‘Spiderman: No Way Home’, the latest instalment in the Spiderman series of films, grossed $260m (£196m/€230m) during its debut North American box office weekend – the second-biggest total in regional cinema history. The figure, according to Variety, beat an initial estimate of $253m and was second only to ‘Avengers: Endgame’, which opened to $357m in …
AWS outage affects Ticketmaster and Adele pre-sale
An outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday resulted in issues for Ticketmaster, and also a delay in the pre-sale for artist Adele’s (pictured) new Las Vegas residency. Music and entertainment fans were unable to purchase concert tickets from the ticketing platform as it uses AWS, a global on-demand cloud computing platform and application …
Pandemic accelerates falling panto ticket sales trend
New research from the Audience Agency has suggested that weaker pantomime ticket sales could have a potentially threatening outcome for theatres in the short and long term. The report also shows that the longer-term risk of festive sales already slowing down was accelerated by the pandemic. The Audience Agency monitors sales in more than 340 …