Now 4 Friday shows for Brokeback Mountain at the S.F. theater has been sold out. 3 Friday shows at Clearview's Chelsea in NY, and 2 at the L.A. theater. Looking very good.

Well there goes my chance to see Brokeback this weekend, maybe sometime on the weekday.

Really cannot wait to see this movie.

Another show for Friday (5:30) just sold out. Eventually the 10:30 will be sold out too, making the entire opening night a sell out!!!

Brokeback for $100 million!

Doea anybody knows of any sell outs for Geisha? Coming both on the same weekend, both awards-bound, both limited... they are ready to be compared.

Yeah, I'm monitoring, and the last time I checked (a couple of hours ago), no sell-out yet for Geisha.

Screen Report

600 seater
Narnia
Narnia

400 seater
Narnia
Narnia

300 seater
Aeon Flux
Narnia

250 seater
Harry Potter
Syrania

200 seater
Aeon Flux
Harry Potter

175 seater
Harry Potter (day)/Chicken Little(one Prime time show)/Narnia interlock (9:00, with the 300 seater)
Syrania

160 seater
Pride and Prejudice
Rent
Walk the Line
Yours Mine and Ours

150 seater
Just Friends
Yours Mine and Ours

135 seater
Saw II
Walk the Line

110 seater
Derailed
In the Mix

90 seater
Chicken Little/Harry Potter (from the 200 seater)
Chicken Little/Flightplan
First Descent
Get Rich or Die Trying
Jarhead
Little Manhattan
Zathura /Ice Harvest
Zorro

Obvious for Narnia. Good for Syrania (for an adult movie). I am working till 8:00 on Friday, so stay tuned.

NO SPOILERS

Narnia: LWW at 10:40am

Basically thought I'd report on this despite my non-US geographical position and subsequent irrelevance as a factor for estimating Friday numbers , simply because my screening turned out to be 75% bought-out by the local intermediate school (12-13 year olds) and could be seen as an early indication of what the younger crowd think of it.

The reaction I gathered was mixed - a lot of them seemed into it in parts; some gasps when a wolf would suddenly appear and some laughs at the right places and for the first time in my life I actually witnessed some (like a dozen people out of many) clapping at the end but take that with a grain of salt - their excitability at watching the film instead of going to class meant they also appluaded the START of the thing and also during the POTC2 trailer so it's not really a good comparison to say this makes it better than anything I've ever been to based solely on that I say mixed because the actual comments I heard were less than favourable on the whole when leaving, worst being that it was "shit" (some guys discussing it in the bathroom while I was washing my hands) and the best mostly being written on some smiling faces. The "older" people, including myself, groaned at a few things.

Personally I gave it a C+. Worth watching once, probably on the big-screen despite the grade just for the visuals in parts and the battle at the end. Posted a longer review with some spoilers in the Critic forum but anyone who's read the book probably won't learn anything new from seeing those spoilers (I can't be sure if anything's different - haven't read the book myself).

Memoirs just sold out the 6:30PM Friday show at AMC Empire 25 in NY.

6 shows sold out at Clearview Chelsea in NYC. :-)

There are midnight shows tonight!! :-)

That wink had better mean you're sarcastic since the film will be lucky to cross 30 million.

The 12:01 am showing of Brokeback Mountain is sold out at the Loews Lincoln Square and IMAX in New York City.

YAY!!!

Or what? You would shoot me with a cowboy gun?

Yeah, I was joking. On the other hand, I really do think this film doesn´t need to be THAT lucky to cross $30M... and It could even reach $50M. It could happen.

That is good. Being in more theatres that "Brokeback", It was bound to take more time before the first sell-outs.

Still, the average should be great, in the 50-70K range

I remember very little as it was a late evening:

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
11:59 PM
Atlanta Station Regal Stadium 16
50-60% full (600 seats)

Trailers: Hoot, Ice Age 2, Last Holiday, Glory Road, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Film:

Great film. Terrific job. One of the best of the year. (Full Review Coming Soon)...

A-

Crowd Reaction: Applause at the end

YAY

Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha and Narnia update:

Brokeback Mountain has already sold out the 2:30, 7:00, 9:15, and 10:30 shows at the Loews Lincoln Square & IMAX in New York City. Very nice.

Memoirs of a Geisha has sold out the 6:40, 7:50, and 10:00 shows at the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 in New York City. Good also.

Narnia has sold out the 7:40 showing at Regal Union Square in NYC as well as 8:00 showing at the Loews Georgetown 14 in Washington, DC.

I somehow doubt that it's playing in the IMAX theatre.

It's a regular theater with an imax screen in it.

SYRIANA
1:00PM at Crown Annapolis Harbour 9
30 (or so) people in attendance

Trailers: Firewall, Casanova, Rumor Has It, The New World, and Brokeback Mountain.

Yeah, but everything sells out in New york. Case-in-point, Brokeback. j/k

Great for both of them!

Have a friend in Speech class who took her kids to see Narnia at midnight at the Independence AMC 20.

She reported that it wasn't sold out due to the weather (we just got nearly a foot of snow here in the Kansas City area, and many of the residential streets are *still* under ice), but that there weren't too many empty seats.

She said it was awesome and was recommending it to everyone in our class. I'd gauge her reaction as a solid A.

She also confirmed for me that the Pirates of the Caribbean trailer was attached, so that's cool.

I'm going to be seeing it either tonight or tomorrow... I can't wait!

Joy

I certainly do not miss that aspect of Kansas City.

Narnia has sold out the 7 p.m. show at Omaha's major theater.