[Press Release] : Flat Branch Park Outdoor Cinema Series includes great entertainment

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact: Tammy Miller, Columbia Parks and Recreation - (573) 874-7465

Flat Branch Park Outdoor Cinema Series includes great entertainment

COLUMBIA, MO (April 24, 2006) -- Watch a movie under the stars at Flat
Branch Park! The Flat Branch Outdoor Cinema Series is featuring outdoor
movies on a giant inflatable screen through October. The movies resemble
a drive-in without cars, yet offers better sound, soft grass, a
beautiful venue, and the gorgeous stars above. Pre-show entertainment
will vary with each movie. Grab a blanket or low lawn chair and head out
for an unforgettable evening of cinema in the beautiful Flat Branch
Park. No rain dates. $3 per person; children 6 & under are free

Here is a list of movies:

Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit (G ) - Friday, May 5,
8:30 p.m. Panic erupts when a "beast" begins feasting on the
town's vegetable plots. It is up to Wallace and his trusty dog
Gromit to hunt down the veggie invader.

Chronicles of Narnia (PG) - Twilight Thursday, June 1, 8:45 p.m. Four
London children are sent to a professor's country home during World
War II. They stumble into a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical
land called Narnia. 
Pre-show entertainment line up: 6-6:40 Magic show
7-7:40 Fire eating show
7:50-8:30 Juggling show

Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG ) - Friday, July 7, 9 p.m. Action-packed
and adventure-filled. Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult,
Dr. Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the
Covenant, which is believed to still hold the Ten Commandments. 

Madagascar (PG) - Friday, Aug. 4, 8:45 p.m.- At New York's Central Park
Zoo, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe and a hippo are best friends living a
blissful domesticated life in captivity. When one of them turns up
missing, the others search for him only to find themselves on a ship
headed to the exotic island of Madagascar. 

The Cinema Series is sponsored by Flat Branch Pub and Brewing and
presented by Columbia Parks and Recreation, the Columbia Daily Tribune,
Convention & Visitors Bureau and Ragtag Cinema.

Flat Branch Park is located at the corner of Fourth and Cherry streets.
For more information about the outdoor movies, please call 874-7460 or
go online at www.GoColumbiaMo.com. 

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