‘Avengers: Endgame’ tickets crush records, up to US$500 on eBay
LOS ANGELES: Advance ticket sales for Marvel superhero movie “Avengers: Endgame” on Tuesday surpassed the last two “Star Wars” fi lms, and some appeared on resale platforms with asking prices of up to US$ 500 ( RM2,040) each.
Fandango and Atom — two of the top ticketing websites in the United States — said fi rstday advance sales for Disney’s “Avengers: Endgame” surpassed the 2015 movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and 2017’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” — also from Disney. They did not give sales figures.
The new Avengers movie, which brings together multiple comic book characters — including Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Thor and Ant-Man — marks the conclusion of 22 Marvel fi lms. Fan surveys last year showed it was the most anticipated film of 2019.
“‘Avengers: Endgame’ sales have exceeded all expectations and surpassed ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ the previous recordholder, to become Fandango’s topselling title in its fi rst 24 hours of sales, and it accomplished that feat in only 6 hours,” Fandango Managing Editor Erik Davis said in a statement.
Atom said the movie has set a record for its mobile ticketing service, selling three times more tickets in the fi rst hour than last year’s “Avengers: Infi nity War.”
“Avengers: Endgame” starts its movie theatre rollout on Apr 24 in Australia and China before arriving in the United States on Apr 25.
On eBay, a single ticket for a fi rst- day IMAX screening in Hollywood was being offered for US$ 500. Starting bids for other tickets were around US$ 35 each.
Fans took to social media to complain about websites crashing, error codes and long waits to get their tickets.
“Took me 5 hours to get #AvengersEndgame tickets,” tweeted Meghan Keatley.
“It’s been hours and they paused the site,” a fan called Bakuhoe wrote on Twitter. Five hours later Bakuhoe tweeted, “It was fun waiting with y’all, hope you all get tickets and we can
‘Avengers: Endgame’ sales have exceeded all expectations and surpassed ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ the previous record-holder, to become Fandango’s top-selling title in its first 24 hours of sales, and it accomplished that feat in only 6 hours. Erik Davis, Fandango managing editor
suffer at the diabolical hands of Marvel together.”
“Avengers: Infi nity War” was the biggest movie of 2018, grossing US$ 2.04 billion at the worldwide box office. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” with a global box office of US$ 2.06 billion, is the third biggest movie of all time after “Avatar and “Titanic”, respectively.