No LotR Marathon Tickets

[sraun]

Just got a call from my wife - she'd run to the theater in Minnesota that will be showing the Lord of the Rings marathon on December 16th.

400 seats in the theater. She guesstimated she was the 80th person in line. Limit 10 tickets per person. They sold the last ticket to about the 55th person in line. She guessed she would have had to have been there about 8AM this morning to get tickets instead of the 10:30 she actually got there.

I am NOT happy! I was looking forward to seeing the marathon!

<added later>

Oh, and it was going to be a birthday present (don't ask me who from - I'm not certain what the answer would be!) - my birthday is the 15th!

Comments

[pewtergryphon.livejournal.com]

The Madison theatre is sold out, too. Which doesn't surprise me, what with this being a college town and Marcus selling tickets online.

I bet half the UW student population was on that website last night, hitting (refresh) and waiting for the tickets to go on sale...

I'm expecting at least one theater around here to be savvy enough once ROTK has been out a while to get permission to show all 3 parts, and run them sequentially on different screens.

[sraun]

I'm hoping New Line looks at the response (from what I can tell, it looks like every authorized theater sold out in an hour or less), and authorizes more seats for the 16th!

[ase.livejournal.com]

The Uptown in DC had similar problems. I went nomail on the RotK line party mailing list to avoid the howls.

Sympathies on missing the extended back-to-back-to-back. I hope they do a repeat someday; I don't think I've ever seen a movie sell out that fast before.