{"id":1016459,"date":"2022-03-09T23:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/watch-texas-showing-of-the-batman-interrupted-by-live-bat-released-as-a-prank\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T23:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:09:41","slug":"watch-texas-showing-of-the-batman-interrupted-by-live-bat-released-as-a-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/watch-texas-showing-of-the-batman-interrupted-by-live-bat-released-as-a-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Texas showing of &#8216;The Batman&#8217; interrupted by live bat released as a prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Texas-showing-of-The-Batman-interrupted-by-live-bat-released-as-a-prank.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A live bat that caused chaos at a Texas screening of <i>The Batman<\/i> was released by a moviegoer as a prank, the theater operator confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The showing of the new film, which stars Robert Pattinson as the titular DC Comics hero, Moviehouse &amp; Eatery by Cinepolis, turned into a live show on Friday when someone released a live bat inside the theater.<\/p>\n<p>Annelise Holyoak, the director of marketing and communications for Cin\u00e9polis, confirmed in a statement Wednesday that the bat&#8217;s presence was the result of a prank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately a guest tried to pull a prank at one of our locations,&#8221; Holyoak said in the statement provided to NBC News. &#8220;Local animal control was immediately contacted, and they oversaw the situation to ensure guest, associate and animal safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Videos captured by moviegoers show the bat<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeremiah24_\/status\/1499925051482820610?s=20&amp;t=04wrL8vc19DO-XuEvaWyYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> flying across the screen<\/a> and fleeing from pursuing cinema employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna turn all these lights off and try and get it to go into this lighted area,&#8221; an employee says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sparty1211\/status\/1500227410909970438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1500227410909970438%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fiframe.nbcnews.com%2FlqUISqf%3F_showcaption%3Dtrueapp%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in one of the videos<\/a>. &#8220;If you are uncomfortable being in the dark with a bat, please remove yourself now.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (UPI) &#8212; A live bat that caused chaos at a Texas screening of The Batman was released by a moviegoer as a prank, the theater operator confirmed. The showing of the new film, which stars Robert Pattinson as the titular DC Comics hero, Moviehouse &amp; Eatery by Cinepolis, turned into a live show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}