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cinema

[sin-uh-muh] / ˈsɪn ə mə /


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The Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square has been saved from potential closure after signing a 25-year lease.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures has taken over the lease for the Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades and intends to reopen the cinema, which has been closed since the January 2025 Palisades fire last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Kubrick’s cinema may last forever . . . and ever . . . and ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But she lives on in cinema, thanks to the 1985 landmark queer Mexican film “Doña Herlinda and Her Son,” by director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, where she played the titular Doña Herlinda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

It had not come to the fields or the church or to the cinema or to the café where Salvador worked.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

The launch is part of celebrations marking Zelda's 40th anniversary, alongside a global concert tour and a live-action film hitting cinemas next spring.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

"To me, the new cinemas have lost the charm," said Chaturvedi, a former Bollywood cinematographer who worked on hit movies during a three-decade career.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

India's single-screen cinemas have been steadily squeezed by multiplexes, streaming, rising property costs and the expense of maintaining ageing buildings and equipment.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Many theatres, like cinemas, ask audiences to switch off their mobile phones during performances.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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