SOCIALBILITTY • GLOSSARY DEPARTMENT

Exhibition, Media & Audience

Film, television, cinema, streaming, theatrical exhibition, trailers, media formats, audience delivery, and the ways completed entertainment reaches viewers.

Film Trailer

A Film Trailer is a short promotional edit created to market a motion picture. Trailers use selected footage, dialogue, music, graphics, and sound design to communicate tone, story, cast, scale, and release information without presenting the entire film.

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Cinema

Cinema can refer to the art and medium of motion pictures, the filmmaking tradition associated with theatrical moving images, or a venue where films are exhibited to an audience. In industry usage, the word often carries a broader creative or cultural meaning than simply “movie.”

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Movie Theater

A Movie Theater, or cinema, is a venue designed for the public exhibition of motion pictures. Theaters typically include one or more auditoriums equipped with projection or digital-cinema systems, screens, sound systems, seating, ticketing, and front-of-house operations.

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Box Office

Box Office can refer to the place where admission tickets are sold and, more commonly in the film business, to the theatrical ticket revenue generated by a motion picture. Box-office reporting may be discussed by day, weekend, market, territory, release period, or cumulative theatrical gross.

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Film

Film is both a photographic recording medium and a common term for a motion picture. Traditional motion-picture film records images photochemically on a strip of photosensitive material; contemporary productions may be captured digitally while the completed work is still commonly called a film.

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Entertainment News

Entertainment reporting or journalism with a spotlight entertainment, such as trade publications for Actors, Writers, Filmmakers as well as Celebrity news and Movies, any news derived from the entertainment industry.

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