The University Board is gearing up for another semester of on-campus movies for students with a line up that may include “Vanilla Sky” and “Harry Potter.”

Last Saturday, the UB showed “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” as its first on-campus movie for the new semester at Buzzard Auditorium. Attendance was somewhat low compared to last semester’s turnout, but Ryan Rinchiuso, the University Board’s movies coordinator, said that the78-person turnout was a pleasant surprise.

“I didn’t really know how many people saw the ads for the movie,” Rinchiuso, a junior journalism major, said. “But 78 people is still pretty good.”

The last movie of the fall semester, “American Pie 2”, brought in a whopping 500 people, he noted.

“A 500-person turnout was amazing,” Rinchiuso said. “It was definitely more than we all expected.”

In the past few years, attendance to the movies was “not very strong,” he commented. Rinchiuso also mentioned that the University Board is trying to bring more popular movies to Eastern.

The University Board conducted an informal survey last semester to see what movies would draw more people in for the spring semester.

“The top three movies chosen were ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’, ‘Vanilla Sky’ and ‘Not Another Teen Movie’,” Rinchiuso said.

He also noted that these movies might be shown throughout this semester, depending on funds.

The University Board does have a few movies on deck for students in the next few months.

Rinchiuso said that both “Monsters, Inc.” and “O,” a modern re-enactment of Shakespeare’s “Othello” starring Julia Stiles and Josh Hartnett, will be shown sometime in February.

Other upcoming movies are “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone” to be shown in March and April, respectively.

“We are trying to get movies that have a mass appeal,” Rinchiuso said. “We want to show movies that everyone knows about.”