Fans flocking to midnight screenings

Cinemas across Tayside and Fife are preparing to welcome legions of Star Wars fans as the next instalment of the legendary film franchise hits screens.

Midnight screenings are taking place in Arbroath, St Andrews, Dunfermline, Glenrothes and Leven tonight.

Hundreds of fans are expected to queue up at Cineworld in Camperdown Leisure Park ahead of seven late night showings of The Last Jedi.

There are four midnight screenings at Dundee’s Odeon in Douglasfield tonight. The same goes for the Odeon in Dunfermline.

Tickets are also selling fast for the first screenings at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) on Friday.

Two midnight screenings will take place tonight at both Kino Cinemas in Glenrothes and Leven, while there will be one in the New Picture House in St Andrews and another at the Chalmers Filmhouse in Arbroath.

Last night deputy general manager at Perth Playhouse Paul Byrne said: “It is going to be awesome, phenomenal. Midnight screenings of Star Wars always sell out, there is only a handful left here.”

Alice Black, head of cinema at the DCA, said: “For us it is always exciting people are choosing to come here as opposed to the multiplexes.”

Brenyn Goodwin, spokesman for Chalmers Filmhouse in Arbroath, added: “It is a lot more convenient for people living in Arbroath, and people can take advantage of the restaurant. We’ve had tonnes of bookings.”

Head of film at Cineworld Cinemas Stuart Crane said: We’re so excited for fans to see the film at Cineworld and can’t wait to show it.”