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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 Music Group
Cinematic Music Group (CMG) is a Brooklyn-based independent label, management, and content company founded in 2007 by Jonny Shipes. Known for Smoke DZA, Sean Kingston, Big K.R.I.T., Joey Bada$$, and Flipp Dinero, it distributed via Sony Red and The Orchard.
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nitrate film; unintentionally became the legal basis for British film censorship via local authority licensing, until repealed by the Cinemas Act 1985.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.
Çini
Çini is the Turkish tradition of handmade, glazed tiles and ceramics painted with colorful plant, animal, and geometric motifs and used on buildings and in homes, recognized by UNESCO in 2016.
Cinnabon
Cinnabon is an American franchise bakery chain founded in 1985 near Seattle, known for large cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting, with nearly a thousand US locations.
Cinnaman
Cinnaman, the stage name of Yuri Boselie, is a Dutch DJ and producer based in Amsterdam and a member of the Rush Hour Record Store crew.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon, including Ceylon or true cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) and cassia (C. cassia, C. burmannii, C. loureiroi), is a spice from dried Cinnamomum bark, distinguished by cinnamaldehyde levels, coumarin content, and fraud-prone trade.
Cinnamon Girl (Lana Del Rey song)
Cinnamon Girl is a 2019 Lana Del Rey song, track 7 on Norman Fucking Rockwell!, co-written and co-produced with Jack Antonoff; a five-minute ballad about a conflicted relationship with a drug-using lover, not a cover of Neil Young's 1969 song of the same name.
Cinnamon roll
Cinnamon roll, also cinnamon bun or Swedish kanelbulle: a spiral of enriched yeast dough filled with cinnamon sugar. Swedish version has cardamom and pearl sugar; American version is sweeter with cream cheese frosting; Kanelbullens dag is October 4.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Cinnamon Toast Crunch, sold in some markets as Cini Minis, is a General Mills breakfast cereal of cinnamon and sugar coated wheat and rice squares, introduced in 1984.
Cinnamoroll (シナモロール)
Cinnamoroll (シナモロール, character name Cinnamon) is a Sanrio white puppy character created by Miyuki Okumura, launched 2002, mascot of Cafe Cinnamon, birthday March 6, with seven Sanrio Character Ranking wins including 2020–2024 consecutively; 2nd place in 2025 and 2026.
Cino da Pistoia
Cino da Pistoia, born Guittoncino dei Sigisbuldi, was an Italian poet and jurist (1270–1336), a friend of Dante and a founding figure of the legal commentators.
Cinq Grandes Odes
Cinq Grandes Odes (Five Great Odes) is a cycle of five Catholic odes in free verse by Paul Claudel, composed in China and published in 1910.
Cintas
Cintas Corporation (Cintas Corp, CTAS) is a US uniform rental and facility-services company: weekly route-delivered laundered workwear, mats, restroom supplies, first aid and fire protection, with $11.26 billion fiscal 2026 revenue and a pending UniFirst acquisition.
Cíntia Moscovich
Cíntia Moscovich, born 1958 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a Brazilian writer and teacher of literary creation known for short fiction combining subtle humor and melancholy with Jewish and female themes.
Cinzano
Cinzano is an Italian vermouth and sparkling wine brand from Pecetto and Turin, dating to a 1707 distilling license and the 1757 master distillers; owned by Campari from 1999, sold to Caffo Group 1915 in 2025.