Coming to a theater near you: Amazon?

It looks like Amazon may be gearing up to make more moves in the brick-and-mortar world. Bloomberg reports that the e-commerce behemoth is putting itself in the running to acquire Landmark Theatres, which claims to be the United States’ largest chain of movie theaters focused on art house (indie and foreign) movies, with a network of […]

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Want to wear your onesie to the movies? This cinema won’t let you in.

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Thinking of rolling to the cinema in your PJs or unicorn onesie? One cinema won’t let you in.

A New Zealand cinema has banned pyjamas and onesies, championing their aim to improve the dress standards in the surrounding town.

Reported by Newshub, local movie theatre Hawera Cinemas took to Facebook on Friday to post their dress code, which bans “pyjamas, onesies, dressing gowns or dirty gumboots — no matter how cute they are!”

“Like many other businesses and people in town we have noticed an increasing trend of people thinking pj’s/onesies and dressing gowns are appropriate to wear in public,” wrote Hawera Cinema 2.  Read more…

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Saudi Arabia to open first cinema after those ‘Emoji Movie’ screenings

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Saudi Arabia’s first permanent cinema is coming.

Following the country’s recent lifting of a 35-year-old cinema ban, temporary local theatres popped up with showings of The Emoji Movie (of all films) in January.

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information announced that U.S. chain AMC has won the country’s first cinema operating license.

AMC, the world’s largest movie exhibitor, plans to open the country’s first permanent cinema on April 18 in the capital of Riyadh. The kingdom could be home to nearly 350 cinemas, with over 2,500 screens, by 2030. Read more…

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Get ready for ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ with this very minimalist trailer

Ready for Ethan and the whole gang to get into more trouble? Watch our take on the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible – Fallout trailer, in which we only kept the sound effects and bad accents. Read more…More about Movies, Mashable Video, Actio…

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Here are 4 of the greatest shots in movie history

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We’ve covered frame size, composition, movement, and relationship shots — and now we’re talking glass! This week, we’re zooming in on the best uses of lenses. From super wide to telephoto, here come four more of the best shots of all time!

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Saudi Arabia just lifted its cinema ban, and well, the movie choice was interesting

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Saudi Arabia has just lifted a 35-year-old ban on cinemas, and picked an, uh, interesting movie for the first screening.

Ready? The Emoji Movie. Yep.

The very first film hitting cinema screens in three and a half decades was 2017’s animated feature about a city populated by talking emojis. It’s currently sitting at 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — although, granted, it has a 39 percent audience score. And it’s targeted at children.

But hey, let’s celebrate the fact that it was shown at all.

The conservative kingdom’s Ministry of Culture and Information agreed to issue licenses for cinemas on Dec. 11, 2017. According to Reuters, the country’s first permanent theatres could open as early as March 2018, and the authorities are sponsoring temporary cinemas for now — one, in Jeddah’s cultural hall, apparently has a popcorn machine. Films will be censored to adhere to the “moral values” of the kingdom — exactly what these censored films look like remains to be seen. Read more…

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Saudi Arabia will open cinemas for the first time in 35 years

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Saudi Arabia is taking yet another step in the direction of sweeping social and economic reforms. 

After allowing women to drive in June 2018 and letting them into sport stadiums, the kingdom’s ministry of information and culture announced that cinemas will open from early 2018, for the first time since the 1980s — more than 35 years ago. 

لتحفيز النمو والتنوّع الاقتصادي عبر تطوير قطاعي الثقافة والترفيه، نبارك لوزارة الثقافة والإعلام @moci_ksa الموافقة على إصدار تراخيص دور #السينما_في_السعوديهhttps://t.co/aBoOBhZKV6

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