Cinema in the Park: 2011 Schedule

: Pittsburgh Cinema in the Park 2011 Free Movie Schedule

Don’t be bored on Sunday or Wednesday evenings in Pittsburgh! During the summer months, Cinema in the Park is the best way to catch a flick and get some fresh air while watching the sunset over the city. Take a cozy blanket (or your parking chair from winter), your favorite snacks, and head out to watch free movies on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park.

Here is a complete schedule of the remaining showtimes around the city, all movies start at dusk:

Movies in Schenley Park (map)

July 2011

Sunday, July 3: How to Train Your Dragon (PG)
Wednesday, July 6: The Other Guys (PG-13)
Sunday, July 10: Justin Bieber Never Say Never (G)
Wednesday, July 13: Iron Man 2 (PG-13)
Sunday, July 17: Despicable Me (PG)
Wednesday, July 20: Grown Ups (PG-13)
Sunday, July 24: The Karate Kid (PG)
Wednesday, July 27: Takers (PG-13)
Sunday, July 31: Shrek Forever After (PG)

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Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project

Have fun with your friends. Make a movie. (thanks katinalynn for the pic)

Instead of waiting in line for hours at casting calls, you could be making your own movie. Pittsburgh has undoubtedly been dubbed the Hollywood of the East, so get your cameras out and be a part of it! Don’t know where to start? That’s why you should join the 48 Hour Film Project this summer and get some direction (and a deadline) to translate your ideas to the silver screen.

But I didn’t go to filmschool

You don’t have to be a professional filmmaker to participate in the 48 Hour Film Project, but it’s an excellent opportunity to challenge yourself to complete a fun project within a weekend. It’s a great chance to work with friends or other creative people you’ve always wanted to collaborate with.
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Silk Screen Asian Film Festival 2011

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh

Art and film. Pittsburgh has these things. And thanks to the universities and prestigious programs based in the Burgh, this city is also home to people from all over the world. Like it or not, culture and diversity definitely exists here, even if it often seems to be contained and isolated within various neighborhoods and schools.

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival celebrates and promotes this culture and diversity. During two weeks out of the year, Silk Screen brings us films from places we’ve never heard of, produced by people whose names we can’t pronounce. During the other 50 weeks, they are dedicated to introducing other mediums of art to the city and cultivating a cross-cultural experience within the region.
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PA Film Tax Credit Program Frozen

The temperature outside is warming up, but the chance of Pittsburgh being on the silver screen again is frozen in Harrisburg.

We received tips left and right (even from readers in Canada!) about the freeze on the state’s Film Production Tax Credit Program. The same program that helped Pittsburgh get Jake Gyllenhaal and Love and Other Drugs to film here. The same program that encouraged The Next Three Days to bring Russell Crowe here… Denzel Washington and Unstoppable, Taylor Lautner, etc.
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Batman 3 Being Filmed in Pittsburgh Confirmed?

Batman: The Dark Knight Rises being filmed in Pittsburgh?

Artistic rendition of what the locations list on IMDB should look like when it's updated.

Update: We received an anonymous tip from the inside of a potential filming location in Downtown Pittsburgh. It pretty much confirms that the Burgh is definitely on Batman’s itinerary for shooting Batman 3: The Dark Knight Rises.
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