Latest in Fandango

Disney’s The Lion King in its first 24 hours of advance ticket sales has rung up the second best first-day sale of the year for Fandango after Avengers: Endgame, while Atom Tickets declares it’s the company’s best first-day sales for a family movie. In addition for Fandango, The Lion King is the ticket seller’s best…

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 hit tracking this morning and box office analysts are already buzzing that the fourthquel has a great shot at setting a new opening record for an animation film, besting Incredibles 2‘s 3-day last year of $182.6M. A $200M opening is not out of the question, and in the wake of Disney pulling…

Call it the Endgame effect: Disney-owned Marvel Studios and all 20 films in its library have been thoroughly dominating FandangoNOW’s list of 100 sellers in the wake of Avengers: Endgame, the climatic chapter of the interlocking superhero mythology that began in 2008 with Iron Man. No Marvel film has benefited more…

Movie review engine Rotten Tomatoes is adding a level of verification to demonstrate that audience reviews come from actual ticket buyers. Starting with movies released today, users can opt in to get their rating and review marked "verified" as long as they bought their movie ticket on Fandango, the NBCUniversal-owned…

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has the most anticipated movie of the summer in Spider-Man: Far From Home, which picks up the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the wake of grim events depicted in the mega-hit Avengers: Endgame. That’s according to a new fan survey by Fandango that asked fans which films they planned…

Free Pokemon Detective Pikachu screenings immediately sold out at 50 AMC locations tonight after passes were made available to AMC Stubs members on Monday. The film from Legendary/Warner Bros. is expected to open to $50M at the domestic B.O. and is seen as a potential Avengers: Endgame threat in many Asia territories…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some proof that what we were hearing about Avengers: Endgame presales last Monday was completely true: Fandango reports that they sold more than $127M in U.S. ticket sales for the Russo Brothers directed Marvel sequel between April 2 and last night. That’s the biggest B.O. haul in the company’s…

Fandango officially reports today that Avengers: Endgame — ahead of its U.S. opening at 6 PM tonight — is officially its biggest ticket preseller of all time with 8,000 showtimes already sold out coast to coast (and beyond), from Hilo, HI, to Newington, NH. This easily crushes Fandango’s previous record holder, Star Wa…

Avengers: Endgame made its star-studded world premiere in Los Angeles on Monday but the rest of the planet is more than eager to get a look, too. Fandango reports that the three-hour superhero epic from Disney’s Marvel Studios has already sold-out more than 4,000 screenings in North America, a nod to the intense…

According to Deadline sources, before Avengers: Endgame flickers even one image on a movie screen ahead of its Thursday night previews nationwide, advance domestic ticket sales for the Russo Brothers-directed Marvel sequel are estimated to be north of $120 million, with some figuring they’re as high as $140M. These…

“It’s Marvel’s Universe and we just binge in it.” That could be the new motto for Millennials judging by the findings of a new Fandango survey that shows the generation is making deep dives into the Marvel library before next week’s release of Avengers: Endgame, which has been billed as the climatic finale of the…

3RD UPDATE, 3:08PM after 2nd Update, 1:22PM: Fandango is reporting that Avengers: Endgame has notched the best first-day U.S. sales record for the online ticket retailer, beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens — and it only took six hours. Advance tickets for Avengers: Endgame went on sale on Fandango today at 5 a.m…