Flix Cinema Record Highest Attendance

The Flix society has broken it’s record attendance levels at a viewing of Inception with 307 people turning up over two viewings.

The screenings on November 7 were the highest the society had achieved since moving to the Cope Auditorium in 2006 and also placed equal-second on the all time list.

The screening at 8.30pm had a sell out audience with 226 people crammed into the Cope and the earlier 5.30pm screening had 81.

The previous record for the society at the Cope Auditorium was 190 people for the showing of Star Trek in Freshers Week last year in 2009.

The highest attendance of all time remains the showing of About a Boy in 2002 which had 321 people turn up to view the film starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult.

Flix chair, Ellie Mowbray said: “After winning “SOCFED Society of the Year” for the past 2 years and in July coming runner up at the NUS Awards for “Best Student Club or Society 2010” I thought we might have peaked – but apparently not.

“A sell-out at a show means more to us than any silverware we could have won because, as a Student Society, it’s the approval and support of our members that matters above any external judges.

“Seeing the Auditorium so packed was an inspiring sight and a deserved reward for the hard work put in by committee and alumni to make Flix what it is today.”

The audience was so large there were no seats left in the auditorium and some people were left in the aisles

Miss Mowbray added: “It was so unexpected. We knew Inception would be a big turnout, but reaching capacity is unheard of.

“Our first thought was to fit as many people as possible in comfortably by asking them to fill every seat on the row and giving up the seats we’d reserved for committee. Unfortunately, two people had to be turned away because of fire safety regulations, but I’m just glad it wasn’t more than two.

“Next year will be the 64th year Flix has been running and yet we’re going from strength to strength rather than heading for retirement.

“Our goal for the next few years is to find sponsorship or raise funds for a digital projector which will allow us to show films in 3D. Other than that, we’d love to see everyone back next Sunday for another fantastic showing.”

The next showing on Sunday is for Twilight: Eclipse (The third part of the Twilight Saga), with 176 turning up to New Moon the society are expecting another high turnout.

-- source Label Online (http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/new/label/article.php?id=103)