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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.