If you subscribe to The News & Observer and you haven't discovered the N&O ZONE, you've been missing out on some great opportunities for freebies and discounts.

The program rewards home-delivery subscribers with all types of perks -- everything from drawings for free gift cards to movie passes and concert tickets.

This week, the ZONE is giving away free passes to the highly anticipated movie, "The Hunger Games." Twenty-five folks will receive one "Admit-Two" pass. The pass is good for Monday through Thursday showings at Mission Valley Cinemas or Six Forks Station Cinemas. Winners will be chosen at random on Friday, March 23.

The free movie codes from Blockbuster Express just seem to keep coming this summer. Enjoy them while they last because at some point, they're bound to dry up.

This time, there are six, which are good through Aug. 5 on one-night $1 DVD rentals:

• 46SVEM9
• 38BRAB5
• 38TGAF7
• 23BCRD3
• 75JGMM3
• 78HLG5

Thanks to the folks over at the Fat Wallet forums for posting these.

(Our family has had good luck using these freebie codes in the past but we always take all of them with us just in case one doesn't work.)

You've got until midnight tonight to enter the Centsible Saver giveaway for two $10 gift cards to Regal movie theaters.

I'll be choosing two winners Saturday through random drawing.

Click here to go to the original post to enter the giveaway. Don't make the mistake of commenting on this post because you won't be entered to win.

By the way, I've been reading through the comments on how you save money on the movies and will be compiling a list of all your tips for a future post. You folks are impressively frugal when it comes to movie-going.

OK, folks. How does a free gift card to Regal Theaters sound to you?

I'm giving away two $10 gift cards  here on Centsible Saver this week.

All you have to do is leave a comment. I'd love to hear how you save money when you go to the movies, but any comment will put you in the running for a gift card.

The drawing will be random and I'll announce the winners on Saturday.

These warm my geek heart. Why must we wait until Thanksgiving?

Green froggie's lightThe full trailer

It looks like they were wrong about in that thing on who killed the electric car. They merely ticked it off.

You Norse junkies can get a taste of the film due for release May 2011.

The struggling Garner Towne Square movie theater has closed, with its owners blaming the slow economy and a lease dispute with the shopping center's landlord.

Friday night was the theater's last. The signs, fixtures and other equipment are gone.

"We really tried. We didn't want to have to do this," said Hope Branch, director of operations for Carolina Cinemas. "We were paying extremely high rent in a dying shopping center. When you're barely in the black, it just wasn't good for our company."

Is television better than movies these days? We think so!

Check out this article from today's New York Times: Are films bad, or is TV just better?

The Crossroads 20 movie theater in Cary will soon become home to the Triangle's second IMAX screen.

Regal Entertainment, which owns the theater, began construction yesterday to convert one of its screens to the IMAX format, confirmed company spokesman Chad Browning. The rest of the theater will remain open during the construction, and work should be completed by late August.

IMAX theaters are growing in popularity as more Hollywood movies are released in 3-D formats and the public demand for such films increases despite the fact that IMAX movie tickets command a steeper price. Thus far, the only IMAX option in the Triangle has been the theater inside the Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh.

Browning would not disclose the cost of the project, but the National Association of Theater Owners estimates the cost of building a new IMAX theater from scratch at about a million dollars.

Regal currently operates 45 IMAX screens in its 546 theaters nationwide. Browning said the company evaluates things like demographics to determine whether a market will get an IMAX and did not rule out the addition of other IMAX screens in the Triangle. Regal also owns the theaters at North Hills and Brier Creek in Raleigh, White Oak in Garner, Beaver Creek in Apex and the Timberlyne 6 in Chapel Hill.

"It depends on demand," he said. "Your larger [markets] are typically the areas that would have multiple IMAX screens. It depends on population and if an area can support multiple IMAX screens."