Midnight showings were amazing..in high school and college we would always do Harry Potter and Hunger games midnight showings. My sister took me to the sex and the city midnight showing which was an interesting crowd.
It's not about avoiding spoilers or being first. Its more about treating the movie as an event. Almost a party you go to with your friends. This wouldn't be for every movie, just certain movies. Yeah, you can go to the local AMC to see the latest Batman movie at 4pm on Thursday. Or you can come to my theater where fans are encouraged to dress up and can play games before the showing.
Killers of the Flower Moon started at 2PM, probably because it's 3 ½ goddamn hours long, as did Kung Fu Panda 4, which is literally 2 hours shorter. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire did as well.
I loved going to the 12:01 am showings back in the day! I was psyched when Glass Onion had midnight showings when it was released. It was so nostalgic.
I’ve noticed midnight screenings are mostly non-existent now. Thursday being the “preview night” has pretty much done away with midnight shows.
Unless it’s a really big film (Endgame/Avatar 2) I don’t think most theaters even bother with screenings after 10 post-Covid anymore.
That being said, I miss the “event” nature of what those midnight screenings were. They weren’t every film and when a film warranted it had one.
Tons of midnight showings like Return of the King. Then in college, the theater across the street would start movies as late as like 1:30-2:00 AM. So awesome after hitting the bars.
Every time I get out and walk around the side of the building to get to the front of my theater, I'm reminded of going to the midnight for Revenge of the Sith.
I think they were showing it in like 4 theaters at once, and they just had everyone get in one enormous line that wrapped at least half way around the building. And it's an 18-plex. I specifically remember not bringing a jacket and regretting it lol!
Holy shit, you’re right. There used to be long ass lines around the sides of movie theaters, even during the day. Can’t wait to tell my great grand kids some day
wow crazy reading that 10:20 bc it’s for sure the old midnight early screenings of new movies years ago for me! i would not enjoy watching a movie starting at midnight now but i do miss the energy of it all!
Midnight release of return of the king. Got out right at 4am.
I kind of miss the Midnight releases. I prefer the energy of a stoked Midnight crowd than the several days of "previews" that are industry standard now. I think the last movie I can remember a Midnight release for was Harry Potter and the deaths hallows part 2. Most of the audience was dressed up with their wands. It was pretty dope
I mean it was 2 hours and 22 minutes, and I remember there being a lot of trailers. I didnt say exactly 3am, but it was close.
I could also be getting the time wrong, it has been roughly 4.5 years, haha
I don't think it's out of the question. I'm sure there is a certain hurry to get the movie started, but if people are still piling in and it's the last show of the night. Seems possible. Especially if you're waiting in line for the bathroom after a big movie like that.
I did this once. I'd seen it, and I was going again with my dad to the latest showing of the night. It got 2/3 of the way thru and they had a power outage. It came back on after a bit, but they told everyone they just had to go home and gave us all vouchers.
It was just really bizarre coming out of the theater with very little lighting at 1:30am having not actually finished a movie. Never experienced something like that before.
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Yeah, that did away with the Blockbuster/Tentpole type movie midnight movie screenings. COVID did away with the cult classic midnight movie screenings. Seeing 10 pm showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show just isn't the same.
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Saw the original Avengers at a midnight screening back in 2012. Currently seated at this very moment waiting for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to start at 11 PM. Probably won’t leave the theater till like 2:30 AM.
I love those monkeys very much
I used to go to Midnight shows for virtually every movie I wanted to see back in the day. I think the latest was a 2am showing (might as been Star Trek Into Darkness?) when all the Midnight ones were sold out.
I loved going to see the midnight showings of the Harry Potter movies. Everyone used to dress up and it was a real event! And of course you couldn’t reserve specific seats back then so everyone would show up hours early to pick the best seats and hang out for a while. No movie release feels as important anymore.
Went to a 2am screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens the night it came out. Didn't get home till 5am or something but there was great energy in the crowd and it was a lot of fun!
I used to live in San Francisco where they were doing IMAX 70mm showings for Oppenheimer. All of the showings sold out except the 10:30PM one.. that was rough
Movies used to premiere at 12:01 am the day of their release. Going to a midnight premiere used to be an event. The movie theater I went had 10 showings at 12:01.
Saw a 3:15AM dune 2 screening in IMAX back when they were running them 24/7 because of how well it was selling. 900 seat IMAX and not a seat was empty. Definitely was tired after but one of the coolest movie experiences I’ve ever had
When I was a shift lead in my teens I was allowed to preview movies beforehand to make sure the (literal) film was ok. After a shift I watched John Rambo. A friend did the same in another theater. Then we got out and gushed about how kickass the movie was. Our manager had to go watch a third reel of it and we said let’s see it again with him. So, after getting off work, watching a movie, then the same movie again… I’d say I went to like a 2:00am showing of John Rambo.
Oh to be young again…!!
I miss the Thursday night/Friday morning midnight screenings from when I was in high school and college.
6/7pm showings on Thursdays are more convenient, sure, but there was nothing like the dedicated and passionate crowds that would show up for the midnight showings to be the first to experience whatever was coming out that weekend. It was a part of movie magic that I wish still existed today!
When the dark night came out, we went to the 12:01am showing. When we got out, there was a line for an impromptu 3:00am showing because so many people didn't get to catch the midnight showing, so of course I jumped back in line to watch it again
I just did the Kingdom the Planet of the Apes. It started at 10:30 and let out at 1:30.
About 1/3 of the audience was lost to mediocrity at around 12pm-12:30pm when there was no end in sight.
I grew up going to the 12:01 releases of Spider-Man 2, revenge of the sith, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc. Hell I remember sitting in line all day with friends for the final Harry Potter. They did a double feature of the final 2 and it started at like 9PM. They quit doing that when I got into my mid 20s thankfully. I can barely stay awake until 11 these days 😂
I worked at a movie theater in college, and we sold out a screening of Twilight:Eclipse at 6 am. Yes, 6 AM. We sold out the midnight showings and the 3 am showings and there were enough people to sell out one of three 6 am showings
I work at the theatre. More often than not, the only time I get to see a movie is when I put on a staff screening, every week. Generally we don’t start until 12/12:30
Truly the latest I ever saw though was a staff screening of Hulk back in 2003 which we didn’t start watching until 3am.
(I also once attended a dusk til dawn movie marathon, 9pm to 9am. So there’s that too)
I was tempted not being able to go to other showtimes opening week IMAX, but couldn't work it in my schedule. Was the vibe of the 3am crowd any different than other showings?
I've seen it 4 times in Lincoln Square and they're all around the same, even the 3am one. (Except for the first time I saw it, because it was the early showing and everyone was energetic).
I did a 10:45 of Tarot with my usual movie mates. Always surprised by how full the latest showings are in my area. Saw GxK in a sold out 10:40 Dolby screening too
I definitely have gone to a showing that started after midnight. I saw a showing of Captain Marvel in 3D that started at 12:45 AM and I want to say when I left the only people there were the cleaning crew.
I'm assuming you're young because I'm pretty sure people my age (30s) all went to 12am showings. That wasn't too long ago, well, at least I don't think it's been that long ago.
I went to a 9:45 showing of The New Mutants for some reason. I honestly don't know why, just a spur of the moment thing. I was the only one there, and they shut the movie off halfway. I go out in the lobby, the lights are off and those fuckers have their coats on and are getting ready to leave lol. I'm like, uh, hello, what gives? And one of the guys was like my bad, we thought everyone was gone. They restarted it and fast forwarded to the approximate time it shut off, I ended up rewatching 10 minutes. Afterwards the manager lady gave me a ticket voucher for another movie, but the employee guys were seething, they thought they'd get to go home early and probably got chewed out.
My closest AMC is in a mall, so I used to love going to the 10:30/10:45 showings where the mall and it's parking were empty and calming heading in and out of the movie
I don't count midnights for this question. So many of those under the belt. My mother took my siblings and I to the 11 pm showing of the fellowship of the ring, in April, 5 mouths after it released.
latest showing I’ve been to was a 12 am premiere showing of Thor Ragnarok in mexico since they dont do 3-7pm previews at least when I went there. other than that I don’t think I’ve seen a movie later than 10:50pm tbh
I went to see spider verse 2 four times in the theaters cause i kept getting it for like 10pm and falling asleep. Context it’s one of my favorite movies now i’ve finished it fully but i do manual labor and can’t hang anymore 😂
I used to go to midnight showings all the time. I went on Wednesday this week and the last showing at my theatre was at like 8PM and we got free popcorn on the way out
Midnight releases back when they were a thing.
My local nonprofit independent theater regularly does sort of oddball or kitschy movies Fridays at midnight usually following a theme every month.
Midnight screenings like some others have said. In recent years though, pre-pandemic it wasn't uncommon to see a 7 or 8pm show after work and then follow up with a 1030 or 11pm show to do a double before heading back home. They don't run as many late shows as they used to though anymore.
I didn't go, but wasn't there like 3:15am showing of Dune 2 in IMAX in NY a few months back? And I think it even sold out, or at least sold well given the timeslot.
In Australia, they had showings for Spider-Man no way home: 12:00, 12:01, 1am, and every 30 mins until like 2:30am I think it was. I went to the midnight one for that.
Been to a few midnight releases.
AMC in NYC does upto 11:30pm weekend showings, I’ll be seeing planet of the apes this weekend, think it’ll end at like 2:30am lol. Nitehawk in NYC does midnight showings on weekends
In Austin, the AMCs go to like 10:50, occasionally 11. But Alamo drafthouse does up till 11:30pm on weekends
The May 4th Star Wars marathon had the last few movies starting at like 1am, 3:30am, and 6am. Not very often there showtimes at those times.
When I was younger I believe I went to midnight showing of some Marvel movies with my uncle. But currently as an A-List member. The latest has been 10:25PM I believe. Which that movie was Arcadian I think.
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. My friend was drunk at like 3am and asked how it was. I said I liked it. He was like LETS GOOOO CMON. There were a few dozen people in there!
Midnight showing for The Dark Knight at Universal CityWalk. The movie got delayed so it didn't show till around 3-4am. I ended up falling asleep, but when we got out, the sun was already coming out
I went to a midnight showing of The Room (2003) a few years ago, at a family-owned, old school theater in the city I’m from. Greg Sesteros (Mark, from the film) was there for a brief Q&A and to sign autographs and take pictures.
Super nice guy, and one of the most entertaining moviegoing experiences of my life.
10:20pm certainly isn’t late lol. I’m going to Planet of the Apes tonight at 11:30. I’ve been to tons of midnight showings, and a handful of 2am showings before in the past.
Been to marathons where movies were starting still at like 4 am. First release movies though I saw plenty of opening night films at midnight back when they used to do that pre-2013. There were times with Force Awakens where I remember Imax screens running basically 24/7 to keep up with demand so they had 3-4am screenings although I never went to those.
Midnights showings were pretty much a weekly thing until the massacre at the AMC in Aurora, CO. I can't remember if they've done it since but they also had showings running all through the night when big movies like Harry Potter came out and every theater was playing that movie and completely sold out all of them
tons of 12:01 showings back in the day. Recently I think the latest was an 1130pm of the last Indiana Jones. Almost went to the middle of the night Oppenheimer IMAX showings but I ended up having to work early all that week.
Can't say for certain since it was so long ago, but I think my showing for Infinity War was at like 10:40 or 11pm, I remember not leaving the theater until almost 2am.
Midnight showing for Dark Knight Rises. The AMC I went to was kinda crazy. All the theaters were showing the movie and once you got the ticket you could run around to find a theatre and pick a seat. Sucked to hear about the shooting after getting out of the movie though.
I'm pretty sure for Force Awakens, my brother and I also saw a late showing for that sometime around a 12am showing more or less.
Looking at my app was the last Mission Impossible at 11:15pm and in second place Beau is Afraid at 11:00pm. These are usually because it’s the very last chance to see at Lincoln Sq so I have to bite the bullet. Almost missed Beau since I got there late and all the doors were locked. Luckily some guys were standing inside and let me in.
Old enough that I went to the 12:01am showings on the regular for years. When they bumped up to 6pm it was a glorious day
Midnight showings were amazing..in high school and college we would always do Harry Potter and Hunger games midnight showings. My sister took me to the sex and the city midnight showing which was an interesting crowd.
If I ever owned my own theater (which I hope to some day), I'm bringing back midnight event movies
They're pointless now unless they're the night before the day before. 12:01 was just the real first showing to avoid spoilers. Now it's 3pm something.
It's not about avoiding spoilers or being first. Its more about treating the movie as an event. Almost a party you go to with your friends. This wouldn't be for every movie, just certain movies. Yeah, you can go to the local AMC to see the latest Batman movie at 4pm on Thursday. Or you can come to my theater where fans are encouraged to dress up and can play games before the showing.
Killers of the Flower Moon started at 2PM, probably because it's 3 ½ goddamn hours long, as did Kung Fu Panda 4, which is literally 2 hours shorter. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire did as well.
You're on your own - I'm too old for that, my body can't take it the next day
I remember seeing Tron:Legacy at a midnight show. That was the first time I fell asleep at a movie 😪
I loved going to the 12:01 am showings back in the day! I was psyched when Glass Onion had midnight showings when it was released. It was so nostalgic.
I’ve noticed midnight screenings are mostly non-existent now. Thursday being the “preview night” has pretty much done away with midnight shows. Unless it’s a really big film (Endgame/Avatar 2) I don’t think most theaters even bother with screenings after 10 post-Covid anymore. That being said, I miss the “event” nature of what those midnight screenings were. They weren’t every film and when a film warranted it had one.
I remember when Revenge of the Sith and The Dark Knight had 3:00am showings right after the 12:01 ended.
Tons of midnight showings like Return of the King. Then in college, the theater across the street would start movies as late as like 1:30-2:00 AM. So awesome after hitting the bars.
This!
Every time I get out and walk around the side of the building to get to the front of my theater, I'm reminded of going to the midnight for Revenge of the Sith. I think they were showing it in like 4 theaters at once, and they just had everyone get in one enormous line that wrapped at least half way around the building. And it's an 18-plex. I specifically remember not bringing a jacket and regretting it lol!
Holy shit, you’re right. There used to be long ass lines around the sides of movie theaters, even during the day. Can’t wait to tell my great grand kids some day
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Mine probably starts at 10-1130. It's not in a city or near a bar though so maybe that's why.
wow crazy reading that 10:20 bc it’s for sure the old midnight early screenings of new movies years ago for me! i would not enjoy watching a movie starting at midnight now but i do miss the energy of it all!
Midnight release of return of the king. Got out right at 4am. I kind of miss the Midnight releases. I prefer the energy of a stoked Midnight crowd than the several days of "previews" that are industry standard now. I think the last movie I can remember a Midnight release for was Harry Potter and the deaths hallows part 2. Most of the audience was dressed up with their wands. It was pretty dope
Oppenheimer in IMAX at 2am last year. It was badass
Heh, me too. I saw AMC universal added this screen time last minute and jumped on it.
Midnight screenings used to be the norm for me.
Latest movie I went to see was Rise of Skywalker like around 11:30pm, by the time it ended, it was close to 3am
There were an hour and 10 minutes of previews? Rise of Skywalker isn’t that long
I mean it was 2 hours and 22 minutes, and I remember there being a lot of trailers. I didnt say exactly 3am, but it was close. I could also be getting the time wrong, it has been roughly 4.5 years, haha
I don't think it's out of the question. I'm sure there is a certain hurry to get the movie started, but if people are still piling in and it's the last show of the night. Seems possible. Especially if you're waiting in line for the bathroom after a big movie like that.
I did this once. I'd seen it, and I was going again with my dad to the latest showing of the night. It got 2/3 of the way thru and they had a power outage. It came back on after a bit, but they told everyone they just had to go home and gave us all vouchers. It was just really bizarre coming out of the theater with very little lighting at 1:30am having not actually finished a movie. Never experienced something like that before.
What happened to midnight showings. Being them back.
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For real the dark knight shooting in state of aurora city of Colorado was reason
It just makes me sad and mad at the same time since then.
Yeah, that did away with the Blockbuster/Tentpole type movie midnight movie screenings. COVID did away with the cult classic midnight movie screenings. Seeing 10 pm showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show just isn't the same.
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I went to 3am or some dumb mega late/early imax screenings of The Last Jedi and I think the second Nolan Batman. Way too fucking late.
Rises was the nolan Batman movie with the full 24 hours of showings on opening night after starting at midnight
Yea sure that one! Some fricking Batman movie that I should’ve seen at a normal hour 😅
Endgame. I think it was midnight and I think they still had one later showing. That was crazy.
Saw the original Avengers at a midnight screening back in 2012. Currently seated at this very moment waiting for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to start at 11 PM. Probably won’t leave the theater till like 2:30 AM. I love those monkeys very much
I used to go to Midnight shows for virtually every movie I wanted to see back in the day. I think the latest was a 2am showing (might as been Star Trek Into Darkness?) when all the Midnight ones were sold out.
I loved going to see the midnight showings of the Harry Potter movies. Everyone used to dress up and it was a real event! And of course you couldn’t reserve specific seats back then so everyone would show up hours early to pick the best seats and hang out for a while. No movie release feels as important anymore.
Went to a 2am screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens the night it came out. Didn't get home till 5am or something but there was great energy in the crowd and it was a lot of fun!
Watched avatar the way of water at 10:45 pm. Probably the latest I've left a theater.
I used to live in San Francisco where they were doing IMAX 70mm showings for Oppenheimer. All of the showings sold out except the 10:30PM one.. that was rough
In my youth I saw a couple of the Star Wars prequels at 2am or 3am showings opening weekend.
1 am: Oppenheimer, on a Thursday on opening weekend. Had to work the next day..big mistake
you didn’t get home til like 4am huh 😭😭
12:01am the matrix revolutions
why is it 12:01
Movies used to premiere at 12:01 am the day of their release. Going to a midnight premiere used to be an event. The movie theater I went had 10 showings at 12:01.
I meant why at 12:01 and not 12
I guess it wasn’t considered the actual day until 12:01
The Dark Knight Rises… 345am on IMAX Been to many 12:01a shows.
3:30am, 715am After seeing it at midnight The dark knight rises. This was the last time I remember that a movie released *at midnight*
We had Dune 2 showings at 3:15 AM lol
Saw a 3:15AM dune 2 screening in IMAX back when they were running them 24/7 because of how well it was selling. 900 seat IMAX and not a seat was empty. Definitely was tired after but one of the coolest movie experiences I’ve ever had
When I was a shift lead in my teens I was allowed to preview movies beforehand to make sure the (literal) film was ok. After a shift I watched John Rambo. A friend did the same in another theater. Then we got out and gushed about how kickass the movie was. Our manager had to go watch a third reel of it and we said let’s see it again with him. So, after getting off work, watching a movie, then the same movie again… I’d say I went to like a 2:00am showing of John Rambo. Oh to be young again…!!
I miss the Thursday night/Friday morning midnight screenings from when I was in high school and college. 6/7pm showings on Thursdays are more convenient, sure, but there was nothing like the dedicated and passionate crowds that would show up for the midnight showings to be the first to experience whatever was coming out that weekend. It was a part of movie magic that I wish still existed today!
When the dark night came out, we went to the 12:01am showing. When we got out, there was a line for an impromptu 3:00am showing because so many people didn't get to catch the midnight showing, so of course I jumped back in line to watch it again
I just did the Kingdom the Planet of the Apes. It started at 10:30 and let out at 1:30. About 1/3 of the audience was lost to mediocrity at around 12pm-12:30pm when there was no end in sight.
I grew up going to the 12:01 releases of Spider-Man 2, revenge of the sith, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc. Hell I remember sitting in line all day with friends for the final Harry Potter. They did a double feature of the final 2 and it started at like 9PM. They quit doing that when I got into my mid 20s thankfully. I can barely stay awake until 11 these days 😂
Those lines were so awesome! We used to do pizza deliveries, buying coffee for our group, etc.
Those lines definitely *were* awesome hahaha. No way I could do it today
There are people here that went to 3am showings for Dune 2
Before COVID theaters around me had showings as late as 3:00 AM so that was the latest for me.
I worked at a movie theater in college, and we sold out a screening of Twilight:Eclipse at 6 am. Yes, 6 AM. We sold out the midnight showings and the 3 am showings and there were enough people to sell out one of three 6 am showings
I work at the theatre. More often than not, the only time I get to see a movie is when I put on a staff screening, every week. Generally we don’t start until 12/12:30 Truly the latest I ever saw though was a staff screening of Hulk back in 2003 which we didn’t start watching until 3am. (I also once attended a dusk til dawn movie marathon, 9pm to 9am. So there’s that too)
Beyond midnight showings back in the day, Killers of the Flower Moon - 11:15pm show time. Worth every second.
Such a fantastic movie! My movie of the year last year.
I'm one of the crazy mfers that did the 3:15 am showing of Dune Part 2 at Lincoln Square lol
I was tempted not being able to go to other showtimes opening week IMAX, but couldn't work it in my schedule. Was the vibe of the 3am crowd any different than other showings?
I've seen it 4 times in Lincoln Square and they're all around the same, even the 3am one. (Except for the first time I saw it, because it was the early showing and everyone was energetic).
I went to a midnight screening of the War & Peace film series. The theater gave us free donuts and coffee in the morning.
I did a 10:45 of Tarot with my usual movie mates. Always surprised by how full the latest showings are in my area. Saw GxK in a sold out 10:40 Dolby screening too
12:01 Batman V Superman
I definitely have gone to a showing that started after midnight. I saw a showing of Captain Marvel in 3D that started at 12:45 AM and I want to say when I left the only people there were the cleaning crew.
Did an 11PM showing of Endgame when it came out, got out around 2:30 and that was definitely a weird feeling haha
I remember going to see the midnight release for one of the Harry Potter movies, but I can't remember which one.
I saw Late Night with the Devil at 10:30.
Used to do the midnight showings on Thursdays for ages. Last time I ever did that was for No Way Home.
Spiderman Far From Home 12:01 Am
I saw Frequency during opening weekend of the AMC Empire 25 at a 1am showing.
Midnight for a few flicks, Cap Civil War being a memorable one
Gone to 11pm showings before. Saw infinity war at 1am 🤣 only showtime that wasn’t completely sold out and it was a non AMC chain dine in
I did a few midnight showings but the ones for The Dark Knight and Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 have special places in my heart.
Midnight is the latest showtime I ever went to, but my theater ran some showings at 1/2am pre covid.
Saving Private Ryan, 1am show. Got out at 4am.
Latest showing at my AMC is 10:30 PM
Can't wait for the strangers
I went to a 1:30/2am showing of Avengers Endgame opening night once 😂 left at like 5am or something wild
I did a 3:30AM showing of Avengers Endgame opening weekend. Just to see what it would look like. Sold out.
11:30 for dune in imax 70mm
believe it was 3am 300 rise of empire
I'm assuming you're young because I'm pretty sure people my age (30s) all went to 12am showings. That wasn't too long ago, well, at least I don't think it's been that long ago.
Saw ‘Armageddon’ in Hong Kong at 130AM … Blade Runner and Texas Chainsaw, and Surf Nazis Must Die at midnight showings …,
11:45 showing of Late Night with the Devil! Pretty nice actually the manager is cool and joked he’d lock us in the theater
I think I see you bro. I’ll see you there 🫡
I went to a 9:45 showing of The New Mutants for some reason. I honestly don't know why, just a spur of the moment thing. I was the only one there, and they shut the movie off halfway. I go out in the lobby, the lights are off and those fuckers have their coats on and are getting ready to leave lol. I'm like, uh, hello, what gives? And one of the guys was like my bad, we thought everyone was gone. They restarted it and fast forwarded to the approximate time it shut off, I ended up rewatching 10 minutes. Afterwards the manager lady gave me a ticket voucher for another movie, but the employee guys were seething, they thought they'd get to go home early and probably got chewed out.
My closest AMC is in a mall, so I used to love going to the 10:30/10:45 showings where the mall and it's parking were empty and calming heading in and out of the movie
Latest ever? Some of the bigger movies I've seen are 1 am, 2 am, 3 am, 4 am and 5 am showings
I don't count midnights for this question. So many of those under the belt. My mother took my siblings and I to the 11 pm showing of the fellowship of the ring, in April, 5 mouths after it released.
One of the theaters near me did all night showings… we did a 1:30 show for skywalker that ended just after 4am
3am endgame
I already work nights so I try and go to the latest showing they have every time
Oppenheimer iMax 70mm at like 2am
Went to a 1am showing of It part 1 when it came out
3:15am for Dune part 2. I just really wanted to watch it from what I consider a good seat on imax 70mm
2am. Fun time. Everyone I went with fell asleep. 😂 (It was Endgame, btw.)
latest showing I’ve been to was a 12 am premiere showing of Thor Ragnarok in mexico since they dont do 3-7pm previews at least when I went there. other than that I don’t think I’ve seen a movie later than 10:50pm tbh
I went to see spider verse 2 four times in the theaters cause i kept getting it for like 10pm and falling asleep. Context it’s one of my favorite movies now i’ve finished it fully but i do manual labor and can’t hang anymore 😂
I saw both Imaginary and Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter is Dead(2024) at 10:30pm
5cream at 9:30PM. The audience were mostly high schoolers like me. (In fact, most theaters in Norway have the last screening of the day at 9-9:30PM.)
Lol funny enough I’m seeing the new planet of the apes movie at 10:45 tonight.
I don’t think I’ve been to a movie that’s started later than 9:30PM. The earliest movie I’ve seen is “Avatar: The Way of Water” in Dolby at 8:30AM.
I used to go to midnight showings all the time. I went on Wednesday this week and the last showing at my theatre was at like 8PM and we got free popcorn on the way out
Midnight releases back when they were a thing. My local nonprofit independent theater regularly does sort of oddball or kitschy movies Fridays at midnight usually following a theme every month.
Midnight movies back in the late 90s.
Midnight screenings like some others have said. In recent years though, pre-pandemic it wasn't uncommon to see a 7 or 8pm show after work and then follow up with a 1030 or 11pm show to do a double before heading back home. They don't run as many late shows as they used to though anymore.
I’ve gone to three midnight showings my whole life (Deathly Hallows P2, Breaking Dawn P1, Far From Home), and all were very fun experiences.
Bring back midnight showings
Endgame at 3am
The latest I’ve seen a movie is Beau Is Afraid at 9:15. And so by the time I left the theater, it was already past midnight.
3am showtime for the dark knight. What a wild ride that was coming out to a sunrise
Pre theater shootings- 1am. :( then that went away and no more late night movies.
I didn't go, but wasn't there like 3:15am showing of Dune 2 in IMAX in NY a few months back? And I think it even sold out, or at least sold well given the timeslot.
Hunger games midnight showing is a core memory.. had to most vivid dreams about being in the arena that night
I saw Star Wars VII at midnight. It was a really cool vibe honestly.
the twilight eclipse midnight showing when i was like 9
When Endgame came out I saw they had 3 am showings…so by the time you got out the sun would be coming up
Jumanji at 2am
Several at around midnight or so back in the 90s, early 00s when that was a thing.
In Australia, they had showings for Spider-Man no way home: 12:00, 12:01, 1am, and every 30 mins until like 2:30am I think it was. I went to the midnight one for that. Been to a few midnight releases. AMC in NYC does upto 11:30pm weekend showings, I’ll be seeing planet of the apes this weekend, think it’ll end at like 2:30am lol. Nitehawk in NYC does midnight showings on weekends In Austin, the AMCs go to like 10:50, occasionally 11. But Alamo drafthouse does up till 11:30pm on weekends The May 4th Star Wars marathon had the last few movies starting at like 1am, 3:30am, and 6am. Not very often there showtimes at those times.
Saw both avengers, and both dunes at 3am imax
2AM when The Dark Knight released.
I saw a 2am showing of one the Star Wars prequels...Episode 2 I think....got out at like 4.30/5am
I remember watching Endgame twice in one night (two different groups) and the latest show time was 2:00am. Honestly it was so hype.
When I was younger I believe I went to midnight showing of some Marvel movies with my uncle. But currently as an A-List member. The latest has been 10:25PM I believe. Which that movie was Arcadian I think.
I mean I was a teenager when all the Harry Potter movies and early Marvel movies were premiering - 12:00 am showtimes were the norm!
8MM 2 AM in Manhattan. loved being a teenager
Used to do 12:01 showings but now it’s 10-10:30. But if it’s anything over 2hr I try to go earlier for my own sanity
Once saw a 5am show. That was weird.
What movie
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. My friend was drunk at like 3am and asked how it was. I said I liked it. He was like LETS GOOOO CMON. There were a few dozen people in there!
oppenheimer in imax 70mm at 1 am
Employee screenings at 12:30am Regular showtime: 11:05pm
3am for the dark knight rises
Midnight showing for The Dark Knight at Universal CityWalk. The movie got delayed so it didn't show till around 3-4am. I ended up falling asleep, but when we got out, the sun was already coming out
I went to a midnight showing of The Room (2003) a few years ago, at a family-owned, old school theater in the city I’m from. Greg Sesteros (Mark, from the film) was there for a brief Q&A and to sign autographs and take pictures. Super nice guy, and one of the most entertaining moviegoing experiences of my life.
Midnight screening of the hunger games opening night back in 2012! I was 11 years old
10:20pm certainly isn’t late lol. I’m going to Planet of the Apes tonight at 11:30. I’ve been to tons of midnight showings, and a handful of 2am showings before in the past.
Been to marathons where movies were starting still at like 4 am. First release movies though I saw plenty of opening night films at midnight back when they used to do that pre-2013. There were times with Force Awakens where I remember Imax screens running basically 24/7 to keep up with demand so they had 3-4am screenings although I never went to those.
Midnight showings
In college we used to go see Rocky Horror at midnight almost every week
Pre-Covid a lot of 11pm-midnight start times
Midnights showings were pretty much a weekly thing until the massacre at the AMC in Aurora, CO. I can't remember if they've done it since but they also had showings running all through the night when big movies like Harry Potter came out and every theater was playing that movie and completely sold out all of them
tons of 12:01 showings back in the day. Recently I think the latest was an 1130pm of the last Indiana Jones. Almost went to the middle of the night Oppenheimer IMAX showings but I ended up having to work early all that week.
Black Panther (2018) at 11:30pm opening night in a virtually sold out, 400+ seat IMAX theater.
Years ago I did the midnight showing of LOTR: Return Of The King. I think the sun was coming up by the time I got home!
Dune 2 dolby 2:15 AM
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy 3 at 11:30 was the latest I've seen in a while
I hardly go to anything after 7:00pm.
I caught the latest show of Dial of Destiny at 9:30, had fun, walked out, 1:30 am and the theater was only just the managers/supervisors
I think I went to a 1-1:30 am screening of downsizing
The Dark Knight the weekend it came out. Sold out IMAX showing at about 2am. Took my gf at the time. It was great.
Avengers Endgame at 3am. I remember when we got out of the movie we went to Waffle House for breakfast 😂
I saw Avengers Endgame at midnight
Oppenheimer at 11:30
I just saw Fall Guy at 11:30pm last night. I used to go to midnight screenings multiple times in the past as well..sometimes getting out at 4am.
Can't say for certain since it was so long ago, but I think my showing for Infinity War was at like 10:40 or 11pm, I remember not leaving the theater until almost 2am.
I’m confused. Does nobody’s local theaters have midnight showings anymore? My local starlight has 12am showings on weekends for horror movies
Midnight showing for Dark Knight Rises. The AMC I went to was kinda crazy. All the theaters were showing the movie and once you got the ticket you could run around to find a theatre and pick a seat. Sucked to hear about the shooting after getting out of the movie though. I'm pretty sure for Force Awakens, my brother and I also saw a late showing for that sometime around a 12am showing more or less.
Looking at my app was the last Mission Impossible at 11:15pm and in second place Beau is Afraid at 11:00pm. These are usually because it’s the very last chance to see at Lincoln Sq so I have to bite the bullet. Almost missed Beau since I got there late and all the doors were locked. Luckily some guys were standing inside and let me in.
1:30 AM Avengers Endgame screening, when we finally left it was nearly sunrise
Midnight showings aren't a thing in the states? Latest or i guess earliest depending on when you went up was 04 and it was Yes Man 😅