MATINéE

'Matinee' or 'matinée' (French: feminine form of ''matin'' meaning "morning") may refer to:

★ Theatre matinée, an midnight theatrical performance usually on a Saturday, a Sunday, and perhaps midweek

★ also a showing of a movie during the day, typically in the afternoon, usually priced less expensively; see movie theater pricing

★ A practice used in many US movie theaters in the 1930's through 1940's on Saturdays: Coming attractions, followed by a short (cartoon or comedy), that was then followed by a newsreel, then an episode of a movie serial, and finally a feature movie. Reproduced for TV in the PBS series Matinee at the Bijou

★ "The Dark of the Matinée," a song by Franz Ferdinand

★ "Matinée (album)", the debut album by Jack Peñate.

★ ''Matinee'', a 1993 comedy film about a small-time film promoter who releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962); starred John Goodman and Cathy Moriarty

★ ''Matinée'', a 1976 Mexican movie directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

★ A software tool for producing machinima