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A movie theater (American English) [1] or cinema (Commonwealth English), [2] also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the pictures, or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films for public entertainment.
Cinema (Nazareth album), or the title song, released 1986; Cinema, a 2009 album by Brazilian band Cachorro Grande; Cinema, a 1990 album by English musician Ice MC (Ian Campbell), or the title song; Cinema, a 2004 album by Portuguese musician Rodrigo Leão; Cinema, a 2010 album by Karsh Kale; Cinema, a 2021 album by The Marías
In other countries, the place where movies are exhibited may be called a cinema or movie theatre. By contrast, in the United States, movie is the predominant term for the medium. Although the words film and movie are sometimes used interchangeably, film is more often used when considering a work's artistic, theoretical, or technical aspects.
Unusual locations to show a movie outdoors include of skyscraper rooftops, screens floating on a lake with spectators sitting on boats, screenings where guests watch a movie in hot tubs or drive-in cinemas on the top floor of a parking garage. A special type of outdoor cinema is the drive-in theater.
Feeble, flickering films of travel scenes were the usual fare." The theater remained open for two years, making it the first permanent movie theater in the world. November 7, 1897 ad for the Vitascope Theater in Buffalo, New York, one of the first theaters created especially to show motion pictures. In its first year there were 200,000 ...
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (doing business as AMC Theatres, originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema; often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas or AMC Multi-Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain founded in Kansas City, Missouri, and now headquartered in Leawood, Kansas. It is the largest ...
CGV Cinemas San Francisco 14, is a 14-auditorium [36] movie theater multiplex in a former eight-story Cadillac dealership building on Van Ness Avenue at O'Farrell Street. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] It opened on 10 July 1998, as the AMC 1000 Van Ness with 3,146 seats listed.
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.