Cinema plays Oscars prank on audience – shows La La Land instead of Moonlight
A London cinema has taken inspiration from the Oscars best picture balls-up by playing the first 20 seconds of La La Land to an audience who had just settled in for the evening to watch Moonlight.
A packed house was totally confused when La La Land started (actually the trailer, but who’s counting, right?) at the Rio cinema in east London.
“It would have been quite awkward if they hadn’t got the joke – but luckily they did,” Andrew Woodyatt told Metro.
“We stopped it, make it look as though we made a mistake, and then started Moonlight. It got a huge round of applause and everyone loved it.”
Props to @riocinema in #Dalston for playing the first 20 seconds of La La Land immediately before last night's screening of Moonlight pic.twitter.com/2ZLllrnPFq
— Sophie Dukebox (@sophiedukebox) February 28, 2017