For those of you not lucky enough to attend a week-in-advance screening of The Avengers this week, we are still a week away from this geek-dream-come-true of a movie hitting the big screen. If you’re a geek like me, there is this feeling of excitement in the pit of your stomach in anticipation of watching Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and more joining forces to fight Loki and his minions, and it’s not going to go away until you finally see the film on or around May 4.
And it’s looking like we are not alone.
I think there is this general feeling that this movie is going to be huge – record-setting huge, and pre-sale ticket figures are so far adding fuel to this fire. Whether you were a fan of these characters before their big screen debut, or got into this world of superhero geekery after watching the films, it’s safe to say the public in general is anticipating this movie. MovieTickets.com provided what the pre-sale ticket number are looking like for The Avengers, and the numbers are pretty incredible. Pre-sale tickets for The Avengers are bigger than Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger combined.
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.
12:05am on May 4 can’t come soon enough . . .
[Source: SHH!]