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Fryer Flicks on the Hill at Fryer Park in Grove City. (Caitlin Sampsel)
There are around a dozen outdoor movie series in Columbus this summer. For more details, read "Seeing stars" in the Summer Entertainment Guide in Columbus Monthly's June issue. More details on each series are below.
Wex Drive-In
Location: Wexner Center for the Arts
Food: Paid/free concessions and bring your own
Seating: Concrete or grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 900-1,100
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk
Schedule:
6/16 – Lost in Translation
7/21 – Battle in Outer Space
8/18 – Howl’s Moving Castle
Other info: Featuring a 35 mm film projector
Contact: 292-0330 or web
Movies by Moonlight
Location: Easton Town Square
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Concrete; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 350
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk
Schedule:
7/5 – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
7/12 – Despicable Me
7/19 – Ghostbusters
7/26 – My Big Fat Greek Wedding
8/2 – Enchanted
8/9 – Gnomeo & Juliet
8/16 – Wall-E
8/23 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
8/30 – Sleepless in Seattle
Contact: 416-7000 or web
Classic Movie Series
Location: Everal Barn and Homestead, Westerville
Food: Free popcorn and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 25-150
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk
Schedule:
6/17 – The Sandlot
7/15 – Back to the Future
8/19 – A Bug’s Life
Other info: Movie is projected onto the side of the white barn
Contact: 901-6500 or web
Dive-In Movies
Location: Zoombezi Bay, Powell
Food: Paid concessions
Seating: Concrete or pool, lounge chairs provided; bring towels, blankets, inner tubes
Avg. attendance last year: 1,000-1,200
Cost: Free with admission to park
Time: Activities at closing, movie at 9 pm
Schedule:
7/15 – Shrek
7/22 – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7/29 – Despicable Me
8/5 – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8/12 – Back to the Future
Other info: Inflatable screen is backlit so no one blocks the image
Contact: 800-MONKEYS or web
Movies on the Mile
Location: Bicentennial Park downtown
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Cost: Free
Time: Activities and cartoons at 7 pm, movie at dusk
Schedule:
7/9 – E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial
7/15 – Despicable Me
7/29 – Pink Panther
8/5 – Inception
8/19 – Toy Story 3
Other info: This is the series’ first year
Contact: 645-3300 or web
Friday Flicks Movie Night
Location: Creekside Park, Gahanna
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 250-300
Cost: Free
Time: 9 pm
Schedule:
6/24 – Jurassic Park
7/22 – Footloose
8/26 – Aladdin
Other info: Formerly known as Classics on the Creek
Contact: 342-4250 or web
Dive-In Movies
Location: Hunters Ridge Pool, Gahanna
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Concrete or pool, lounge chairs provided; bring blankets or towels
Avg. attendance last year: small
Cost: $5
Time: 8:30 pm
Schedule:
6/10 – The Goonies
7/8 – Despicable Me
8/12 – Toy Story 3
Other info: Four free popcorns with four-ticket purchase
Contact: 342-4250 or web
Fryer Flicks on the Hill
Location: Fryer Park sledding hill, Grove City
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 50-250
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk
Schedule:
6/16 – How to Train your Dragon
6/23 – Racing Stripes
6/30 – The Karate Kid
7/7 – Stuart Little
7/14 – An American Tail
7/21 – West Side Story
7/28 – Over the Hedge
8/4 – Cars
Contact: 277-3050 or web
Movies in the Park
Location: Upper Arlington
Food: Bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 250
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk
Schedule:
6/24 – How to Train Your Dragon (Sunny 95 Park)
7/8 – The Legend of the Guardians (Thompson Park)
7/21 – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Thompson Park)
7/29 – Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! (Mountview Baptist Church)
8/12 – Toy Story 3 (Thompson Park)
Contact: 583-5000 or web
Friday Night Flicks
Location: Sycamore Park Amphitheatre, Pickerington
Food: Possible concessions and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 200+
Cost: Free
Time: In parenthesis next to movie title
Schedule:
6/10 – Revenge of Kitty Galore (9:20)
6/17 – Alpha and Omega (9:22)
6/24 – Shrek Forever After (9:24)
7/1 – Despicable Me (9:23)
7/8 – Megamind (9:21)
7/15 – Legend of the Guardians (9:18)
7/22 – Letters to Julia (9:13)
8/5 – Toy Story 3 (8:48)
9/12 – Nanny McPhee Returns (8:39)
9/19 – The Karate Kid (8:30)
Other info: Movies projected onto white-painted barn
Contact: 833-2211 or web
Screen on the Green
Location: Goodale Park, Short North
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: Several hundred
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk, with cartoons showing first
Schedule:
7/22 – Airplane!
8/19 – Rear Window
9/16 – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Contact: info@shortnorthcivic.org or web
Movies in the Park
Location: Whetstone Park of Roses, Clintonville
Food: Paid concessions and bring your own
Seating: Grass; bring blankets or chairs
Avg. attendance last year: 300
Cost: Free
Time: Dusk
Schedule:
7/9 – Despicable Me
7/23 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Other info: Presented by the Clintonville Rotary
Contact: 348-0760 or web
Columbus Commons
Visit columbuscommons.org for details.
