New Moon sets pre-sales record
Four days prior to release, “New Moon” is the biggest pre-sales title in the 10-year history of ticket-selling site Fandango. A release for the company indicates New Moon broke the record as of Saturday night.
The new Top 5 Advance Ticket-Sellers on Fandango (as of November 15, 2009) are as follows:
1. New Moon (2009)
2. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Twilight (2008)
New Moon currently accounts for 86% of ticket sales at Fandango.com.
“For many fans, it’s clearly the year’s most anticipated film event,” said Fandango Chief Operating Officer Rick Butler in a release. “Ever since tickets went on sale on August 31, it’s been among our top five weekly ticket-sellers, as New Moon has a strong pull on audiences. We’re seeing a higher-than-usual number of tickets per transaction for this film, suggesting that moviegoers will show up en masse at theaters this weekend with their friends and family.”
A survey of Fandango users indicates that 10 percent of ticket buyers intend to show up to the film in costume.
Other information from the survey:
* 98% say the action in New Moon looks better than the action in Twilight.
* 72% plan to see the movie with a group of three friends or more.
* 52% of survey respondents say they dream about vampires.
* 22% are mothers and daughters planning to see New Moon together.
* 10% of fans plan to show up at the theater on Thursday night in costume, dressed as characters from the saga.
- Matt Price
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I am getting dragged to the opening day event with the lady. Hopefully it won’t be a terrible movie. Twilight was better than I thought.
hello there…
this is greece, calling, we had an opening day, yesterday.
I wanted to comment the survey:
“* 98% say the action in New Moon looks better than the action in Twilight.
* 72% plan to see the movie with a group of three friends or more.
* 52% of survey respondents say they dream about vampires.
* 22% are mothers and daughters planning to see New Moon together.
* 10% of fans plan to show up at the theater on Thursday night in costume, dressed as characters from the saga.
we, were 5 , to see the film together, not only mother and daughter, but sister and niece, as well, and a god mother…
we found the action better indeed, than twilight, the yyounger dream , about vampires, and we were not dressed as characters, but wore jewellery “his golden eyes…” hand made, of course…
the best thing is that we did not manage to enjoy the film , and, we saw it, for a second time, back to back….
that’s all…
ENJOY…
it is , after all, … the TWILIGHT SAGA, NEW MOON….
bye!
I cannot wait for NEW MOON, I already got my tickets for the 12:01am show on Thursday, in the mean time I am getting my Edward fix by looking at these hot images. He is so gorgeous, ahhh I can’t wait to see the film!!
http://tinyurl.com/newmoonhotpics