Word: fandango
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...fancy format and charging more for it. Moviegoers certainly paid Lexus prices to see the Cameron vehicle this weekend. A ticket for one adult at an IMAX 3-D performance of Avatar at Manhattan's Lincoln Square 13 costs $18.50 (plus $2 if you order through Fandango). Yet, even with higher admission fees, Avatar took in only half of what New Moon, the second episode in The Twilight Saga, did a month ago in its first weekend. Indeed, New Moon earned the same as Avatar's entire weekend take in its first Fri. night. (See 10 things you need...
Jackson is hot again. His old albums - now sacred relics, for which the faithful did not pay so much as tithe - sold better after his death this summer than they had in this millennium. A poll of visitors to the Fandango website showed that the No. 1 movie costume for this weekend's Halloween revelers would be Michael Jackson. The singer, whose worldwide success was built on CDs and concerts, not movies, became his own fictional character. And like the runners-up - Wolverine from the X-Men films and the Twilight series' Edward - Jackson is a hero from the dark...
...Universal had high hopes for Brüno's opening weekend. Buoyed by the film's robust $1.6 million at Thursday midnight screenings and impressive pre-buys of tickets on Fandango and other sites, a studio insider told industry blogger Nikki Finke on Friday morning, "If it holds up, we'll do $50 million." The Friday figures supported that optimism: Brüno amassed a sensational $14.4 million. But the movie plummeted nearly 40% its second day, to $8.8 million. Meanwhile, the next five movies on the chart - Ice Age 3, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, The Proposal and The Hangover...
...early ticket sales are any indication, surrendering to the Twi-hards is working. Twenty-four hours before the film opened, some 2,000 shows were already sold out, many of them midnight Thursday-night screenings. And in a survey Fandango conducted of early ticket buyers, 85% said they plan to see Twilight more than once. It wouldn't be the first time young women paid to see a movie over and over again; the same demographic helped Titanic become the highest-grossing film of all time...
...just young women clearing their calendars this weekend, either. Half of the respondents to another Fandango survey of Twilight ticket buyers are over 25, including many Twilight moms. About a quarter of respondents are mothers and daughters planning to see the movie together...