Calendar: August 14-20, 2026
Our movie and media Calendar appears every Friday/Saturday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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PASSINGS | You Will Be Missed
August 6: Peter Katsis, 69 (interviewee, WHERE IT BEGINS: 1977-2000, Swede Films, Urbana, IL)
LOCAL FILMS & EVENTS | Support Your Media Storytellers
@ The Esquire Lounge, Champaign, IL
Champaign Movie Makers* meeting (8/17, 7 p.m.)
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
Chambana Film Society presents “2026 CineSonic Music Film Festival” feat. “Shorts: Music Documentary” (8/16, 2 p.m.)
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
40 North, Champaign Movie Makers, CUDO, and Champaign Park District present the 10th Pens to Lens* short film gala (7/10, 3 p.m.) Information
@ WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign, IL
“Frame Noise” film music program hosted by Przemek (8/19, 7-8 p.m.) Streaming | Archive
@ WILL-TV, Urbana, IL
Illinois Public Media presents “Illinois Soul’s Block Party” feat. locally-produced documentaries: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BARBER: THE ART, THE CRAFT & THE CULTURE (8/18, 8 p.m.), DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: FROM THE CLUB, FOR LIFE (8/18, 9 p.m.), and CANDY FOSTER: A MUSICAL WITNESS (8/18, 10 p.m.)
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
THE BRINK OF WAR, THE END OF OAK STREET, PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE (animation), SIX: THE MUSICAL LIVE! (concert film), THE WRONG GIRLS, THE ODYSSEY, ONE NIGHT ONLY, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, SUPER TROOPERS 3*, TOY STORY 5 (animation) (8/14 on), KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS (music concert documentary) (8/14-8/16, 7 p.m.), AMC “Scream Unseen” (mystery movie) (8/17, 7 p.m.), “Texas Chain Saw Day” feat. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) (8/18, 7 p.m.), THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 25th anniversary, INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER, MUTINY (8/20 on) *single screenings daily
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
THE BRINK OF WAR, THE END OF OAK STREET, PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE (animation), SIX: THE MUSICAL LIVE!* (concert film), VISHWANATH & SONS (in Telugu or Tamil with English sub), THE WRONG GIRLS, ICE CREAM MAN, MINIONS & MONSTERS (animation), MOANA, THE ODYSSEY, ONE NIGHT ONLY, SUPER TROOPERS 3, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, TOY STORY 5 (animation) (8/14 on), UFC 330: Islam Makhachev vs. Ian Machado Garry, more (mixed martial arts) (8/15, 8 p.m., simulcast), DIRTY DANCING (8/16, 3 & 7 p.m.; 8/19, 7 p.m.), POINT BREAK 35th anniversary (8/16, 4 & 7 p.m.; 8/19, 7 p.m.), “Texas Chain Saw Day” feat. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) (8/18, 7 p.m.), INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER, MUTINY (8/20 on) *single screenings daily
@ Main Quad, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Union Board presents “Summer Films on the Quad” feat. JURASSIC PARK (8/20, 8:30 p.m., free)
Events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Additional “Now Playing” and “Coming Soon” listings appear after the jump!
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NOW PLAYING | The Cities Beyond
@ The Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL
“End of Summer Movie Series” feat. HOOK (8/14, 7 p.m.)
@ The Harvest Moon Twin Drive-in, Gibson City, IL
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, STAND BY ME (Screen 1), THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, SUPER TROOPERS 3 (Screen 2) (8/14-8/15)
@ The Lorraine Theatre, Hoopeston, IL
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (8/14-8/16), YOUNG WASHINGTON (faith film) (8/19), THE END OF OAK STREET (8/20 on)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (8/14, 7 & 9:45 p.m.; 8/15, 2 p.m.), “Wet Hot American Summer Fest!” feat. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER 25th anniversary (8/15, 5 p.m.), Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Humanities present “Forgottonia” multi-media performance* with music by Chris Vallillo and photography by Tim Schroll (8/20, 7 p.m.)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (8/14-8/16)
@ The Route 66 Drive-in Theater, Springfield, IL
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, SUPER TROOPERS 3 (Screen 1), THE END OF OAK STREET, EVIL DEAD BURN (Screen 2) (8/14-8/16)
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
8/22
Halloran Family Foundation presents
FischerFest* “Big Stories, Short Films”
@ Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL, 3-10 p.m., free
NEW! 8/29
Film-Fanatic.Club presents
OFFICE SPACE w/Chuck Koplinski
@ Watson’s Shack & Rail, Champaign, IL, 9:30 p.m.
9/7-9/17
44th Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
@ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema + Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
9/23-9/27
33rd Chicago Underground Film Festival
@ ACX Harper Theater – Hyde Park, etc., Chicago, IL
10/8-10/18
35th Heartland Film Festival
@ various venues, Indianapolis, IN
10/23
“Behind the ‘Scream’: A Live Conversation with David Arquette”
feat. 30th anniversary screening of SCREAM (1996)
@ Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, Bloomington, IL, 7 p.m.
10/27
An evening with ‘Partially Devoured’ author Daniel Kraus
feat. screening of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
11/5-11/15
Cinema St. Louis presents
35th Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival
@ The Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis, MO
11/20-11/22
25th anniversary Route 66 Film Festival*
@ Hoogland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL
4/8-4/11, 2027
37th Onion City Experimental Film Festival
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse, Chicago, IL
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
Chambana Film Society presents “2026 CineSonic Music Film Festival”
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL, 2 p.m.
8/23: WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C.; 8/30: RADIOHEART: THE DRIVE & TIMES OF DJ KEVIN COLE
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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