Marvel’s The Avengers continues to be a hype machine. With glowing positive reviews and a continued barrage of jaw dropping trailers, the movie looks to be on par to be the best comic book movie of all time. That very well may be the case if the pre-sale figures are any indication. Pre-sale numbers currently show that The Avengers has sold more tickets pre-sale than any of the Avengers individual character movies combined.
The comic movie genre has come a long way the past few years and is doing a lot to bring exposure and new readers to comic books. In a press release some of the early pre-sale figures are touted. You might want to work on getting your tickets to The Avengers now.
Just over a week until the release of MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS, MovieTickets.com, the leading global provider of remote movie ticketing, is already showing tremendous domestic pre-sales of the highly anticipated film.
MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is pre-selling more tickets for the upcoming release than the online ticketing company sold for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, THOR, IRON MAN 2, and IRON MAN combined at the same point in the sales cycle for each film. In fact, pre-sales of MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is over one and a half times that of these past Marvel films combined sales at the same point in the sales cycle.MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is selling 3,995% more tickets than CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER at the same point in the sales cycle.MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is selling 1,034% more tickets than THOR at the same point in the sales cycle.MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is selling 114% more tickets than IRON MAN 2 at the same point in the sales cycle.MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is selling 1,406% more tickets than IRON MAN at the same point in the sales cycle.56% of pre-sales for MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS are from fans wanting to see the film in 3D.Nearly 37% of pre-sales for MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS are from moviegoers buying tickets to see the film in IMAX 3D.
