises 57,266 Toy Story 3 3,581 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 3,091 Can anyone at all tell me why Toy Story 3 is randomly up there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I am waiting for the numbers for other movies........ are they coming or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 The apparent poor walkup business says otherwise. I haven't read anything about poor walkup business with the exception of Lordmandeep and no offense but who knows if he reads the data correctly and he's not even in the USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 "If you had to guess..... what would the Saturday number be?"No idea...Should stay flat from midnights I hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 It won't..... but predictions will sure start escalating when the release gets near......I think it will open about the same as THG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pieman Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 The foreign numbers will not be affected by the shootings. So when they are inevitably lower than expected, you can't really blame the shootings on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmoore Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On a completely unrelated note for Jul 21, 2012 08:14 AM PST # Comments The Dark Knight Rises 57,266 Toy Story 3 3,581 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 3,091 Can anyone at all tell me why Toy Story 3 is randomly up there? The recent announcement of TS4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Alfred Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 The foreign numbers will not be affected by the shootings. So when they are inevitably lower than expected, you can't really blame the shootings on that. Well it's beating TA's 4-day OW in 3 days in the UK, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
