Celebrate the back-to-school season at the Flagstar Strand Theatre! The evening begins with the classic silent short Felix in Hollywood, brought to life with live accompaniment by pianist LuLu Chen. Then enjoy the highly anticipated feature presentation of Zootopia 2 on the big screen. Free school supplies will be provided to help kick off the new school year in style.

🚪Doors: 6:30 PM

🎞️Films Begin: 7:00 PM

✏️Free School Supplies (while supplies last)!

SILENT SHORT FILM WITH PIANIST

Our Pianist: Lulu Chen is a New York–based Taiwanese independent producer, film composer, pianist, and oboist. She holds a B.A. in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music and creates imaginative soundscapes that blend orchestral, acoustic, electronic, and synthesized elements.

As a keyboardist, Lulu has toured China with Cats: The Musical and performed in Off-Broadway productions including Shrek, High School Musical, and Bubble Boy, and served as Music Director for Matilda with The Gingerbread Players. Her performance venues include Carnegie Hall, the Steinway x JFK concert series, Make Music New York, and NYC Piano Week 2024. She has also collaborated with Hong Kong pop artists Adia Chen and Chris Huang.

Her score for One Last Monster won the top prize at the 2020 Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival. Recently, she has produced hip-hop piano projects with emerging rappers and composed the score for the feature film Welcome, directed by Drica Armstrong. In 2026, the musical Kidults, for which she composed the music, premiered in London and New York.

FEATURE FILM

Zootopia 2 (titled Zootropolis 2 in some markets)[b] is a 2025 American animated buddy cop comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and the sequel to Zootopia (2016). Directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard and written by Bush, the film stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Idris Elba, Alan Tudyk, Nate Torrence, Don Lake, Bonnie Hunt, and Jenny Slate reprising their roles from the first film, with newcomers Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, David Strathairn, Patrick Warburton, Quinta Brunson, and Danny Trejo joining the cast. The film follows Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde as they pursue a pit viper named Gary De'Snake across Zootopia and try to clear their names after being framed.

Zootopia 2 premiered at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles on November 13, 2025, and was released in the United States on November 26. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $1.849 billion worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time, the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time, and the second-highest-grossing film of 2025. It won Best Animated Feature at the 79th British Academy Film Awards and was nominated in the same category at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards (in addition to Cinematic and Box Office Achievement), the 31st Critics' Choice Awards, and the 98th Academy Awards.