The Stranger Things finale premiered this week and along with the streaming premiere, fans of the show were able to watch in select theaters across the country.
According to sources for Variety, theaters made between $25 million to $28 million for the limited showing.
The Stranger Things theatrical windows was just one day. Showtimes started at 8:00 p.m. ET on New Years Eve, the same thing that the finale started streaming on Netflix, and only continued through January 1. The series creators, The Duffer Brothers shared on social media that over 620 theaters across the country would be screening the finale.
“Over 1.1 million of you have already RSVPed to the finale screenings on NYE and New Year’s Day, and more than 3,500 showtimes across 620+ theaters are already completely full,” Ross Duffer wrote in an Instagram post on December 29.
In a press release Friday, AMC Theaters called the finale showing “a triumph,” with over 750,000 fans watching in theaters.
Adam Aron, Chairman and CEO of AMC Entertainment said “In addition to the countless millions of people who will enjoy Stranger Things on the Netflix streaming platform, in just two days, more than 753,000 Stranger Things fans flocked to an AMC Theatre to personally join in the celebration. AMC had slightly more than one-third of the total theatre count showing the Stranger Things series finale, and AMC estimates that more than half of all Stranger Things fans who saw the series finale in a movie theater did so at an AMC.
Consumer demand was so high that AMC repeatedly and exponentially added thousands of additional showtimes across its participating locations. In the end, AMC had more than nine times the available seating capacity allocated to Stranger Things than was originally envisioned. The admissions price was free, but required the mandatory purchase of a $20 per-person food and beverage credit. As a result, AMC collected more than $15.0 million in just two days from Stranger Things showtimes.”