Announcing our 2020 Year-Long Partnership with Fathom Events: “TCM Big Screen Classics” Movie Tickets Giveaways!

Classic Movie Hub and Fathom Events Partnership Continues!
Year-Long Movie Ticket Giveaways to TCM Big Screen Classics

For the fifth consecutive year, Fathom Events and TCM present TCM Big Screen Classics — a year-long series of 15 movie classics shown on the Big Screen, each accompanied by insightful, specially-produced commentary from favorite TCM hosts. And — CMH is thrilled to say that — also — for the fifth consecutive year — we will be partnering with Fathom Events for our monthly classic movie ticket giveaways.

That said, Classic Movie Hub will be giving away tickets to each of the TCM Big Screen Classics playing throughout 2020. And, just like last year, it will be simple to enter… All you have to do is check back on this Blog every month OR follow us on Twitter at @ClassicMovieHub or on Facebook for our monthly contest announcements. Then complete that month’s entry task, and you will be entered into a random drawing to win a pair of tickets to that month’s movie event! That’s it!

And — if you can’t wait to win tickets, you can purchase them online by visiting FathomEvents.com, or at participating theater box offices.

So, now, as they say, let’s get the show on the road — with a list of the movie events. 

An American in Paris, Jan 19 and 22:Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in this winner of six Academy Awards^®, including Best Picture.

Love Story, Feb 9 and 12: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O’Neal) and music student Jennifer Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw) share a chemistry they cannot deny – and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. 

The Color Purple: Feb 23: Academy Award^® winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple.

King Kong, March 15: In the classic adventure that made her a star, Fay Wray plays the beautiful woman who conquers the savage heart of a giant ape.

A League of Their Own, Apr 26, 27 and 29: Big league box office stars Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty and Tom Hanks pitch up as The Rockford Peaches, a brash and ballsy team of tryers with a talent they were never meant to have and the guts to take it all the way!

Airplane!, May 17 and 20: Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty join panicky passengers, inept ground controllers and an inflatable auto-pilot (named “Otto,” of course!) in the disaster-film spoof voted “one of the 10 funniest movies ever made” by the American Film Institute.

The Shining: details to follow.

Annie: June 14 and 17: Director John Houston’s film adaptation of the Broadway smash hit, ANNIE, which in turn was based on the perennial cartoon favorite, Little Orphan Annie. This musical extravaganza features stunning performance by Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry and Albert Finney.

Blues Brothers June 28 and July 1: Comedy icons John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star in the outrageously funny musical comedy The Blues Brothers.

Ghost, July 19 and 22 : One of the most memorable romantic films ever and winner of two Academy Awards®, Sam (Patrick Swayze), living as a ghost, discovers his death wasn’t just a random robbery gone bad. 

Babe, Aug 9 and 12: Academy Award^® winner and Best Picture nominee, Babe is the inspirational story of a shy Yorkshire piglet who doesn’t quite know his place in the world.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sept 13, 14 and 17: Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who along with several other stunned bystanders experience a close encounter of the first kind – witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. After this life-changing event, the inexplicable vision of a strange, mountain-like formation haunts him.

Psycho, Oct 11 and 12: Join the Master of Suspense on a chilling journey as an unsuspecting victim (Janet Leigh) visits the Bates Motel and falls prey to one of cinema’s most notorious psychopaths – Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nov 8 and 9: A feisty misfit sent to a mental hospital inspires his fellow patients to assert themselves, much to the chagrin of the strong-willed head nurse, who turns out to be more dangerous than any of the inmates. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman.

Fiddler on the Roof, Dec 13 and 14: Director Norman Jewison offers this uplifting classic about a poor Jewish milkman (Topol) in Czarist Russia who, along with his devoted family, battles financial challenges and growing anti-Semitism within his village.

Please stay tuned for contest announcements throughout the year for your chance(s) to win!

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–Annmarie for Classic Movie Hub