Weeklong Harry Potter Film Festival Coming To NC Theaters

If you’re a young Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin in North Carolina 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 North Carolina

• Cinemark Asheboro — 400 Randolph Mall, Asheboro, N.C.
• Cinemark Movie Bistro Charlotte — 9630 Monroe Road, Charlotte, N.C.
• Cinemark Movies 10 — 9508 Northeast Court, Matthews, N.C.
• Cinemark Tinseltown USA — 305 Faith Road, Salisbury, N.C.
• The Carolina Cinemark Asheville — 1640 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, N.C.
• Cinemark Brassfield Cinema Ten — 2101 New Garden Road, Greensboro, N.C.
• Cinemark Raleigh Grande — 4840 Grove Barton Road, Raleigh, N.C.

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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