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Matinee is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Joe Dante, written by Jerico Stone [3] and Charles S. Haas, and starring John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, and Lisa Jakub with supporting roles done by Robert Picardo and Jesse White (in his final theatrical film role).
The notion of how long a feature film should be has varied according to time and place. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, [2] [3] the American Film Institute [4] and the British Film Institute, [5] a feature film runs for more than 40 minutes, while the Screen Actors Guild asserts that a feature's running time is 60 minutes or longer.
Matinee, an American comedy film by Joe Dante; Matinee, an Indian film by Aneesh Upasana "The Dark of the Matinée", also known as "Matinée", a 2004 song by Franz Ferdinand; Matinée (disco), alcohol-free discothèques for teenagers in South America; Matinee, a machinima production software tool; Matinee, a necklace length approximately 20 ...
Movie serials began in Europe. In France Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset launched his series of Nick Carter films in 1908, and the idea of the episodic crime adventure was developed particularly by Louis Feuillade in Fantômas (1913–14), Les Vampires (1915), and Judex (1916); in Germany, Homunculus (1916), directed by Otto Rippert, was a six-part horror serial about an artificial creature.
Discount theaters, also known as dollar theaters, dollar movies, second-run theaters, and sub-run theaters, are movie theaters that show motion pictures for reduced prices after those films depart first-run theaters. [1] [2] Originally, they would receive release prints of 35 mm films after those prints had been shown already at first-run ...
The etymology of the term "movie theater" involves the term "movie", which is a "shortened form of moving picture in the cinematographic sense" that was first used in 1896 [7] and "theater", which originated in the "...late 14c., [meaning an] open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles and plays". The term "theater" comes from the ...
At their peak, nearly 2,000 British cinemas put on a Saturday children’s matinee show, but by 1978 this had dropped to 300. [1] Attendances in 1971 were over 800,000 per week. [ 2 ]
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from October 31, 1955, [1] to June 27, 1958. [2] Its name is often seen as Matinee Theatre . The series, which ran daily from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. [ 2 ] Eastern Time, was usually broadcast live and most of the time in color.