SummerScreen Celebrates 10th Year With All-Star Lineup (Updated)
SummerScreen, the free weekly outdoor film and concert series that calls Brooklyn’s McCarren Park home, returns for its 10 year this summer. Presented by Northside Media Group, the popular program goes down on Wednesday nights and delivers a fresh lineup of cult classics complimented by delicious food truck fare, cold brews, and indie rock curated by Todd P.
For 2015, the curators have revisited their selects from summers past and come up with a team of all-stars. Included in the lineup are Clueless (July 8), Wet Hot American Summer (July 15), Dirty Dancing (July 22), Dazed and Confused (July 29), and Jurassic Park (August 5). The Wet Hot screening should serve as an excellent catch up as it comes just ahead of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp‘s July 31 premiere on Netflix.
In typical SummerScreen fashion, the series goes out on a democratic note with an audience pick. Among the films to choose from are Purple Rain, Reality Bites and The Craft. You can help decide the winner by voting here.
Todd P’s band picks will be announced soon.
(Doors open at 6pm. Films begin at sundown. McCarren Park is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the corner of North 12th St. and Bedford Ave.)
Update 7/6: The bands have been selected. The Todd P and Trans-Pecos-presented line-up on the vitaminwater stage is as follows:
July 8: The Clueless, band: Zs
July 15: Wet Hot American Summer, band: Regal Degal
July 22: Dirty Dancing, band: Blues Control
July 29: Dazed and Confused, band: Excepter
August 5: Jurassic Park, band: Jah Division
August 12: Audience pick, band: TBA
The food vendors have also been announced and include Handsome Hanks, Cemita’s, Coolhaus, Bamboo Bites, V Spot, Landhaus, Arancini Brothers, and Brewla Bars.
Also, according to a tweet by David Wain, it sounds like members of the cast of Wet Hot American Summer will be attending the screening on July 15.
Update 7/7: Todd P. and Trans-Pecos have canceled the music before the movies series at SummerScreen due to vitaminwater stage sponsorship. It seems Northside Media is receiving money for the sponsorship and not passing any of it onto the bands. Todd P.’s statement:
I’m sorry to report, but Trans-Pecos and I have to cancel the McCarren Park music before movies series this Summer.
We learned Thursday that the organizers — Northside Media — took a “branding” deal for us to become the “Vitamin Water Stage” without consulting us nor offering the requisite increase in budget that sort of branding commands. We would turn down the branding no matter the money, but certainly if there’s money changing hands, the bands should see it.
We insisted the branding be removed and Northside wasn’t able to do it, so we’re canceling.
I’ve had a lot of fun booking bands at Summerscreen for the last several years — it’s always a fun social experiment and Northside have been wonderful to work with and tolerant of our sometimes “out” bookings — but this is simply a situation of our visions for the thing not being in sync.
Apologies for the late notice!
Todd
Update 7/8: Worriers are now opening for Clueless.