Shazam! set to topple Dumbo this weekend at Box Office & Avengers: Endgame crashes cinema sites with 488,000 pre-sales.
Shazam! has managed to pre-sell 53,000 tickets, (average ticket price of £10.82), totalling £580K in pre-sales, giving a forecast of £3.4m this weekend. This will just nudge Dumbo off the top spot, and will put them ahead of other new releases, Paramount’s Pet Sematary and Entertainment One’s Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun, as well as Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster, Captain Marvel.
1 – Shazam! – £3,400,000
2 – Dumbo – £3,200,000
3 – Pet Sematary – £1,400,000
4 – Captain Marvel – £935,000
5 – Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun – £885,000
6 – Missing Link – £840,000
7 – Us – £830,000
8 – Fisherman’s Friends – £370,000
9 – What Men Want – £185,000
10 – The Sister Brothers – £145,000
And we couldn’t go through this week’s update without mentioning Avengers: Endgame. This week, we saw the final trailer of Avengers: Endgame and the release of tickets in UK cinemas. The phenomenal demand for the Marvel epic saw a large number of cinema websites crash due to the heavy traffic. As of 1.30pm today, Avengers have already pre-sold 488,000 tickets, including 295,000 on Tuesday, giving a pre-sale total of £6m (which actually would make it this week’s No.1!).
With some cinema screenings already sold out and a number on the verge, still with three weeks until the release date, you better move fast to get your tickets if you want to see it before the summer!
Thanks to Applaudience for this article.
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