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Cinema of the United States
Cinema of the United States (Hollywood): the American film industry, from Edison's 1893 kinetoscope and the 1910s move to Los Angeles through the studio oligopoly to today's $8.6 billion domestic box office, production offshoring, and Library of Congress preservation.
Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal (Tollywood, based in Tollygunge, Kolkata): Bengali-language film industry dating to Hiralal Sen's 1898 films, first talkie Dena Paona (1931), New Theatres, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955), and a 2025 prime-time screening mandate.
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 Italian-French drama about a Sicilian boy and the projectionist Alfredo. It won the 1989 Cannes Grand Prize and the 1990 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with an Ennio Morricone score.
Cinéma vérité
Cinéma vérité (cinéma direct) is a participatory documentary style from around 1960, coined by Rouch and Morin after Vertov's kinopravda, using light 16mm cameras and sync sound; distinct from Drew Associates' observational direct cinema.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is Marcelo Gomes's 2005 Brazilian debut feature, a road movie set in 1942 in the northeastern sertão, where a German aspirin salesman and a drought refugee screen films to sell medicine; it won prizes at Cannes and the São Paulo Mostra.
Cinemark Theatres
Cinemark Theatres is the Plano, Texas-based movie theater chain of Cinemark Holdings (NYSE: CNK), founded in 1984 by Lee Roy Mitchell; as of late 2025 it ran 496 theaters and 5,637 screens across 42 U.S. states and 13 Latin American countries.
CinemaScope
CinemaScope: Fox's 1953 anamorphic 35mm widescreen system, based on Chrétien's Hypergonar lens; 2.35:1 ratio, four-track stereo sound; later displaced by Panavision optics.
CinemaSins
CinemaSins, also called Cinema Sins, is a Nashville-based YouTube channel started in December 2012 by Jeremy Scott and Chris Atkinson, known for snarky "Everything Wrong With..." movie videos with a ding and sin counter, spinoffs like TVSins, and criticism from directors such as Rian Johnson and Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
Cinematic style of Christopher Nolan
Cinematic style of Christopher Nolan, British-American director (born 1970): non-linear puzzle-box narratives from Following and Memento, themes of time, memory and trauma, IMAX film format, and monumentality from the Dark Knight trilogy to The Odyssey.
Cinematic techniques
Cinematic techniques are deliberate filmmaking craft choices across camera, lighting, sound, and editing that shape a film's look and meaning; also called film techniques, they range from continuity editing and deep focus to CGI and virtual production.
Cinematograph Act 1909
Cinematograph Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 30), UK statute licensing cinemas for fire safety with inflammable nitrate film; unintentionally became the legal basis for British film censorship via local authority licensing, until repealed by the Cinemas Act 1985.
Cinématographe
The Cinématographe was a combined camera, printer, and projector patented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1895, used for the first public paid film screening, in Paris in December 1895.
Cinematographer
Cinematographer, also called director of photography (DP or DoP): chief of the camera and lighting crews on a film or TV production, deciding lenses, framing, exposure, and lighting. US median pay $74,990 (May 2025); distinct from the camera operator who executes shots.
Cinematography
Cinematography is the art and craft of filming motion pictures through camerawork, lighting, and framing, led by the director of photography. It spans the 1890 Kinetograph, 24 fps sound-era standards, film-to-digital transition, and the VistaVision revival.
Cinephilia
Cinephilia is the love of and enthusiasm for cinema as an art form. Also cinephile (French cinéphile); traced to the early 1910s Parisian film press, codified in Larousse 1928, theorized by Metz 1977, and declared dead by Sontag 1996.
Cinépix
Cinépix Inc., also C/FP Distribution and Cinépix Film Properties, was a Montreal film production and distribution company founded in 1962 by John Dunning and André Link, known for Meatballs, My Bloody Valentine, and the Ilsa series, and renamed Lions Gate Films in 1998.
Cineplex Entertainment
Cineplex Entertainment, the operating arm of Cineplex Inc. (TSX: CGX), is Canada's largest film exhibitor, formed in 2005 when Cineplex Galaxy acquired Famous Players, operating 1,606 screens in 154 theatres with about 74% of Canadian box office.
Cinépolis
Cinépolis is a Mexican cinema exhibition company, the largest in Mexico, founded in Morelia in 1971 and operating more than 6,700 screens across 19 countries.
Cinespace Film Studios
Cinespace Film Studios (Cinespace Studios) is a Toronto-founded, TPG-owned operator of sound stages in Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Wilmington, Los Angeles, and Studio Babelsberg, with 115+ stages and 4.3 million square feet.
Cineverse
Cineverse Corp. (formerly Cinedigm, NASDAQ: CNVS) is a streaming technology and entertainment company: owned genre channels (Screambox, RetroCrush), film distribution, and the Matchpoint OTT platform; released Terrifier 3.
Cineworld
Cineworld is a UK and Ireland cinema chain under the Regal Cineworld Group, founded in 1995, parent of Picturehouse, Cinema City, Yes Planet, and Regal; it listed in 2007, filed Chapter 11 in 2022, and delisted in 2023.
Circle (2015 film)
Circle is a 2015 American psychological science-fiction thriller written and directed by Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione, the directing debut for both, about fifty strangers forced to vote on who is killed.
Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends is a 1995 romantic comedy-drama directed by Pat O'Connor, adapted from Maeve Binchy's novel, starring Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell as Irish college students.
Cirie Fields
Cirie Fields (born 1970), American operating room nurse and four-time Survivor contestant (Panama, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, Game Changers), famed strategist never to win Survivor; won The Traitors US season 1 ($250,000) and played Big Brother 25 with son Jared.
Cirkus (सर्कस) (film)
Cirkus (सर्कस) is a 2022 Hindi comedy directed by Rohit Shetty, starring Ranveer Singh in a double role; a remake of Gulzar's Angoor from The Comedy of Errors, it flopped with ₹35.65 crore India net and 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, also known as the Cirque Du Freak film, is a 2009 American vampire dark fantasy film directed by Paul Weitz.
Citadel (TV series)
Citadel (TV series): Prime Video American spy thriller created by Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh, and David Weil, produced by the Russo brothers' AGBO. Stars Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as memory-wiped agents; ~$300M budget; two late-2024 spin-offs later canceled; season 2 premiered May 6, 2026.
Citadel: Diana
Citadel: Diana is a 2024 Italian spy thriller series, the first spin-off of Prime Video's Citadel, starring Matilda De Angelis as agent Diana Cavalieri in 2030 Milan; six episodes, canceled in 2025.
Citadel: Honey Bunny
Citadel: Honey Bunny is a 2024 Hindi-language Prime Video spy thriller, an Indian prequel spin-off of Citadel by Raj & DK, starring Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu as parents of Nadia Sinh, cancelled in 2025.
Citizen (சிட்டிசன்) (film)
Citizen (சிட்டிசன்) is a 2001 Tamil action thriller directed by Saravana Subbiah, starring Ajith Kumar in multiple disguises with Meena, Vasundhara Das, and Nagma; a vigilante kidnaps three officials tied to the vanished village Athipatti.