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Avengers: Endgame advance ticket sales set new record; outpacing Infinity War by 5 to 1
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Everybody wants to finally be the one the take down the King of the world.
Eh..3D ticket prices were like 11-13 dollars back then in my area. That's the price of a normal 2D ticket these days.
I'm totally hyped.
I hesitantly predict it'll actually not make as much money as Infinity War, though. First, because if it provides some closure to the story, people may not be as inclined to see it multiple times. I personally went to see Infinity War again almost as a compulsion; the story wasn't done (and was also awesome, of course). And second, because a 3 hour movie might also be a bit of a deterrent for multiple viewings.
I assume it's going to break every opening weekend record, though.
I hesitantly predict it'll actually not make as much money as Infinity War, though. First, because if it provides some closure to the story, people may not be as inclined to see it multiple times. I personally went to see Infinity War again almost as a compulsion; the story wasn't done (and was also awesome, of course). And second, because a 3 hour movie might also be a bit of a deterrent for multiple viewings.
I assume it's going to break every opening weekend record, though.
Saw an article saying they sold 'millions' of tickets on the first day
Looking at my theater for the weekend, Its pretty much all sold out, except sunday evening..
Avatar ran unchallenged for months during the holiday season into early of the year. This is releasing in the summer with movies (including from Disney) that will eat into its potential gains. This will be frontloaded as all hell and surely will body IW, TFA and Titanic, but it'll run out of steam before it's near Avatar. There's just not enough screens or exchange rates to get to those numbers.
They got an NDA release on the Pacific Rim 2 thing so that we could show off the success of the tool (I work for the consulting company that wrote the code) but he can't tell me shit otherwise.
It was pretty cool getting an email days before the release of the movie with a rather precise prediction and believe me I'd love to have access to the damn thing but I'm not going to risk anyone getting in trouble lol
The vast, vast majority of people don't see movies multiple times in theaters. It doesn't matter how rewatchable the movie is.
I think due to the age of social media, memes and such, people who are not even much invested in the MCU will see it as they, like you wrote, fear they might miss out.
Of course. It's a big movie event and no one wants to miss out.
Tracking at 260-280 million. 300 is a stretch but it's so hard to accurately track releases opening over 200m cause it's such a small dataset. So I guess it could happen if an unprecedented number of theaters are willing to kick other movies to the curb sooner than they normally would to put in more Avengers showtimes instead.
Final movies in a series almost always do better than their predecessors. This is going to be MASSIVE.
What Avatar had going for it was all the 3D tickets, That is what really helped pushed it.
Infinity war was tracking between 195-225 I believe originally, it came in at 257 million.. Hell this was also tracking between 200-250 million, and it got bumped again apparently up to 280. Only thing holding this thing back is run time
I think there is at least 1 country with a chain that is just going to be showing Endgame that week.
I got my tickets for the 26th already.
Had to go early cause I know pricks are gonna be spoiling this thing online hours after it comes out.
Had to go early cause I know pricks are gonna be spoiling this thing online hours after it comes out.
There is something to be said about experiencing something with many other people. I feel like this fits into that. We usually watch MCU movies on the 2nd weekend, Its usually a little more calmer, but my wife was dead certain we had to watch opening weekend
Went with a standard digital showing for 6PM opening night.
Might opt for a IMAX/Dolby showing the following weekend when things are (much) cheaper and more available.
Might opt for a IMAX/Dolby showing the following weekend when things are (much) cheaper and more available.
It would be incredible if it beat Avatar for this very reason. I don't believe it will personally but those first week numbers should be something else.
The QD Avengers game is gonna make some money. I can feel.
I may have gone to the cinema 3 times in the last 10 years. Spiderverse, Force Awakens aaand..... ok twice in the last 10 years. This is midnight shit. Tickets are booked, I cannot wait.
Opening night of IW was awesome and our crowd was great. So excited to do it again. I am seriously giddy about this big finale.
Well, yeah. Online ticket records will continue to be broken until it levels out. BO is what matters.
I stand by the fact that Infinty War ending with a cliffhanger is the best choice marvel ever did.
There are millions of people just dying to see what happens, and no one wants to get spoiled.
It's gonna be crazy.
There are millions of people just dying to see what happens, and no one wants to get spoiled.
It's gonna be crazy.
It's going to need a 37% increase WW to top it.
It would be crazy to see it happen but it's not a lock.
As much as I want it to, it's not going to beat Avatar just because it has competition. Avatar released at the end of the busy Christmas season and ran through the January slump. There is a reason why it's only the 95th best opening weekend, all time domestic. It had legs on legs on legs, which is ironically how Titanic made so much money. Endgame has basically 2 weeks to crack $2billion worldwide if not a little more because then comes Pikachu, John Wick, Aladdin, and Godzilla week after week. It'll still be a monster and will probably have an unprecidented second week from the people that want to avoid the crowds but it won't have the necessary legs to beat Avatar.
These things never say how many, or what percent of tickets are pre-sold. Obviously this is a big deal, and more people are doing it, since there are a lot of sold-out shows. I pre-bought tickets myself, which I've never done more than a day in advance before.
But what are the real numbers? Say a big pre-sale movie has $100 million opening. Were 10% of the tickets pre-sold? Or 1%? I can't imagine it's very high. Hell, just the fact that it's 5-to-1 over Infinity War means that there's room for that large of an increase.
But what are the real numbers? Say a big pre-sale movie has $100 million opening. Were 10% of the tickets pre-sold? Or 1%? I can't imagine it's very high. Hell, just the fact that it's 5-to-1 over Infinity War means that there's room for that large of an increase.
I pray for any Eranian that is planning this. God-fucking-speed.
If its presale is tracking at 5x the amount of Infinity War, for reference, IW made $39m on opening night (Thursday).
IF we take the claims for granted, that means Endgame's opening night (Thursday) is currently sitting at around $195m.
That's THURSDAY alone.
$300m opening weekend is a low bar for this movie. Personally $600m sounds more reasonable of an opening weekend number for this beast.