Through a new technological innovation, Iowa State students can now watch not-yet-released movies on state-of-the-art-equipment — for free.

Network Event Theatre is a satellite system connecting 40 colleges across the country. The network will broadcast unreleased movies to college students from coast to coast, and Iowa State is the only Iowa school to be involved.

State-of-the-art equipment was brought in and paid for by movie companies just for this particular program.

“The screen is bigger than some movie theater screens,” co-organizer Eric Yarwood said. “We’re not trying to cram 650 people into a room and make them watch a big screen TV or anything.”

The first movie will be shown tonight in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union and will be “Without Limits,” Tom Cruise’s first project as a producer.

It is the second movie made in the ’90s about famous runner Steve Prefontain, who set long distance records for the United States in the ’70s.

Future movies to be shown include Sundance Movie Festival winner “Slam” and, just in time for Halloween, John Carpenter’s “Vampires.”

In order to get into the movies, students must have a pass, which can be picked up at the West Student Office Space on the first floor of the Memorial Union.

For the first movie, students can be admitted without a pass.