Denver

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

The contest page at Smooth Jazz 104.3 has offered movie screenings before. 103.5 The Fox has a listener club. Also visit Talk 630, AM 760, Newsradio 850, 950 The Fan, Area 93, 95.7 The Party, 98.5 KYGO, and KS 107.5.

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

2. Local Print

The Denver Post has no contest page online, but the Rocky Mountain News does.

You should also look for any weekly or community papers that you might find in libraries or in colorful boxes along city sidewalks. Westword has a Free Stuff page, for example. At this time, the Denver Weekly News site is under construction.

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

3. Local TV

ABC 7 offers movie-related prizes, but not screenings. Also check CBS 4 and MyFOX 31.

4. Local Internet

Starland is a local movie fansite with fairly active screening offers. Usually you fill out an entry form and take it to a local music store to redeem for passes. But for last-minute offers (as in the day of the screening), follow the directions and they'll send you an e-mail to print out for admission.

Blackflix will on occasion have a contest for movie passes. Usually you send your entry via U.S. mail.

5. Regional and National Internet

Sign up for a free membership in the Landmark Theatres Film Club and receive notices about screenings by e-mail.

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

THE ORPHANAGE (already in limited release)

Film Metro screening
Thursday, Jan. 10, time and location unknown