Methodology

The SEATmio Film Demand Index (FDI) shows which films audiences are paying to see before they see them.

What it measures

A film's FDI in a country is its share, in percent, of all advance tickets SEATmio tracks in that country on that day for screenings still to come. FDI 41.2 means the film holds 41.2% of those tickets. All films in a country add up to about 100.

Worldwide FDI

The worldwide FDI is the plain average of a film's FDI across the countries in the index, with zero where the film is not on sale. Each country counts equally, whatever its size.

How to read it

• Compare films within one country on one day. A share also depends on what else is on sale.
• A film can fall after it opens, because its tickets have been used. That is not a fall in interest.
• The index is not official box office, not revenue and not a forecast.
• It covers the cinemas SEATmio tracks, which is a large sample in each listed country, not all of them.

Data checks

A country appears only when its sample is large enough. If a country's total drops sharply from one day to the next, the day is held back, because that usually means a gap in the data, not a fall in demand. Missing data is never counted as zero.

Timing and permanence

The index is one day behind and is computed once a day. The published series begins on 24 October 2026. Each day has a permanent link and is frozen, so a citation keeps pointing to the same numbers. Records are stated only since the series began.

Stories

Stories are written automatically from the index data by an AI model. Software checks every number in a story against the data before it can be published. Ticket figures in stories are rounded SEATmio estimates.