"The Fourth Kind" premiered in Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on Tuesday night. The movie is set to release in theatres on Nov. 6th.

Picking a Crowd Pleaser

Over 200 students showed up at Meacham Auditorium on Tuesday night to view the premiere of "The Fourth Kind," which isn't set to release in theatres until Nov. 6th. Meacham often hosts movie events similar to this one and the movies that are featured are chosen by two students.

The film series was started back in the 80s as a free alternative to typical Friday night plans for students. The film series consists of two components. The first is the Union Programming Board, on which Lucas Potter, journalism sophomore, serves to pick out movies that have already been in theatres from a website called swank. For every movie shown between eight and nine hundred dollars is paid for the licensing fees. The second component is the Campus Activities Council, on which Greg Emde, microbiology sophomore, serves to decide which movies should premiere at OU. Movies that premiere are usually free of charge to the university because the movie corporations want student feedback and for students to spread the word about the upcoming movie.

“In order to choose movies we got together at the beginning of the semester and compiled a list of movies that appealed to us and then narrowed it down, the movies that do well in theatres do well at Meacham,” said Potter.

Meacham’s next big features will be "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Where the Wild Things Are."

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