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The summer blockbuster season may be coming to a close, but this weekend is a perfect time to catch a movie with family and friends, and at a discount price to boot.

This Saturday September 3rd, movie theaters will be offering tickets to see the latest theatrical releases for only $3 per ticket. This is in celebration of National Cinema Day, which was made possible by The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit organization working to “solve problems and promote and expand the exhibition industry”.

Major movie theater franchises including AMC Theatres located in Burlington, and Showcase Cinemas in Woburn, will be partaking in this promotion.

Don’t know what to see? Here’s some popular films in theaters now…

Top Gun – Maverick: The sequel to the 1986 classic is the most successful film of the year (and now the sixth highest grossing film of all time). Tom Cruise returns as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, this time training a new batch of Top Gun recruits (including the son of his late partner Goose, played by Miles Teller) for a dangerous mission.

Minions – The Rise of Gru: The Despicable Me prequel/spinoff-series continues. This time the group of gibberish-speaking, yellow, Tic-Tac-like creatures are out to help a young Gru (Steve Carell) join a prestigious league of supervillains.

Nope: In this science-fiction thriller, a pair of sibling Hollywood horse-wranglers (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) seek out to capture video evidence of a UFO inhabiting the airspace above their late father’s ranch. The film is directed by Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us)

Jaws: Stephen Spielberg’s classic about a great-white shark terrorizing the shores of a small New England beach town returns to theaters this weekend (in 3D!)

Spider-Man – No Way Home – The More Fun Stuff Version: The epic conclusion to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy also returns to theaters this weekend, with an additional 11 minutes of footage. No Way Home was the first film to gross $1 billion worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic.

To find other films and participating theaters, click here.