Pop Smart - Screen on the Green, 2008
A competing publication has announced Turner Broadcasting’s line-up for this year’s outdoor Screen on the Green festival, to be held on Monday evenings May 20-June 26. This year, drought conditions have forced Screen on the Green to be relocated from Piedmont Park to Centennial Olympic Park. (After all, who’d want to go to “Screen on the Brown?”) The films are:
May 29: Jaws (1975)
June 5: Big Momma’s House (2000)
June 12: Chicago (2002)
June 19: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
June 26: Either Back to the Future, Rocky or Footloose, to be chosen by fans, who can vote at Peachtreetv.com from April 14-27.
I’m a little disappointed that there’s no vintage classic, like a Hitchcock thriller, this year. And surely they could have come up with a better comedy than Big Momma’s House, or at least a Tyler Perry film for local interest. With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull coming to theaters in May, it makes sense to represent Steven Spielberg: maybe they programmed both Jaws and E.T. because they couldn’t decide between the two. In honor of the first film on the line-up, here’s the 1975 trailer (“It is as if God created the Devil and gave him... jaws.”)