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Nomadd said:
75 countries booked hundreds and hundreds of cinemas, but the sales have been a complete flop, so far. It looks like no one is interested in a documentary movie about Maiden :(
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Oh look, it's Doom and Gloom again ;) . I imagine I'm like a lot of people and don't buy movie tickets months in advance. I certainly don't expect every theater to be sold out but I think sales will pick up as we get close and there will be walk up sales.
 
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Melony said:
Tickets for the Metallica live concert broadcast in movie theaters were almost sold out in my city. I wouldn't say that movie theaters are generally uninteresting when it comes to music or metal.
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A live concert broadcast is different from a documentary movie released around the world...
 
Do many people book cinema tickets this far in advance? I've never done it.

I had a quick look at a couple of screenings for The Devil Wears Prada 2, same cinema as Maiden and a week earlier. Not too many tickets sold for that either and it's a massive draw.
Nomadd said:
For 99% of fans, the documentary movie isn't interesting at all, now you've got everything on the Net.
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Cat Milk Supreme said:
Do many people book cinema tickets this far in advance? I've never done it.

I had a quick look at a couple of screenings for The Devil Wears Prada 2, same cinema as Maiden and a week earlier. Not too many tickets sold for that either and it's a massive draw.

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I do LOL expecting many people were going to watch it. Just me at the monent
 
Nomadd said:
For 99% of fans, the documentary movie isn't interesting at all, now you've got everything on the Net.
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I think this tries to be two things at the same time and will end up being none. I can see a casual fan thinking this one is for the hardcores, and the hardcore fans thinking this will be for the casuals, with nothing caught in between because it's cancelled out.

With that said, I also booked a ticket
 
Abas said:
I think this tries to be two things at the same time and will end up being none. I can see a casual fan thinking this one is for the hardcores, and the hardcore fans thinking this will be for the casuals, with nothing caught in between because it's cancelled out.

With that said, I also booked a ticket
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Probably you are right. The worst thing would be announcing hundreds of cinematic screenings in some 75 countries around the world, and then canceling the project due to a lack of fan interest. Let's hope they invest in some PR, and finally, the sales will increase. If not, it would be a very bad PR for 50 Anniversary.
 
THESEVENTHMARINER said:
It's a cinema screening, I can't imagine buying a ticket to a film two weeks in advance, never mind two months in advance. Most ticket sales will come likely the night before.
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This. And it's only playing for two nights at theaters near me. Really it will just be all die hard Maiden fans who will go see it at the theater. The Maiden camp is not looking to break any box office records. I see it as a treat for fans like us to be able to see it on a big screen and with big sound. They are not expecting to win any BAFTAs or Oscars...
 
dickinson1978 said:
When i bought the ticket i was the only one lol
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Wow. The theater I'm going to is already half sold out.

I do wonder how this will eventually release. I imagine some streaming deal, but I'm curious about physical media. Since Maiden's mostly given up on Blu-Ray/DVD but have already announced a live video release for the RFYL tour, I wonder if they'll bundle the two together to make it more of a must-buy.
 
Apologies if it would turn out to be off-topic or derailing the thread.
When's the last time any of you went to the cinema? I saw Gladiator II back in 2024
 
I actually went to a theater twice in 2025. Last August for Rifftrax Live: Time Cop and Spinal Tap 2 last September.

I don't see myself going to the movies again anytime soon.
 
Iron Lurker said:
I actually went to a theater twice in 2025. Last August for Rifftrax Live: Time Cop and Spinal Tap 2 last September.

I don't see myself going to the movies again anytime soon.
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Last weekend. I saw Project Hail Mary. I go to cinema about once a month.
 
CA Bryers said:
If there's any such thing as Iron Maiden "influencers," it's Capnharris and her little troop. So yeah, it makes sense to put them on there, and it gives them incentive to self-promote by promoting the documentary on their channel.
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As if anyone subscribed to Capnharris isn’t going to see the documentary regardless.
 
srfc said:
LOL

Yeah they're going to cancel an already shot film
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Oh God, not the film, but screenings in the cinemas - they can do that. They should put this document on platforms, even their YT chanel. It would be a better idea than screening the documentary in cinemas.
 
Abas said:
Apologies if it would turn out to be off-topic or derailing the thread.
When's the last time any of you went to the cinema? I saw Gladiator II back in 2024
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3 weeks ago. I do not go to the cinema as often as I used to because of a combination of factors, namely family responsibilities and a lack of a local independent cinema screening the type of films I am interested in.
 
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