First Midnight sellout report for the NoVA/DC Metro/MD area (ex. Baltimore), as of 3/17, 4:15 PM



17 sellouts so far with a total of 125 showtimes.

Looks pretty strong so far. That's a ton of showtimes considering there's still 5 days to go and this is an original film.

I'll provide another update tomorrow, and I'll be posting Friday and Saturday daytime sellout reports later today.

First Friday sellout report for the NoVA/DC Metro/MD area (ex. Baltimore), as of 3/17, 4:45 PM



Only 6 sellouts with 347 showtimes. Looks pretty solid almost a week out. Because of the large volume of showtimes, sellouts will obviously take longer

For a quick comparison, Breaking Dawn Part 1 finished with 34 sellouts and 280 showtimes in NoVA and DC only. Currently, Hunger Games is at 4 sellouts and 216 showtimes in those same theaters.

As of now, Hunger Games' Friday is tracking slightly stronger here than Breaking Dawn's was.

Are those charts available to the public?

Haha, my bad Magnus. I'm working on Saturday sellouts now as well.

Yeah, I've been tracking them myself for the past few years for big films. Sadly, the only data I have left is for Breaking Dawn Part 1. I'm sort of restarting my little mini-database here.

First Saturday sellout report for the NoVA/DC Metro/MD area (ex. Baltimore), as of 3/17, 7:15 PM



No sellouts yet. 347 showtimes, which is understating it because 2 or 3 theaters are not yet listing any showtimes for next Saturday

Not seeing too many sellouts for San Diego showtimes except for one Edwards theater that has four including the Imax. That'll change as Thursday comes closer though.

Bethesdians will be very upset when they realize it's not a big, street-closing relay race to raise funds for Africa.

Suzanne Collins became Amazon Kindle's Best-Selling Author this weekend. We know the books are selling like crazy, but more interesting (and may help with the sellout watch) was the list of cities which the books have been the most popular.

1. Sunnyvale, Calif.
2. Salt Lake City
3. Tallahassee, Fla.
4. Seattle
5. Orlando
6. Pittsburgh
7. St. Louis
8. Provo, Utah
9. San Francisco
10. Naperville, Ill.
11. Washington
12. Richmond, Va.
13. Scottsdale, Ariz.
14. Wilmington, N.C.
15. Murfreesboro, Tenn.
16. Vancouver, Wash.
17. Portland, Ore.
18. Tampa, Fla.
19. Overland Park, Kan.
20. Norman, Okla

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/h ... dle-301217

These areas could prove fun to watch.

As of this morning, within 40 miles of me, there are 5/13 midnight sellouts, but no sellouts for Friday yet.

I bought my tickets for Friday earlier today. My bf hasn't seen any trailer or clips, and only know the basic plot of the movie. Didn't want to risk going at midnight (all the midnights are sold out at this location anyway, though) with all the diehard fans around. Last Summer, we arrived 3 hours early for the Harry Potter midnight showing and there were a few people reading the last book out loud in the lobby, and in our theater before the film began. Thankfully, he already read the last book.

When it comes to how things work in Europe vs. US, this is one of the things IMHO that Europe is way ahead of US (usually I prefer the US way of handling/doing things). I'd shot myself in the head if I had to stay hours in a line to get the seats I want. It's great to come 5 minutes before the movie starts and sit in the exact seats you want to be in.

there are some midnight sellouts and some imax friday sellouts.


All signs point to 100+ million.

Second midnight sellout report for NoVA/DC Metro/MD as of 5:00 PM EST



18 sellouts now with 129 showtimes. That's only 1 more than yesterday, and 4 more showtimes. I expect the sellouts to really start to pick up during the week. We haven't started to reach any saturation point yet in regards to the showtimes, but that's expected 5 days out

Will post Friday and Saturday updates later

Here in Houston it's actually pretty slow. I only saw 2 midnight sellouts so far at the usual theatres Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24 & RPX and Edwards Houston Marq’E Stadium 23 & IMAX. No sellouts for Friday or Saturday yet. It should pick up during the week, but as of now it's not really anything too crazy or record breaking.

Second Friday DAYTIME sellout update for The Hunger Games. As of 3/18, 11:45PM EST



Still only 6 sellouts but we're now at 388 showtimes which is 21 more than yesterday afternoon.

Again, I stress that this is well ahead of BD1 at the same time period. BD1 was at only 6 sellouts the day before, with 270 showtimes, while in the same theaters, this is at 4 sellouts with 226 showtimes with 5 days to go.

Do you happen to have the same charts for BD1 you could post for comparisons sake starting early this week? Seeing them side by side each day until the the release would be interesting.

With BD1, I only tracked the midnight sellouts on Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday sellouts on Thursday and Friday, and Saturday sellouts on Friday and Saturday. That's all I've got, but I'd be happy to post them as a comparison.

With older films I had tracked them farther out, but as I said earlier, I no longer have the data.

Same here. We have two major chains and for big films I prefer the one that has allocated seating (ones we choose ourselves usually, online anyway).

It's starting to get crazy in Austin, TX

Regal Metropolitan 14 --- 0/3 midnights, 0/12 FRI
Regal Westgate 11 --- 1/3 midnights, 0/12 FRI
Regal Gateway 16 & IMAX --- 6/6 midnights, 2/15 FRI
Regal Lakeline Mall 9 --- 0/1 midnights, 0/4 FRI
Alamo Drafthouse Village --- 4/4 midnights, 2/4 FRI
Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek --- 7/7 midnights, 3/6 FRI
Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane --- 8/8 midnights
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar --- 5/5 midnights, 2/4 FRI
Cinemark South Park Meadows --- 0/2 midnights, 0/5 FRI
Cinemark Tinseltown 20 and XD --- 0/8 midnights, 0/21 FRI
Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center --- 1/5 midnights, 0/5 FRI
Cinemark Hill Country Galleria --- 1/6 midnights, 0/10 FRI
Cinemark Cedar Park --- 2/5 midnights, 0/4 FRI
Cinemark 14 Round Rock --- 1/5 midnights, 0/10 FRI
AMC Barton Creek Square 14 --- 0/13 midnights, 0/20 FRI
Galaxy Highland 10 --- 0/2 midnights
The Domain Austin --- 2/8 midnights, 0/13 FRI

Orlando, FL
Regal Winter Park Village Stadium 20 ---- 3/12 midnights
Regal Waterford Lakes Stadium 20 & IMAX ---- 6/7 midnights
Regal Pointe Orlando Stadium 20 & IMAX ---- 1/3 midnights
Regal The Loop Stadium 16 ---- 1/4 midnights

Ok, so my local IMAX is obviously sold out for the midnight show, however I am surprised by how many tickets have already been sold for Friday!
The theatre hold 330 people. Here are the tickets sold so far for Friday;

4:10 - 91 tickets sold
7:30 - 214 tickets sold
10:45 - 161 tickets sold


I can't remember the last time Friday showings for showtimes were sold out like this so far out, even on this same Imax screen.

3rd Midnight Sellout update for NoVA/DC Metro/MD area, as of 2:45PM EST



19 sellouts now with 135 showtimes, looking fairly strong. That's one more sellout than 5PM yesterday, as well as one more showtime.

Quick note, BD1 soldout 54.5% of its midnights in the last 24 hours, while DH2 was already approaching close to full capacity by the Monday before

You have to be careful. Remember the thread where I almost got crucified for this?
Unassigned seating is still by far my greatest cultural shock from the US. If they had it in Russia, nobody would go to movies. Now with online booking/sales you pick your seats and then you just need to be there for the movie.

P.S. 2nd biggest shock was/is paid incoming calls.

I have to agree with you two... they only recently started assigned seating here and it is such a blessing!!!

Second Friday (non-midnight) sellout update for NoVA/DC Metro/MD area, as of 9:00PM EST



7 sellouts now, only up 1 from yesterday, but 12 more showtimes added, so that's +33 in just the last 48 or so hours and up to 396 showtimes in total, which is a good sign.