Seriously – take a break from shopping and take yourself (or your family) to the movies. Check out this great line up of films this weekend at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont. Check out some history on the theater here.

• Friday 12/11/2009
  • 7pm – Annie Hall
    • Have a glass of wine on the Hollywood on Friday (12/11) prior to the screening of the quintessential Woody Allen film, Annie Hall at 7 PM.
  • Midnight – Shock Treatment
    • The 1981 musical is a follow up to the Rocky Horror Picture Show and follows the characters of Brad and Janet from Rocky as they find themselves trapped in the town of Denton, which has become and enormous television station! Watch as their lives are manipulated by the whims of programmers, script writers and viewing audiences.
• Saturday 12/12/2009
  • 11 am – Breakfast with Santa and Cartoon Capers
    • Admission is $10 for Breakfast with Santa and Cartoon Capers, plus a chance for kids of all ages to give the big man their holiday requests!
  • 2pm & 7pm – Stooge Fest
    • trailers from the original Three Stooges movies, followed by original shorts and Three Stooges cartoons. It will end with a short featuring everyone’s favorite, Curley. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for kids and seniors.
  • Midnight – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    • Join the Junior Chamber of Commerce Players as they “shadow” the action onscreen for an exciting entertainment event! Rocky is shown at the Hollywood every other Saturday night at midnight.
• Sunday 12/13/2009
  • 2pm – Polar Express
    • This charming computer-animated feature film follows a young boy whose search for the true meaning of Christmas takes him on a magical journey to the North Pole.
  • 7pm – It’s a Wonderful Life
    • The film has been broadcast for many years on television but the Hollywood brings it to the big screen for a truly joyous holiday experience.

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Steel City Zombie Trick or Treat

Rare public screening of original version of classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead

hosted by Horror Realm & Hollywood Theater

October 31, 2009
6:30pm Doors open
7:00 pm Screening of the original Dawn of the DeadThe event will feature a costume contest with a prize for the Best Steelers Zombie, a zombie movie trivia contest, raffles, prizes and giveaways.

Leonard Lies, who played the Machete Zombie in the original Dawn of the Dead, will be on hand to meet and greet fans. The theater will sell raffle tickets beginning on October 22 for a chance to win one of two Machete Zombie baskets donated by Lies containing a T-shirt, signed photo, Goblin CD soundtrack, comic book with Machete Zombie on the cover, a signed machete, and anything else his severed mind can think of. The drawings will take place following the movie on October 31.