25 Facts About Movie theaters

Movie theaters theater, cinema, or cinema hall, known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, or the big screen, is a building that contains auditoria for viewing films for entertainment.

Most, but not all, Movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket.

Some movie theaters are operated by non-profit organizations or societies that charge members a membership fee to view films.

Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print on a heavy reel.

The audience members often sit on padded seats, which in most Movie theaters are set on a sloped floor, with the highest part at the rear of the theater.

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Movie theaters often sell soft drinks, popcorn, and candy, and some theaters sell hot fast food.

Colloquial expressions, mostly applied to motion pictures and motion picture Movie theaters collectively, include the silver screen and the big screen .

Movie theaters often have a concession stand for buying snacks and drinks within the theater's lobby.

Many of these early Movie theaters contain a balcony, an elevated level across the auditorium above the theater's rearmost seats.

Many modern Movie theaters have accessible seating areas for patrons in wheelchairs.

Since the 1960s, multiple-screen Movie theaters have become the norm, and many existing venues have been retrofitted so that they have multiple auditoriums.

Drive-in movie theaters are mainly found in the United States, where they were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

Some outdoor movie theaters are just grassy areas where the audience sits upon chairs, blankets or even in hot tubs, and watch the movie on a temporary screen, or even the wall of a building.

One incentive for Movie theaters to show 3D films is that although ticket sales have declined, revenues from 3D tickets have grown.

Some Movie theaters ran on continuous showings, where the same items would repeat throughout the day, with patrons arriving and departing at any time rather than having distinct entrance and exit cycles.

Some movie theaters have some kind of break during the presentation, particularly for very long films.

Some countries such as the Netherlands have a tradition of incorporating an intermission in regular feature presentations, though many theaters have now abandoned that tradition, while in North America, this is very rare and usually limited to special circumstances involving extremely long movies.

Until the multiplex era, prior to showtime, the screen in some Movie theaters would be covered by a curtain, in the style of a theater for a play.

Some well-equipped Movie theaters have "interlock" projectors which allow two or more projectors and sound units to be run in unison by connecting them electronically or mechanically.

Sometimes movie theaters provide digital projection of a live broadcast of an opera, concert, or other performance or event.

Large theater chains, such as AMC Theatres, own smaller Movie theaters that show "second runs" of popular films, at reduced ticket prices.

Some adult Movie theaters sell a day pass, either as standard ticket, or as an option that costs a little more than a single admission.

Since the 2010s, one of the increasing sources of competition for movie theaters is the increasing ownership by people of home theater systems which can display high-resolution Blu-ray disks of movies on large, widescreen flat-screen TVs, with 5.

In some movie theater complexes, the theaters are arranged such that tickets are checked at the entrance into the entire plaza, rather than before each theater.

Some Movie theaters have detectors at the doors to pick up recording smugglers.

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