20 years ago it all began. 20 years later and we're still here. Today,
FirstShowing.net celebrates its
20th Anniversary on the web! Huzzah! June 3rd, 2026 is specifically the
exact 20th anniversary of the launch of this movie blog website. The
very first post was published on
June 3rd, 2006 - it was a quick 3 sentence post about tickets being on sale for the new
Superman Returns and
Cars movies opening in theaters that summer. FirstShowing originally launched as a movie blog to talk about camping out right outside a movie theater in Colorado for the opening of
Superman Returns (
here's the old post about that event). All these years later, while I'm no longer camping out for movies (is anyone still doing this??), I'm still obsessed with them and always on the watch. So much has changed over these last 20 years – Hollywood has gone through some rough times, the internet is a whole different place. But what hasn't changed is my passion for cinema, my love of the movie-going experience, and my excitement for every upcoming release (
especially sci-fi) and new project in the works. Thank you for reading
FS and being a part of
this website over these past 20 years. //
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