‘Creed III’ Screenings Disrupted In France & Germany After Isolated Brawls Break Out
08.03.2023 - 15:15
/ deadline.com
Creed III‘s immersive fight scenes have been spilling out into the audience in France and Germany, with reports of brawls at a number of screenings of Michael B Jordan’s Rocky spin-off over its opening week, beginning March 1.
French media reported around a dozen separate disturbances in cinemas in France over the weekend and a handful of independent venues have decided to take the film off their schedules.
Police were called to an afternoon screening in a Mégarama cinema in the central French city of Saint Etienne on Saturday (March 4) after fighting broke out and a security guard suffered a head injury when cans and bottles started to fly.
Later that day, the police forced 500 people to evacuate from a Kinepolis cinema in the northeastern French town of Thionville after a mass brawl broke out, leading to the cancellation of the screening. Footage of the disturbance went viral.
Contacted by Deadline, the cinema said it did not want to comment.
In other incidents, a screening in the Metropolis cinema in the northern town of Charleville-Mézières was also abandoned after two individuals started fighting. They were arrested and temporarily placed in police custody.
Creed III is still on the program of all three cinemas.
However, the nine-screen CinéCentre complex in the northern town of Dreux announced on its website on Monday that it was de-programming the film following “inappropriate behavior” that ran contrary to its “values”.
There have also been reports of similar incidents in Germany, with screenings in the cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Essen cancelled after the police were called in to calm the situation when fighting broke out.
German media questioned whether the brawls and related anti-social behavior could