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— Social Cinema

The group chat finally has a venue.

Built for the ones who make the plan, stay through the credits, and can't just watch without narrating.

The OrganizerThe Taste-MakerThe Commentator

— Live feed

Upcoming Shows

70 seats
FRI
JUN 12

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Zero Lounge · 6:30 PM

$25Get Tickets
70 seats
SAT
JUN 20

Fast N Furious Tokyo Drift Drinking Game

Zero Lounge · 6:30 PM

The one where a teenager gets exiled to Japan for street racing, immediately starts street racing, and somehow wins the respect of the Yakuza through the power of drifting. Microplex's Peanut Gallery mode lets the audience write on the screen. Submit jokes and live commentary from your phone, and the best ones get projected alongside the film for the whole room to see. By the credits you'll have a group chat full of screenshots and at least one friend who turned out to be funnier than you thought. Tap below to grab your seats. Microplex is Social Cinema — boutique, interactive movie nights built for groups who want more out of a film than sitting quietly in the dark. This one's at the Lyric Hyperion in Silver Lake, an intimate neighborhood theater that hosts some of LA's best alt-comedy nights. Tight room, full bar, great crowd. The room is small. Grab your seats before your group chat finds out and you're the one watching from home.

$25Get Tickets
70 seats
SAT
JUL 18

Space Jam Drinking Game

Zero Lounge · 6:30 PM

Michael Jordan gets kidnapped by Bugs Bunny, plays basketball against alien monsters to free the Looney Tunes with Bill Murray, and wins. Bill Murray is there. And the strangest part is how one of the famous people in the world lives in a regular suburban house. Microplex's Peanut Gallery mode lets the audience write on the screen. Submit jokes and live commentary from your phone, and the best ones get projected alongside the film for the whole room to see. By the credits you'll have a group chat full of screenshots and at least one friend who turned out to be funnier than you thought. Tap below to grab your seats. Microplex is Social Cinema — boutique, interactive movie nights built for groups who want more out of a film than sitting quietly in the dark. This one's at the Lyric Hyperion in Silver Lake, an intimate neighborhood theater that hosts some of LA's best alt-comedy nights. Tight room, full bar, great crowd. The room is small. Grab your seats before your group chat finds out and you're the one watching from home.

$25Get Tickets

— What we do

Small Rooms.
Big Nights.

Your reaction is the other half of the film.

Curated Programming

Cult classics, horror nights, premieres, trivia, karaoke, TV finales, comedy shows. Not just movies.

Immersive by Design

Synchronized lighting, live overlays, and theatrical effects. A movie night becomes an event.

Intentional Rooms

Small audiences, food and drink, and everyone chose to be there. That changes the energy of the whole night.

— Event modes

Your Group.
Your Film.
Your Rules.

PARTY

Drinking Game

We wrote the rules. Synced them to the exact frame. You'll know the moment when it hits. Come thirsty.

SOCIAL

Live Chat

Talk. Text. React. You're supposed to. Message from your phone, watch it appear on screen in real time.

INTERACTIVE

Peanut Gallery

The room becomes the commentary track. Best lines hit the screen. MST3K energy, any film, no holds barred.

PERFORMANCE

Shadowcasting

Callbacks, overlays, audience participation. Rocky Horror invented it. We brought it to everything else.

EDUCATIONAL

Trivia / Lore

The deep cuts between scenes. The facts that reframe everything. The quiz round that proves you were right all along.

CHAOS

Roulette

You vote. We play. Nobody knows what's next. That's the whole bit.

Powered by the Microplex App

Browse shows, buy tickets, and participate live during the event — chat, vote, trigger overlays, play drinking games. All from your phone.

— How it works

Get In

01

Find a Show

Browse upcoming events on the Microplex app. Filter by type, date, or vibe.

02

Buy Your Seat

Grab a ticket. Small rooms fill fast.

03

Show Up

QR ticket gets you in. Arrive at the venue and take your seat.

04

Experience It

Watch, participate, react. Drinking games, live overlays, commentary — film as a live event.

— Get involved

Run Your
Own Show.

For Community Hosts

Programmers · Cinephiles · Event Organizers

You've already got the taste and the group. Build your playlist, set the vibe, grow an audience. Microplex handles the projection, ticketing, and operations. Your living room energy. A real venue.

Become a Host →

For Venues

Theaters · Restaurants · Bars · Event Spaces

We bring the full Microplex experience to your space — projection, lighting, ticketing, marketing, and operations. You provide the room. We fill it.

Inquire About Hosting →

— About

About Microplex

Microplex runs software-powered social cinema events at venues across Los Angeles. We built it because something went missing — streaming gave everyone access to everything and somehow made watching feel lonelier. So we brought the third space back, and made it better. Every show runs on technology that turns a passive audience into an active one — drinking games synced to the exact frame, live commentary hitting the big screen, audience votes that change what plays next. Real rooms. Real projection. Every seat filled by someone who chose to be there.

A permanent home for Social Cinema is coming.
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