Zootopia in Theaters: Retrospection (30 Viewings and Other Stuff)

126 days into Zootopia's domestic run, out on DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital for exactly one month now, it's still at 191 locations nationwide (as of yesterday)- not that many locations, of course, but still super solid, especially considering that, say, (you want to know a sad thing) Alice Through the Looking Glass is showing at the same number of theaters that Zootopia is right now on only its 42nd day. (Another sad thing about location numbers- Secret Life of Pets is opening tomorrow at 4,369 theaters, the widest opening animated-film release of all time. Secret Life of Friggin' Pets!) (I could get into numbers on Finding Dory as well and stuff, but I'll save that for tomorrow.)

Paramount 5 is dropping Zootopia tomorrow- which means that today was the last day it was showing. It's probably going to be hanging on at some other location somewhere (Kung Fu Panda 3 is  somehow still playing at 29 locations throughout the US,) but it's been a whole month since the home video release date, like I mentioned-- exactly a month, and I'm fully okay with conceding the end of an era.

So let's break it down. Zootopia in its theatrical run, a retrospective of my experience, right here, right now.

I've compiled a spreadsheet with data on all 30 of my viewings so far, and I've got some information. I could probably assemble it into an infographic!, wish I'd thought of it earlier...

30 viewings: 4 on DVD, for free, during the time it was still in theaters; 26 viewings in theaters. 4 3D viewings (each in theater of course); 26 2D viewings (22 of those in theater, with those 4 on DVD of course.) Viewings at Fat Cats: 14; viewings at Paramount 5: 12. Fat Cats viewings in 3D: 3; 1 3D Paramount 5 viewing. Tickets purchased for others: 6; for myself, 25 or 26. Total number of tickets purchased: 31 or 32.

Calculating the exact number of tickets I bought is kind of tough, considering the circumstances of ticket 8, getting a refund from ticket 7 after the power fails during the movie. And how to calculate that into the total price of tickets? I wasn't sure whether to count that stuff as $0, or $-2.25, or discount the price off of the other price or just go face-value on all ticket prices... Face-value, is what I wound up using to calculate ticket price for purposes of considering ticket prices individually (but with the actual value between the two tickets taken into count when calculating total amount of money spent.) But that doesn't even broach whether I count the tickets purchased for others into account when dealing with average ticket cost. Either way, most expensive ticket was $11 for a non-matinee 3D showing, but that's the one that got refunded; cheapest tickets were $2.50.

And you want to hear the damages.

Total amount of money spent solely on tickets: $166.50. Total amount spent on concessionage: $26.50, not counting the contribution McKenna made on our date (she paid for concessions, I paid for tickets. (We shared a Dibs.)) Amount spent in theaters combined, $193 of course ($26.50+$166.50); amount spent on merchandise: hey why bring that up, we're talking just about viewings here.

Though yeah, it's way more than that, added on top. Worth it.

Speaking of, though. Sometimes the best things of all are, free.

This being the final day Zootopia showed at Paramount 5, after the showing I asked about their policies regarding the mylar marquee signs they put above the theater doors to show what's playing at what cinema. They hand-make the signs, see, and it's really neat.

As you can see from the photo from one month ago, the viewing before going to go see it on DVD for the first time.

They just toss them, is what they do with them- if no employee wants to claim them, that is. Which they can do; they're free to claim them, so. Seeing as how they had two signs for Zootopia, this time, from the days when it was showing on two screens (one 2D and the other 3D (the 3D at Paramount 5 is amazing; way better than the bigger theater's,)) they happened to have one marquee sign more than usual, which meant that they could lose one and still have one left over for that employee/the dump.

So I got a custom-made Zootopia marquee of my very own, for the low low price of $0. I snapped a picture of it in the window so you can see the light pouring through, but I'm keeping it storage-wise in a darker place so it doesn't get bleached or anything.

That is, if you'll notice, the second one, a different one from the one above. You can tell because the hand-drawn zebra stripes are different, the doughnut sprinkles of course, and the cut of the "A" is slightly different as well. So now you know what both of them look like. Tight.