Question About Premiere Date

[Ro_Laren]

It's on Christmas right? Now it has been A LONG time since I have gone to the movies on Christmas day (if I ever have). How packed should the theater be??? Do lots of people go to the movies on Christmas? I know that not everyone celebrates Christmas, but I never thought they all flocked to the theaters as an alternative.

I am mainly asking 'cause I am wondering how packed the theater will be. I hate going to premieres and 1)being so close that I kill my neck looking at the screen or 2)having noisy kids running around screaming and talking during the movies. Do you think it will be chaos in the theaters during the premiere? When do you think is the best time of day to see the premiere?

 

[number6]

I've been to the premiere of every Trek film and this one will be no exception.

Merry X-me$$ to ME!!!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ro_Laren said:
It's on Christmas right?

Here in Sydney, cinemas have never been open Christmas Day.

Boxing Day (26th), which is also a public holiday here, was the big opening day for all three "The Lord of the Rings" films, and that was quite a novelty, so I got into the habit of checking out Boxing Day premieres ever since.

But, last December, the bigger cinemas in the CBD were advertising they'd be opening at 3pm on Christmas Day. This was probably a first for Australia, although maybe it's been happening for years and I didn't notice?

I believe ST XI has been announced for a release in Oz for 26th. Maybe some of our cinemas will have it the afternoon before?

And hey, hang the worries about premieres! They are a fabulous way to see a new big movie, especially if it's one you plan on returning to see again. A ST movie premiere, with every seat filled, many fans in costume, and people applauding the opening credits (and even characters' first entrances) is great fun!

Sneak previews? Even better!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

As soon as humanly possible.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Starship Polaris said:
As soon as humanly possible.

The only response possible.

 

[Dale]

Another vote for "first available screening within 100 miles of my home."

Here in the US, movie theaters do very well on Christmas day. Generally, an American Christmas celebration starts the night before and is over by noon or so on the 25th... or at least there's a lot of time to kill 'til Christmas dinner. Lots of people go to the movies and lots of good films open Christmas day for just that reason.

 

[Kegek]

Soon after. It won't reach here on Christmas anyway. Around midday sounds good.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

As soon as my family flips out and gives me an excuse to leave. Which should be fairly early on Christmas Day if this year was any indication.

 

[chancellorjake]

It is a recent tradition in my family, for some of us, to head to the movie theater on Christmas Day. We do most of our family/church stuff on Christmas Eve. That way we don't have to deal with each others dysfunctions on Christmas Day. Rather than sit around, be bored, or fight on Christmas we go to the movies. The theater is always packed, so it seems most people think the same way we do.
We always go to a matinee sometime between 12pm and 6pm. It is too expensive to go any later than that.

 

[Anubis]

I was at the theater this Christmas and it just got more and more packed as the day went on.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I'll probably go on the 26th or the 27th.

 

[seigezunt]

I don't celebrate Xmas, and I'm assuming the earlier I go the better to avoid the Xmas celebrators?

 

[Holytomato]

on December 25th, I celebrate Winter Solstice. Christmas is really September 15, 5 C.E. Does that count?

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Holytomato said:
....Christmas is really September 15, 5 C.E....

Wait...does that mean this movie isn't coming out until September of 2013? Damn.

 

[T'Cal]

Dane_Whitman said:

Starship Polaris said:
As soon as humanly possible.

The only response possible.

Logically, I will attend as soon as vulcanly possible.

 

[T'Cal]

With some movies with a built-in audience, theatres in Chicago will schedule a midnight showing the night before at 11:59 PM to avoid the 12:00 am/pm confusion that some morons have. (Is that the night before or the night of??? I'm so confused???) I doubt, though, that they will do that on Christmas Eve. That, I'm guessing, is not a big movie night. If they do, my two sons and I are there!

 

[Ghostface1701]

With any luck, I hope to be seeing it sometime around mid-December, maybe the 12th or so.