Free ‘Avatar’ Screening Ticket Seekers Crash Site, eBay Sales Attempted
The free 16 minute preview of the upcoming film Avatar from James Cameron had it’s free ticket give away on monday. The overwhelming response brought the site to a screeching halt, soon after it was restored the tickets were gone for all the IMAX venues. Now people are trying to sell the tickets on eBay for as much as $500.
By late afternoon, avatarmovie.com was again up and running, taking five orders every second. Locations in New York and Los Angeles sold out almost immediately, and most tickets were expected to be snapped up by the end of the day.
Given that “Avatar,” James Cameron’s first narrative feature since 1997′s “Titanic,” promises a display of cutting-edge technology, the site snafu was something of an embarrassment.
You’d have to be a true fanatic with lots of money to buy $500 tickets for a feature length movie, much less a 16 minuted preview. I don’t care how cool it is, that’s insane.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter, eBay
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