Posted on 04/02/2019 8:28:12 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Avengers: Endgame tickets went on sale today with Atom Tickets reporting that in the first hour, the Marvel movie has set a record for the mobile ticket retailer. To date, Avengers: Endgame has sold three times more tickets on Atom in the first hour of pre-sales than Avengers: Infinity War did last year. The first hour of Avengers: Endgame presales also outstrips Atom’s first hour sales for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Fandango is also reporting strong sales for the Russo Brothers-directed sequel.
In addition, the frenzy for Avengers: Endgame tickets is so huge, it’s crashing sites. Ticket buyers are getting a 503 error code on AMC, and some users on Atom and Fandango are having difficulty too. But that’s a sign that business is strong, and it’s par for the course for any ticket retailer’s sites whenever there is a rush for a hot act. You just get boxed out. Keep trying.
Disney’s Avengers: Endgame opens on April 26.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
I have zero trust in Disney...my guess is they crashed the website themselves to simulate ‘rush’ and ‘demand’.
Don't forget Jon Snow's "death" in Game of Thrones. When they brought him back to life, you could have knocked me over with a feather. /sarc
The negative naybobs are irrelevant.....the free market has spoken and Avengers: Endgame is the most widely anticipated movie of the 21st Century.
It will make more than any move to date.
The speculation over how Marvel will “fix” things demonstrates that NOBODY knows how it will end....and that is driving the interest up even more.
That is called good writing by any standards.
I get more from the campy 60s Batman.
Has China leaked the digital video yet?
Those characters aren’t dead and Guardians of the Galaxy being in production makes that quite clear.
“It’s only a movie”
The only movie that MIGHT...and that’s a pretty big MIGHT...equal ‘Endgame’ is ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’. The Star Wars fanbase is, if anything, bigger worldwide than the Marvel fanbase. And 10 times as ‘rabid’ about their fandom.
It’s still Disney....and they’re going to be so flush with cash after this year that they could probably buy California.
“AVENGERS! Whose gonna be playing Emma Peel?”
Hopefully Abby Hornachek
I gave up on these movies after Civil War. If they aren’t going to try to make something even slightly interesting I can’t be bothered to watch. I liked comics growing up but these movies are so dull and lifeless , they sucked all the fun and color out of marvel.
That describes me with the vast majority of movies I try to watch. After 15-20 minutes I put it on pause to do something, figuring I'll get back to it, but I never do. They just can't hold your interest. It says something about contemporary cinema that my definition of a "decent movie" is one that merely can hold my attention for 2 hours. And the vast majority don't measure up.
(No, I don't really. I just had to put it out there that Chrissie catches for the same team...)
After this, he's gonna go back to making those artsy amateur gay porn films that are the true love of his life... ;-)
My wife and I do the same thing. I think it’s partly due to them being free. If you pay to see a movie, you are less likely to not watch it unless it’s offensive to you.
Interestingly, we HAVE found some modern movies that did keep our attention and we really enjoyed. However, none of them were “popular” movies, yet we really enjoyed them. A couple come to mind.
Still Mine
Walk Ride Rodeo
Oh, and I really enjoyed El Camino Christmas.
And if you're willing to wait even longer, you can likely get the DVD at your local library.......FREE
Personally I have to TRY to like Star Wars movies. I just enjoy all the Avengers movies, with some exceptions.
The ending is sad because it is not an ending. The end of Infinity War is supposed to signify how MUCH they lost due to Thanos winning.
I see Thanos as like a democrat/environmentalist/Leftist/socialist. He thinks there are too many beings in the universe consuming not enough resources, so kill half. Fair? Yeah, like communism! They didn’t build that.
So in End Game the Avengers are going to defeat the Commie Thanos and restore the Adam Smith like capitalist universe that Thanos tried to “fundamentally change”.
Infinity War was part ONE of a TWO part series. End Game is part TWO.
Correct. This is going to be the biggest $ movie EVER.
I’m always amused by people who proudly say “I don’t go to movies.” Then they complain about Hollywood not doing any movies for them. Why should Hollywood do movies for them? They ain’t customers.
It also harms all the conservatives in Hollywood (and there are many, many in the “trades” below star level) who work. I’ve loved the Avengers series, and the more I see “Infinity War,” the more I’m impressed with the writing. It’s a VERY conservative movie.
He thinks there are too many beings in the universe consuming not enough resources, so kill half. Fair?
And I could see some apparent remorse on his part at the end of the movie which, I suspected, was going to be part of the foundation upon which the next installment is written. I would not be surprized if the next movie goes as follows:
They fight him. He comes around. He becomes a good guy and one of them. They get rid of - forever, assumptively - the crystals, and go about the regular crime fighting stuff with a new ally. But not before setting everything right with the time crystal.
But that “kill half of them” thing made no sense. The KNOWN universe is, for all intents and purposes, infinite, and it is believed to be just a fraction of what is really out there. With his “godlike” powers, he could easily relocate half the population and/or come up with all sorts of power supply solutions. There is room for everyone, with infinite room to spare. The dumb premise was dumb.
There is a science fiction novel that follows the human race expanding throughout the univers for millions of years. Eventually we use up all the power of all the stars in the universe and, IIRC, it results in a new big bang.
You have that backwards. The correct order is "Hollywood is not doing any movies for them, so they don't go to movies".
I seldom go to new movies, and I am a big movie fan. I just don't like today's most recent movies. I used to like super-hero movies, but have grown tired of them. I was excited to see Captain America: The Winter Solder when it opened, and really enjoyed the movie. But 10 or so MCU movies later, I've had enough. I have a ton of Blu-rays and DVDs (and even some old laserdiscs), and I still buy movies on disc. But they are older movies. The kind of movie I like is simply not made any longer.
But I don't begrudge anyone looking forward to Endgame. I hope it is everything the fans want it to be. Maybe I will regain interest in the MCU some day.
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