Sold out isn't final.

Sold-out showtime? The seats come back — we catch them the second they do.

PrimeRow watches the seat map for any sold-out movie showtime and pings you the instant returned seats appear — so you buy at face value from the theater, not $400 from a scalper.

  or watch a showtime now — $2.99

PrimeRow · now
Two seats just opened — Row E center, Fri 7:00 PM. Tap to buy from the theater.

How it works

STEP 1

Pick your show

Choose the movie, the theater, and the dates you can go.

STEP 2

Set your seats

Center of the house, anywhere decent, or front-row too — and how many of you are going.

STEP 3

Get the ping, buy from the theater

The instant matching seats reopen, you get the alert with the exact seat numbers and the buy link.

Why I built this

The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm sold out for seven weeks at my theater. I'm an engineer, so I did the unreasonable thing: I wrote a script that checked the seat map every few minutes, all day, for weeks.

One Tuesday it buzzed my phone — two center seats, row E, had just been returned. I bought them in 90 seconds at face value while eBay was asking $800. Then my friends wanted it. Then their friends. So I turned the script into PrimeRow.

Face value, not scalper value

Scalper price for returned seats
$400–$1,000
Odyssey singles on resale sites; blocks reach five figures.
What you pay at the theater
Face value
Plus $2.99 for the watch that caught them.

We never buy, hold, or resell tickets. We watch public seat maps and tell you faster. That's the whole product.

Coverage

We cover a growing set of premium-format venues, adding chains as fast as their systems allow. Don't see yours? Leave your email and the venue name — demand is exactly how we decide what to cover next.

Sold-out movie tickets: your questions

How do I get tickets to a sold-out movie?

Returned and released seats reappear on the theater’s own seat map all the time — cancellations, held blocks, extra rows opened. PrimeRow watches that seat map for the showtime you want and alerts you the instant matching seats appear, so you buy them at face value from the theater before anyone else.

What’s the guarantee?

If your watch expires and we never sent you a matching-seat alert, your credit comes back automatically — no email to send, no support queue.

How fast are the alerts?

Email alerts are instant. Each alert names the exact seats (like E7–E8), the show, and the link to buy directly from the theater.

Do you buy or resell tickets?

Never. We do not buy, hold, or resell tickets. We watch public seat maps and tell you faster — that’s the whole product. You buy from the theater at face value.

What about privacy?

We only watch public seat maps. We store your email, your watch, and (if you opt in) your mobile number — nothing else. No ads, no trackers, no selling data.