The BigScreen Cinema Guide

About The BigScreen Cinema Guide

The BigScreen Cinema Guide was founded by Scott Jentsch of SVJ Designs, LLC. in 1995 as The Penguin Cinema Guide. In that time, what began as a local service that provided movie showtimes and information for theaters in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area only has expanded to cover showtimes and information for every theater in the United States. In addition to the delivery of showtime information, we provide detailed movie and theater information.

We are an independent operation and not part of some large faceless corporation. We specialize in providing personalized service to independent theaters, whether you have one screen in one location, or you manage multiple locations in a regional area! Our years of experience gives us the knowledge and wisdom that comes with a long history in the movie theater industry and our work ethic drives us to provide the best possible service at reasonable rates.

Established History and Presence

With our long history of publication, current popularity, strategic partnerships, and many features, The BigScreen Cinema Guide can reach more people, provide more information, and represent your theater the way that it deserves. Our wealth of movie information means that we can help you create a nearly autonomous website that looks like you spent thousands of dollars on it, at a fraction of the price. Automatic updates and drawing from our extensive database means that you don't have to update your website manually, freeing you for other tasks at your theater!

Unlike many general sites that provide showtimes along with news search results, headlines, and the local weather, this site has always been only about movies, done by people who love movies, and we work very hard to deliver high quality information and services. We take a very personal interest in making sure that each of our Featured Theaters is well represented. Our primary goal for the site is to work with theaters to deliver information that they want to provide and that our readers are looking for. It is this mutually beneficial relationship that makes our service unique and much more valuable than other sites that treat showtimes like a commodity.

Frequent Updates of Showtimes for Accuracy and Timeliness

To make sure that we have the latest and greatest information, showtimes are updated six times each weekday to ensure that your information is up-to-date and accurate.

Our showtime information is provided by The Boxoffice Company, (formerly known as CinemaSource, West World Media, and Webedia), which is the nation's largest distributor of movie showtimes and related movie information. Since theaters submit showtime data directly (an automated link can be created to many POS sales systems), the accuracy of the data is the best possible.

Movie Information Provided

Along with the showtimes for movies playing at each theater, we also provide the following indications:

We also provide reviews of the movies from professional movie critics, as well as allowing our readers to give their opinions of the movie with our unique rating scale and commentary section titled "Reader Reviews."


For more information about what we can do for you, contact us today!