MAD Summer Movie Spectacular to show Empire Strikes Back on June 8
MADISON – The MAD Summer Movie Spectacular at the Madison Public Library kicked off last week and continues every Thursday night in June and July. The auditorium is open at 6:00 p.m. and the movies start at 6:30 p.m. Food and drink are allowed in the auditorium during the movies. Treats will be provided by our summer movie sponsor, Renasant Bank.
This week, June 8, the movie being shown The Empire Strikes Back.
After forever changing the face of science-fiction in 1977 with Star Wars, producer George Lucas and director Irvin Kershner delivered the best Star Wars ever, The Empire Strikes Back in the summer of 1980.
The Empire Strikes Back celebrates everything people love about the Star Wars franchise: the hero’s journey through the forces of good and evil with dark secrets revealed, cloud cities, bounty hunters, giant space worms, hairy beasts, robots, laser shoot-outs and lightsaber duels!
This showing of The Empire Strikes Back will be the closest version to the original theatrical release as possible.
The Madison Public Library is located at 142 Plaza Blvd in Madison. For more information, go to www.events.hmcpl.org.
The rest of the MAD Summer Movie Spectacular Schedule:
• June 15 – Return of the Jedi
• June 22 – Superman
• June 29 – Superman II
• July 6 – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• July 13 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• July 20 – The Princess Bride
• July 27 – Ghostbusters
