BURNLEY's multiplex cinema complex took more money on the first week of screening Star Wars than for the first three weeks of mega movie Titanic.
Between July 15 and August 10, 30,000 people have visited Apollo Leisure's complex at Hollywood Park to view The Phantom Menace.
The cinema took £12,000 in advance bookings and dedicated more than half of its screens to showing the film. Manager Andrew Smith said: "We had people ringing up up to two months before it opened to book seats but were unable to take bookings until two weeks before it was released.
"The 'phone lines were very busy for bookings the first day's performances which were more or less booked up in the first couple of days."
When it opened five of the complex's nine screens and showings were almost every half hour.
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