John Carl D'Annibale

ALBANY -- All 1,200 free tickets available starting at 10 a.m. today for the July 22 Capital Region premiere of the Angelina Jolie movie "Salt" at the Palace Theatre were snapped up within minutes. No more tickets will be given out until 10 a.m. Monday, when the remaining block for the 2,800-seat Palace will become available at the theater's box office.

The Albany visitors center at Quackenbush Square distributed 600 tickets, and 400 were given out by the Albany Office of Special Events at City Hall, where the line began to form at 7:30 a.m., according to staffers. At the Palace box office, which wasn't supposed to be open today, theater general manager Chris Gould stood on the sidewalk and personally handed out another 200.