And lasty Odeon. BFI IMAX appears to be digital and not 70mm. Odeon Leicester Square not getting a Thursday opening night show… https://www.odeon.co.uk/films/no_time_to_die/18858/
Just booked my tickets for gold class. 
Cineworld Leicester Square tickets are now finally up and looks like basically there’s no evening show Thursday evening/opening night anywhere in London that’s a major venue…there, OLS, or the BFI (which looks to be digital). Guessing like with Spectre, corporate bookings… At this rate, may be better to catch the Eurostat to Brussels for the 0:07am Thursday night/Friday AM first show lol.
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For those wondering re: BFI IMAX - looks like it will be digital, not 70mm.
Which means - avoid. If you still want IMAX and can’t get out to Manchester, try the Cineworld Leicester Square as it has far superior projection (and actually a wider screen - just not as tall).
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I baulked at the BFI IMAX prices- 25 quid each!! No thanks.
Booked two tickets at my Odeon IMAX instead, the Thursday evening showing. I can’t wait!!
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Excellent. My screening is for 6.10pm after work on the first day of release here in Australia, which is April 8. I had been saving up a $50 gift card just for this occasion - so after using it, the transaction only cost me $12 for two people. The only other time was 9.30pm, but I couldn’t wait that long. I’m telling my work I’m finishing at 4pm that day so I can make it in time. It’s for Bond - I’ll make them understand!
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Wait till you see the Odeon Leicester Square prices…
By the way, March 2 means it’s Daniel Craig’s birthday. And it’s mine tomorrow!
AMC and Regal in the U.S. have posted show times, but tickets still not yet available. Full showings begin Thursday, April 9th, starting at 9AM in both IMAX and Dolby. The NTTD Marathon is scheduled for Wednesday, April 8th, also at 9AM. Good Friday is April 10th and Easter the 12th. BvS did big business on Easter weekend back in 2016.
Tickets on sale in Australia from today.
Tickets going up in the US
Happy Birthday sharpshooter. We share a birthday.
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Given how relatively quiet the marketing has been I’ve been wondering if they were gunna do this anyway.
Also note that the Hollywood Reporter referred to them as the biggest fan site. Naturally ours is still the best. 
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Happy Birthday to both of you ( actually three of you if DC is listening)
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Thanks, antovolk! Just scored my Marathon tix for Wed April 8th, then IMAX at 9AM the next morning, and Dolby at 2:15 after a martini lunch!
Also, that Aston Martin spiral poster is the bomb! Sorry about the Thai seller on eBay pilfering yours and EON’s images for profit. I feel somewhat responsible as I’ve promoted your work on this thread and This or That as well, tho it also pops up in a Google image search. Anyway, great work! Wish it was the official poster.
I never got the spectre hate. The Bond -Blofeld youth connection was very lame and the last act drags and capturing the definitive Bond baddie was disappointing but it’s pretty great until they blow up his lair…oh yeah the song sucked too. 
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Something to look out for ahead of the UK release of No Time To Die – I’m working on an article counting down the top 25 Craig Bond moments from his first four films. I have a general list already and I’m filling in the gaps. Not all will agree, but it’s an opinion business!
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I don’t really get this. Even though for some reason many news outlets have picked up on this.
Does the world really need to stop for this virus? Should it, even? The newsworthiness of the CV notwithstanding, is it and its effects any different to the flu?
Influenza is more widespread and causes more deaths, but the MI6-HQ geniuses are not advocating a halting of progress due to this virus…
Apologies to anyone touched by CV. More apologies to anyone touched by the flu.
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In short, yes it is different to the flu - though we don’t know for sure as yet how different/how much worse.
Covid-19 seems to cause more deaths - currently experts talk about roughly 1% mortality - and may be about as contagious or more so than flu. But this seems to be the median figure taken from a number of wide ranging statistics without proper clinical benchmarking as yet.
To get a better idea of the impact it’s necessary to look at the cases by age group:
As you see it depends very much on who contracts Covid-19 at what age (and probably with what kind of anamnesis and prior chronic conditions). Young people under 40 seem to be rarely seriously affected - but patients older than 80 seem to face nearly 15 percent mortality rate.
Now you could of course say that’s not an awful lot - but we have simply no way of telling for sure how close to the truth these figures are. Best case scenario: people catch it, get over it, and then live perfectly happy lives once they’ve recovered. But even in that scenario you might feel perfectly fine, have no idea you’re even carrying Covid-19 - and still spread it to a hundred people, one of which dies.
A worse scenario: people catch it, recover from it, it’s no big deal, not even statistically. And once the virus is endemic (endemic meaning it’s constantly found in any human population of significant size and heterogeneity) it steps up one more rank on the ladder of evolution by mutation. This happens all the time, even right now. Only it could develop into a form that’s lethal for 50 percent of cases, regardless of age. That would be a real kick to the teeth.
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