--- title: Noah Movie Showing Canceled Due to Flood at Exeter Movie Theater description: Oh, the irony canonical: https://time.com/55407/showing-of-noah-canceled-after-movie-theater-floods/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 9, 2014 3:24 PM UTC  Niko Tavernise—Paramount  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 9, 2014 3:24 PM UTC Here’s a story you might want to share with people who love making puns about [the new _Noah_ film](http://time.com/43906/noah-movie-behind-the-scenes-russell-crowe/) — such as a [“flood of complaints,”](http://time.com/41035/noah-russell-crowe/) in reference to [the controversy surrounding the movie](http://time.com/52121/noah-ban-malaysia-indonesia/). The Vue Cinema in the English city Exeter confirmed to the newspaper [Exeter Express & Echo](http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Noah-movie-Real-life-flooding-affects-Exeter/story-20923450-detail/story.html) that its first showing of _Noah_ on opening day April 4 had to be canceled because “there was flooding” due to “a fault with an ice machine.” The staff did not need to find an ark for customers because the problem was reportedly discovered first thing in the morning, so the theater just didn’t open until mid-afternoon. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/55407/showing-of-noah-canceled-after-movie-theater-floods/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/55407/showing-of-noah-canceled-after-movie-theater-floods/"},"headline":"Showing of Noah Canceled After Movie Theater Floods","datePublished":"2014-04-09T15:24:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:39.475Z","description":"The Vue Cinema in the UK city of Exeter had to scrap a showing of the biblical epic starring Russell Crowe because of flooding caused by an ice machine gone wild. 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