Sunday, November 06, 2005

New No 'Chicken Little' - Kids see suicide:

"A Times Square movie theater laid an egg at a showing of 'Chicken Little' last night.

Adults and kids expecting to watch Disney's G-rated animated flick at the AMC Empire 25 theater on 42nd St. were instead presented with a foreign film that opened with a young man committing suicide.

'It's pandemonium,' Joshua Gallo, 30, told the Daily News as he rushed out of the theater with his 5-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter. 'The kids are crying. The mothers are screaming for the managers to stop the film.'

Terrified children didn't know what to do as they watched a young boy hang himself from a tree at the 8:45 p.m. screening.

After five minutes, 'Andrea,' a Spanish drama opening today, was turned off and 'Chicken Little' was played.

Patrons got a coupon for a free movie."