Cinemas in Oxford are experiencing high demand for tickets after Barbie and Oppenheimer were released yesterday (July 21).
Oxford cinemas are quickly selling out of tickets for viewings of the newly released Barbie and Oppenheimer movies.
The long anticipated movies including stars Margo Robbie in Barbie and Peaky Blinder’s Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer have led to a rush for tickets online.
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Oppenhimer also includes Oxford film star Florence Pugh, whose father Clinton Pugh owns restaurants Kazbar and Café Coco.
The Oxford born actress stars alongside Robert Downey Jr, Sir Kenneth Branagh and Rami Malek in Christopher Nolan’s new historical epic.
The film’s premiere was brought forward by an hour ahead of a Sag-Aftra press conference in Los Angeles, which later declared the US union had agreed to strike.
For Oxford’s Vue cinema at Ozone Leisure Park in Littlemore, online users trying to purchase tickets have reported having to wait in queues as long as 10 minutes due to overwhelming demand for the blockbusters.
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The 4pm viewing of Oppenheimer at Vue has already sold out.
The Curzon in the Westgate Centre is putting on three viewings of Oppenheimer, with the last one at 8pm.
Seven viewings of Barbie have been scheduled, with the 5pm viewing already sold out.
The Odeon on George Street, which is due to close next year, is also hosting Barbie and Oppenheimer screenings, and the 7pm screening of the latter and 20.30pm screening of the former have already sold out.
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Viewing slots for Barbie at Odeon in which tickets remain available include: 3pm, 16.30pm, 5.45pm, 7.15pm and 10pm.
For Oppenheimer, there are only available screenings of the film at 4pm and 8pm.
Both movies can also be watched at Phoenix Picturehouse in Oxford, where there are two viewings for Oppenheimer at 3.30pm and 7.30pm and two for Barbie at 3.45pm, 6.25pm and 9pm.
It comes as Odeon on Oxford's Magdalen Street closed on June 5 leading to campaigners protesting ahead of a city council meeting with a prop wrecking ball.
The campaigners said the wrecking ball represented the city's culture being decimated.
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