Loud, clear and without nuances: the owner of a cinema or the company that manages it can NOT prevent you from entering the room to see a movie with a food that you take with you . If cinemas allow viewers to eat snacks, appetizers and popcorn, it does not matter where they come from . Despite the fact that the rooms try to transmit messages that suggest its prohibition, there is no regulation that supports it. In fact, a spectator who attended to see a film in a cinema owned by Cinesa, which they tried to prevent him from entering with popcorn, complained to Consumption, and the film company was sanctioned and fined 6,000 euros.
And that despite the fact that at the entrance of those cinemas the following sign was displayed: " If when you go to dinner at a restaurant you don't take your wine from home, why do you bring popcorn to the movies ?" But the legal reality is very different, and the prohibition of straining food outside the establishment lacks legality. If the projection rooms allow you to eat inside what they sell – almost always at prohibitive prices -, they cannot prevent food or drinks from being introduced from the outside, since there is no logical relationship between the economic activity carried out in the establishment –The showing of films – and the reason that something is prohibited depending on where it was purchased. Another different case would be that a movie theater establishes among its conditions of admission the absolute prohibition of eating, drinking, opening candy bags or making noises at the risk of expulsion.
