# How many days do you expect to sell out for Star Wars VII tonight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193 "2015-10-20T00:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/1 "2015-10-20T00:20:12Z")
Tickets are going on sale tonight… Do you think opening night will probably sell out long before the actual day? What about the second day? Third? Etc… Don’t look now but it appears to me tickets are already on sale at Fandango… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/2 "2015-10-20T00:48:19Z")
Under 12 parsecs, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/3 "2015-10-20T00:50:40Z")
Argh, I was unsure of my family’s available days given the available times, and in the time it took to verify this with my wife, Fandango has stopped being accessible. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/4 "2015-10-20T01:06:14Z")
Eh, the first night might sell out, but not past that. I think that most of the fans are in the “cautiously optimistic” category, not the “must see this NOW!” category. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/5 "2015-10-20T01:19:03Z")
Well, I saw _Phantom Menace_ at the theatre, _Clones_ on DVD, and _Sith_ on Thai bootleg, so at this rate I’ll probably get a homeless guy to recount it to me for cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/6 "2015-10-20T01:24:30Z")
I don’t know about America, but round these here parts nobody really cares all that much about pre-sales of movie tickets. Many’s the time I’ve expected a big movie to be packed full on opening day, only to find the cinemas half, or even entirely, empty. They get busier on weekends, but as movies open here on Thursdays, getting in on opening day has never been a problem for me. (Concerts are still sold out in seconds, though) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/7 "2015-10-20T01:32:12Z")
So many more screens today than in the past. I think it won’t sell out too much, though maybe the first night. I plan to just show up at a matinee on Saturday(the 19th) and buy tickets at the box office. ---
**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/8 "2015-10-20T02:40:31Z")
I’m not worried either. I’ll give it a few days, make sure the reviews are good, and see it at my leisure. If the movie comes out on a Friday, I doubt I’ll have any trouble getting seats the following Tuesday. There are a lot of movie theater seats and it’s not like major movies aren’t released like clockwork year in and year out. Star Wars may be good, but so was Avatar and the Dark Night, and people had no trouble getting seats to see those. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/9 "2015-10-20T06:03:21Z")
Welp as it happens, I managed to score tickets to a showing on the 17th at 8PM for me, my wife and my two older kiddos. I’ll tell you how the movie is after. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/10 "2015-10-20T16:48:27Z")
According to Fandango, only three showings are sold out in the five theaters closest to me, leaving 23 showings with tickets still available. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/11 "2015-10-20T16:54:32Z")
Nothing sold out here. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/12 "2015-10-20T17:01:06Z")
That’s good–I was afraid it was going to sell out so I was busy trying to buy tickets from crashed websites all night. I either bought four tickets or sixty four tickets. I’ll find out when I get my bank statement. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/13 "2015-10-20T17:05:42Z")
As of now there are still tickets available for the night-before showings at both the theaters here in Olympia. I decided to go with a 7 AM showing on the big screen at PacSci up in Seattle, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/14 "2015-10-20T17:17:31Z")
I saw reports of websites crashing, but I logged on through an iPhone 3G connection on my lunch break and got tickets for the first one minute past midnight showing at the cinema down the road from me. I’m in the UK, if that makes any difference. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193/15 "2015-10-20T17:45:13Z")
Just booked for the late morning showing and only half a dozen seats were taken.