The Academy Gives the Cemetery a Run for its Movie Money

[innerSpaceman]

This summer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (aka the Oscars) are premiering their own version of outdoor summer picnic movies, in yet another bid at competition with the Hollywood Forever Cemetery's decade-long success story.


The official press release lists the summer slate of movies, if you scroll down. One in late August is to be an Audience-Choice, not yet announced.

The screenings will be on Friday nights, so you could conceivably do the Oscars and the Cemetery in the same weekend! There's obviously less lead time on a Friday night, so there will be food trucks at the site - in case there's no time to put together a picnic of your own.



I know there have been less and less LoT excursions to the Cemetery screenings in recent years. What do y'all think of this new offering by the folks at Oscars?