Record attendances
A fantasy film has brought record attendances to a Christchurch cinema. The film, “Labyrinth,” featuring David Bowie, has attracted queues of 400 people to every session since it opened two weeks ago, said the manager of the Avon Cinema, Mr Trevor King. “The cinema holds 790 people and we have been selling out four sessions a day.” He said the theatregoers began queuing 90 minutes before the film
started, and at least 100 were turned away at each session. “It is a record crowd since the New Zealand film, ‘Goodbye Pork Pie,’ which screened two years ago.” The cinema will accept telephone bookings for the 8.15 p.m. screening, and for the day sessions tickets will be sold from the cinema up to an hour before the film begins. Other cinema owners in the central city said they had had good crowds during the holiday period.
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