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Top 25 Halloween Outdoor Movie: Signs

By on October 12, 2010 in Outdoor Movie Events

The next film on our list of Top 25 Halloween Outdoor Movies is Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin. Signs is the perfect pick for your next outdoor movie, and would be great at your community Halloween celebration, or annual party with friends. It is probably not a good picture to show to small children, as it is probably too scary, but Signs strikes a good balance between being scary, and not being overly violent or over the top. Here’s a theatrical release trailer for the film:

Signs is set in , , where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) lives with his children Morgan (Rory Culkin), who suffers from asthma, and Bo (Abigail Breslin), and his younger brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix). Their lives are fairly normal, until suddenly one day crop circles show up in their corn fields. Graham dismisses the event as a scam, until he and Merrill apprehend a figure on the roof of their barn, and it mysteriously evades them into the cornfield. They decide to get a baby monitor in order to communicate, and hear strange clicking noises as they listen. Then, Graham hears the clicking noises outside, and sees a green leg poking out of the cornfields.

Signs Mel GibsonThe situation turns really intense when aliens are spotted in , and lights are seen hovering over . As many locals are going to the lake as there is belief that the aliens are afraid of water, the Hess family decide to stay in their boarded up house. Signs is a scary movie that will bring the spirit of Halloween to any party. Signs is a fun film that is appropriate for a variety of ages, and so could be screened as an outdoor-movie for your entire community.

Signs Mel GibsonWhy not screen the film near your local cornfield? It would certainly heighten the scare-factor. Or if you are planning on a screening for you and your friends, you could screen it in the middle of the cornfield, and have other friends planted in the corn making noises during appropriate moments in the film. You would definitely create one of the scariest cinema moments that your friends have ever experienced!

If anyone has screened Signs as an outdoor movie, post your story to the comments section below! We’d love to hear and see how the event went. Happy haunting!

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Top 25 Outdoor Movie: Rocky (Original 1976)

By on June 15, 2010 in Outdoor Movie Events

As we move down the Top 25 Outdoor Movies of All Time list, our next stop is Rocky, the 1976 movie that won 3 Oscars including best picture, and made Sylvester Stallone’s career. Here is the original trailer for the film:

Rocky was written by and starred Sylvester Stallone, who plays Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer and a collector for a loan shark in . Rocky gets the chance of a lifetime when the World Heavyweight Champion chooses him to fight when his opponent is injured before the scheduled bout. Rocky trains hard, and to practice his moves, he punches animal carcasses at a meat packing factory that his friend works at during the night. Before the big fight, Rocky tells his girlfriend that all he wants to do is to go the distance with Creed (the World Heavyweight Champion), which is to fight him a full 15 rounds – a feat that has never been completed by any boxer. Rocky is a film that will really bring out a big crowd, and will leave your community inspired.

Rocky is rated PG for some violence and language, but is probably not for small children for entertainment purposes. It would make a really great selection however as a university or college campus movie, or for high school or youth groups. The film is well known enough that you’ll get a big crowd, but is also vintage enough that you won’t have people not coming because they’ve recently seen it.

There are some excellent opportunities for pre-movie activities and general themes. With the right resources (and donations from a few local businesses), you could have inflatable fighting gear- with an inflatable boxing ring and all! Often times your event producer (if you rent your equipment) will also rent out inflatable bounce houses and items like fighting rings. This would be a really fun activity that would help create a thematic atmosphere for your outdoor movie screening that will be memorable for your community members.

If anyone has screened Rocky as an outdoor movie, we’d love to hear from you and would love to share your story with the rest of the outdoor movie community! Email us at community@openaircinema.us

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Coraopolis, Pennsylvania: The Perfect Way to Enjoy an Outdoor Movie

By on November 3, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

The Dependable Drive In is a great throw back to the old drive-in days. It is located in Moon Township, just 30 minutes outside of and is one of the only drive ins still operable in the area. It’s family owned and operated, and it features four screens that show two movies per night! Movies times as well as ther helpful information can be found online at their website: www.dependabledrivein.com. While they don’t receive every new release, the Dependable usually gets almost all of the bigger titles and because they show eight movies every night, they’re able to show them for longer than theatres…so it’s a great back up plan if you miss a theatre showing! Very few people know this, but they’re actually open all year around! During the busy summer months, they’re open seven days a week and usually start showing movies around nine. Around October or November, they’ll close on the weekdays, but still show movies every weekend, starting more around six or seven. In winter, they start closing screens (as business dictates) until they have one screen showing two movies each weekend. Again, refer to their website for up to date information. It’s a much better value than going to a theater these days, costing only $6 per person for two movies! It’s also a great atmosphere, as you can sit in your car or outside on a warm summer night and laugh and talk to your friends about the show. The concession stands are great too; everyone’s always so happy and the food’s awesome and served in a relatively timely manner. Again, it’s also much cheaper than what you can get at a theatre. All in all, it’s a great—nostalgic for some—time at an unbeatable price. To save time start using globalYP.net, online yellow pages, instead of a phone book.

Keri W.

Source-http://blog.globalyp.net/arts-entertainment/the-dependable-drive-in-is-the-perfect-way-to-enjoy-a-movie-in--pa/

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Salt Lake City, Utah: Open Air Cinema hosts Outdoor Movie at NRPA Convention

By on October 18, 2009 in Drive-in Movie Theaters, Open Air Cinema, Outdoor Film Festivals, Outdoor Movie Events, Outdoor Movie Producers, Outdoor Movie Products, Outdoor Movie Screens

This past Wednesday, Open Air Cinema and Swank Motion Pictures hosted a free screening of Transformers 2 at the National Parks and Recreation Association (NRPA) national congress in , .  The screening was a blast, and everyone really enjoyed watching the movie on the huge 30′ screen. It was really great because everyone was able to see the screening on a brand-new system.  The sound was amazing, and the projection was stunning.  National Parks and Recreation administrators from all over the place came to see the screening: , , Utah, , , , , , , , and many other places.  Here is an excerpt of a review from io9:

“Critical consensus on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is overwhelmingly negative. But the critics are wrong. Micheal Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers’ worth of CG for a brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot.

Oh, and I would warn you that there’ll be spoilers in this review — except that, really, since I still have no idea what actually happened in this movie, I’m not sure how much I can spoil it.

Since the days of Un Chien Andalou and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari filmmakers have reached beyond meaning. But with this summer’s biggest, loudest movie, Michael Bay takes us all the way inside Caligari’s cabinet. And once you enter, you can never emerge again. I saw this movie two days ago, and I’m still living inside it. Things are exploding wherever I look, household appliances are trying to kill me, and bizarre racial stereotypes are shouting at me.

Transformers: ROTF has mostly gotten pretty hideous reviews, but that’s because people don’t understand that this isn’t a movie, in the conventional sense. It’s an assault on the senses, a barrage of crazy imagery. Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one.”

Read more at http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie

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Easton, Pennsylvania: Easton Holds Outdoor Movies at the Mill

By on October 14, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

The weather didn’t put a damper on a long-awaited night in . The city transformed the old Simon Silk Mill into an outdoor movie theatre for an event called Movies at the Mill. Mayor Sal Panto says more than a thousand people showed up to watch local filmmakers screen their work.
Mayor Sal Panto: ”We wanted to showcase the mill primarily so people start getting excited about some of the things that we want to do here. And what we expect the vision for what this mill is going to be.”

He says some of Easton’s finest eateries provided food and beverages. And he says Movies at the Mill will become an annual event.                            source-http://wfmz.com/view/?id=1281111

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Parks and Recreation Recreates the Drive-In With Outdoor Movies in the Park

By on July 30, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events
Schenley Park

Schenley Park

Many people recall movies at the drive-in theater with fond memories. Though there are not many drive-in movie theaters left, some people still make the trek to see a movie under the stars. residents know that they still appreciate outdoor movies as the city has one of the largest amount of remaining drive-ins in the country. However, Pittsburgh Parks and Recreation is bringing even more outdoor cinema screenings to the area with portable, inflatable screens and movies in the parks.

At Pittsburgh’s outdoor movie screenings, the admission is free and a car is not required. Movies are being shown in parks all around the Pittsburgh area so there is sure to be one near you. They usually screen popular family-friendly films such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars, WALL-E, Jumper, Hotel for Dogs, Escape 2 Africa, Madagascar, Iron Man, The Mummy III, Mamma Mia! and Slumdog Millionaire. Movie-goers should bring blankets and lawn chairs, as well as snacks and beverages, although alcohol and glass bottles are not allowed. Most movies in the parks will continue until the end of August.

• Schenley Park, Flagstaff Hill on Sundays & Wednesdays.
• East Liberty, Beatty Street behind the Carnegie Library on Mondays.
• West End / Elliot Overlook on Tuesdays.
• Brookline Memorial Park, Oakridge Street on Thursdays.
• Arsenal Park, 39th and Butler Streets in Lawrenceville on Fridays.
• Riverview Park, Observatory Hill on Saturdays.
• Grandview Park, Bailey Avenue, Mt. Washington on Saturdays.

Click here for film schedules

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: KOA Kampgrounds of America Feature Luxury Amenities Such as Outdoor Movies

By on July 14, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

Outdoor Movies at Gettysburg KOA Kampground, PennsylvaniaAt the Battlefield KOA Campground here, you can catch up on e-mail at your campsite, take in an outdoor movie on a 9-foot inflatable movie screen, lounge by the pool, play a round of mini golf or try your hand at Extreme Hunting, one of the arcade games in the game room. There’s live music on Saturday night and pancake breakfasts on weekend mornings, and if you don’t feel like cooking, you can have dinner delivered to your RV door, tent flap, or what-have-you.

Heck, you don’t even have to really camp at this wooded 25-acre site, thanks to its growing inventory of air-conditioned cabins, cottages and lodges –essentially, tricked-out trailers done up to look like hand-hewn log dwellings. And with modern amenities like wireless internet and movies under the stars –this is luxury camping.

“So much for getting away from it all,” owner John Bergeron says with a laugh.

But getting away they are. By many accounts, business is brisk this summer at campgrounds nationwide. The sinking economy may have put the brakes on taking the Grand Tour, but many Americans still want to get away. And with relatively low gas prices, more people are pulling into campgrounds.

KOA Kampgrounds of America, a network of 460 commercial campgrounds, reports a 5% increase in June occupancy. REI, an outdoor-gear chain, says sales of family tents were up 17% in June over last year. The retailer also saw double-digit increases in sales of related products, such as air mattresses and campground stoves.

“People are returning to simpler lifestyles – the ‘less is more’ ethic,” says the foundation’s Christine Fanning, “And everyone is searching for vacations that fit with today’s economy.”

As in other segments of the travel industry, campers are staying closer to home, but they’re also staying away longer. At KOA campgrounds, for instance, average stays are 2.5 nights, up from 1.7 nights three years ago.

Today’s campgrounds are not necessarily like the ones you might remember as a kid. Food delivery, concierge service and skate parks are among innovative additions at some private facilities. At Kamp Klamath RV Park and Campground in Klamath, Calif., the alder-smoked salmon served at the park’s restaurant has won prizes in several competitions. And many KOA’s across the country have purchased large, inflatable movie screens in order to show outdoor movies for their guests –bringing urban entertainment to the outdoors. Many KOA campers have mentioned enjoying films they might have seen at home, but under the stars, in a rustic environment.

At Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Camp Resort & Water Playground in Wisconsin Dells, owner Brent Gasser has gradually expanded what began as a campground with basic tent sites to a “camp resort” with a four-level water playground, boat and golf cart rentals, themed weekends (think Christmas in July), and 51 rental units that go from $39 to $299 a night.

“The traditional camper has been requesting more and more accommodations that they’d find in a hotel,” Gasser says. “And since we’re in an area with many hotels, we have to compete.”

What many campground denizens say they do like is the camaraderie of the camp. KOA president Jim Rogers calls campgrounds “the last small town in America. They’re a live community, a social beehive. You’re interacting with strangers and allowing your kids to.”

“A woman stepped onto our site to avoid a passing car last night and ended up staying until midnight,” says Lynn Boozel, a camper at the KOA in . Boozel and his wife, Rhonda, of McVeytown, Pa., are wrapping up their seventh annual week-long visit here. “We came for a weekend and got hooked,” Boozel says.

The couple, with their two young daughters and a granddaughter, are sleeping in a six-person tent, which puts them in the minority among the Hitchhikers, Wolf Packs and other RV models that occupy most of the sites.

Across the way, Valerie and Bill Stack of Donora, Pa., have just arrived in their Ford pickup pulling a 12,000 pound, 38-foot trailer. This is one of five trips they’ll make here this summer.

“Once you’re addicted to this, you can’t stay home,” Bill Stack says. “You come back and say, ‘Boy, did I have a great time,’ and they ask, ‘What did you do?’ and you say, ‘Nothing.’ ”

The trailer has a gas fireplace, queen-size bed and flat-screen TV, among other amenities. They’ll spend the weekend swimming in the pool and maybe play some putt-putt golf.

“But we’re here for nature,” Valerie Stack says. “If I lost everything tomorrow, I’d go out and buy a tent.”

Source: “Campers don’t have to sacrifice the creature comforts” by Jayne Clark -USA Today. Read full article at: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-07-09-camping-revival_N.htm.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Go back to the 80's with Schuylkill Banks' Free Summer Movies

By on July 12, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

Go Back to The 80′s with Schuylkill Banks’ Free Summer Movies

Outdoor Movies in PhiladelphiaIf you love 80’s movies and outdoor fun, then you’re in for a special treat this summer. Families can take a blast from the past with FREE movies by the Walnut Street Bridge every other Thursday.

The first film of the outdoor movie series, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was held on June 25th. But, your family can stiill enjoy remaining film favorites under the stars including Back to the Future on July 9th, The Goonies on July 23rd and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on August 6th. If you arrive early, enjoy complimentary snacks and enter for a chance to win an IKEA gift basket.

Everyone is encouraged to bring friends, blankets and picnic baskets. Movies begin at 8:15 p.m.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-6032--Family-Entertainment-Examiner~y2009m7d7-Go-back-to-the-80s-with-Schuylkill-Banks-Free-Summer-Movies

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: South Street District Screens Outdoor Movies this Summer

By on July 2, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

South St. District Hosts Summer Outdoor Movie Screenings

Outdoor Movies in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe South Street Headhouse District are now showing free outdoor movies every Wednesday night this summer in an effort in part to promote area businesses.

On Wednesday, June 24, it’s Grease. It was being shown under the historic shambles near 2nd and Lombard Streets. It was free and a BYOC, according to Rakia Reynolds, spokeswoman for the South Street Headhouse District:

“So its a BYOC. You bring your own chair and enjoy some summer block busters, some oldies but goodies, and fun family musicals. So bring everybody out to enjoy the outdoor screenings.”

Reynolds says each screening is sponsored by a district business and that business is promoted that evening . Employees of fifties-themed Johnnie Rockets restaurant were expected to entertain the crown with dances and have giveaways before the Grease screening.

There are different movies are every Wednesday night and begin around 8pm. For more information go to southstreet.com.

by KYW’s John McDevitt
Source: http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/4664844.php?

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Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: 16MM Outdoor Movies at Secret Locations

By on June 24, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

16MM Movies at Secret Locations

Outdoor Movies in Fort Mifflin, PennsylvaniaThe Guerilla Drive-In is an organization that projects 16MM movies in interesting locations in and around the , area. Since 2007 the group has staged secret film viewings in settings that match the theme of the movie being screened. For example: Caddyshack was shown at a golf course, Meatballs at a canoe rental company and Ghostbusters at the supposedly haunted .

All movies are shown using a 1970’s Eiki school projector, which is mounted on a 1977 BMW R100/7 sidecar rig.
The process to gain admittance to the GDI’s member list is an adventure in and of itself. Prospective members need to find the “MacGuffin” – an orange Pelican case filled with an AM transmitter, wired to an ex-Retropod Sony Sports Walkman, playing a continuous-loop answering machine cassette that plays the secret access code needed to join. After finding the MacGuffin, you have to take a picture of yourself with it, email the access code and picture, and you’re in. Once on the list, details on how to get to the screenings are sent out the week of the showing.

Source: http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/16mm-movies-at-secret-locations.html

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film Buffs Display Their Passion with Quick-hit Guerrilla Drive-in

By on June 20, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

Film Buffs Display their Passion with Quick-Hit Guerrilla Drive-ins

Outdoor Movies in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThink the only way to see a big-screen movie is while slurping a 64-oz. soft drink, eating a $5 candy bar and shushing the wannabe film critic behind you?

That’s not the case anymore, thanks to such people as John Young, the creator of the Guerilla Drive-In and part of a loosely knit network of celluloid renegades resurrecting the drive-in for a new age.

“Nowadays, you push a button and a movie appears,” he said. “There’s fun in the inconvenience of having to get off the couch and go somewhere you might not be familiar with, maybe getting rained on, maybe being cold. It makes it an adventure.”

For the past four years or so, Young, a 38-year-old Web developer, has been showing films — real, honest-to-goodness 16mm film — from a 1970s school projector mounted on the sidecar of his 1977 BMW motorcycle.

He has presented more than a dozen movies at locations suited for the theme: Meatballs at a canoe-rental center, Caddyshack on a golf course, and most recently, Ghostbusters at , a favorite haunt of paranormal investigators.

It’s not exactly an evening at the local multiplex — and that’s the point.

“What a great idea. What a great way to see a movie,” said Jim Haighey, of West Chester, one of more than 60 people watching Ghostbusters projected in front of the fort’s 211-year-old Citadel. All of them had to first find a hidden AM receiver in West Chester transmitting a secret code before being e-mailed the location of the movie.

It was a soggy night at the Revolutionary War fort on the Delaware River, and the 1984 comedy was interrupted every few minutes by planes zooming just overhead on their way to the runways at nearby International Airport, but that only seemed to add to the moviegoers’ enjoyment.

Guerrilla drive-ins or “MobMovs” — shorthand for mobile movies — are popping up around the country in a variety of configurations.

Unlike Young’s old-school use of real film, guerrilla drive-ins typically eschew the analog in favor of DVDs and LCD projectors.

And while West Chester’s guerrillas bring lawn chairs to watch their movies under the stars (weather permitting), other groups maintain the drive-in tradition of watching from inside their cars. Audio is heard through each car’s radio by way of an FM transmitter.

Whatever the arrangement, guerrilla drive-ins give new meaning to the phrase “community theater.” People can get up, walk around and socialize during the show if they wish, with some MobMovs taking on the feel of tailgate parties.

Eric Kurland, 41, a native of , Pa., and now an independent filmmaker living in Los Angeles, runs a popular 4-year-old weekly showing, HollyMobMov.

“I miss the old drive-ins,” said Kurland, who remembers the thrill of seeing Star Wars in 1977 at a long-defunct drive-in near his home. “It’s like nothing else, and people are really hungry for that kind of experience.”

And though they’re decidedly DIY-style, all aspiring MobMovers are urged to keep it legal and secure required approvals from property owners and film distributors, who charge about $150 to $300 for a showing. Guerrilla drive-ins are typically free, with attendees’ donations used to offset the organizer’s expenses.

Since 2005, 28-year-old San Francisco Web developer Bryan Kennedy has shown classics, as well as independent films looking for distributors, and runs MobMov.org, a site that lists 240-plus movie mobs around the world.

“A lot of independent filmmakers are enabled by modern technology (to make their own movies), but the area where they’re not enabled is distribution,” he said. “There’s no channel for them to get out there, no audience interaction or feedback. We can help support that.”

Source: http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/jun/11/film-buffs-display-their-passion-with-quick-hit-gu/entertainment/

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Bald Eagle, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Church Shows Drive-in Movies

By on June 20, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

Church Shows Drive-in Movies

Outdoor Movies in Bald Eagle, PennsylvaniaThe drive-in movie, that great American icon, may be on its last legs, but don’t tell that to the folks at the Martha United Methodist Church.

They still like seeing films under the stars. On June 26, church members will start their free summertime Friday family movie series with an outdoor showing of … well, they can’t say. Their video license prohibits advertising titles.

Nobody said anything about mentioning it’s an island adventure, involving a reclusive author who helps a little girl rescue her ship-wrecked father. Just ask the kids.

The show starts at 9 p.m. in the Martha Pavilion, located in a field at Ardery Hollow Road off U.S. Route 220. But first, at 7 p.m., dinner will be served. Barbecued ribs are on the menu for $8 for adults, $3 for children ages 3 to 12. Popcorn afterward won’t cost a dime.

Call 238-8562 or 355- 7450 by June 23 to secure a plate.

July’s shows promise a Dr. Seuss fable about a tiny universe on a speck, the true story of a girl playing quarterback, a musical about high school friends graduating and the tale of a bookish mouse.
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On July 24, another combo night will feature a free turkey dinner, followed by a film taken from the Thomas Kinkade painting, “The Christmas Cottage.”

In keeping with the “Christmas in July” theme, school kits for charity will be assembled before the show. Guests are invited to bring one of the following: a blunt pair of scissors, three pads of ruled paper, a 30-centimeter ruler, a hand-held pencil sharpener, six unsharpened pencils with erasers, a 21/ 2-inch eraser or a box of 24 crayons.

Bad weather, of course, could wipe out any show — a worry the Curtin United Methodist Church doesn’t share.

The church, on Curtin Village Road between U.S. Route 220 and state Route 150, shows its free family movies indoors. Apparently, it’s also not bound by any legal restrictions, since it can announce next month’s offering will be “Homeward Bound” on July 11. Showtime is 6:30 p.m., with snacks provided.

By Chris Rosenblum
Source: http://www.centredaily.com/community/story/1344720.html

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh's Cinema in the Park Entertains the Entire Family for Free

By on June 18, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

’s Cinema in the Park entertains the entire family for free

Outdoor Movies in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaThe American cinema has three locales. The first is the theater, the space where most new films are shown on their initial run. The second is in the home, where last season’s blockbusters are replayed on entertainment systems that attempt to recreate the movie-going experience on a much smaller scale. The third space, surprisingly enough, is outdoors.

Outdoor cinema has enjoyed something of a revival in recent years, as affordable sound systems and projectors have made the medium a cost-effective venture for local municipalities and do-it-yourself film enthusiasts to reclaim underused urban spaces. Long associated with drive-in theaters, outdoor cinema is now best understood as a uniquely urban experience, bringing diverse city residents together in an appreciation of popular film. In Pittsburgh, the ongoing Cinema in the Park series—sponsored by Dollar Bank and B94—returns this summer with another round of popular films for the whole family, including WALL-E, Slumdog Millionaire, Mama Mia!, among others.

From previous experience, this blogger can testify that the best part about Cinema in the Park is the crowd it attracts. Looking out among the waves of people on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park, one feels worlds away from a trip to a vacant theater at the local multiplex. Here is film the way it was meant to be experienced: spectacular and communal. Under the stars, the city’s inhabitants—who have a tendency to retreat to the suburbs after 5:00 PM—come together at last for a night of entertainment.

If you’re hoping to take part in Pittsburgh’s Cinema in the Park series, you have plenty of opportunities to do so: the series will run from June 10th to August 24th at Flagstaff Hill, Riverview Park, Grandview Park in Mt. Washington, Arsenal Park in Lawrenceville, Brookline Memorial Park, East Liberty or West End/Elliott Overlook. For a complete list of show times and locations, see the Pittsburgh Parks and Recreation website.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-11681-Central--Travel-Examiner~y2009m6d10-Pittsburghs-Cinema-in-the-Park-entertains-the-entire-family-for-free

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West Chester, Pennsylvania: The Guerrilla Drive-in Movie Movement

By on June 16, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

The guerrilla drive-in movie movement

Outdoor Movies in West Chester, PennsylvaniaThere’s a move afoot to bring back the old drive-in that many of us grew up with and miss in this day and age of multiplex cinemas. Whether playing the movie using good old fashion 16mm 1970s style projectors or the more modern DVD guerrilla drive-ins are gaining ground as a great way to see older, or indie, movies.

For the past four years John Young, a 38-year-old web developer and driving force behind the Guerilla Drive-in, has been showing films from a projector mounted on the sidecar of his 1977 BMW motorcycle.

He has presented more than a dozen movies at locations suited for the theme: “Meatballs” at a canoe rental centre, “Caddyshack” on a golf course, and most recently, “Ghostbusters” at , a favourite haunt of paranormal investigators.

It’s not exactly an evening at the local multiplex – and that’s the point.

“What a great idea. What a great way to see a movie,” said Jim Haighey, of West Chester, one of more than 60 people watching “Ghostbusters” projected in front of the fort’s 211-year-old Citadel. All had to first find a hidden AM receiver in West Chester transmitting a secret code before being e-mailed the location of the movie.

Source: The Globe and Mail

However these various guerrilla drive-ins decide to show their movies it gives a whole new meaning to “community theater” In many cases these MobMovs (the shorthand for mobile movies) begin to take on the feeling of community tailgate parties.

Of course anyone running these “MobMovs” are urged to keep it legal by getting property owner approval to show the movies on their property and to from movie distributors. Many of the distributors will charge you anywhere from $150 to $300 per showing. These costs are generally alleviated by donations from the people attending the showing.

Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/25606/the-guerrilla-drive-in-movie-movement/

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Penn State Altoona Hosts An Outdoor Film Showing on an Inflatable Screen in Altoona, Pennsylvania

By on June 15, 2009 in Outdoor Movie Events

Outdoor Movies on an Inflatable Screen in Altoona, PennsylvaniaAs part of the Summer Sounds of Jazz and Outdoor Film Series, will present a showing of the classic 1954 Hitchcock thriller “Rear Window” on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10 p.m. in Heritage Plaza, Downtown .

Sponsored by Penn State Altoona and the Great Altoona Economic Development Corporation, Fridays on the Plaza offers free outdoor movies for the public. Just about every Friday, from June 5 to Aug. 21, family and friends can enjoy jazz concerts by a variety of regional artists from 6-10 p.m. in Heritage Plaza along 11th Avenue in downtown Altoona. Classic films, shown on Penn State Altoona’s giant inflatable screen, will immediately follow the concerts.

Summer Outdoor Film Series

Outdoor Movies at Penn State AltoonaPenn State Altoona and the Greater Altoona Economic Development Corporation have partnered together once again to bring the Summer Sounds of Jazz and Outdoor Film series back for its third year. Outdoor movies are shown on an inflatable screen as well as free jazz concerts each Fridat night.

Fridays on the Plaza offers free outdoor movies and concerts for the public. Just about every Friday, from June 5 to Aug. 21, family and friends can enjoy jazz concerts by a variety of regional artists from 6-10 p.m. in Heritage Plaza along 11th Avenue in downtown Altoona. Classic films, shown on Penn State Altoona’s giant inflatable screen, will immediately follow the concerts.

Beverages and food will be available for purchase including Prime Sirloin’s wings and ribs, Dominics of ’s sausage and cheeses steaks and roast beef and Italian chicken sandwiches from Mike’s Court. Proceeds from refreshments support the Blair County Arts Foundation and the Altoona Public Library.

Penn State Altoona Chancellor Lori J. Bechtel-Wherry states, “Penn State Altoona is proud to be a part of this program. We are committed to working with others in revitalizing downtown and promoting cultural activities for our community.”

Schedule of Events

Friday, June 5
Music: South Saturn Delta
Film: The Incredibles

Friday, June 19
Music: Euphoria
Film: Rear Window

Friday, July 10
Music: Randy Jackson Jazz Band
Film: American Graffiti

Friday, July 24
Music: Tommy Wareham and the Intrigues
Film: Vertigo

Friday, August 7
Music: Jazz in Your Face
Film: West Side Story

Friday, August 21
Music: Blue Number Nine
Film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Source: Penn State Altoona News on the Web. Read full article at: http://www.aa.psu.edu/now/news.asp?value=2090.

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