Columbus

This page is designed to compile all known ways to attend a free advanced movie screening, both online and offline. If you live in Columbus 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..."

Power 107 holds online contests for movie passes. 95.5 The Hawk has a contest page and a listeners club. Also try the contests at Newsradio 610, Talk 1230, 92.3 WCOL, Lite 93.3, Sunny 95, Mix 97.1, WNCI 97.9, and The Brew 105.7.

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

2. Local Print

The Columbus Dispatch has a contest page with infrequent screenings. It's affiliated with ThisWeek, the neighborhood weekly paper, which also offers online contests.

Speaking of, you should also look for any weekly or community papers that you might find in libraries or in colorful boxes along city sidewalks. Columbus Alive may offer a movie screening or DVD at any given time. The Other Paper does not appear to have online contests. Nor does U Weekly, which operates out of Ohio State.

Don't forget to check the print editions of these papers to see if any additional movies are offered.

3. Local TV

The CW has a contest or pass pick-up for movies every month or so. ABC 6 / FOX 28 has movie-related prizes, but no screenings. Also look at NBC 4 and CBS 10.

The cable company also has a contest page; visit Around RR.

4. Local Internet

Aside from the sites listed above, we couldn't find any screening providers based in Columbus. Let us know if we're wrong, and tell us who to add.

5. Regional and National Internet

Movie Jungle, which is based out of Lexington, KY, spreads into other cities in the Midwest, including Columbus.

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

FIRST SUNDAY (otherwise opens January 11)

The CW screening
Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 7:30pm in Arena Grand

Power 107 screening
Date, time, and location unknown