said by Jahntassa 
:I guess you've never gone to a midnight showing before, have you.
They say 12:01am because that's 'officially' the day of release. However the tickets are sold as the night before as far as 'ticketing' goes because it's still technically a Tuesday workday for them.
The tickets are for Tuesday 'night', even though they're technically for Wednesday 'just after midnight'.
Sorry, that's how it's pretty much always been as far as I know.
as pointed out a bove, the laws of space time dose not bend to the will of the movie theater. the op baught a ticket for 12:01am 23rd he went there, on time, and was refused, far as i can tell the op has a logitimate civil claim for the money paid to the babysitter not to mention a logitimate claim to a charge back on his credit card.
