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"Hunger Games" IMAX bad news/good news
Published: 2/23/2012 2:50 PM
Last Modified: 2/23/2012 2:50 PM

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen, and Liam Hemsworth portrays Gale Hawthorne, in "The Hunger Games."

Sold out. The March 22 midnight showing in IMAX for this spring's most hotly anticipated film, "The Hunger Games," is sold out at Cinemark Tulsa.

The bad news is that the 200-plus seats available for Cinemark's giant-screen auditorium are gone, less than 36 hours after they went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

But there is good news: Tickets have now gone on sale for the AMC Southroads 20's IMAX, and this is the city's single-largest auditorium, with 495 seats.

AMC Southroads 20 wasn't able to start selling tickets to "The Hunger Games" as early as Cinemark Tulsa, but AMC now has tickets available both online and at the box-office for the IMAX auditorium as well as two other theaters for the midnight showings late on March 22.

In addition, AMC has shows for the entire first week on sale, and "The Hunger Games" is only showing in IMAX for one week, with March 29 its last day in that theater.

"The Wrath of the Titans" had long been set to open in IMAX on March 30; "The Hunger Games" was only assigned its one-week IMAX run a couple of weeks ago.

Cinemark Tulsa also has tickets on sale for two other midnight showings on March 22, and management has already assured me that if they need to bounce the signal from their digital prints to every auditorium -- the 16 others in addition to their IMAX house -- they can do that, just as they have for "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" openings in recent years.

So who's excited about "The Hunger Games," huh? This is one energized fan base, and this is looking like one of the biggest spring-movie releases in box-office history.

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