Outdoor Cinema 2025


Fri 3 - Sun 5 & Fri 10 - Sun 12 January 2025

Venue: North Quad

PRICING

5pm session: $5+BF kids and $10+BF adults | 7pm & 9.30pm sessions: $10+BF general admission.  

Booking fee is $1.50 per ticket.  

 

Two blockbuster summer weekends of movies.  

Rally your friends and whānau, up to three movies per night. Check the programme for suitability ratings – early screenings are generally suitable for children.  

Tickets are per movie. Book in advance; door sales (card only) if available.  

You’re welcome to bring your own picnic food, non-alcoholic drinks, cushions, blankets, or low beach chairs. No BYO alcohol. Bar open on Friday and Saturday (card only).  

Cancelled if wet. Updates via CCC and Arts Centre websites. 

Brought to you by Christchurch City Council and Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre.

     

 

 

SHOWTIMES

Friday 3 January

7.00pm: The Fall Guy (2024)

Movie trailer

Rating M | Suitable for mature audiences. Violence, offensive language & drug references.

Action, Comedy, Romance 

2h 6m 

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. 

Director: David Leitch  |  Writer: Drew Pearce 

Book your ticket(s) to The Fall Guy here.

9.30pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Movie trailer 

Rating M | Suitable for mature audiences. Sex references. 

Comedy, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 

1h 40m 

Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'. 

Director, Screenplay: Jim Sharman | Screenplay, Story: Richard O'Brien 

Book your ticket(s) to The Rocky Horror Picture Show here.

 

Saturday 4 January

5.00pm: Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

Movie trailer 

Rating PG | Parental guidance recommended. Violence & coarse language. 

Animation, Family, Fantasy, Action 

1h 34m 

Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon who conjures villains from the past. 

Director: Mike Mitchell | Writer: Darren Lemke | Writer: Glenn Berger | Writer: Jonathan Aibel 

Book your ticket(s) to Kung Fu Panda 4 here.

 

7.00pm: Bullet Train (2022)

Movie trailer 

Rating R16 | Restricted to persons 16 years & over. Graphic violence & offensive language. 

Action, Comedy, Thriller 

2h 6m 

Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train. 

Director: David Leitch | Screenplay: Zak Olkewicz 

Book your ticket(s) to Bullet Train here.

 

9.30pm: The Lost Boys (1987)

Movie trailer 

Rating M | Suitable for mature audiences. Violence & horror.

Horror, Comedy, Thriller 

1h 37m 

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire. 

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him. 

Director: Joel Schumacher | Screenplay: Janice Fischer | Screenplay: James Jeremias | Screenplay: Jeffrey Boam 

Book your ticket(s) to The Lost Boys here.

 

Sunday 5 January

5.00pm: IF (2024)

Movie trailer  

Rating PG | parental guidance recommended for younger viewers some scenes may scare very young children.  

Comedy, Fantasy, Family 

1h 44m 

After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten imaginary friends with their kids. 

Director, Writer: John Krasinski 

Book your ticket(s) to IF here.

 

Friday 10 January

7.00pm: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

Movie trailer  

Rating PG |Parental guidance recommended. Coarse language, sexual references & scary scenes.

Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy 

1h 55m 

When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age. 

Director, Writer: Gil Kenan | Writer: Jason Reitman 

Book your ticket(s) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire here.

 

9.30pm: Office Space (1999)

Movie trailer 

Rating M | Suitable for mature audiences. Offensive language. 

Comedy 

1h 30m 

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers. 

Director, Screenplay: Mike Judge 

Book your ticket(s) to Office Space here.

 

Saturday 11 January

5.00pm: The Garfield Movie (2024)

Movie trailer  

Rating G | Suitable for general audiences. 

Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure, Action 

1h 41m 

Garfield, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist. 

Characters: Jim Davis | Director: Mark Dindal | Screenplay: Paul A. Kaplan | Screenplay: Mark Torgove| Screenplay: David Reynolds 

Book your ticket(s) to The Garfield Movie here.

 

7.00pm: The Menu (2022) 

Movie trailer 

Rating R16 | Restricted to persons 16 years & over. Violence, offensive language & suicide. 

Comedy, Horror, Thriller 

1h 47m 

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. 

Director: Mark Mylod | Writer: Seth Reiss | Writer: Will Tracy 

Book your ticket(s) to The Menu here.

 

9.30pm: Best in Show (2000) 

Movie trailer 

Rating PG | Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers. Sexual references.

Comedy 

1h 30m 

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them. 

Director, Screenplay: Christopher Guest | Screenplay: Eugene Levy 

Book your ticket(s) to Best in Show here.

 

Sunday 12 January

5.00pm: Wonka (2023) 

Movie trailer 

Rating PG | parental guidance recommended for younger viewers. 

Comedy, Family, Fantasy 

1h 57m 

Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible. 

Director, Screenplay, Story: Paul King | Characters: Roald Dahl | Screenplay: Simon Farnaby 

Book your ticket(s) to Wonka here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location map

North Quad,
Worcester Boulevard

Market Square Hereford St Carpark Boys' High Entrance Engineering Laneway The Observatory Hotel Courtyard South Quad North Quad Registry Student Union The Gym Engineering Cloisters Studio Common Room Library Biology, Observatory and Physics Chemistry School of Art West Lecture Classics Rutherford's Den Clock Tower Boy's High Workshop Great Hall