A movie theater (also called a movie house, film theater, film house, picture theater or cinema) is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ("movies" or "films").

Most but not all movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The movie is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium. Some movie theaters are now equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print.

Noun

theater (plural theaters)

1. A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies etc.

   "The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life." — (w:Oscar Wilde)

2. A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

   His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.

3. A lecture theatre.
4. (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

   This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!

5. (US, Australian, New Zealand) A cinema, or picture theatre.

   We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.

6. Drama or performance as a profession or artform.

   I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of theatre

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• The Mad Cornish Projectionist
  madcornishprojectionist.co.uk
  Dedicated to projectors, projectionists and the cinema industry.
• Rivest's Ultimate List of Movie Theaters
  movie-theatre.org
  Lists indoor and drive-in theaters in the United States and Canada. The theater details are in downloadable Excel spreadsheets.
• Cinema Sightlines
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