As was the case with The Twilight Saga: New Moon last year, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is making a splash in advanced ticket sales, becoming the top pre-selling film event of the year for at least two major retailers: Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com.
Deadline Hollywood reports, “Eclipse leads the Fandango Five with over 52% of daily ticket sales, even with strong daily sales for Toy Story 3 and Karate Kid. MovieTickets.com is also reporting Eclipse online ticketing represent over 50% of daily sales.”
This report falls in line with early estimates that placed Eclipse as the probable top film of the summer and year.
Another interesting tidbit offered by Deadline‘s report states that “59% of Eclipse online ticket-buyers said they became fans of the series after seeing the first movie.”
Finally, Deadline noted some of the demographic poll results offered by these sites and the split between age groups who have purchased Eclipse advance tickets is pretty even with “33% of respondents [at] 24 or younger, 34% of respondents [between] 25-34[, and] 27% of respondents [between] 35-49.”
via TwiExaminer
Initially reported nearly two weeks ago that tickets for “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” were beginning to go on sale. At the time, moviefone.com had listed three theaters across the nation offering online sales for the 12AM show. As of today, moviefone.com alone has increased the original number by twenty, and many local theaters have opened sales for the 12AM showing offline.
The best advice for getting tickets as early as possible is to head to your local theater in person. Many theaters have their own practices for selling tickets for shows with sensational openings, (e.g., the “Twilights” and “Harry Potters” of the world). My own local theater, arranges fan-focused events—last November they had a 10:00PM showing of “Twilight” and folks in that theater took an intermission before returning to their seats for “New Moon”. They also sold tickets for a large-screen showing in the IMAX theater. In the cases of both “special” events, tickets were only available for in-person purchase at the box office.
If you prefer to buy online, check both large sites like moviefone.com and Fandango, and check the online web site of your local theater. Currently on moviefone.com, “Eclipse” tickets are on sale in theaters in the following towns across the U.S.: California (Monrovia, Corona, and Vista), Nebraska (Fremont, Nebraska City), Iowa (Sioux City, Orange City, Shenandoah), Kentucky (Glasgow), Tennessee (Kingsport), Virginia (Fredricksburg, Wytheville), West Virginia (South Charleston, Beckley, Summersville, Triadelphia), North Carolina (Morganton, Statesville, Raleigh), South Carolina (Charleston), New York (Brooklyn, New Hartford), New Jersey (Toms River)
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