LOS ANGELES, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- MovieTickets.com, the world's most powerful and highly-trafficked online movie ticketing provider, has reported that on Friday, July 7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest broke a ticket sales record, selling more tickets in a single day than any other film in the company's six-year history. Also on that Friday, MovieTickets.com broke a record for most tickets sold site-wide in a single day.
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MovieTickets.com new Top Five single-day best-seller list of all time:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. The Matrix Reloaded
Additional:
* In May 2006, MovieTickets.com reached 7.9 million global unique users
according to comScore Media Metrix. MovieTickets.com remains the number
one online movie ticketing service globally, in terms of unique users.
* MovieTickets.com's theater inventory represents 79 theater chains, more
than triple the amount of the nearest competitor. MovieTickets.com also
services more than half of the top-grossing screens in North America,
including most of the highest performers nationwide.
* MovieTickets.com's prominent affiliate program includes some of the
most highly trafficked sites on the Web, and covers a significant
percentage of the Internet population including Yahoo!, AOL Moviefone,
MSN, Earthlink, CitySearch, Movies.com, the NYTimes.com, and a host of
other web sites.
MovieTickets.com exhibitors currently include:
Access Digital Theatres, All Star Entertainment, AMC Theatres, Ashbrie Cinemas, Atlantic Theaters, Atlas Cinemas, Baederwood Movie Theatre Co., Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bryn Mawr Movie Theatre Co., Camera Cinemas, Celebrity Theatres, Channelside Cinemas, Cinema Centers, Cinema Four-Quad, Cinemagic Movies, Cinemall, Classic Cinemas, Clearview Cinemas, Consolidated Theatres, Cornelius Cinemas, Crown Theatres, Dickinson Theatres, Drexel Theatres, Eastern Shores, Emagine Entertainment, Entertainment Retail (Hollywood Hits), Famous Players, Film Forum, Foxmoor Movies, Greater Huntington Theatres, Greenville Cinemas, Hallett Cinemas, Harkins Theatres, HLB Entertainment, Hollywood Cinema 9, Hollywood Premier Cinemas, Hoyts Cinemas, IFC Center, Kew Gardens (Cobble Hill), Krikorian Premiere Theatres, Landmark Theatres, Main Street Cinemas, Malco Theatres, Mann Theatres, Marco Movies, Marcus Theatres, Marquee Cinemas, Metropolitan Theatres, MJR Theatres, MnM Theaters, MovieMax Theatres, Narberth Theatre, National Amusements, Omniplex Theatre Group, O'Neil Theatres, Pacific Theatres, Paris Theater, Phoenix Theatres, Pickwick Theatres, Premiere Cinemas, Rave Motion Pictures, Reading Cinemas USA (City Cinemas), Rio Entertainment, Ritz Theatres, Riviera Cinemas, Rocky Mountain Cinemas, Roxy Theatres, Santikos Theaters, Sayville Theatre, Sea Turtle Cinemas, Silver Screen Cinemas, Spotlight Theatres, Studio Movie Grill, Sunrise Cinemas, Tango Theaters, UltraStar Cinemas, Watson Theatre, Wellfleet Cinemas, and Westates Theatres.
About MovieTickets.com
MovieTickets.com, the most powerful Internet movie ticketing service, provides consumers with the ease of a virtual box office from the convenience of their home or office. Formed in spring 2000, MovieTickets.com is a joint venture between AMC Entertainment, Hollywood Media Corp. , National Amusements, Famous Players, Marcus Theatres , Viacom , and America Online, and leverages the collective exhibitor expertise to deliver consumers a premium movie ticketing experience. MovieTickets.com enables consumers to buy tickets online for movie screens across the United States and Canada, and in the U.K. Its elite collection of partner theaters consistently represents over 50% of the top 50 and over 50% of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend.
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