Ramayana Presales

Every showtime on sale is read directly from the seat map — total seats and seats still free. Tickets sold is the difference. The ticket count is measured; only the ticket price is assumed.

Duplicate listings for the same room at the same time are merged, keeping the largest seat map, so premium sub-allocations are not double counted.

Canada is two chains counted two different ways. Cineplex publishes how many seats are free but never how big the room is, so the room size is worked out backwards — the largest availability a room ever shows is a floor on its capacity — and what we publish is a deliberate minimum: 3,040 tickets across 26 cinemas and 32 auditoriums, 3.18% of 95,681 seats, over the seven dates Cineplex has on sale. One of those auditoriums appears in a single showtime and reads zero by construction. Cineplex does not mark seats the cinema holds back, so a few house seats sit inside that figure. Landmark is counted, and most of what we can see there is a block. Landmark's robots.txt answers 403, so no scanner of ours has ever fetched it; every Landmark showtime is opened by hand in a browser instead. Its map draws every seat but has one off-state, so 1,323 seats gone is what we can say, not 1,323 sales. It is two kinds of room now and they are not equally well understood. Six IMAX rooms, twelve showtimes, read three times over — the same twelve each time: 650, then 676, then 769. All six cinemas moved on the last read, and a block does not move, so that +93 is buying. Those rooms also repeat the same floor on both nights — Waterloo 91 of its 223, Whitby 82 of 344 — and that floor is carried by each showtime, so 590 of the 769 is held inventory and the clean read is 179. Each room has only two sittings, which is below the three our own test needs, so 179 is a hard floor and 769 a ceiling. Three ScreenX rooms, thirty-six showtimes, 554 seats gone — and never opened before this read. None of that is buying; it is inventory we had never looked at. It is also the first part of this chain we could test properly: two of those rooms run fourteen showtimes each, where the IMAX rooms run two. The per-showtime figures that test needs are not in hand yet, so ScreenX is untested for blocks and the clean floor for the chain stays 179 rather than rising with it. We publish the 1,323 on the same seats-gone basis the UK uses and state the split here. Nine rooms at eight cinemas is a fraction of that chain, and it plays in more than these two formats, so Canada can still only move up. Those twelve showtimes have now been opened three times, and the matched-pair method they proved has since been used on every market on this page. Nothing was added to the worklist, so every ticket of movement there is movement rather than coverage. The second read, nine and a half hours after the first, added +26 — Whitby +17, Kanata +4, Waterloo +4, Calgary +1, Kingston and Nanaimo flat. The third, fourteen and a half hours after that, added +93, and this time every one of the six moved — Waterloo +40, Whitby +22, Calgary +14, Kanata +10, Kingston +4, Nanaimo +3. A block is a count that does not move, so all 119 belong to the clean read, which is why it goes 60 → 86 → 179 while the block stays at 590.

Australia is the most completely counted market on this page, and New Zealand now sits beside it. Both Australian chains are read end to end. Event Cinemas publishes seats still free, so the Canadian method transfers: 1,781 tickets over all 421 shows at 38 cinemas, 1.78% of 99,860 seats. HOYTS is read a better way — its booking system publishes the whole seat plan per session and marks sold seats separately from seats the cinema is holding back, so we count only the sold ones: 6,219 tickets across all 419 shows at 47 cinemas, 8.83% of 70,459 seats, with 2,466 held seats left out. Australia totals 8,000. New Zealand adds 369 across 14 Event cinemas, and that one is Event only — HOYTS New Zealand and the independents are not counted. An earlier Australian figure of 1,486 was wrong and the correction is ours. Until 18 Oct we believed HOYTS could not be counted and published a hand-read sample of 13 shows at 4 of its 47 cinemas, extended by a model with a ±45% band. The model said 819. The count said 3,060. The error was not a small one and it was in our method, not in the market. Prices here are part observed, part assumed: IMAX A$45, ScreenX A$36.50 and Xtremescreen A$27 were read off HOYTS' own ticket page and cover 82% of Australian tickets; the remaining formats, and all of Event's, carry those equivalents. New Zealand's price is theirs — Event NZ prints one on every session.

The Netherlands is the cleanest foreign read on this page. 106 showtimes at 19 cinemas in 11 cities, read by hand in a browser because neither Pathé nor Vue can be fetched by a scanner of ours: 2,175 seats gone, 7.90% of 27,536. 97 showtimes were read on both 21 and 22 October and went 1,706 → 1,922 — 216 tickets of real buying, and not one showtime fell. Seven Pathé Dolby showtimes now say "volgeboekt" (fully booked) with no seat map, some of them a day after selling a single seat — that is a room taken off sale, not a room filled, so they keep last night's 253 as a floor rather than being counted full. The room-minimum test fires on three rooms for 51 seats — under 3% — and the per-date shape decays properly (583, 675, 491, 229, 64, 79, 54), which is what buying looks like and what a block never does. Neither chain marks held seats separately, so this is seats gone rather than confirmed sales, the same basis the UK headline uses. The price here is ours, unlike Germany's and India's: Vue prints €15.00 at Hilversum and €13.00 at Eindhoven and LAB-1 prints €14.00, but Pathé — 2,080 of the 2,175 — shows nothing before seat selection, so €14.00 is an assumption applied to a counted ticket. Nine Pathé cinemas returned no showtimes, but their date strip only offered 10 November onward, so that is a gap in our reach and not a confirmed zero. Kinepolis lists the film for 11 November with nothing yet on sale. Sweden is a measured zero. Two independents, four showtimes, 624 seats, and every seat map reads completely empty — 230 free of 230, 82 free of 82. It is published as a zero rather than left off the page, because a reader who sees no row assumes we did not look. It is also not Sweden: Filmstaden, far and away the country's biggest chain, is one we are not able to read, so what is on this page is two independent cinemas rather than a country.