Weeklong Harry Potter Film Festival Coming To Calif. Theaters

ACROSS CALIFORNIA – If you’re a young Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin in California looking for one last hoorah before heading back to the local Hogwarts, hang on to your broomsticks — every Harry Potter film is returning to theaters nationwide for one week only. You read that right. You can watch all nine films at Cinemark XD theaters nationwide for $25 total. Or, if you can’t make it to all the showings, you can pay $5 per movie.

Cinemark is celebrating “Wizarding World XD Week” from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6. The $25 festival pass includes a free collectible keychain, a specially designed cup that you can refill for $3.50 through Nov. 30 and a commemorative festival badge. You can reserve your seats beginning Aug. 25. Seating is limited though, so passes will be doled out on a first-come, first-serve basis. And, obviously, you can only buy one pass per person.

Click here to see showtimes for every movie.

Here are all the Cinemark XD theaters in California:

• Cinemark At The Pike Outlets and XD Long Beach, CA
• Cinemark Carson & XD Carson, CA
• Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 15 and XD Los Angeles, CA
• Cinemark 18 & XD Los Angeles, CA
• Cinemark Renaissance Marketplace and XD Rialto, CA
• Century DOCO and XD - NOW OPEN Sacramento, CA
• Century Laguna 16 and XD Elk Grove, CA
• Century Roseville 14 and XD Roseville, CA
• Blue Oaks Century Theatres and XD Rocklin, CA
• Cinemark 16 Victorville, CA
• Cinemark Renaissance Marketplace and XD
• Cinemark Chico 14 and XD Chico, CA
• Century 20 Daly City and XD Daly City, CA
• Century at Tanforan and XD San Bruno, CA
• Walnut Creek 14 and XD Walnut Creek, CA
• Century at Pacific Commons and XD Fremont, CA
• Redwood Downtown 20 and XD Redwood City, CA
• Century 25 Union Landing and XD Union City, CA
• Century Laguna 16 and XD Elk Grove, CA
• Century DOCO and XD - NOW OPEN Sacramento, CA
• Century La Quinta and XD La Quinta, CA
• Century @ The River and XD Rancho Mirage, CA
• Century Marina and XD Marina, CA
• Cinemark Redding 14 and XD Redding, CA
• Blue Oaks Century Theatres and XD Rockland, CA
• Century Roseville 14 and XD Roseville, CA

If witches, wizards and Quidditch aren’t really your speed, remember that kids nationwide are invited to watch Bo Burnham’s R-rated movie “Eighth Grade” on Wednesday night. No ratings will be enforced.

The Potter festival also comes as the struggling movie subscription service Movie Pass implements a novel — pun intended — strategy to remain in business: by reducing the number of movies subscribers can watch. Instead of a movie a day, members are now limited to three a month.

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