The bit went beyond simply playing the wrong film, though, because he then added, “Then we shut it down, and a did a bit of fumbling to make it look like we made a mistake.”
It’s just a shame that there were two people in the audience that didn’t find it so amusing …
The duty manager of the Rio Cinema spoke to Time Out London about his moment of comedic genius, admitting that “it wasn’t the actual feature film, but a few seconds from a teaser trailer.”
Those are some very committed cinema employees right there.