MARCH MONSTER MADNESS SCREENING SERIES: MARS ATTACKS! (1996/PG-13/1h46m)

Name: MARCH MONSTER MADNESS SCREENING SERIES: MARS ATTACKS! (1996/PG-13/1h46m)
Start: 2025-03-16T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT, United States, Connecticut 06517

Schedule

Sun, 16 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT, United States, Connecticut 06517 | Hamden, CT

Please join BVFCC staffer Anthony Capasso for his 2nd Annual MARCH MONSTER MADNESS SCREENING SERIES second installment, Mars Attacks! on Sunday, March 16th at 7pm. Entry is $5 for BVFCC members and $10 for non-members. The BVCoffee Bar will be open for beer, wine, and café drinks.
Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American science fiction black comedy film[3] directed by Tim Burton, who also co-produced it with Larry J. Franco. The screenplay by Jonathan Gems was based on the Topps trading card series of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Jack Nicholson (in a dual role), Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Pam Grier, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie, and Sylvia Sidney in her final film role.
Alex Cox had tried to make a Mars Attacks film in the 1980s before Burton and Gems began development in 1993. When Gems turned in his first draft in 1994, Warner Bros. commissioned rewrites from Gems, Burton, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski in an attempt to lower the budget to $60 million. The final production budget came to $80 million, while Warner Bros. spent another $20 million on the Mars Attacks! marketing campaign. Filming took place from February to June 1996. The film was shot in California, Nevada, Kansas, Arizona and Argentina.[not verified in body]
The filmmakers hired Industrial Light & Magic to create the Martians using computer animation after their previous plan to use stop-motion animation, supervised by Barry Purves, fell through because of budget and time limitations. Mars Attacks! was released theatrically by Warner Bros. in the United States on December 13, 1996, to mixed reviews from critics. The film grossed approximately $101.4 million in box office totals, which was seen as a disappointment. Mars Attacks! was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and earned multiple nominations at the Saturn Awards.
BVFCC would like to acknowledge and thank several organizations for their generous funding which allows us to present our monthly Screening Series. Special thanks go to CT Humanities, CT Office of the Arts, and The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.