Moviefone, who arguably started the whole notion of
advance movie ticket sales with their 777 - film phone lines back in the 1990s, is currently an entertainment news portal that also provides showtime information, connecting users to individual chain's ticket sales pages.
Not exact matches
The
movie ticket sales site said on Wednesday that pre-sale
tickets for Black Panther outpaced the first - day
advance sales of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, which previously had the best first day of pre-
sales for a
movie from Walt Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Advanced ticket sales for Star Wars: The Force Awakens have already exceeded a reported $ 50 million, four weeks from the opening of one of the most eagerly awaited
movies of all time.
The film, which hits theaters next month, set a record for the best first - day
advance ticket sales for any Marvel
movie, according to the website Fandango.
Movie Fest takes place at Cineworld Cinemas, Parnell Centre, Dublin on August 13th and 14th, the full schedule can be seen on www.movies.ie/fest Day
tickets are on
sale from Cineworld's box office or online at www.cineworld.ie (
advance booking section).
If beating
advance ticket sales for previous buzzed - about superhero films are like flipping over cars during a late - night road chase sequence in a
movie trailer, then Black Panther is like... Black Panther, leaping ahead of those vehicles while a Run The Jewels track plays behind it.
«Early screening audiences say it is one of Marvel's best
movies ever, and the positive word - of - mouth is helping drive the
movie's spectacular
advance ticket sales.»
Marvel's «Black Panther» is clawing its way into Fandango history, now outpacing all superhero
movies in the company's
advance ticket sales, eclipsing 2016's «Batman v Superman.»
Advance ticket sales for «Black Panther» set a new record earlier this month for Fandango as the top seller among Marvel Cinematic Universe
movies in the first 24 hours, topping «Captain America: Civil War.»
As Rolling Stone reported earlier this week, the film was hitting high marks even before it opened, selling out more than 2,000 showtimes before Friday's premiere to reach the highest
advance ticket sales of any non-sequel
movie.
The
movie -
ticket site Fandango reported that
advance sales for it broke the record for a superhero
movie two weeks before the
movie's opening.
As reported by Erik Davis of Fandango, Black Panther has officially outpaced every other superhero
movie, ever in
advanced ticket sales!
We previously reported that Black Panther was outpacing every other Marvel Cinematic Universe
movie in
advanced ticket sales - well, it's now time to update that statistic in a big way!
That wasn't off any 5 PM preview projections last night; rather, Fandango spotted
advance ticket sales for the
movie pacing with My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 ($ 17.8 M) and far ahead of older - skewing titles Last Vegas ($ 16.3 M) and Going in Style ($ 11.9 M).
Black Panther is outselling all previous superhero
movies in
advance ticket sales on Fandango and at the Alamo Drafthouse chain.