Calendar: June 28-July 4, 2024
Our movie and media Calendar appears every Friday/Saturday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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MILESTONES | Happy Birthday to You!
6/30: Drea Aarons (disk jockey, WPCD 88.7 FM, Parkland College, Champaign, IL)
7/1: Michael Juvinall (editor, Horror Patch website, Channahon, IL)
FIELD REPORT DU HQ | From Wherever It May Be Said
The Report is on hiatus until August or September. Thank you for your readership, CUvians and Agents!
IMAGERY DU C-U | Picturing Our Scene on the Screen
We introduced you to the Chambana Film Festival in the spring, and Nat Dykeman’s program returns to the Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX this Sunday, June 30, 4 p.m., with a compilation called “funny strange & funny haha: Comedic Short Films” that culls from his behind-the-scenes viewing and curating for the suburban Lake County Film Festival. Dykeman has also added some local flavor to the mix, such as a new short from Thomas Nicol of Champaign Movie Makers that is called THE VENUS GAMBIT, and will announce his upcoming screenings at the end of the 90-minute show. You can follow CFF on Facebook and sign up for the monthly newsletter. In the meantime, here’s a cinematic banana. You’re welcome.
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LOCAL FILMS & EVENTS | Support Your Media Storytellers
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
Chambana Film Festival* presents “funny strange & funny haha: Comedic Short Films” (6/30, 4 p.m.)
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE: EPISODE NAGI (animé) (in Japanese w/English sub), DADDIO, HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 1, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE, THE BIKERIDERS, THE EXORCISM, INSIDE OUT 2 (animation), KALKI 2898 AD (in Telugu w/English sub) (6/28 on), AMC “Screen Unseen” (mystery movie) (7/1, 7 p.m.), MAXXXINE preview (7/3, 7 p.m.), DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation), KILL (in Hindi with English sub), SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT (faith film) (7/3 on)
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 1, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE, THE BIKERIDERS, THE EXORCISM, THE FALL GUY, FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA, THE GARFIELD MOVIE (animation), IF, INSIDE OUT 2 (animation), KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (6/28 on), SOMETHING TO STAND FOR with Mike Rowe (documentary) (daily, 7 p.m.), UFC 303: Alex Pereira vs. Jiří Procházka, more (mixed martial arts) (6/29, 9 p.m., simulcast), JAWS (6/29-6/30, 3 & 7 p.m.; 7/3, 7 p.m.), summer family films: THE CAT IN THE HAT (2003) (7/2-7/4, 10 a.m.), DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation), KINDS OF KINDNESS, SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT (faith film) (7/3 on)
@ Main Quad, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL
No movie this week!
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
No movies this week!
Events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Additional “Now Playing” and “Coming Soon” listings appear after the jump!
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NOW PLAYING | The Cities Beyond
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
THE BIKERIDERS, HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 1, INSIDE OUT 2 (animation) (2-D & 3-D) (6/27-6/30)
@ The Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL
Danville Public Library presents HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (7/3, 11 a.m.)
@ The Harvest Moon Twin Drive-in, Gibson City, IL
INSIDE OUT 2 (animation) (Screen 1), A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (Screen 2) (6/28-7/2), DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation), INSIDE OUT 2 (animation) (Screen 1), IF, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (Screen 2) (7/3), DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation) (Screen 1), A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (Screen 2) (7/4)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
THE BLUES BROTHERS (6/30), AN AMERICAN TAIL (animation) (7/1)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
INSIDE OUT 2 (animation) (6/28-6/30)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (6/28-6/30)
@ The Route 66 Drive-in Theater, Springfield, IL
INSIDE OUT 2 (animation), THE GARFIELD MOVIE (animation) (Screen 1), A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1 (Screen 2) (6/28-6/30, 7/3-7/4)
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
For detailed and curated listings of Chicago-area film presentations and related events, please visit the fine folks at Cine-File and subscribe to their definitive “Cine-List” weekly blast.
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
8/31-9/1
10th anniversary Dark History & Horror Con*
@ Orpheum Champaign (The Orpheum Theater), Champaign, IL
10/16-10/27
60th Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL
11/1-11/2
23rd Route 66 Film Festival*
@ Hoogland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL
4/23/-4/25/25
25th Roger Ebert’s Film Festival*
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
Chambana Film Festival* – Summer 2024 screening series
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL, 4 p.m.
7/28: OUT THERE: A NATIONAL PARKS STORY
Illini Radio Group presents “Rewind 92.5 Movie Series”/“Mix 94.5 Throwback Thursdays”*
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
7/11: GREASE “sing-a-long” edition
Illini Union Board presents “Summer Films on the Quad”
@ Main Quad, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 9 p.m. Thursdays, free
7/11: GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE; 7/18: CIVIL WAR; 7/25: THE FALL GUY; 8/1: GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE; 8/8: IF
Illinois Public Media presents “The Arthouse Experience Film Series”
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
7/5: STOP MAKING SENSE;
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
7/13: ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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