AMC Says Dune: Part Three Ticket Traffic Tripled Spider-Man Launch, Causing App Outages
- AMC CEO Adam Aron said demand for Dune: Part Three tickets briefly slowed or glitched AMC's online ticketing systems, with the heaviest demand for IMAX screenings and popular AMC locations.
- AMC said ticketing traffic was roughly three times the volume at the launch of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, 2026's highest-grossing film so far.
- More than 1,000 Downdetector reports followed the ticket drop, mostly citing AMC mobile app failures such as crashes, "Failed to fetch" messages, and rate-limit errors; conditions appeared to improve after about an hour.
- Fandango digital queues exceeded one hour, while some IMAX 70mm Dune: Part Three tickets appeared on eBay listings for $200 each.
- Dune: Part Three opens against Avengers: Doomsday, but Dune will hold domestic IMAX screens in its opening weeks while Doomsday has none.