Films that were shown include the first public screening of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, as well as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dreamgirls, Chicago, Black Snake Moan, Snatch, Magnolia, Knocked Up, Frozen, 300, V for Vendetta, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the 2005 remake of King Kong.
Guests have included Mel Gibson, Zack Snyder, Peter Jackson, Seth Rogen, Adam Green, Eli Roth, Craig Brewer, Bill Condon, Vin Diesel, Guillermo del Toro, Jackie Earle Haley, McG and C. Robert Cargill.
BNAT featured such events as having a live jug band accompaniment to Buster Keaton's silent classic The General, the delivery of fresh meat pies to attendees during the early screening of Sweeney Todd, shot glasses of caviar and vodka given to attendees to mirror a scene in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the use of electrically shocking devices to zap sleeping audience members during an intentionally interminable 3:00am viewing of 1950s film Attack of the Gila Monster.
[citation needed] Butt-Numb-A-Thon was held annually in Austin, Texas, for the first eight years at the Alamo Drafthouse's (now closed) original downtown location at 409 Colorado Street.
On June 24, 2007, as an acknowledgment of the last days of the Alamo Drafthouse's original downtown location, Knowles hosted a hastily assembled half-birthday marathon titled "Half-Ass-A-Thon".