Final Harry Potter movie sells out quick for midnight premier
Ryan Quigley
Journal Pioneer
There will not be an empty seat at Summerside’s Empire Theatres Studio 5 Thursday night when they premier the final movie in the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part two” at midnight.
Theatre manager Dave MacDougall said the movie sold out faster than any other one in Summerside for a midnight showing.
“(Compared to other movies selling out) this is by far the best.”
The series, which were based on the popular books about a young boy who finds out he is a wizard and fights against his arch nemesis Voldemort, was a successful movie series with the first seven grossing over $6 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
MacDougall said the last of the tickets were sold in the last four or five days.
“Everything’s sold out, completely,” he said. “Lots of tickets left for the day after.”
MacDougall, who has watched every other one in the series so far, said at the premier of the last Harry Potter film, eager Potter fans began showing up at around 7 p.m. some dressed as their favourite characters.
The 230-seat theatre will be filled with Summerside residents, like Alexandra Appleton, looking for one last adventure with the famed wizard and his friends.
Appleton, 19, has been reading the books since she was 12, is looking forward to the movie but knows it will be sad to see it go.
“It’s going to be really, really sad and I’m probably going to be really upset after I watch it because I’ll know it’s all over,” she said. “I’m a pretty big fan.”
Maggie Finkle-Aucoin, 15, who has attended most of the film premiers with her uncle Jay Hammer dressed as her favourite character, isn’t going to be at this premier because they couldn’t get tickets before they sold out.
She said she still plans to go with her uncle and dress up for one of the showings.
“Usually I go as Hermione Granger, she’s like one of my favourite characters ever, and my uncle I’m still trying to get him to go as Voldemort one day.”
She said she won’t be too upset when the credits roll on the film.
“It feels almost like this big part of your life is ending,” she said. “Even though there won’t be new ones every movie will still hold the magic that it does each and every time you watch it.”
Scott Holmes, 23, has been a fan of the series since his friends and him started reading the book in grade six. He said he will be sad to see the series go.
“I’m going to be pretty bummed out about it I think cause it is like the end of a generation,” he said. “It’s just like a series you don’t want to see come to an end.”
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