From OscarWatch forum:

ATL's 8:20PM show is already sold out, at least 3.5 hours ahead. That seldom happens at AMC Mercado.

AMC 24 Dallas: ATL sold out all shows! They really did a good job of marketing this film.

Dammnnnnn.

Stupid ATL.

Slither

Regal Atlanta
(One of Atlanta's busiest theaters)

5:25 PM

Missed all the trailers.

Including myself there were 5 people in a 161 seat theater.

Film: Full review later, but in short it was utterly brilliant. Hilliously spoofing everything from B-movies to "Night of the Living Dead" without being too blatently obvious. A-

Here are many, many ATL and Ice Age: The Meltdown sell-outs I've found on Fandango during the course of tonight (while doing my homework, eating dinner and chatting at the same time, heh):

ATL-

Regal Augusta Exchange 20 (Augusta, GA)- 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45, 12:15am ALL SOLD OUT (all of the night showings are sold out- I've driven past this theater in the past)

Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16 (Atlanta, GA)- 8:00, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30, 12:15am (wow!) ALL SOLD OUT

Loews Waterfront (Pittsburgh, PA)- 8:10, 9:30, 10:50 ALL SOLD out

Carmike 16 (Allentown, PA)- 9:30

Marcus Gurnee Cinemas (Gurnee, IL)- 9:55

Regal Virginia Center 20 (Glen Allen, VA)- 9:40, 10:25 sold out

Regal Shortpump 14 (Richmond, VA)- 10:35

Regal Gallery Place Stadium 16 (Washington, DC)- 9:15, 10:25, 12:05 am (WOW!) sold out

Regal Potomac Yard 16 (Alexandria, VA)- 12:00 am

Regal Perimeter Point 10 (Atlanta, GA)- 9:50 sold out

AMC Stonecrest 16 (Lithonia, GA)- 8:30, 9:45, 9:45 sold out

AMC Dutch Square 14 (Columbia, SC)- 9:30, 9:30 sold out

Rave Motion Pictures Festival Plaza 16 (Montgomery, AL)- 8:20, 10:45

AMC Barret Commons 24 (Kennesaw, GA)- 9:55

Regal Waterford Lakes (Orlando, FL)- 10:25

Ice Age: The Meltdown

Regal Union Square Stadium 14 (NYC)- 7:00, 8:00, 9:30 sold out

UA Kaufman Astoria Stadium (Astoria, NY)- 7:40, 9:35, 9:35 sold out

Edwards Renaissance Stadium 14 (Alhambra, CA)- 6:30

Edwards South Gate Stadium 20 (South Gate, CA)- 7:30, 8:00 (Spanish Subtitles), 8:20, 8:45 ALL SOLD OUT

Edwards Marketplace Stadium 10 (Irvine, CA)- 6:55, 7:25 sold out

Edwards Metro Pointe 12 (Costa Mesa, CA)- 7:45

AMC 30 at the Block (Orange, CA)- 7:45

Crown Village Crossing 18 (Skokie, IL)- 9:20

Regal Manor 16 (Lancaster, PA)- 8:00

Regal Virginia Center 20- 8:00

Regal Potomac Yard 16- 9:10

Carmike 16 (Allentown, PA)- 7:30, 7:45 sold out

Regal Waterford Lakes- 8:00, 9:00, 9:20 all sold out

Regal Perimeter Point Stadium 10- 8:05

UA Sheepshead Stadium 14 (Brooklyn)- 8:25, 9:50

Regal Trussville 16 (Birmingham, AL)- 7:50

ATL - 3/31/06
7:35pm showing
90% full (165-seat auditorium)

TRAILERS
X-Men: The Last Stand (lots of talk)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (lots of talk)
Little Man (laughs)
Poseidon (some talk)

Very good movie....got a nice crowd reaction at the end (some clapping and most comments I heard were good).

It doesn't sound like SLITHER is doing very well at all sadly.

Here is what happened at my theater (before 7:30)

Ice Age
12:00 - 59
12:30 - 66
1:30 - 84
2:00 - 63
2:30 - 66
2:30 - 7
3:00 - 65
3:30 - 122
4:35 - 182
5:05 - Sold Out (200 seater)
5:45 - 120
5:45 - 33
6:15 - Sold Out (250 seater)
6:45 - Sold Out (250 seater)
7:45 - Sold Out (200 seater) half hour early.
8:15 - Sold out (300 seater)
8:15 - Sold Out (175 seater) both 1 hour early
the 9:00 (250 seater) is already half full, should sell out anytime.
(Wow, is the fantastic, especially for a kids movies. Early sell outs don't happen very often. This will definetly Upgrade tommorrow)

ATL
12:35 - 11
1:10 - 13
3:15 - 7
4:05 - 13
5:45 - 33
7:00 - 149
and the 8:10 sold 89 so far.
(This is great for an Urban movie. It will do much better for the last two shows On line with Hustle and Flow).

Slither
12:45 - 12
1:30 - 11
3:25 - 24
4;15 - 16
5:55 - 42
7:05 - 41
the 8:25 sold 19 so far.
(for this type of movie, this is not very good. Though it will do much better in the night shows, but still, this is not very strong).

Thank You for Smoking
1:20 - 23
2:10 - 3
3:35 - 23
4:30 - 19
5:50 - 20
7:30 - 48
the 8:30 sold 13 so far
(I guess it's time is up, or this isn't the right theater for it).

And beware for the Basic Instinct 2 report BKB
12:20 - 15
1:25 - 12
3:05 - 23
4:20 - 21
5:45 - 28
7:20 - 26
the 8:25 barely sold anything so far
(Wow, I predicted it was going to bomb, but not this bad. A night show couldn't even surpass a matinee makes this even more embarrasing I see Gigli numbers for this, since the performance was similar to this).

All in all, it looks like we were getting back in business. Our busiest Friday this year.

Wow, all those ATL reports look great for my derby.

even thoug it will hurt my derby, I am glade to see ultimate drek like BI2 flopping hard.

About the holdovers.

Inside Man was hanging in there. Matinee shows got between 23-40 people. Night shows so far are in the 70-90 range.

Stay Alive is coming in nowhere near last Friday. Matinees got 14 and 15 people, and the night show got 95 people, a far cry from the 300 or so people we got last time.

Shaggy Dog is also falling apart with the night show getting only 31 people.

Though She's the Man is hanging in there, with the 7:10 show selling out (90 seater)

V is still doing solid, far better than two than the openers.

Let's see how the rest of the night goes.

Also, the 9:00 Ice Age also sold out (250 seater).

I knew ATL would do well.

Yay, the 9:30 Ice Age sold out (400 seater)

hell yeah, 80m+

Sadly true. ATL is complete garbage. Even the TV spots sell it with a horrid rap video playing next to film footage.

BJs Crowd Report:

Movie: Ice Age: the Meltdown
Theater: Century 16 Theaters
Time: 12:00pm
Seater / Pack: 600 seater / 40-50% full
Trailers:
The Wild a good amount of chat, looks like crap.
RV: very little buzz or laughter at any of the trailer, the film has potential but I doubt it will be any good.
Just My Luck: solid reaction, chatter and such, looks skippable though.
Over the Hedge a fantastic amount of buzz, looking good.
Crowd Reaction: Couldnt tell, many seemed entertained though. The kids loved it of course so it should get some repeat viewings.

Review: Solid watch, I would put it on the same levels as the first film no better no worse, it was not nearly as funny but equally entertaining. The Vultures rocked, they were awesome as was the scatt as expected

Grade: B+

Well I know its late since Fridays #'s are already out, but after last night I needed some sleep.... here is what we did in grosses rounded off :

ATL (3 screens ) - $34,500 - over 4000 attendance alone for this film
Ice Age ( 2 screens ) - $6000
BI2 (1 screen) - $1300
Slither ( 1 screen) - $900
Inside Man (3 screens) - $7000

It was a madhouse in there when I was there in the afternoon. Seriously.

yea it was crazy i dread tonight....as Sats are always up around 25% for us

Isn't that about what you did for Inside Man last weekend too? I remember seeing most of the later showtimes sold out for that but I wasn't around to check for ATL. Once my movie was over I got as far away from that area as possible.

Take the Lead has about the same number of sellouts for its sneaks as Eight Below did recently.

Looks promising so far.