Students and community members will have the opportunity to experience a free double feature tonight in the South Quad.

The 30-foot movie screen brought in by University Board will show “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” at 7:30 p.m. immediately followed by “300.”

This is the first year UB will be presenting outdoor movies.

UB Adviser CeCi Brinker remembers when the university successfully had outdoor movies, although it has been some time since the last UB sponsored outdoor movie.

“I don’t think we’ve had an outdoor movie for at least three years,” she said.

The recent lack of outdoor movies can be contributed to the programming attention that has been focused on other projects, such as the UB movie series, concerts and lectures, Brinker said.

UB Movie Coordinator Nick Gracyalny said the idea took shape after a student made a suggestion last year. After the initial idea, Gracyalny began working with other UB members to materialize it.

“We thought it was a great idea and started collaborating at the end of last year,” Gracyalny said. “Overall, it has taken a bit of planning.”

To host the event, UB contacted professional events company Cutting Edge Entertainment to manage the movie screen, projector and stereo surround sound system. The company, which covers all areas of production, even provides moviegoers with free popcorn.

“The surround sound system and movie screen itself is pretty state of the art,” Brinker said.

Gracyalny said he carefully chose the movies for tonight’s event. “Pirates” was picked months ago because of its popularity. He chose “300” because he thinks it fits the setting just right.

“Both movies had great popularity and are good on the big-screen,” Gracyalny said. “‘300’ on the surround sound system is going to be a great outdoor movie.”