The word “movie” is an Americanism, and is more common in North America. People in England, all over the UK, and most other English-speaking countries say “film”.
“Cinema”, to mean a place where movies are shown. “Theatre” (note the spelling) in British English means a place where live actors perform a play on stage. “Movie theatre” would be understood, but isn't commonly used. Why do the British spell theater as theatre?
The Film and TV studios of Elstree and Borehamwood are known worldwide for glamorous actors, superstar directors and a legacy of TV and film hits – from Star Wars to The Crown – often called the British Hollywood.
In the US, the term movie is much more often used than film. In the UK it's pretty much a tie between the two phrases. Movie wins in the Americas but is on a par with film in Europe and Africa.
It's more common to say cinema in Britain than in the United States, but any English speaker will know what you're talking about if you ask, "Want to go to the cinema?" You can also use cinema to talk about the film industry and its history: "This is my favorite film in all of American cinema." The word was first used ...
However, the origins of Hollywood actually lie in British cinema. In the early days of cinema, most films were made in Europe. However, due to the high costs of production and lack of technological advancement at the time, many films were shot on location in America - which became known as Hollywood.
The word film is the formal word that is the same in all English dialects. The word movie is an abbreviated & inflected version of the formal term moving picture, and is usually considered an informal one.
[countable] (especially British English) (North American English usually movie) a series of moving pictures recorded with sound that tells a story, watched at a cinema or on a television or other device.
Some of the films with the largest ever box office returns have been made in the United Kingdom, including the fourth and fifth highest-grossing film franchises (Harry Potter and James Bond). The identity of the British film industry, particularly as it relates to Hollywood, has often been the subject of debate.
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
Many small and big-budget projects travel to the UK to take advantage of the country's generous tax advantages, as well as the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology and many renowned studios. A number of the largest studios in the film business are based in the United Kingdom.
By the way, in daily colloquial American English, the place that people go to see movies (or films) is called a “movie theater”, instead of a “cinema”. “Film” and “cinema” are considered formal language.
Etymology. From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).
Originally Answered: Do Australian people say “film” or “movie”? They say both, but movie has become the most common usage, especially when referring to one which has been seen recently, for example: “Last night I watched a great movie” or “Have you seen that movie about….” etc.
"Zero" is the usual name for the number 0 in English. In British English "nought" is also used and in American English "naught" is used occasionally for zero, but (as with British English) "naught" is more often used as an archaic word for nothing.
In Britain, popcorn is simply referred to as "popcorn." There isn't a distinctively British term for it; the term "popcorn" is used universally to describe the snack made from dried corn kernels that puff up when heated.
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London. Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre represents the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
Stars want to work here and many of them even want to live here — I have recently heard people jokingly call it “Hollywood on Thames”. London already boasts world-renowned studios; beloved by all and dripping in film history. However, large-scale productions have always lacked a central London studio… until now.
Britain is now the "Hollywood of Europe" with its creative industries growing at twice the rate of the rest of the economy, according to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer.
For example, Thomas Edison and his assistant William Kennedy Laurie Dickson developed the Kinetoscope and filmed short sequences, such as "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" (1895) by the Lumière brothers in France and "Workers Leaving the Factory" (1885) by the Lumière brothers in France.
