It seems that the Cinemark theater chain accidentally posted, and quickly pulled, an official announcement revealing that ticket sales for The Force Awakens would begin on October 19th. They cite anonymous sources, but there is some actual physical evidence to back all of this up. The report comes from the very reliable folks over at ScreenCrush, who did some detective work to come to this conclusion. Classic drug dealer tactics, Lucasfilm.įor everything we know about the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer and the ticket pre-sales, hit the jump. In other words, you'll be asked to go ahead and buy your ticket while you're still under the influence of new Star Wars footage. Let's face it – we're a bunch of hopeless junkies, crawling around on our hands and knees, waiting for Lucasfilm to grant us our next fix.Īnd that next fix could be very soon, as a new report suggests that a new trailer may arrive on October 19 and will kick off ticket pre-sales. The details are after the jump.įans have been eagerly anticipating the next Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer since the moment they finished watching the previous trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Two guys waited in line for four months to see Episode II.) I remember waiting in one of these lines overnight at the then General Cinemas in Framingham, Massachusetts, as the major lines were really limited to major cities like New York and Los Angeles.Update: Additional details have arrived, confirming that tickets will go on sale on Monday. Of course, some theaters had lines outside there theaters with people waiting days advance to buy tickets.
Tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace went on sale one week prior to the film's release, and originally tickets were only going to be sold in person to prevent scalping and give fans a fair chance to get tickets on a first come, first serve basis. So its very possible this rumored October 19th 2015 date is legit. Update: /Film reader Darren T sent in the following link to the official website of the IMAX theatre in Melbourne which states the following: When are tickets on sale? There will be a worldwide tickets on-sale date (expected to be late October) announced sometime soon, stay tuned! So this rumored October 19th date is a whole two months before the film hits screens in the U.S., much earlier than we would have expected. Sources in the movie theater exhibition industry have been projecting that tickets would probably go on sale about a month in advance, with tickets available on online ticketing websites like Fandango and. And you can be sure Disney will announce a date in grand style and it will be a media circus, so you will surely know when tickets are going to go on sale well before that date hits. There is no way they are going to confirm or deny a ticket on sale date to us. Now of course, I would usually send an e-mail out to my Lucasfilm and Disney contacts, but that's become a useless process when it comes to Star Wars. screenings, the theater chain said on Tuesday, while the trailer delivered. Remember when Disney premiered the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer on every screening of every single movie at select theaters? We reported that early and the sources were likely in exhibition. The source of this latest rumor could very well be someone working at a Century or Cinemark Theatre. Early ticket sales for Decembers 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' broke IMAX records with more than 6.5 million for U.S. Remember, theater chains need to start planning and schedule staff for possible box office madness. And many of the Star Wars leaks have hit the Star Wars fan sites first.
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Now I'm not sure if the Full of Sith podcast is a reliable source or not, but I can tell you this: usually in these type of situations word leaks out first from exhibitor sources. Tickets for The Force Awakens go on sale. Speaking of bets (safe or otherwise) odds seem decent there *might* be a trailer right around that date to help push people towards that open and waiting box-office on the 19th. Although it's likely a safe bet your Regals and your AMCs will have their box-offices waiting to recieve your moneys around the same time.
At least if you've got a Century or Cinemark theater nearby. The following originates on FullOfSith's Facebook page (via SWU): Your wallet's gotten a workout since Force Friday, but you're probably wondering "When do I get to spend money on the the good stuff? **When can I buy tickets to The Force Awakens?**" OCTOBER 19th. Find out the details on this Force Awakens tickets rumor, after the jump. Not a day goes by that I'm not tweeted the following question by a /Film reader: "Peter, do you know when Star Wars: The Force Awakens tickets will go on sale?" And the answer always is, "I have no idea." Well, a new rumor claims that tickets will go on sale in just over a month.