Advanced ticket sales for Blade Runner 2049 are outpacing similar genre titles such as Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian.
Per Variety, Blade Runner 2049 is topping the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, and Gravity on Fandango at the same point in their respective pre-release cycles.
Early projections indicate it should make between $43 – 47 million opening weekend, which would surpass the unadjusted domestic total of the first Blade Runner.
This means Blade Runner could have an outside chance of breaking the all-time October opening record, which was set by Gravity ($55.7 million) back in 2013.