UPDATED: 'This Is It' Continues to Post Strong Sales

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 : A few new tidbits from the world of online sales:

- This Is It has already sold out more than 1,000 showtimes on Fandango.com alone.
- This Is It is currently the top-selling film on Fandango, representing 27% of weekly ticket sales on the site.
- The movie continues to outsell the previous best-selling concert film, Hannah Montana 3D, by a factor of 2 to 1 at the same point in that film’s sales cycle (two weeks before its release date).

Wednesday, October 7, 2009: Michael Jackson’s This Is It has snagged a spot on MovieTickets.com Top-25 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time, with three weeks to go before its October 28 release. The concert film edged past The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in order to claim the position.

With such strong interest in This Is It, the Sony release could easily end up trumping Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour, which grabbed $65.3 million last year and is currently the highest-grossing concert film of all time.

MovieTickets.com Top-25 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time
1. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince + IMAX + IMAX 3-D
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4) + IMAX
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
5. The Dark Knight + IMAX
6. Twilight
7. Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Disney Digital 3-D
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix + IMAX
9. The Matrix Reloaded
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
11. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
13. Sex and the City
14. Spider-Man 3 + IMAX
15. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
17. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
18. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen + IMAX
19. The Passion of the Christ
20. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
21. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
22. Dreamgirls
23. Quantum of Solace
24. The Departed
25. Michael Jackson’s This Is It