Now it can help you buy movie tickets--and even get driving directions to the theater.
One video game has to essentially be worth 5 or 6 movie tickets to the person purchasing it.
He puts a link on the CDs to LidRock's Web site, where consumers can download movie tickets, songs and coupons.
Apple has just introduced the ability to use Siri to purchase movie tickets in the United States through Fandango.
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When a pilot program was rolled out in select cities last year, officials didn't specify whether it would apply to movie tickets.
Over the years, I traded school lunch for CDs, birthday money for movie tickets, and even college textbook money for new boots.
The monthly subscription of streaming plus 2 DVD plan is still less than two people buying movie tickets at the local theatre.
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Passbook, recently introduced with Apple's iOS6, allows users to keep boarding passes, movie tickets, coupons, loyalty cards and more in one place.
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Looks like the price of movie tickets is once again moving higher.
From medicine and hospitals to restaurants and movie tickets, says Judy Pan at the Boston Consulting Group, China has studiously avoided consolidating information.
The money that might be saved and spent on an expensive toy will likely fall prey first to movie tickets and party snacks.
Tony told me that as little as a handshake, a word of appreciation in private, or a pair of movie tickets would have meant more.
With more than 206.5 million movie tickets sold in 2010, French cinema is the third largest market in world and the most successful in Europe!
Today Americans pay more than ever for sporting and concert and movie tickets, even though these experiences are more cheaply available on cable television or the streaming Internet.
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On top of that, U.S. users can now purchase movie tickets through Fandango via Apple's voice-assistant Siri and iTunes Match subscribers can download individual songs to iOS devices from iCloud.
From gas for my old Honda (a hand-me-down from my grandmother), to movie tickets for nights out with friends, I learned how much money I would need and what I could go without.
Dash says Express owners will eventually be able to do things like buy movie tickets and make restaurant reservations from their units, but once you start thinking about it, the possibilities are almost endless.
This continued improvement and upward trend is at an all-time high for the video game industry and exceeds every other entertainment format, including sales of music with parental-advisory labels, R-rated movie tickets, and R-rated and unrated DVDs.
When it comes to movie tickets, state-owned distributor China Film Group has recently sought to deduct the cost of the tax entirely from foreign producers' share of the box office, said several people involved in international film distribution.
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Gaming will eventually eclipse the movie industry in sales, as titles sell for 6x that of movie tickets, and it will become ingrained into the culture of nearly all age groups, from old to young, as a generations raised on games grow up.
In December, aiming to lure more consumers to its MSN Mobile service--a portal that connects cellphone users to MSN Search, news, Hotmail and instant messaging--Microsoft struck partnerships with MovieTickets.com and Thumbplay The deals enabled MSN Mobile users to access movie listings and reviews, and purchase movie tickets, ringtones and games straight from their cellphones.
Consumer purchases ranging from buying a new car to purchasing movie tickets or seats to see a favorite NBA basketball team all help illustrate both the extent to which Chinese companies have entered our lives in America, and underscore the fact that typical American consumers, may not even know which companies are made in China in the first place.
The FTC recruited 13- to 16-year-olds, unaccompanied by a parent, to attempt to buy R-rated movie tickets, R-rated movie DVDs, unrated DVDs of movies that were R-rated when first released in theaters, music CDs carrying a Parental Advisory Label (PAL) that warns of explicit content, and video games rated M that may be suitable for persons age 17 and older.
But linking gas prices so directly to stock market prices makes no more sense than linking the prices of hamburgers or movie theater tickets to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The way Hollywood sees it, the more people who identify with a character, the more tickets a movie might sell, he added, referencing Donald Glover's May 2010 Twitter campaign for the chance to audition for Spider-Man. (The role eventually went to British actor Andrew Garfield).
Hollywood, after all, used to make money by making movies and TV shows then recouping the investment by selling tickets to people in movie theaters, advertising next to the TV shows, and even more in syndicating shows it stopped producing.
To me, this is the literary equivalent of the movie industry discovering an older demographic willing to pay for tickets for movies made for them, such as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Watch a movie a night and in a couple of years it'll pay for all the tickets you would have bought at the sticky-floored cineplex.
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