Panic Ensues at AMC Theater Amid Fire Alarm, Scorsese There for ‘KOTFM’

An AMC Theater in L.A. erupted into panic and confusion throughout an obvious emergency over the weekend — a frenzied scene which could’ve really affected one Martin Scorsese.

This all went down Saturday evening on the AMC Century Metropolis location — the place eyewitnesses inform TMZ that each one screenings round 7 PM PT had been interrupted and lower brief after a fireplace alarm began blaring all through all the facility … the reason for which remains to be unclear.

We’re instructed that AMC staffers weren’t all that useful in clarifying to folks what was happening or what to do — and folk began to shuffle out on their very own … heading into the foyer.

Our sources inform us, nevertheless, that some folks had been really freaking out a bit — seeing how no info was apparently being communicated, a handful of oldsters thought there would possibly’ve been an lively shooter state of affairs … so yeah, it sounds prefer it was a chaotic sitch.

We’re instructed folks had been awkwardly standing round … not likely positive what to do. Ultimately, although, a large line fashioned as soon as it grew to become clear their films had been ruined — and visitor relations began to offer out refunds.

Our sources inform us everyone there did ultimately get their a refund — that, or a film voucher for one more go to — and that even for the Taylor Swift film, which is being offered as a premiere occasion was honored by the AMC workers … however the entire course of was messy.

The kicker to all that is that Scorsese was really readily available Saturday evening there at Century Metropolis — as he was intro’ing a screening of ‘Killers Of the Flower Moon’ across the similar time.