Screen on the Green Canceled

The Tuesday afternoon announced that Screen on the Green has been canceled for 2011. 

The conservancy said in a release that it could not find a sponsor for the annual outdoor film festival, which has been playing movies on the lawn of since 2000.

The conservancy released the following information:

With Turner’s announcement in January of a management change at Peachtree TV, Piedmont Park Conservancy was informed that it no longer had a partner to produce Screen on the Green. Since that time, the Conservancy has attempted to secure sponsors, but announced today that they have run out of time. Piedmont Park Conservancy, which holds the permit for the popular annual summer film festival, is committed to finding the necessary funding to host Screen on the Green in 2012. 

“It is our desire to continue the tradition of kicking off every summer with great movies in this great park,” said Yvette Bowen, president and CEO of Piedmont Park Conservancy.

“As one of our many free community-building initiatives, we have treasured our first ten years of movies on Piedmont Park’s Meadow. This year’s event, however, the timing of Turner’s announcement left us with too little time to secure sufficient sponsors to support it and, as such, must be cancelled,” she added.

Atlantic Station officials, on Monday, said they would launch a new outdoor movie series called Movies in the Park. The event kicks off Thursday, May 12, and will run through September at the development's Central Park. 

Movie screenings will begin each week at dusk (around 8:45 to 9 p.m.). Pets are welcome. 

Here is the lineup of movies:

• May – 12: Iron Man 2 19: Legally Blonde; 26: Inception
• June – 2: Mamma Mia!; 9: Jurassic Park; 16: Déjà Vu; 23: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 30: Grease-sing-a-long
• July – 7: The Wizard of Oz; 14: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1; 21: The King’s Speech; 28: West Side Story
• August – 4: Toy Story 3; 11: Hairspray; 18: The Social Network; 25: The Hangover
• Sept – 1: Sex and the City 2; 8: Steel Magnolias; 15: Pretty Woman; 22: Dreamgirls; 29: Viewer’s Choice