{"id":1901,"date":"2015-10-07T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2015-10-09T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:47:45","slug":"kevin-if-its-free-its-for-me-movie-pre-screenings-around-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/10\/07\/kevin-if-its-free-its-for-me-movie-pre-screenings-around-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin: If It\u2019s Free, It\u2019s For Me: Movie Pre-screenings Around Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film student\u2019s dilemma: I want to go to the theater, but dropping $10 every time I want to see a movie doesn\u2019t exactly mesh with my \u201cbroke college student\u201d budget.<\/p>\n<p>The solution? The magical world of pre-screenings. You\u2019ve probably gotten emails from the Film\/TV department about a couple, but if you keep an eye out, a good amount of movies will have free promotional screenings a few weeks before they come out in theaters. Most of the time they do them to build hype, so the most you\u2019ll have to do is fill out a slip with what you thought of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Check a few of these sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gofobo.com \u2013 probably the best website to check, you can put in your zip code and it will tell you all the screenings and how to get into them. (The majority are open to the public, but some are based on contests)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Advancescreenings.com \u2013 Similar to Gofobo, but it seems like gofobo usually has a longer list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook \u2013 A lot of studios have on-campus reps, and they\u2019ll have Facebook pages like Universal at BU or Warner Bros. at BU. They\u2019ll post about screenings that are exclusive to BU students, so just bring your ID along and you\u2019re good to go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An added bonus of some of these screenings is that actors\/directors will come along and do Q&amp;A\u2019s sometimes, so you can do a quick write-up and count it as a cinematheque. (Plus bragging rights to your friends when you get a selfie with actors.) You\u2019d be surprised by the amount of big-name movies that have screenings\u2014so far this semester I\u2019ve gotten to see <em>Black Mass<\/em> and <em>The Martian<\/em>, and <em>Steve Jobs<\/em> is having one at the theater by the common <span><span>this Thursday<\/span><\/span> (10\/8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film student\u2019s dilemma: I want to go to the theater, but dropping $10 every time I want to see a movie doesn\u2019t exactly mesh with my \u201cbroke college student\u201d budget. The solution? The magical world of pre-screenings. You\u2019ve probably gotten emails from the Film\/TV department about a couple, but if you keep an eye &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/10\/07\/kevin-if-its-free-its-for-me-movie-pre-screenings-around-boston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kevin: If It\u2019s Free, It\u2019s For Me: Movie Pre-screenings Around Boston<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}