TOWN OF LOCKPORT — The Transit Drive-In Theater is slated to open Friday on two of the theater’s four screens.
The theater will show “Zootopia” and “The Finest Hour” on screen one, beginning at 7:45 p.m., and “Deadpool” and “The Revenant” on screen two beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The March 11 opening is the earliest the drive-in has opened in 35 years. The theater also closed the 2015 season later than it had closed a season in decades, choosing to take advantage of the mild December weather to show “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which it played until mid-January.
Transit Drive-In owner Rick Cohen said screens three and four will be open in the weeks to come. A plan for a fifth screen at the drive-in had surfaced earlier this winter, but has been temporarily shelved.
Once again this year, the drive-in plans a weekly Tuesday “retro night” in June, July and August. The movie lineup has not been finalized but according to the drive-in’s Facebook page, potential pairings include:
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) with The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Stand By Me (1986) with The Outsiders (1983)
- Labrinth (1986) with The Hunger (1983)
- Meatballs (1979) with Caddyshack (1980)
- Top Gun (1986) with Platoon (1986)
- The Goonies (1985) with Back To The Future (1985)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
- Home Alone (1990) with Die Hard (1988)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986) with The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- One Crazy Summer (1986) with Better Off Dead (1985)
- Hook (1992) with Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
- The Fly (1986) with Alien (1979)
- Basic Instinct (1992) with Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) with The Last Picture Show (1971)
- First Blood (1982) with Deliverance (1972)
- The Princess Bride (1987) with A Knight’s Tale (2001)
