How do you spell movie theater? Is it “theatre”? Is it “theater”? Or do you not even use the term movie theater? Perhaps you say, “Let’s go see a flick” or maybe it’s, “Let’s go to the movies.” I’m aware the spelling of “movie theater” is fairly uncontroversial these days but I still find myself confused by the different spellings every time I need to write it.
If you had asked me a year ago I would have absolutely 1000% told you the correct spelling is “movie theater.” But during recent assignments for Hollywood.com my mind was blown.
First, we published the #hollygood news that Regal was reopening its movie theaters and during research, for the article, I came to discover that on the movie theater chain’s website they used the spelling.
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