High School Musical 3 Breaks Records With the Biggest Advance Bookings for a Movie in Cinema History!

High School Musical 3 Breaks Records With the Biggest Advance Bookings for a Movie in Cinema History!

LONDON, October 3/PRNewswire/ -- With 3 weeks to go before High School Musical graduates to the big
screen, High School Musical 3: Senior Year has broken records with the
fastest and biggest advance sales ever in movie history, beating previous
record holder "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "The Lord of the
Rings" and all the Bond films.

Audience demand to see the first major cinema event in the phenomenal
High School Musical franchise has ensured that some performances are already
sold out, with still 3 weeks to go before the film is on general release.

As of 1st October, cinemas across the UK have already taken advance
bookings to the total of half a million pounds. Odeon Cinemas, the UK's
largest chain puts their total in advance bookings at GBP245, 205. This beats
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the previous all time record holder,
which had taken GBP227k at the same stage of booking and which went on to
gross GBP48.3m.

Rupert Gavin, CEO of Odeon & UCI Cinema Group says: "This is a phenomenal
and record breaking start for High School Musical 3. Our cinemas have been
inundated with calls to pre-book tickets for what could be the year's biggest
kids and teen audience movie. With schools breaking up for half term just as
High School Musical 3 opens, we at Odeon are bracing ourselves for a huge
first week run."

Meanwhile fans are preparing for the arrival of all the stars of the film
- Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu and Britain's own
new wildcat, Jemma McKenzie-Brown - who arrive in London on Tuesday 7th
October for the UK Premiere in Leicester Square.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR is released only in cinemas
on Wednesday October 22nd2008, throughout the UK. Certificate U (tbc).
Running time: 111 mins

Source: Walt Disney Pictures

Further information contacts: Rupert Gavin - CEO Odeon & UCI Cinema Group, Email: Rupert.gavin@odeonuk.com, Tel: +44-(0)20-7-321-6220. Charlotte Tudor - VP Publicity, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, UK, Email: charlotte.tudor@disney.com, Tel: +44-(0)208-222-1221

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