June Tracking Numbers Are Shocking
Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has published the late June industry tracking numbers. To make things easier, we have filed the numbers in this neat little table below:
56%
30%
9%
12%
44%
22%
6%
89%
40%
15%
92%
36%
5%
78%
36%
7%
38%
22%
3%
22%
69%
22%
2%
87%
41%
12%
Here are the things that we immediately notice: More people are interested in Pixar's Ratatouille than we originally thought. It appears that more people have that film listed as their first choice than Live Free or Die Hard, A Mighty Heart, Sicko or License to Wed.
Live Free or Die Hard has the most awareness by far (with 92%), but is not the film people want to see (36% interested, 5% top choice).
What shocks us the most is that Evan Almighty is tracking slightly higher than even Transformers. How can this be? Is it that we are stuck in our online geek web bubble not able to see the outside world's interest in the Bruce Almighty sequel? Possibly.
People seem to be pretty disinterested in political movies. A Mighty Heart and Michael Moore's Sicko have a low 22% interested rate. As expected, the conservatives are very uninterested in seeing Moore's new film, giving the movie a huge 22% definitely not interested number. It doesn't help that the people who were interested in seeing the movie have probably already illegally downloaded it off the internet.
Of course, all these numbers will change as the marketing picks up on the early July flicks. I would expect Transformers numbers to increase.