Just purchased tickets for the 11:30PM showing of Mission: Impossible III. I'm counting the seconds.

7:00PM is sold out.

I'm going to the 5:30 showing of M:I 3. I already have my tickets and I will be sneaking into American Haunting and Stick It to follow.

Where do you live, Joe?

I write this here again

So I saw that movie today Friday afternoon. Well it actually had much more people than other movies at this time I saw.
Interesting:No Superman or Pirates or Da Vinci Trailer:but Trailer for X-men and Poseidon(and some smaller movies like Silent Hill)

Cinemark Tinseltown Plano
1:30pm
300 seats
55% full

Trailers: POTC2,X3, and Waist Deep

C+

From notfabio:

Sell outs in San Francisco as of 5pm: ZERO

Not even the DLP shows are sold out!

The DLP at 2:00 in Dublin was nowhere near a sellout, though the movie had ALOT of showings, but when I got out at 4:30pm there really wasnt alot of people at the theatre and this is a very crowded area and popular shopping center.

Hacienda 21
350 seats
35% Full at most

Trailers:
The Break-Up ( laughs )
Nacho Libre ( lots of laughs, should be a decent hit )
POTC 2 ( some whispering )
Over the Hedge ( Nada, this really doesnt look that funny )
Superman Returns ( I could kinda tell people were really had their eyes glued to the beginning but then lost interest, little bit of whispering )

Movie

Love the digital, DLP is the way to go. The movie itself is very forgettable. The action is there and it's good, the problem is the story is nowhere to be found and that leads to ALOT of boredom between action sequences. Cruise is Cruise, he's always good, the supporting cast is decent for what they have and Hoffman is underused, he's fantastic in the scenes you actually do get to see him though.

Overall good action and pretty much boring everything else.

C+

Oh BTW, BAD ending.

An American Haunting
7pmish
about 50% full (more than I expected)

trailers:
Pulse
The Omen
See No Evil
All the King's Men (I can't figure out how this got in there)

The movie itself almost works as a comedy, but as a thriller/horror it pretty much misses the mark. Best thing about the movie is Spacek and Sutherland, no one else is able to hold a candle to them (though there is an awful lot of candle-holding in general in the movie) when it comes to acting ability. This is one of the few movies I've seen where the camerawork is completely maddening in a bad way, I swear every chance the director got he would start spinning the camera around and around and around and faster and faster and faster, even when someone was just sitting there reading! It was ridiculously annoying. It has a few good scenes, great music and some pretty entertaining moments but for what it sets out to do it's nearly a complete failure. grade - C/C-

M:I-3 is doing great at my theater. A third screen was added for the night.

Matinee report (before 6:30)

MI3
11:00 - 39
11:40 - 35
12:15 - 36
12:50 - 54
1:25 - 39
2:00 - 38
2:40 - 70
3:15 - 71
3:50 - 78
4:25 - 88
5:00 - 74
5:40 - 121
6:15 - 151
(Apparently, not the blockbuster we hoped for. I will be lucky to do 40 million this weekend if this happens to other theaters.

Amercian Haunting
11:20 - 9
1:50 - 21
4:30 - 39
(Not bad, but being on 1 screen, this isn't saying much. Let's see how it does at night).

Hoot.
11:30 - 0
12:30 - 0
1:45 - 10
2:45 - 4
4:10 - 8
5:10 - 2
6:30 - 9
(Wow, this bombed really bad. This might vie for the lowest grossing weekend for a movie opening in 3000 theaters).

Promise
11:55 - 4
2:25 - 1
5;10 - 3
(Boo).

All the holdovers barely registered, so big drops will be expected. This weekend looks to be a dud.

probably the internet is to blame for high expectations because, as someone said, sites claimed sold-out reports when it is not.

Looks like no one actually cared about the owls.

DP07 just might be right on his M:I:3 prediction...

I checked Fandango twice tonight for MI:3 sell-outs. Here they are:

NYC (There are A LOT- of course, it's New York City- one of the biggest movie-loving cities on Earth):

Loews E-Walk- 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00, 12:00am, 12:30am, 12:30am (added showing) ALL SOLD OUT!!!!

Loews 34th Street- 7:00, 8:20, 10:00, 11:45 sold out

Loews Lincoln Square 12- 8:30, 8:30 sold out

Loews Orpheum- 7:45

Loews Kips Bay- 8:10

Loews Village 7- 7:45, 8:45, 10:00, 10:45 all sold out

UA Sheepshead Bay Stadium 14- 10:10, 10:40 sold out

Washington DC:

Loews Georgetown 14- 7:15

Scott, $40M? That's barely a $10,000 per theater average, that seems particularly unlikely.

Mission Impossible 3
7:00 show, 500-seat auditorium, 90% full.

Trailers
The Break-Up
Nacho Libre
X-Men 3
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Over the Hedge
Superman Returns

Movie
I enjoyed it more than the other two. The first one bothered me because it was so ridiculously confusing, and the second one seemed like a lot of style with no real substance.

I mean, not a great movie or anything, but the action scenes were loud and chaotic, always a plus for these types of movies. Overall, a good way to start off the season. B

notfabio from hsx says MI is tracking at Van Helsing's level.

http://talk.hsx.com/films/post.htm?0505233639.notfabio

Im telling you. This Tomkat thing is turning people off and not only that people are pretty much tired with the blow em up Michael Bay style movies

Not a single sellout all night thus far at my theater. It could be because it's on four screens, but the Van Helsing comparison seems to be close to dead on.

Also, I talked to a friend who works at the theater and they had to cancel the midnight showing last night because no tickets were sold.

A similiar PTA to Van Helsing would put it at $55-60M, right?

Around that, yeah.

So, not too bad. Not great, though.

I'm not sure if he was talking PTA or overall performance, though.

libs how were trailer reactions

Mission: Impossible III
3:15 showing 70% Full

Trailers:
See No Evil (lots of WTFs)
X-Men: The Last Stand (silent)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (talking)
The Break-Up (some laughs)
Over the Hedge (silent)
Nacho Libre (lots of laughs)

Grade: A/A-

I'm still not to worried about there not being sellouts. For example this is a rather common schedule for the big theaters around Atlanta, and there are at least four that have similar schedules as this that I noticed:

10:00am I 11:00am I 12:10 I 12:40 I 1:10 I 2:10 I 3:20
3:50 I 4:20 I 5:20 I 6:30 I 7:00 I 7:30 I 8:30 I 9:40 I 10:10
10:10 I 10:40 I 11:40 I 12:35am I 1:00am

With shows at least every hour, of course most shows aren't going to sell out. This isn't Star Wars and nobody is expecting a $100 million weekend.

Not to mention Scary Movie 4 got $40M with almost no sellouts at all (from what I could see) on less theaters.