{"id":610,"date":"2008-06-25T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=610"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:21:55","slug":"shall-we-play-a-game-war-games-returns-to-theaters-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/25\/shall-we-play-a-game-war-games-returns-to-theaters-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall We Play A Game? WAR GAMES Returns To Theaters In July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems almost impossible to believe, but John Badham&#8217;s <strong>War Games <\/strong>is celebrating it&#8217;s 25th Anniversary this year. And NCM Fathom is presenting a special, one night event to celebrate that fact.<\/p>\n<p>On July 24, 2008 at 7:30 local time, NCM Fathom and MGM will be showing<strong> War Games<\/strong> on the big screen at theaters near you.<\/p>\n<p>A Cold War thriller for the teen set, <strong>War Games<\/strong> featured Matthew Broderick as a teenage hacker who tries to break in to Atari for a peek at the latest games. It turns out that the new game he found, Global Thermonuclear War, wasn&#8217;t part of Atari&#8217;s Christmas releases, but rather part of the U.S. Government&#8217;s doomsday scenario. Inadvertently, he sets the world on the course for, well, global thermonuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>NCM Fathom has done similar events around the 20th Anniversary of<strong> Dirty Dancing <\/strong>and the 25th Anniversary of <strong>Poltergeist.<\/strong> It also simulcasts performances of the Metropolitan Opera and other special events.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the showing of <strong>War Games<\/strong> go on sale June 27th. To purchase tickets or find the location of a participating theater near you, vist the NCM Fathom Website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">It seems almost impossible to believe, but John Badham&#8217;s War Games is celebrating it&#8217;s 25th Anniversary this year. And NCM Fathom is presenting a special, one night event to celebrate that fact. On July 24, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/25\/shall-we-play-a-game-war-games-returns-to-theaters-in-july\/\" title=\"Shall We Play A Game? WAR GAMES Returns To Theaters In July\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4233],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-wargames"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}