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Google Assistant pairs with Duplex to help you buy movie tickets

Google continues to build out the capabilities of Google Assistant, and beginning today, it can help you buy movie tickets.

This isnt the first time weve seen Google pair Duplex with the Assistant, as the pair are also used to assist in booking restaurant reservations.

This functionality is going live on Android phones today, and youll tap into it by first asking Google Assistant to find showtimes for specific movies. That can be done by saying something like Hey Google, showtimes for in Phoenix this weekend, which will open up Chrome and show those familiar Google movie listings that most of us have encountered in search results before.

From there, youll need to select your theater and your time, at which point Google Assistant will show a Buy tickets option.

Google says that this functionality works with more than 70 cinemas and ticket services, specifically naming Fandango, MovieTickets.com, AMC, and MJR Theaters for the US and ODEON for the UK in todays announcement.

Once youve selected the ticket service you want to use, Google Assistant can more or less guide you through the rest of the process from there, navigating the checkout process in Chrome and prompting you select seating and ticket number/type.

Google confirmed today that movie tickets and restaurant reservations are just the beginning for this Duplex and Google Assistant pairing, with car rentals in the big Gs sights next.

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