Albuquerque

This page is designed to compile all known ways to attend a free advanced movie screening, both online and offline. If you live in Albuquerque and know of other providers or offers in your area, please leave a comment and help us out.

General Providers

When you attend enough advanced screenings, you start to notice that the same providers keep sponsoring them. So it's in your interest to find out more about these providers.

1. Local Radio

Generally, local radio stations can give out screening passes six ways:

• Listen to win: "Our 29th caller gets tickets for two to see.."
  
• Pass pick-up: "Drop by our station office and pick up passes..."
• Expo or festival: "Stop by our booth and be sure to grab tix..."
• Follow the van: "Our wacky afternoon DJ has driven the prize van over to some local business and is giving away free hot dogs and movie passes!"
• Point system: "Join our listeners club, and when you earn enough points..."
  
• Online contests: "Enter by Monday. We'll select five winners then to attend..."

Big I-107.9 and The Peak have online contests for screening passes -- maybe one movie per month. (Also try 94 Rock, which might do so on occasion.) Then there are 92.3 KRST, which may offer a few more screenings, but operate on a point system called a VIP rewards program. You'll have to look into the rules if you're interested. Similarly, News Radio 770 and 99.5 Magic FM have listener clubs.

Feel free to find other local stations by using Radio Locator or your favorite Internet search engine.

2. Local Print

The Albuquerque Journal does not appear to have a contest page, so any movie screenings it may offer are offline, in the print version. (We'd greatly appreciate any confirmation or correction on this.) By comparison, the Albuquerque Tribune does have a Contest Zone.

You should also look for any weekly or community papers that you might find in libraries or in colorful boxes along city sidewalks. For example, there's the Weekly Alibi. No mention of screenings online, so go through a few print issues and see if you have better luck there.

3. Local TV

Screening contests (as many as 4 at a time) appear regularly on the FOX 2 website. Also check My50 TV and New Mexico's CW, which do so less frequently. You can also visit ABC 7 for movie-related prizes, but we haven't noticed any screenings offered there.

4. Local Internet

We haven't found any dedicated movie screening providers based here.

5. Regional and National Internet

Volition, for whatever reason, compiles multi-city screenings for cities in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Southwest. Albuquerque is often among those cities. Look for an offer about once a month. When a screening is available, you can usually enter the contest once a day until it expires, and increase your chances of winning.

Film Metro has gone national and may offer screenings just about anywhere. Take a look and see if your city is included.

Be sure to check the national forums at Fat Wallet and Slick Deals as well. THE MOVIE OUTSIDER has a representative that posts offers on each of those forums, and compiles a list of screenings by city that links back to here. More importantly, other members in the forums will relay info about multi-city screenings sponsored by the movie studios and PR firms. Use these sites in tandem, and you'll get about as much publicly available information as possible.

Specific Offers

27 DRESSES (otherwise opens January 11)

FOX 2 screening
Tuesday, Jan. 8, time and location unknown

THE BUCKET LIST (already in limited release)

FOX 2 screening
Tuesday, Jan. 8, time and location unknown

THE SAVAGES (already in limited release)

Fox Searchlight screening
Monday, Jan. 14 at 7pm in Century Downtown