UPDATED: Aug. 29, 2018 at 9:02 p.m.

Discounted movie tickets at the Schine Box Office is a perk, but students can watch movies for free on campus starting this weekend. University Union announced earlier this week that they will host no-charge movie screenings every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in HBC Gifford Auditorium during the fall.

Avengers: Infinity War

The semester kicks off with “Avengers: Infinity War” on Aug. 30. This action-packed flick raked in more than $2.04 billion at the box office, earning an 83 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As only the fourth film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide, “Infinity War” is the fourth highest-grossing film of all time.

A Quiet Place

“A Quiet Place,” starring real-life couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, will be screened Sept. 6 to 8. John Krasinski said that “doing a genre movie was something that (he) didn’t know how to do” before filming “A Quiet Place.” He added that “the things that (he) was scared of with this movie ended up being sort of our superpower, and what was special about the movie.”

Deadpool 2

“Deadpool 2,” screening on campus Sept. 13 to 15, is the sequel to the 2016 movie starring Ryan Reynolds, who plays a retired Special Forces operative. “Deadpool 2” was originally released on May 18 and grossed nearly $50 million less than the original.

Tully

Next in the lineup is “Tully,” a comedy drama about a mother’s unlikely friendship with a night nanny. The film, starring Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis, will screen on campus Sept. 20 to 22.

Sorry to Bother You

The following weekend, “Sorry to Bother You” will play in HBC Gifford. “Sorry to Bother You” received critical acclaim, earning a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Black Panther

“Black Panther” will be screened the first weekend of October. Originally released on Feb. 16, “Black Panther” is the second Marvel film in UU’s fall lineup.

Hot Summer Nights

“Hot Summer Nights,” a coming-of-age drama set in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, will be screened Oct. 11 to 13.

The First Purge

For horror flick fanatics, “The First Purge” runs Oct. 18 to 20. But for moviegoers looking for something more lighthearted, “Christopher Robin” will be screened Oct. 25 to 27.

The final month of UU screenings for the semester kicks off with “Solo: A Star Wars Story” on Nov. 1. Directed by Ron Howard, “Solo” is the most expensive Star Wars film ever made — sporting a budget of $275 million. “Hereditary,” a horror film about a family after a death in the family, will be screened the following weekend: Nov. 8 to 10. The fall semester screenings wrap up with “Mission: Impossible,” a Tom Cruise flick originally released in 1996.

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this post, the amount of money that “Avengers: Infinity War” made was incorrect. The movie grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. The Daily Orange regrets this error. 

Published on August 28, 2018 at 10:07 pm