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Fandango was one of the first companies to take movie ticket purchasing online. But now that the rest of the world has caught up with them, Fandango needed to take another step to get ahead of the game. So they came out with mobile tickets.

Mobile phones have now become computers in their own right. In fact, if you want to find out what movies are playing in near-by there are more than a dozen applications in Apple’s app store, Android, and Palm that will do the trick. Some might even let you purchase tickets on the fly. But that still required you to wait in line with all of the other people to get your ticket. Fandango’s new mobile ticket program wants to solve that.

The new program will allow Fandango users to not only use Fandango like it was intended to be used (finding movies and times in the area), but also to quickly book your tickets, and then flash a barcode when you want to enter your theater, eliminating wait time. This app will not allow you to skip the snack line but it would be a nice thing to suggest to Fandango.

Of course this will be released slowly throughout theaters as it gains traction. Here are some of the theaters that will support the technology at the launch date:

• New York: City Cinemas 1, 2 & 3, Angelika Film Center, East 86th Street Cinemas, Village East Cinema, Beekman Theatre, The Paris Theatre.
• New Jersey: Manville 12 Plex.
• Houston: Angelika Film Center.
• Dallas/Plano: Angelika Dallas; Angelika Plano.
• San Diego: La Mesa Grossmont Center, Clairemont Town Square Stadium.
• Bakersfield: Valley Plaza 16.
• Sonoma County: Rohnert Park 16.
• Hawaii: Ward Stadium, Kahala Theater, Kapolei 16, Mililani Stadium.

Read [TechCrunch]