The city of Austin and one of its most famous residents, Robert Rodriguez, will embrace the dark and delightful imagination of Tim Burton at Fantastic Fest 2016 by celebrating Sunday, September 25th as "Keep Austin Peculiar Day" in honor of the influential director and his latest movie, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
At the Alamo Drafthouse – South Lamar at 4:50pm CT, Rodriguez will give Burton the authorized proclamation declaring September 25th as Keep Austin Peculiar Day in Austin, TX.
Shortly after the presentation, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will screen at Fantastic Fest ahead of its wide theatrical release on September 30th.
We have official details and a look at the proclamation below, and to learn more, visit:
"Austin, TX resident and Director Robert Rodriguez will present Director Tim Burton with an official proclamation from city of Austin Mayor Steve Adler declaring Sunday, September 25, 2016 as KEEP AUSTIN PECULIAR DAY at the Fantastic Fest screening of MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Austin, TX is a city that welcomes creative diversity as showcased this very weekend with the vision of artists in a variety of arenas – from Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., to Wizard World Comic Con, where pop culture comes to life, to the 27 th Annual Pecan Street Festival, one of the largest and longest-running arts, crafts and music festivals in the nation."
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Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
