Show movie news
Opens the “Movie News” section of Fandango to show reporting on upcoming films.
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20movie%20news
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20movie%20news
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show movie news”
end tell
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