With Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows opening up on Friday, November 19th, there’s a good chance that a lot of you are planning on hitting the Midnight Screening on Thursday. But don’t buy those tickets just yet…
/Film brings us word that AMC is hosting an event that not only gives fans the midnight screening they’re wanting, but making that the final part in a three-part theatrical mini-marathon with with Order of the Phoenix (Part 5) and Half-Blood Prince (Part 6).
All of it for only $20.
Chances are we‘re all fans of at LEAST the films and know what events Deathly Hallows is built from, but for the uninitiated, Germain Lussier gives a nice little rundown: “Harry Potter fans know that it’s 100% necessary to be familiar with Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince before Deathly Hallows. The events in those two stories – the creation of the Order and Harry/Voldemort’s discovery of the Prophecy in the fifth film, followed by Harry’s discovery of Horcruxes and the death of a major character in the sixth one, are the four most important events leading up to Deathly Hallows Part 1.”
Another little bonus with this triple feature is that these are all three of director David Yates’ entries in the series, who took over for Mike Newell after Goblet of Fire. We’ve seen clips and trailers and we know that Yates has something special and epic (I hate that the internet has ruined that word) in store for us and it will be fun to watch his evolution in this world happen back-to-back on the big screen.
The bad thing, as Lussier also points out, is that this all takes place on a Thursday night. That’s a long time to spend in the theater any day of the week, but on a work/school night? Here’s hoping you’re able to find someone who actually wants to go with you.
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6 comments
Yates blows. He better not screw the pooch on these two like he did the last two Potter films he directed.
Jobacca demonstrated that trolls aren't just in Harry Potter.
Yates rocks. He better make this as good as the last two Potter films he directed.
The new films will satisfy both the trolls (because most of what happens in the books is onscreen) and the rest of humanity (because Yates is a very good director who seems to keep on raising his game).
So, AMC is trying to do a Lord of the Rings trilogy event with Potter? And that was on a Tuesday and sold out across the country. The only problem, this won't be the end of the series. There could be some cool free items for this, for the LotR they gave everyone a collectible with a frame from each film as well as posters, a lanyard with event information on the card, and pizza. Also, for that, Return of the King started at 10 instead of midnight, so you were able to watch the movie two hours early.
I am an unabashed fan of this series and these last two look really promising. Not every entry is good (I strongly dislike Nos. 1 and 2, and No. 5 is kind of a muddle), but the good ones are just fantastic, and far more mature than most family films ever dare to be. Also, the achievement overall of putting out eight movies in ten years with the same cast in each is staggering and unmatched anywhere else in cinema. Epic is right.
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