Cinema stages evening showing only previews

Mar 12 2008 Liverpool Daily Post

A COLLECTION of film trailers give some cinema-goers that sinking feeling as they realise they have to sit through a batch of “forthcoming attractions” before they get to the main film.

Now Liverpool’s Odeon Cinema is devoting a special evening to previews for films to be released over the next year – and charging customers for the pleasure.

The cinema is one of a dozen Odeons staging a so-called Red Carpet Preview evening on Wednesday.

Organisers Total Film magazine and Sky Movies are even billing it as “the must-see event for UK film fans”.

Alongside the trailers it will offer teasers, behind-the-scenes and unseen footage.

The stars include Liverpool’s own Daniel Craig, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Films to be included re Iron Man, the new Batman film The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Chronicles of Nania: Prince Caspian, and Flashbacks of a Fool starring Daniel Craig.

Spokeswoman Lorraine Long warned: “The studios are insisting on super security measures at the event with total restrictions on mobile phones, cameras and any possible recording device”.

The Liverpool preview will run between 7.30pm and 10.30pm. Tickets cost £10.