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Author Topic: Dark Knight Sales Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-01-2008 11:11 PM                     I received an e-mail from our booker that contains a message from someone at WB stating that theatres are selling out advanced sales of their 1201 showings. Just curious if anyone has started selling advance tickets for Dark Knight, and if so, have you sold out any or is this just hype.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-02-2008 11:46 AM                     I heard on TV that theaters that were doing midnight shows were adding 3 am shows too because of this.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-02-2008 12:52 PM                        Wow...I can see people planning their schedule now: 9:00pm-2:00am: Get drunk 3:00am: Attend movie, throw up in bathroom 3:25am: Pass out  |  IP: Logged David Zylstra Master Film Handler Posts: 432 From: Novi, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-02-2008 12:53 PM                     At one of our 18 screens tickets have been on sale since late last week - only 24 tickets sold so far. Fandango and Movietickets reported a "surge" in advance sales for Batman . . . . . . apparently some markets had tickets on sale the week of 6/20, ours were approved last week. Wired blog article  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-02-2008 11:36 PM                    King of Prussia IMAX in Philly is sold out for their Thursday night midnight show, and they have added a 3:20 am show. Link Also, the prime and late shows are sold out on Friday night. I have tickets for the Saturday late show.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-03-2008 12:02 AM                     I was hoping to be able to check out The Dark Knight at Cinemark's IMAX theater in Tulsa during opening weekend. I'll be driving through Tulsa to attend the AMBUCS National Convention in Rogers, Arkansas that week (it's a resort area near Wal-Mart HQ). Unfortunately, I don't know what time I'll be going through Tulsa on the return trip back home, so buying tickets in advance would be difficult to do. Now it's looking like buying tickets in advance will be the only sure bet for that weekend. I'll probably be in Colorado Springs in late August visiting family, so I may get another chance to see the movie in IMAX then.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-03-2008 10:12 AM                        Nothing like that to report...  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 07-03-2008 04:26 PM                     Sounds like the movie company is trying to bump up the hype on it. Typically when they try to do that, the movie sucks, and they know the business will drop off rapidly after opening weekend. In my mind, it doesn't bode well for the quality of the movie. Has anyone seen a sneak preview of it yet? As a sideline, I used to tease a guy that worked here that has been wired up to see the movie. I'd tell him I heard it was cancelled. Later I told him, that the film company was going to have to reveal a secret once the movie came out - that Heath Ledger actually died before the movie started filming, which explains his acting in the movie. What too soon?  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 07-03-2008 05:36 PM                     To even think that this movie is going be bad is really naive. We started selling tickets today, for the past week or so we've had nothing but calls asking when tickets were going to go on sale. This is possibly the most anticipated movie of the past decade.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-03-2008 07:09 PM                        Joe, Batman Begins was an incredible movie. The trailers for Dark Knight are great. I think WB's motive is to cash in on the buzz, rather than to front load a horrible movie. With Christopher Nolan as the director and the top notch cast, the only thing I would fear is the movie not living up to already lofty expectations.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-03-2008 08:11 PM                    quote: Me ...they have added a 3:20 am show. Scratch that. Sold out. Let's see if they add a 6:10 am show. They already have a 9am show, so it will be a tight squeeze. Let's see... By the way, their noon show is gone too.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-03-2008 09:34 PM                        I'm looking forward to this movie more than any other in a LONG time. The trailers look awesome and (not to be morbid but) there's the Heath Ledger curiosity factor. I've read speculation that the intensity of his role in this film and his commitment to doing it right might have contributed to his health problems and ultimately his demise. If he's as good in the whole movie as he seems in the trailers, he will be nominated for some awards. I hope the movie lives up to expectations.  |  IP: Logged Jaime Tuzzio Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Salem, OR, USA Registered: Apr 2008 posted 07-04-2008 05:42 AM                 quote: Mike Blakesley 9:00pm-2:00am: Get drunk 3:00am: Attend movie, throw up in bathroom 3:25am: Pass out I only wish people would make it to the bathroom. Had to move our midnight Sex and the City crowd to another auditorium at show time due to someone who didn't even make it out of her seat. Thank goodness we had multiple prints so I had the show ready to go before everyone was seated. I'm just waiting for the inevitable locked cans announcement for Dark Knight, at which point I'll scream.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-04-2008 06:23 AM                        I saw the IMAX version of this movie in Amsterdam last week and it is without doubt a blockbuster of epic proportions. It is in your face right from the outset and every time you think the pace might slow down up pops another twist. Heath Ledger is amazing as The Joker. What a sad loss that an actor of this quality should die so young. Bets on a posthumous Oscar?? Our premium priced preview on the 23rd,it opens here on the 24th is within minutes of selling out.  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-04-2008 11:44 AM                     In Chicago, the Imax theater at Navy Pier is showing it around the clock for the entire weekend, and most of the shows are already sold out.  |  IP: Logged

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