Sith Clicks With Six Tix Per Second  5/19/05

Final STAR WARS Movie is Fandango's Fastest Seller

LOS ANGELES, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH has created a demand for tickets that, like the Force itself, "surrounds and penetrates" movie ticket sales on Fandango, the nation's largest online and phone movie ticketing service. Here are the latest facts from Fandango:

* Fandango is currently selling six SITH tickets a second and the company expects the number to grow by the weekend.

* Thursday, May 19 is tracking to be one of Fandango's highest- trafficked days ever, with SITH overwhelmingly dominating sales.

* With 98 percent of all Fandango sales week-to-date (as of May 19) devoted to SITH, the film is expected to dethrone Fandango's current ticketing champ, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING.

* SITH is Fandango's fastest-selling movie to date. SITH sold more tickets on Fandango prior to its release date than ATTACK OF THE CLONES sold on Fandango through its entire opening weekend.

* Hundreds of midnight shows were sold out in markets across the U.S., including New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles. Many theaters added "round-the clock" showtimes on Wednesday night/Thursday morning to accommodate the demand.

About Fandango

Fandango, the nation's largest online and phone movie ticketing service, sells tickets to approximately 1,100 theaters and 12,500 screens (nearly 70 percent of theaters in the U.S. enabled for remote ticketing) and to four out of the five largest U.S. theater chains. Fandango's convenient service lets moviegoers quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and buy tickets in advance on www.fandango.com and at 1-800-FANDANGO. Fandango sells tickets to more theaters than all of its competitors combined and is the exclusive ticketing service for the largest North American exhibitors: Carmike Theatres, Century Theatres, Edwards Theatres, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Regal Cinemas and United Artists Theatres, as well as to Brenden Theatres, CineArts, Cineplex Odeon Cinemas, Cobb Theatres, Crown Theatres, Eastern Federal Theatres, Kerasotes Theatres, Magic Johnson, Majestic Crest Theatre, R/C Theatres, Signature Theatres, Star Theatres and Wallace Theaters. Fandango allows customers to bypass the box office with in-theater ticket pick-up kiosks and Print at Home ticketing, and offers the "gift of the movies," Fandango Bucks, and an e-mail invitation tool, Evite Friends. SOURCE Fandango

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