ZATHURA :: OPENING NIGHT GALA FILM

Jon Favreau :: USA 2005 :: 35mm :: 113 min :: Columbia Pictures
Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart and Tim Robbins

Following the screening, VIP ticket holders are invited to the Austin Elks Lodge for an after party with live music, beers from Independence Brewery, appetizers catered by South Lamar executive chef John Bullington, and a Zathura-inspired room, where you can play vintage board games!

ZATHURA, from Columbia Pictures, is based on The Polar Express and Jumanji author Chris Van Allsburg’s best-selling children’s sci-fi adventure. Two squabbling brothers (Hutcherson, Bobo) are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game found in the basement of their old house.

On their fantastic journey they are joined by a stranded astronaut (Shepard) and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle as they race to reach the planet Zathura and finish the game – or else be trapped in outer space forever.