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cinema
verbs
go to the cinema
• Why don’t we go to the cinema tonight?
be on/be showing at the cinema
• Do you know what’s on at the cinema?
adjectives
a multiplex cinema
(= with several different screens for showing films )
• You can see the movie now at your local multiplex cinema.
a 6-screen/12-screen etc cinema
• The new leisure complex includes a 12-screen cinema.
cinema + NOUN
a cinema audience
(= the people who watch a film )
• His new movie is sure to bring in big cinema audiences.
a cinema screen
(= the large white surface on which films are shown )
• The film was much better on the cinema screen than on TV.
cinema advertising
• a cinema advertising campaign for Levi jeans
a cinema chain
(= a group of cinemas owned by the same company )
• He works for a well-known cinema chain.
cinema release
(= the showing of a new film at the cinema )
• His film was banned from cinema release for some years.
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noun place where you go to see a film ADJ. packed The cinema was packed every night for ‘Shrek’. | multiplex a new multiplex cinema on the edge of town VERB + CINEMA go to How often do you go to the cinema? | be on at What's on at the cinema tonight? CINEMA + NOUN screen | audience | advertising, commercial | chain films in general ADJ. commercial, Hollywood, mainstream, popular | art, arthouse, independent | avant-garde, modernist, realist, social | silent She started making films in the last years of silent cinema.
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