Some venues have installed plastic seating so they can cram in more moviegoers. PHOTO/COCONUTS MEDIA
Cinema seats in Yangon are in such short supply that tickets for two new releases are selling on the black market for up to four times their normal value.
Demand for Fast and Furious 7, the seventh in the Fast and Furious franchise, and newly released local flick Law Mingalar has been so high that some theatres have set up plastic chairs in an attempt to accommodate crowds.
“I came to watch the new local film on New Year’s Day [April 17] but tickets were not available for the whole day,” Eleven Media quoted a moviegoer as saying. “The tickets available on the black market cost four times the original price.”
“Both films are especially popular with lots of moviegoers. We have sold the tickets in advance before Thingyan and these people resell them on the black market… When the tickets have sold out at the cinema, we sell the tickets for the plastic chairs,” said Saw Lwin of the Mingalar Cinema group.
What next? Standing room?
