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The 18-24 demographic has been a cornerstone to the domestic box office as it resurges from the pandemic, and that Gen Z crowd plans to go this holiday season, according to a recent Fandango survey of 1,000 participants. Of those polled, 96% identified moviegoing as a favorite way to spend time…

Rotten Tomatoes has teamed with Movieclips, an established YouTube destination for trailers and other movie material, to create a newly expanded entertainment video hub. Both Rotten Tomatoes and Movieclips are under the digital network umbrella of NBCUniversal-owned Fandango. The new Rotten Tomatoes YouTube Network…

This summer will be significantly better than last, or at least that’s the expectation from Fandango’s second annual Moviegoing Trends & Insights Study, which just dropped this morning ahead of CinemaCon. Among those 6K moviegoers polled by the online movie ticket retailer, 83% plan to see three or more movies in…

Tickets went on sale yesterday for Disney/Marvel’s highly anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Fandango reports it’s their best so far this year for a pic’s initial 24-hour period of sales, beating Warner Bros.’ The Batman. The movie which takes place following the events of Disney+/Marvel’s Wan…

Tickets for Warner Bros. The Batman are on sale now. The next iteration of the Dark Knight, starring Robert Pattinson and opening on March 4, is expected to surge 2022 moviegoing with an industry estimate 3-day of $100M. Yesterday we reported that special advance Imax previews in 350 theaters on March 1, timed to the…

Online ticket retailer Fandango polled more than 6,000 ticket-buyers this month and asked which theatrical tentpoles they’re the most excited about in 2022. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever topped the list followed by Sony/Marvel’s animated feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One). Even…

While some in the industry are still trying to blame a lackluster box office on the pandemic, think again: Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home in its first day of pre-sales yesterday on Fandango saw its best day since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. The presales for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which opens on Dec. 17, outstripped…

The domestic box office is in store for a resurge again with Disney/Marvel’s deep universe IP Eternals this weekend. The movie is heading toward a $75 million opening frame in 4,000 locations, with previews beginning Thursday at 6 p.m. Fandango is reporting that the Chloé Zhao-directed feature is now the second best…

After an 18-month release date delay due to the pandemic, the anticipation for MGM/EON/United Artist Releasing’s 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die, is no doubt huge: Fandango is reporting that the advance ticket sales for Daniel Craig’s swan song as 007 are already outstripping Universal’s F9 and Sony’s Venom: Let…

NBCUniversal-owned Fandango, which has evolved from a movie ticketing service to a more comprehensive entertainment brand, is merging its streaming services Vudu and FandangoNow. The new Vudu-branded offering will feature 200,000 new releases and library titles. It will also become Roku’s official film and TV store in…

Fandango and United Artists Releasing are holding early access screenings on Aug. 8 for MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect. Tickets are now on sale on Fandango. The pic will preview at 500 theaters nationwide before its Aug. 13 release. Respect stars Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson as Franklin. The pic is…

As we told you over the weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow presales were set to outstrip that of Universal’s F9 at the same point in time before its opening weekend, and this morning Fandango has reported that the Cate Shortland-directed movie is their best pre-seller so far in 2021. Black Widow advance ticket sales…