Tag archive: Fandango

We have been buying and printing movie tickets from Fandango for years, but how we buy they has been subtly shifting over the years. According to Fandango, 20 percent of the tickets it sold this summer were bought from a mobile device. The sales were generated from its mobile apps and newly redesigned mobile website. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 just broke records with its opening weekend, and that was due in large part to… Read More

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 raked in an astounding $42.5 million dollars early Friday morning with all the midnight showings playing around the United States. This removes The Twilight Saga: Eclipse from the record books as it sold $30 million in ticket sales for midnight showings. It's also on track to destroy the record for single day ticket sales ($72 million) held by The Twilight Saga: New Moon as well as the… Read More

Cable operator Comcast has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire online ricket broker Fandango. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Comcast plans to use Fandango's services and technologies to help drive Fancast.com, a forthcoming service which will enable users to tap into online video, search for local movies and television programs featuring their favorite actors, and tap into video-on-demand services via the… Read More

Fandango today expanded their mobile movie ticketing purchase offering as they formally announced a new partnership with Cingular, the nation's largest cellular provider. This new relationship builds upon a similar announcement made with Sprint earlier this month. The new Cingular/Fandango service, said the movie ticketing company, will allow Cingular subscribers who have Web-enabled phones to buy movie tickets, look up extensive… Read More

Got your Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opening night movie tickets yet? If not, you might be out of luck as online movie ticket purveyor Fandango said today they are seeing a huge run on advanced ticket sales as the movie's Nov. 18 release date draws near. This run, which the company said is their fastest selling Potter installment to date, accounts for the majority of their weekly ticket sales two full weeks ahead of the movie… Read More

Like the big screen IMAX experience? What a place to find all of the theatres nationwide which play these types of films and perhaps buy tickets for them online? Fandango and IMAX have teamed to create a co-branded portal specifically related to the film format which is approximately ten times larger than the standard film frame used to show regular movies. The co-branded portal, which is live now, features move information, showtimes and… Read More