Fandango is a corporation in the United States that sells film tickets over the telephone and Internet, allowing customers to make sure they have tickets and avoid lines at the theater. They are notable for their advertisements, which play before previews in most major movie-theater chains. The ads feature puppets made out of Lunch Bags, and are widely recognizable to most moviegoers. Image File history File links Fandangologo. ... A corporation is a legal person that exists quite separately from the natural persons who work with and for it. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ... A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... For other uses, see Bag (disambiguation). ...

Fandango often requires a $1.00 premium for their using its services (with an additional surcharge for phone orders), which consist of reserving a ticket to be printed out upon arrival at a movie theater, thereby avoiding a line and sell-outs. On top of ticket prices that in many areas eclipse $10.00, this can make movie-going an expensive proposition; still, it is difficult many times to procure tickets to movies on their opening days without using services like Fandango, arguably turning an extravagance into more of a necessity in those circumstances.

External links

• Fandango homepage