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Submitting Your Showtime Information

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We publish showtimes for all movie theaters in the United States at no charge, but we provide many services for movie theaters that we think you will find valuable!

For a very small fee (based on the number of screens you have), your theater(s) will be highlighted on The BigScreen Cinema Guide and you will be able to post announcements, edit your showtimes, manage your ticket prices, and more.

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To find out what services are part of our Featured Theater Service, please see our Theater Services page!

We obtain our schedule information from Webedia, (formerly known as CinemaSource and West World Media). To submit your showtime schedule information for display on our site, please use the following information:

Phone:203-438-8389
Fax:203-438-0043
888-438-0043
E-Mail:schedules@cinema-source.com

We monitor incoming showtimes for our Featured Theaters for the presence of your showtimes when each batch import is processed. While it is not possible for us to verify the accuracy of each and every showtime, we do look for discrepancies and pursue any problems that we do find. After doing this for so many years, we know many of the common mistakes that are made, and we can have them resolved before they become a problem for you.

If you discover a problem with your showtimes, please contact Webedia at the phone number above, and also contact us so that we are aware of the situation.

Showtimes Update Schedule

We process the information we receive from Webedia multiple times each weekday. We usually receive four updates each weekday.

Updates are performed Monday through Friday on the following schedule (all times are Central Time):

New information may not be available at every one of these updates, so we perform additional checks at these times, so that we can catch updates as soon as they are available:

To see when your showtimes were last updated, visit our Extranet and click on your theater's name in the list. This service is only available as part of our Featured Theater Service. If you are not yet a Featured Theater, please contact us to get signed up for this great service!


Download our Showtimes Submission Form
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Tips for Submitting Showtime Information

To assure that your showtimes are as accurate as possible, there are some simple guidelines that will make your showtimes information easier to process correctly.

With each movie you are showing, provide the following information:

Sample Showtimes Display

Below is a snippet of a showtimes display listing to demonstrate the features that are displayed.

Captain Marvel
PG-13
Running Time: 2:08
 THX   Stadium Seating
10:15a, 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35
Captain Marvel in 3D
PG-13
Running Time: 2:08
  Dolby Atmos  Stadium Seating
12:25, 2:15, 4:10, 6:05, 7:55, 9:45
 No Passes Extra Special Attraction;Special Engagement
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
PG
Running Time: 1:44Movie Review
  Stadium Seating
9:00a, 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00
 No Passes ATM;CC;DFX;DescListen;HI;NO PASS;Reserved Seating

Movie Name

If the movie is not a current release, be sure to include the year of release and any other details that may be helpful to the data entry staff to identify the movie correctly. For example, there are multiple "How to Train Your Dragon" movies. By identifying your presentation of the correct movie with the full name (e.g. "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World"), you can make sure that the movie information associated with your showtimes is correct.

Showtimes (indicate Matinee and Regular Price Shows)

Next to the movie name, the times of the shows are probably the most important information you can provide. Be sure to write or type the times clearly. (We recommend Arial or Verdana, 12 point type, minimum) This is especially important if you are faxing your showtimes since faxes can obscure small type/handwriting.

If you are doing a midnight show, like a Thursday night show of a movie opening the following day, be sure to specify that it is a midnight (or 12:05am or whatever the actual time is) show for Thursday night. Showtimes up to and including 2am are included on the previous day, so a 12:05am show for the night of Thursday, May 3rd, should be specified as a 12:05am on 5/3, not 5/4. This will make sure that the midnight shows are displayed on the daily showtimes calendar for Thursday, instead of being inserted at the beginning of your full day of Friday showtimes. While this doesn't follow exact calendar logic, the convention is one that moviegoers are accustomed to and will assure that your midnight shows appear with other midnight showtimes.

Example: Avengers: Endgame Thu 4/28/19 12:05am (Thursday Midnight Show)

Presentation Attributes

A great way to differentiate your showtimes from those of other theaters is to provide additional information about your presentations. Budget-conscious customers are looking to use discount passes Our readers often seek out enhanced presentations that are in THX-certified auditoriums, that are in digital sound, etc. so please make sure to indicate these items on your showtimes!

Passes Accepted Indication

Whether or not you accept passes for particular presentations is important to our readers, so we add an indication when passes are not accepted.

Stadium Seating Indication

If you have stadium seating installed in some or all of your auditoriums, be sure to indicate which presentations are equipped with stadium seating. In The BigScreen Cinema Guide, we mark such presenations with a special indicator.

Digital Sound Indication

Digital Sound installations are very prevalent, and we have found that customers will look for digital sound presentations whenever possible. Now that most theaters have converted to Digital Cinema Projection systems, our readers are now looking for enhanced presentations that feature Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and Barco Auro sound. We indicate which formats are being used, so if you want that distinction made in your showtime information on our site, please be sure to include it. The following is a list of the sound formats we can indicate next to your showtimes:

Dolby Atmos logoDolby Atmos
 Dolby Surround 7.1 Dolby Surround 7.1
Dolby DigitalDolby Digital
Dolby Digital EX
DTS DigitalDTS
DTS ES
SDDS Digital SoundSDDS
SDDS Digital SoundSDDS (8-channel)
Digital Sound 7.1 Channel 7.1 channel Digital Sound (Unspecified)
 Digital Sound Digital Sound (Unspecified)

If you are showing a movie with 7-channel sound via Digital Cinema, please specify that in the Additional Notes. Likewise, if you are implementing Dolby's Atmos system, please add "Dolby Atmos" in the Additional Notes for that presentation. For more information about the digital sound formats, please see our Help Documentation: Digital Sound - Formats Explained.

THX Indication

 THX If you have THX-certified auditoriums, please make sure to indicate which movies are playing in those screens! We have a special THX logo that will appear with your showtimes. Our readers prefer movies shown THX-certified auditoriums, so please be sure to indicate those shows to leverage your investment in THX certification!

Additional Notes

If you have additional information pertaining to a set of showtimes, please include a note so that it can be included in the "notes" field with your showtimes. For example, if you have a movie playing in a premium auditorium, be sure to note that in your showtimes so that it can be added to the notes field. This field is also useful if you have open caption, closed caption, or rear-window caption presentations, or if you run special showings, like "Baby Box Office" or "Movies for Moms". These notes will appear below the showtimes.

Example: VIP Seating or MegaScreen or Movies for Moms or D-Box

Special Note for Drive-Ins: You can make it easy for your customers to know which movies you are showing together by adding a note for the screen on which the movie is showing. You may also want to add a note that says "Followed by (movie name)" or "Follows (movie name)" if you want to indicate which movie will be showing first and which is second.


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