The advance movie ticket sales sphere just got a little smaller this morning with Fandango signing a definitive agreement to acquire MovieTickets.com. Outside of individual exhibitors’ movie ticket websites, this leaves Atom Tickets as one of Fandango’s sole advance ticket competitors.
The acquisition is not complete…
MovieTickets.com and Sony Pictures have joined hands to promote four upcoming 2017 films from Sony Pictures Entertainment, beginning with the studio’s next installment of its animated franchise Smurfs: The Lost Villagewhich bows Friday. It’s being dubbed the ‘biggest co-promotion deal’ in the remote ticketer’s…
UPDATED, 12:49 PM: Both Fandango and Movietickets.com had their biggest first day of sales in 2016 with Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Monday.
For Movietickets, Rogue One‘s first 24 hours outstrips their sales for Suicide Squad, Deadpool and Doctor Strange. Finding Dory was Fandango’s biggest animated…
If you were buying advance tickets to Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tonight, you may have waited 20-30 minutes before your purchase was complete, or worst case scenario — you were timed out (see image below).
Advance sales for Rogue One began at 12:01AM ET Monday/9:01PM PST tonight. The movie hits theaters on…
More moviegoers are lining up to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens than the film has Stormtroopers. MovieTickets.com says its advanced tickets purchased for Star Wars: The Force Awakenscurrently accounts for 91% of all sales on the site during the past 24 hours and Monday's sales were three times the entire site total…
2ND UPDATE, 12:53 PM: Guess what? There’s already a domestic box office gross out on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Imax is reporting $6.5M in domestic ticket sales, with pre-sales breaking every Imax record. The film is set to open in about 390 Imax screens in North America. What did Force Awakens beat? We’re told…
MovieTickets.com gained a little ground today in its effort to compete with Fandango in online sales. Maryland-based RC Theaters, which has 10 venues with 89 screens, just left the Comcast-owned industry leader to sign an exclusive deal with MovieTickets.
RC Theaters COO David Phillips says his new partner “offers…
Put your one-piece leathertards on and grab your bows and arrows, because The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 tickets are about to go on sale soon on October 1. Fandango and Movietickets.com both announced today that the last installment of Lionsgate’s franchise will go on sale at 12 PM EST/9 AM PST, seven weeks…
A lof of small theaters owners don’t sell tickets remotely because they don’t want to shoulder the additional cost. But that could soon change for exhibitors who belong to the Cinema Buying Group (CBG), a consortium administered by the industry’s National Association of Theatre Owners.
It just made a multi-year deal…
Regal is the biggest, but also just the latest, exhibition chain to opt to use multiple online ticket sales services. And MovieTickets.com says that the deal means it has passed Comcast’s Fandango to become the No. 1 advance sales movie ticket company:  MovieTickets says it has 28,000 screens “worldwide” — although…
Nine days before the bow of Universal’s Fifty Shades Of Grey, insiders are predicting that the film is on track to open to $60M over four days, with a huge bounce on Valentine’s Day.
Given how the studio specifically positioned the film over the holiday to capitalize on the mega date night, the question among insiders…
The Hunger Games franchise is still winning the game. The first day of advance-ticket sales for Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 set a record, selling more than any other movie in 2014 so far, according to both Fandango and MovieTickets.com. Tickets went on sale yesterday, three weeks in advance of…
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