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Bangkok’s open-air cinema goes pet-friendly

Three nights of six movies, music and pets running happily feral at CU Centenary Park

Kaweewat Siwanartwong
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Kaweewat Siwanartwong
Staff writer, Time Out Thailand
Skyline Film
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It’s time to take your pet to a film screening. Not the indoor, stale popcorn kind, but one where the breeze does most of the cooling and the grass insists on being your carpet. A city park transformed into a cinema, your dog happily sniffing the air while you argue over whether Legally Blonde counts as high art (it does). The beauty lies in the mix – movies on the big screen, live music drifting across the lawn, pets doing what they do best: stealing the show.

From October 31-November 2, CU Centenary Park becomes the city’s open-air living room thanks to PMCU and Skyline Film Bangkok. Six titles have been picked not just to entertain humans but to keep their four-legged companions in the frame too. Expect a strange cocktail of canine loyalty, haunted basements and Hollywood’s favourite caped saviour.

 Skyline Film
Photograph: Skyline Film

Tickets are B390 via Ticketmelon right here. But that hardly captures the exchange: three nights where cinema, music and the antics of overexcited pets all collapse into one long, messy, very human memory.

Here’s the lineup:

Friday October 31

Ghostbusters
Photograph: Ghostbusters

4.30pm – Ghostbusters

Need a ghost problem sorted? Call the Ghostbusters. This iconic action-comedy follows three eccentric scientists who swap academia for proton packs to launch a ghost-hunting biz in New York. With high-tech gear and zero chill, they take on the city’s unruly spirits – until a much darker force shows up. 

The Sixth Sense
Photograph: The Sixth Sense

Meet Cole, an eight-year-old boy haunted by a chilling secret – he sees dead people. Isolated and afraid, he finds help in child psychologist Malcolm Crowe. As they unravel the truth together, the story builds to a twist that hits hard and lingers.

Saturday November 1

500 Days of Summer
Photograph: 500 Days of Summer

4.30pm – 500 Days of Summer

Spend 500 days wrapped in the highs and lows of love with 500 Days of Summer. This bittersweet tale follows two coworkers caught in a connection that’s never clearly defined. It’s tender, funny and quietly heartbreaking – a love story that doesn’t go by the book.

 

A Dog’s Purpose
Photograph: A Dog’s Purpose

8.30pm – A Dog’s Purpose

Follow a dog’s soul as it’s reborn across multiple lives, meeting new owners and learning what it means to love, connect and find purpose. A Dog’s Purpose is a heartfelt journey through loyalty, loss and the beauty of unconditional love.

Sunday November 2

Legally Blonde
Photograph: Legally Blonde

4.30pm – Legally Blonde

Dumped for not being serious enough, a popular blonde sets out to prove her ex wrong by taking the Harvard Law School entrance exam. But life at the prestigious university turns out very different from what she expected.

Superman (2025)
Photograph: Superman (2025)

8.30pm – Superman (2025)

A fresh take on Clark Kent’s story. Torn between his Kryptonian roots and Earthly upbringing, he embarks on a journey to understand what it really means to be human – and a hero.

The films are only half the story. Live music will spill across the park each evening, the kind of soundtrack that makes conversations linger and keeps tails wagging. The setting itself matters just as much – lying in the grass while skyscrapers loom at the edges, the city singing around you, it’s easy to forget how rare it is to have this much space in Bangkok and how much joy can come from sharing it.

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