We Found Two Theaters With Sold-Out Melania Opening Day Screenings

[SheltieLover]

https://www.wired.com/story/we-found-2-theaters-with-sold-out-melania-opening-day-screenings/

Friday is the general release of the documentary Melania, a film about President Donald Trump’s third wife and first lady of the United States. A WIRED analysis shows that there are still plenty of seats available, unless you live near the AMC Classic Indian River 24 in Vero Beach, Florida. Or the AMC Independence Commons 20 in Independence, Missouri.

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conduct our analysis, WIRED reviewed listings for 329 movie theaters located near 64 of the 100 US cities featured in a “Best US Cities to See a Movie” ranking list created by BetMGM, which has no affiliation with Amazon MGM Studios. (Due to technical issues, WIRED was unable to complete a full review of all 100 of BetMGM’s best cities to see a movie prior to publication.) From there, WIRED identified 1,398 Melania showtimes listed for those theaters on Fandango, a ticket-buying website. Of those screenings, just two were sold out: the 12:55 pm at Vero Beach’s AMC CLASSIC Indian River 24 and the 1 pm at AMC Independence Commons 20 in Missouri. On AMC’s website, it appears that both showings were offered at a 20 percent discount, which is standard for showtimes before 4 pm

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uring the course of WIRED’s review, showtimes for Melania at the Mann Plymouth Grand 15 theater in Minnesota appeared to have been canceled. The theater is located in Hennepin County, Minnesota, where two observers have been killed amid a massive incursion of federal immigration agents. Representatives for Mann Plymouth Grand 15 did not respond to a request for comment

More at link, including how the trailer largely shows her feet walking on various surfaces.

[newdeal2]

1. I checked some theaters near me

It’s not sold out but it’s also not completely empty. Could be free tickets as it seemed certain rows were bought entirely and the rest of the theater is open seating.

[SheltieLover]

3. I found a total of 12 tickets sold near me

Vomit inducing.

[newdeal2]

5. There's a lot of suckers out there

All those people buying dumb merch or other Trump grifts. Don’t be surprised to see a decent box office at least this week.

[bif]

7. There ARE a lot of suckers out there

[Ninga]

2. Who's not to say that a single buyer swooped

in and bought out both showings……

[SheltieLover]

4. Could well be!

[PatSeg]

8. I think that is very likely

There is so much big money floating around Trump, it would be no big deal to buy up a lot of theater seats.

[bmichaelh]

6. Sold old theaters could still be empty

Some could be his billionaire friends buying up tickets but will have an empty theater.

They do it with books.

Or some MAGA-church groups going.