Causeway Bay said farewell yesterday to UA Cinemas' complex in Times Square after 18 years - and also the 48-year-old President Shopping Centre in Jaffe Road.
With four films on show yesterday, about 3,000 movie-goers who had bought tickets at a special price of HK$18 on Sunday, a pre-sale day, enjoyed their last moments at the cinema complex.
One man, who watched The Viral Factor with his family, said: 'My wife and I asked for a day off because the tickets were cheap and we wanted to bid farewell to this cinema.'
A spokeswoman for the cinema said that tickets sold out quickly in the morning on the pre-sale day. The ticket price of HK$18 symbolised the 18-year history of the complex.
A few film lovers had queued up early to get the cheap tickets, rather than buy them online.
'I queued up at the cinema at 8am on Sunday. I waited for an hour before I bought the tickets,' said one young man who watched three films with his girlfriend yesterday.
About 50 people joined cinema-goers later to say goodbye to the cinema by holding a candle-light vigil at Times Square.