AMC Theatres says over 20,000 fans have already purchased tickets to see both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” on the same day, making all those “Barbenheimer” double feature memes a reality.According to Elizabeth Frank, EVP Worldwide Programming & Chief Content Officer with AMC Theatres, the theater chain has even had a spike of 33 percent higher ticket sales for both films between Friday and today among people excited to make their own double feature.To be clear, AMC is not hosting its own double feature event screening both movies back-to-back.
And you can’t get both movies for the price of one ticket.
But enough fans two weeks out from both movies opening on July 21 are already committing to see both films — and enough press has already asked the question of the theater chain — that it prompted AMC to share the staggering numbers.Those 20,000 people are all AMC Stubs members, so it could be…
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