It’s a bird, it’s a plane ‘ it’s Back-to-School Movie Night
It’s time to break out your lawn chairs, quilts or blankets, and gather at the West Lawn of Security Federal for a night of entertainment, games and fun as Leadership Warren presents the 2007 Back-to-School Movie Night this Saturday, Aug.18.
Food, games and activities will begin at 6 p.m., and the movie will show at 8 p.m. Admission is free.
While the last few movie nights featured animated films, this year’s presentation is a classic live action film, and one of the highest grossing movies of all time. It’s ‘Superman ‘ The Movie,’ released in 1978 starring Christopher Reeve as the ‘Man of Steel,’ Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, and a scenery-chewing Gene Hackman as super villain Lex Luthor.
The film is a much-loved favorite of many movie and comic book fans, providing a wonderful combination of action and amazing special effects, with a little romance thrown into the mix, harking back to the serials from the 1930s and ’40s.
‘We’re changing gears a little bit,’ said Leadership Warren member Jane Flatt. ‘We’ve had animated films for several years, so we’ve gone back a way and picked up something that we think the older children will like, as well as the little ones. And mom and dad too. It’s really a sweet movie.’
Flatt says this is a great time for a new generation to be introduced to this movie, with the popularity of recent ‘Superman Returns’ film, along with the TV series ‘Smallville.’
‘We know a lot of teenagers like to watch ‘Smallville,’ so we’re hoping this will tap in to a little different age group, but still run the spectrum, like our other movies,’ Flatt said.
A big part of the fun will be the costume contest. Children can come dressed as their favorite Superman character, and there will be a costume parade at 7 p.m. with prizes for the best costumes.
In conjunction with Back-to-School Movie Night, there is a coloring contest open to any child preschool to age 7. Forms can be picked up at Security Federal Bank, Regions Bank, the Chamber of Commerce and Magness Library. Entries must be returned by Aug. 16. All entries will be displayed the night of the movie and winners will be announced that evening.
‘We hope everyone will come out, bring their lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy watching a movie under the stars,’ Flatt said.
Leadership Warren will be offering a delicious menu of movie-friendly food, like hamburgers, hot dogs, corn dogs, chips, soft drinks, water, nachos and cheese, soft pretzels and, of course, popcorn. And for those with a sweet tooth, there will be deep fried Oreos to satisfy that urge.
Children’s games will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets for the games are four for $1, and each child will get a prize for every game they play. Proceeds from the games go to the children’s area of Magness Library. There will also be door prizes during the night, and the tickets for those are free and will be available at the Leadership Warren food booths.