Screen On The Green | Free Outdoor Cinema in Newcastle

NE1’s SCREEN ON THE GREEN RETURNS FOR SUMMER IN THE CITY

NE1’s Summer in the City programme launches at the end of June with the welcome return of NE1’s Screen on the Green. NE1’s large, free, open air cinema at Old Eldon Square is the first of NE1’s summertime events which are set to transform the city throughout the summer, designed to give people a vibrant, safe and colourful welcome back to the city.

What's On at Screen on the Green - FREE Outdoor Cinema in Newcastle

As always, double check listings with NE1 Newcastle before heading out as listings can change. There is no need to book - just turn up! Find the screen outside in Old Eldon Square (exit eldon Square at Nandos / Pizza Express and you will see it). There are free deckchairs and some people bring their own picnic blankets. You can bring your own snacks / drinks (no alcohol) or there are plenty of local businesses in the surrounding area where you can pick up a takeaway.

Here's what's on:

July

Saturday 20th July – Mini Pride Takeover
1pm: Lightyear
3pm: Strange World

Monday 22nd July
12pm: Incredibles 2
3pm: Frozen

Tuesday 23rd July
12pm: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
3pm: The Little Mermaid (2023)

Wednesday 24th July
12pm: Megamind
3pm: The Lorax
6pm: Asteroid City

Thursday 25th July
12pm: Storks
3pm: Epic Tails
6pm: Barbie

Friday 26th July
12pm: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
3pm: Lyle, Lyle Crocodile

Saturday 27th July
12pm: Wonka
3pm: Migration

Sunday 28th July
12pm: The Princess and the Frog
3pm: School of Rock

Monday 29th July
12pm: The Railway Children Return
3pm: Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Tuesday 30th July
12pm: Abominable
3pm: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Wednesday 31st July
12pm: Coco
3pm: Sing 2
6pm: La La Land

August

Thursday 1st August
12pm: Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
3pm: DC League of Super-Pets
6pm: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Friday 2nd August
12pm: Space Jam
3pm: Kung Fu Panda 4

Saturday 3rd August
12pm: Tangled
3pm: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Sunday 4th August
12pm: The Addams Family 2
3pm: Ferdinand

Monday 5th August
12pm: The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
3pm: Smurfs: The Lost Village

Tuesday 6th August
12pm: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
3pm: Monster House

Wednesday 7th August
12pm: Elemental
3pm: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
6pm: His Girl Friday

Thursday 8th August
12pm: The Boss Baby 2: Family Business
3pm: Flushed Away
6pm: Fast X

Friday 9th August
12pm : Playmobil: The Movie
3pm: Enchanted

Saturday 10th August
12pm: Wish
3pm: Finding Dory

Sunday 11th August
12pm: Fantastic Mr Fox
3pm: The Angry Birds Movie

Monday 12th August
12pm: Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken
3pm: Aladdin (2019)

Tuesday 13th August
12pm: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
3pm: Night at the Museum

Wednesday 14th August
12pm: Christopher Robin
3pm: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
6pm: Scrapper

Thursday 15th August
12pm: Shark Tale
3pm: Holes
6pm: Mean Girls the Musical

Friday 16th August
12pm: Wall-E
3pm: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Saturday 17th August
12pm: Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
3pm: Trolls Band Together

Sunday 18th August
12pm: Encanto
3pm: Raya and the Last Dragon

Monday 19th August
12pm: Mary Poppins Returns
3pm: Cars 3

Tuesday 20th August
12pm: Chicken Run
3pm: The Muppet Movie

Wednesday 21st August
12pm: Frozen 2
3pm: The Bad Guys
6pm: Moulin Rouge!

Thursday 22nd August
12pm: Ratatouille
3pm: Missing Link
6pm: Dune: Part Two

Friday 23rd August
12pm: Onward
3pm: The Princess Diaries

Saturday 24th August
12pm: 101 Dalmatians (1996)
3pm: Scooby-Doo

Sunday 25th August – Toy Story Marathon
Starting at 12pm, we’ll be screening all four Toy Story movies with 10 minute breaks in between films.

Monday 26th August
12pm: Ron’s Gone Wrong
3pm: Jungle Cruise

Tuesday 27th August
12pm: Cinderella (2015)
3pm: Corpse Bride

Wednesday 28th August
12pm: Bolt
3pm: Wonder
6pm: Back to the Future

Thursday 29th August
12pm: Shrek Forever After
3pm: Spy Kids
6pm: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Friday 30th August
12pm: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
3pm: Sherlock Gnomes

Saturday 31st August
12pm: Ralph Break the Internet: Wreck it Ralph 2
3pm: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

September

Sunday 1st September
12pm: Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
3pm: Monsters University

Toddler Takeover

Toddler Takeover takes place at 10:30am on Tuesdays from late July through August with screenings of BBC adaptations of popular books by children's writer Julia Donaldson.

There'll be storytelling sessions from Seven Stories too alongside picnic blankets to get comfy on and juice cartons for the kids - it's perfect for keeping little ones entertained all summer long!

July

Tuesday 23rd July
10:30am: The Snail and the Whale

Tuesday 30th July
10:30am: The Highway Rat

August

Tuesday 6th  August
10:30am: The Gruffalo

Tuesday 13th  August
10:30am: The Smeds and the Smoos

Tuesday 20th August
10:30am: Tabby McTat

Tuesday 27th August
10:30am: The Gruffalo’s Child

Our Screen On The Green Review from 2016 

This rest of this post is our review from 2016. 

 Have you walked past 'Screen On The Green' in Newcastle yet? Located outside old Eldon Square near Pizza Express, Nandos and Starbucks, you really can't miss the giant screen & deck chairs. 

ALL MOVIES ARE COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE

You aren't allowed to take alcohol to screenings but you are welcome to take along your own snacks from either home or nearby businesses.

As the movies are free, I think supporting local businesses is the least we can do (a trip to the cinema once cost us £60 on tickets alone!) so we decided to head to the Grainger Market before a 12 noon showing of Matilda to pick up a picnic.

First stop was the Pet Lamb Patisserie where the kids were spoilt for choice with the selection of homemade cakes, brownies and treats on offer. We left with 3 treats for £4.50 which considering we paid £4 for just one slice of cake in Scotland last week was a mega bargain.

Next, we stopped by Pumphreys Coffee where a large Americano to take out was only £2 - I'd much rather support this local coffee shop than give my ££ to Costa or Starbucks. Please keep them in mind for your next caffeine fix.

Our final stop was Pizza By Slice where you can buy EPIC slices of pizza on a shoestring budget. 4 HUGE slices of pizza fresh from the oven set us back £6.80. I packed the kids some water from home so our lunch total was £13.30 or £3.30 each. Not bad for a 2 course local, homemade lunch plus drinks and a movie!

We hot-footed it over to the Screen On The Green with our treats just in time for the movie starting. There still were a few deckchairs available but as I'd packed our picnic blanket just in case, we decided to set up camp on the grass. If you buy Pizza from Slice you need to start eating it pretty quickly as it soon gets cold when out in the fresh air.

It wasn't all about the treats - the Grainger Market is a fab place to stock up on cheap fruit and these grapes were only 80p!

The movie was fab - despite building work, chatter and traffic, everyone could hear and see the screen perfectly. It doesn't feel like it is blasting loud but you also don't struggle to hear at all. The atmosphere was fantastic and some of the kids got up and started dancing when Matilda started working her magic. There are staff around too who regularly walked around and checked everything was ok. If you need the loo (which inevitably my three did) the toilets in Eldon Square near Waitrose are less than a 30 second walk away.

The kids were impeccably behaved (they saved all their fighting for the bus home) and even though we have watched Matilda approximately 1 million times, it really held their attention. I am definitely going to return a few times over the summer and take my MacBook with me next time to get some work done whilst they watch the movie.

If you are looking for a very cheap day out with the kids this summer, I honestly cannot recommend catching a movie at Screen on the Green enough - you can easily make a day of it and pair it with a couple of Newcastle's free attractions such as the new Baltic Playground Exhibition, the Quayside Seaside, Ouseburn Farm, the Laing Art Gallery, the Discovery Museum or the Great North Museum.