US EditionUK cinemas fight viral 'chicken jockey' trend
- A disruptive trend impacted showings of 'A Minecraft Movie' in UK cinemas.
- A viral TikTok trend encouraging disruptions caused the cinema issues.
- The trend involved actions like shouting lines and throwing popcorn during key scenes.
- One cinema stated, 'anti-social behaviour' including 'loud screaming...will not be tolerated'.
- Cinemas warned disruptive viewers would be ejected, but the film still saw box office success.
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UK cinemas criticise 'chicken jockey' trend
UK cinemas have pleaded with audiences to stop throwing popcorn and disrupting screenings of A Minecraft Movie after a TikTok trend around the hit video game-based film went viral. The trend involves young audience members raucously shouting, applauding and throwing fistfuls of popcorn in the movie theatre when actor Jack Black shouts the phrase "chicken jockey" on screen. The cryptic phrase refers to a Minecraft character – a baby zombie sat at…
'Minecraft' director reacts to 'chicken jockey' trend: 'It's just a bonanza'
Filmmaker Jared Hess can't stop watching audience reaction videos.Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures An image from the 'chicken jockey' scene in 'A Minecraft Movie'Jared Hess is losing sleep due to all the audience reaction videos he's seen for his latest film, A Minecraft Movie — but in a good way. The director's wife keeps having to tell him to put the phone away, otherwise he'd never get any rest."It's been so bananas," Hess tells Entertainment W…
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UK cinemas fight viral 'chicken jockey' trend
UK cinemas have pleaded with audiences to stop throwing popcorn and disrupting screenings of "A Minecraft Movie" after a TikTok trend around the hit video game-based film went viral.
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