Fandango: Over 1,000 Half-Blood Prince Showings Now Sold Out
HBP Film
Posted by: sue
July 13, 2009, 08:55 PM
Internet movie ticket retailer Fandango sent us a press release that had a few eye opening statistics, including noting that now over 1,000 screenings of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince due to open tomorrow at midnight have now sold out. "Harry is tracking to match last year's juggernaut, The Dark Knight, in
advance ticket sales," says Rick Butler, Chief Operating Officer of
Fandango. "Showtimes are selling out at a very fast pace, and it's
clear that the film's wider blockbuster appeal, solid word-of-mouth and
positive Internet buzz on Half-Blood Prince are helping fuel the
demand." The piece also points out that Half-Blood Prince is "one of the fastest-selling titles in Fandango's nine year history, on
track to replace Twilight as the company's third top-selling advance
ticketer (following Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and
The Dark Knight, occupying the #1 and #2 spots, respectively)."
151 Points
My 20-screen AMC has 15 auditoriums for HBP at the moment; 7 of them are sold out. It’ll be interesting to see if they have to open up more by tomorrow night. The only movie that has ever sold out all 20 screens at that theater was Star Wars: Episode III. That isn’t possible for HBP since they have just refitted one of the auditoriums as a Faux!IMAX, so I don’t know if they’ll play HBP on that screen or not. So there could only be 19 screens for tomorrow night. Which means there’s only 4 more that they could put it on. Very, very awesome.
68 Points
I have bought the ticket today for Wednesday showing here in Toronto, is there an advance showing. Anyway will watch it on Weds, then Saturday with my daughter and 2 grandchildren, then Sunday with my grandson. Harry Pottercholic :DD
159 Points
where i am going there is like 6 theatres that are playing at the same time, i hope i can get a good seat. i am glad i got my ticket in advance cause if the line is anything like last time the movie would have started before i got out of the line, and two fandango gives u a free itunes song if u get a ticket ahead of time. I can’t wait, GO HBP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
72 Points
The theater im going to there are 6 theaters showing HBP and the first four are sold out.Im glad i bought my tickets early. For Ootp i went 4 hours early and there were already a couple hundred people there, costumes and all.
The manager told me they’d be seating my room(the largest screen) at 10:00. I was disappointed lol, I definitely don’t want to sit in their for 2 hours BEFORE I see the movie.