Godzilla Minus Zero: the RM228 GSC popcorn bucket, the new Mid Valley IMAX, and fan screenings

The most expensive thing about Godzilla Minus Zero at GSC is not the ticket. The chain's exclusive Godzilla popcorn container costs RM228 on its own, according to GSC's promotion page, on sale since 29 October at 24 cinemas while stocks last. The film opens across Malaysia on Thursday 5 November.

The bucket, the tumbler and where to buy them

GSC sells the container à la carte through Keepsake Online, its website and app, the concession counter and its e-kiosks, first come, first served; the page lists no combo price. The 24 cinemas include Mid Valley Megamall, 1 Utama, IOI City Mall, Aurum Theatre at The Exchange TRX, Gurney Plaza, Paradigm Mall in Johor Bahru, The Spring in Kuching and IMAGO in Kota Kinabalu. A Godzilla Aqua Tumbler is RM49.

For a fan weighing it up: the bucket is the souvenir, not a deal, so the fan screenings below are the better way to get one with a seat.

Fan screenings, tonight and Saturday

GSC's fan screenings bundle the ticket with extras. Tonight, Wednesday 4 November, there are IMAX screenings at GSC IOI City Mall 2 at 9pm for RM299 and at Aurum Theatre TRX at 8:30pm for RM329, each with a buffet, a Godzilla popcorn bucket, three posters and a mystery gift. On Saturday 7 November, GSC Mid Valley at 2pm (RM119) and Aurum TRX at 3:15pm (RM149) come with a buffet, the tumbler and the posters. TGV's own fan screening, also tonight at 9pm in IMAX at Pavilion Damansara Heights and Central i-City, costs RM55 with three posters, a popcorn combo and a mystery gift, for MovieClub members.

A new IMAX hall opens with it

Malay Mail reported on 26 October that GSC has converted Hall 18 at Mid Valley Megamall, its largest hall there, into an IMAX with Laser cinema with 4K laser projection and a 12-channel sound system, and that Godzilla Minus Zero is its first film from 5 November. This site's listings put the film in IMAX at 15 cinemas this week, nine of them TGV's and six GSC's, from Mid Valley and KL East Mall to Paradigm Mall and TGV Vivacity in Kuching.

The film itself

Screen Daily's critic Robert Daniels called it "a massive triumph for writer/director Takashi Yamazaki" after its New York Film Festival premiere. It is set in 1949, two years after Godzilla Minus One, with Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe returning. TGV lists it at 135 minutes, classified 16, in Japanese with English, Malay and Chinese subtitles.

Before you book

About 530 sessions a day are listed from Thursday, 3,140 for the week at 115 cinemas. The Godzilla Minus Zero page lists every cinema and IMAX hall, and the showtimes page marks the IMAX sessions on each time. A 135-minute film at 9pm ends after 11:15pm.