The hot movie adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey”
LOS ANGELES – The movie adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey” is predictably shaping up like a box-office giant, but advance ticket sales are sizzling in part because of support from some unexpected places.
Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama lead the areas where advance ticket sales are significantly higher than expected for an R-rated movie, according to Fandango, the online ticket seller owned by Comcast, which in turn owns Universal Pictures, the studio releasing “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Another unexpectedly strong state: North Dakota.....
The hot movie adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Though to some this is totally un-expex
ted, many women are entertained by kinky sex,
perhaps accompanied by hysterical drama,
in Mississippi, West Virginia , Kentucky and Alabama--
and also please don't forget North Dakota
where they also demand their quota.
It seems, unlike lobsters,and for whatever the reason
R rated (for Raunchy) movies are always in season,
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in "Fifty Shades of Grey."Credit Universal Pictures and Focus Features
LOS ANGELES – The movie adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey” is predictably shaping up like a box-office giant, but advance ticket sales are sizzling in part because of support from some unexpected places.
Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama lead the areas where advance ticket sales are significantly higher than expected for an R-rated movie, according to Fandango, the online ticket seller owned by Comcast, which in turn owns Universal Pictures, the studio releasing “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Another unexpectedly strong state: North Dakota.
Fandango said that its findings were based on a state-by-state analysis of advance sales patterns. Nearly 60 percent of total Fandango sales on Tuesday were for “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which explores very raunchy sex, and arrives on Feb. 13. The movie is already the fastest-selling R-rated film in Fandango history.
Box-office analysts unaffiliated with Fandango say the movie, adapted from the E L James bestseller, is primarily attracting interest from women, many of whom plan to attend in groups – an attendance pattern that helped turn “Sex and the City” into a multiplex phenomenon in 2008.
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