well luckily for the US you can actually catch it on the 16th. the are going to do a midnight showing but the midnight showings i have seen ussually start at like 11:00.
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ye hyper, when u said u need 2 purchase tickets in advance fo da 1st screening, i went to both FOTR and TTT 1st screenings without payin in advance. dere wuz a huge line n all but dey still had sum tickets. i live in bris..
I don't like lining up but Boxing day first session in Syd is almost always sold out by the time you get there. I bought about 10 tickets in advance, and boy am I glad I did.
We were there only half an hour early and there was a huge s-shaped line from one end to the other. The three biggest cinemas were used and the first two were sold out!! That was for TTT last year.
I guess it depends which cinema you go to. For mine, you definitely need to buy it in advance. Otherwise you need to wait two or three sessions before you can finally watch it.