Bookings for one of the most widely anticipated releases of 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, are now officially open at the Ster-Kinekor box office.
Bookings opened on Monday, 19 October, and a record number of 2 299 tickets were snapped up on the first day.
According to Ster-Kinekor, this is the highest number of tickets sold on the first day of bookings opening in recorded history. Of this total, 1 387 were tickets booked to watch the film in Imax 3D at Ster-Kinekor’s five Imax theatres.
The previous record for the first day of booking was held by Fifty Shades of Grey earlier this year, with 1 489 bookings.
The seventh title in the Star Wars global phenomenon releases at Ster-Kinekor cinemas nationally on Wednesday, 16 December, two days before its official global release. — Channel24
