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This summer's resurrected, but truncated, Screen on the Green was by all accounts a big success, even if that final one last Monday happened to fall on the hottest, stickiest night of the year. So we can hardly blame SOTG co-saviors Comcast for going down to the National Mall with their cameras to capture some film goers giving them the love. But! At the end of the video below, the cameras are pointed toward a group of people purportedly doing "the HBO Dance" during the little musical interlude before the film begins, and there's maybe one person in there doing it correctly. People, people: the HBO Dance is not a freeform, wiggly enterprise comprised of flailing about however you feel like it. When done properly, the HBO Dance is more of a jazzercise move: you put your arms straight above your head, wave them back and forth to the beat of the music, and hop up and down with both feet. That's it. No spaghetti arms, no hip shaking, and for cryin' out loud, no twisting. Let's keep this sorry display in mind for next year, everyone.

The recently reinstated 2009 edition of Screen on the Green, now a joint production of HBO, Comcast, and the Trust for the National Mall, has announced the programming for the remainder of the summer's dates. When it was revealed that the series had been rescued from extinction earlier this summer, organizers only announced the first title on the schedule, a July 20 screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Titles for the remaining three dates — SotG was shortened to only four weeks this year from the normal five due to the last minute planning — were released this morning.

When we first heard that HBO had canceled Screen on the Green, we typed through our tears in order to bring you a guide to all the other outdoor summer movie options. Since then, Screen on the Green has been miraculously revived, but our commitment to cataloging every free outdoor film in the metro area continues unabated.

HBO dancers, get those moneymakers ready for shaking. Reports of the demise of Screen on the Green have been greatly exaggerated, and the outdoor film series has officially been brought back from the brink of extinction. HBO has just announced that Screen on the Green on the green WILL RETURN this summer.

It's been a week since D.C. received the sad news that HBO was pulling its sponsorship of Screen on the Green, the popular outdoor summer film festival on the National Mall. In that time, there has been a flurry of activity by devotees attempting to salvage the festival for this summer and hopefully into the future. Two Facebook groups sprung up almost immediately looking for support for saving SotG, and late last week the two merged into one, now over 1700 members strong. Of course, creating and getting members into a Facebook group is easy and largely a symbolic gesture taken on its own. What's pleasantly surprising is that the group's organizer, D.C. Council staffer Jesse Rauch, is taking real and substantive steps to find a new sponsor. After speaking to HBO, Rauch was able to find out the budget necessary to put on the series — $150,000 — and has been in contact with movie studio representatives and the MPAA about sponsorship, all thanks to contacts within the Facebook group.

We're still a little heartbroken over yesterday's news that HBO has left us high, dry, and movie-less on the National Mall this summer. Seriously, HBO, was it that much of a financial burden? You couldn't have just trimmed back Alan Ball's fake blood budget for season two of The Sookie Stackhouse Soap Opera Hour? I think that would probably have covered it. They may have sacked the best of D.C.'s outdoor film series, but that doesn't mean that we're without options. An abundance of them, it turns out. So to soothe those wounds from yesterday, we present as comprehensive a list as we can come up with at the moment of places where you can see movies outside this summer. If we've missed anything, please add them in the comments.

HBO has pulled out of its annual sponsorship of the popular Screen on the Green outdoor film festival on the National Mall.

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.

This seems to be the summer to see James Bond outdoors. Not only are there three neighborhood film festivals showing nothing but Bond films all summer long, but Screen on the Green just released the schedule for their 9th year of films on the National Mall, and who should be heading up the list but Mr. Shaken-Not-Stirred himself. What, was MGM offering a discount on print rentals this year? At least it's a Connery flick; if SotG decided to give D.C. a fourth screening of Moonraker, it might be cause for revolt.