12 days are left to grab a free movie ticket at TGV 1Shamelin Cinema in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. Opened on November 11, 2011, this brand new multiplex is the latest addition to TGV Cinemas, a rapidly expanding Malaysian movie theater chain. From November 18 to December 9, 2011, TGV 1Shamelin will celebrate its grand opening with ongoing free movie screenings. 8,000 tickets are waiting to be picked up at its ticket counter located on the fifth floor of the newly built 1Shamelin Shopping Mall. See a partial movie schedule here.
TGV 1Shamelin in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur / source: 1Shamelin Shopping Mall's Facebook page
The free screenings are divided nicely between Malaysian and international blockbusters. Of the Malaysian titles are Chinese-Malaysian rapper and first-time filmmaker Namewee Wee Meng Chee’s Nasi Lemak 2.0 (2011), costume drama and the second most expensive Malaysian production ever (8 million ringgit) The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines (2011) loosely based on The Kedah Annals and directed by Yusry Abd Halim, and crime action flick and top grossing Malay film ever (10 million ringgit) KL Gangster (2011) directed by 27-year-old Syamsul Yusof.
The international category includes 2011 summer blockbusters Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) starring James Franco and X-Men: First Class (2011). Also showing during this promotion period is cantonese romantic comedy Men Suddenly in Love (2011) starring Eric Tsang and Chapman To.
Extended promotion offers are available for residents in Cheras as well. By presenting TGV Cinemas leaflets, which are being distributed in Taman Shamelin Perkasa of Cheras presently, anyone may redeem a maximum of two tickets per day at the multiplex from December 9 to 16, 2011, according to a press release on TGV Cinemas’ website.
With eight new screens and 1,714 seats, TGV 1Shamelin puts TGV Cinemas’ total number of screens to 114 and total number of seats to 23,000. This is a significant share in the nation’s total of roughly 500 screens as of March, 2011 (Film Business Asia). Founded in 1995, the company was the first to open a multiplex in Malaysia. It now boasts 17 multiplexes in all. Not long ago in January, it opened a new-concept beanieplex in Penang, again the first. The beanieplex is characterized by movie theaters with seats shaped like human-sized bean bags. Soon in December, TGV Sunway Pyramid in Selangor, TGV Cinemas’ top performing multiplex, will be the first to operate a digital IMAX theater system in the country too. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) will be the first film to be played there.
