THE new Star Wars film premieres at the Odeon cinema in Southampton early on Thursday, May 19 with bosses predicting it will be one of the biggest movies the city has seen in years.
The last big box office smash at the cinema was in 1999 when Titanic was released.
Bosses at the Odeon in Southampton reckon that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which will be screened for the first time tomorrow at 12.35am, will be just as big as the Oscar-winning biopic.
Tickets have been selling well with fans undeterred by having to wait until past midnight to see the final instalment in the Star Wars series, which sees Anakin Skywalker's complete his transformation into the evil Darth Vader.
The next screening of the film at 8pm later that day is a sell-out with all 520 seats sold.
A cinema spokesman said: "Twentieth Century Fox is expecting the film to gross £45m in this country alone and we are expecting it to be screened here for months."
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