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Author Topic: Cinema Source trying to charge fees for their internet James Kulaprathazhe Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Bronxville, New York Registered: May 2008 posted 05-22-2011 12:00 AM                     Is any one knows the email or fax#s of service agents or famous websites like MSN.com, Yahoo.com, Movietickets.com, moviefone.com, Holllywood .com that we can send our show times directly to them. Now Cinema source is picking theaters randomly and forcing to charge a service fee & with a contract. If theater owner didn't sign the agreement they pull out the show times from many websites. It was free of service. They make money when they sell the adds. Why they are charging theaters?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-22-2011 12:19 AM                     Something tells me it has to do with the ad revenue not being enough...  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-22-2011 03:34 AM                        Business rule of thumb: NOTHING is free...just a matter of when, where and how it gets paid for.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 05-22-2011 03:31 PM                     We've been paying about $100 a month for the last year for CinemaSource.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 05-22-2011 04:02 PM                     > We've been paying about $100 a month for the last year for CinemaSource. And that is why they are charging, people are foolishly paying...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-22-2011 08:52 PM                        We don't pay anybody anything, and we don't upload our showtimes anywhere except to our own website and MailChimp, yet our accurate showtimes are available on the internet through many sites. I don't know how it works and I don't care!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-23-2011 03:30 AM                        Mike, what's MailChimp?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-23-2011 09:14 AM                     quote: Mitchell Dvoskin was the last to post We've been paying about $100 a month for the last year for CinemaSource. I found out this past December that Cinema Source has a service called csXpress that allows theatres to have direct complete control over their show/pricing information that is done via a secure login 24/7. The cost is $100/month. The information is then provided to all the major websites (2000+) such as Google, Moviefone, IMDB, MSN, etc... Their free service is if the theatres fax/e-mail the show/pricing information to Cinema Source. The only drawback is as I'm sure many of us have found is that we are relying on another person to input the data and then the only way to verify the information is correct is to visit these multiple sites and often times if its incorrect you have to re-fax or call a rep(good luck on a weekend or holiday) to try and get the information corrected. But hey, I guess we can't complain too much since they are providing this service for free.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2011 10:05 AM                        The only internet posting we do is to our own website, but I can't count the number of times people have come at the wrong time or seeking the wrong movie and said "I saw it on the internet." Information wants to be free, but it doesn't appear to want to be accurate.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-23-2011 11:59 AM                        quote: Frank Angel what's MailChimp? It's an email marketing website. You can send email through it to a list of contacts. I set up an email mailing list that my customers can sign up with through a form on my website to receive updated movie listings and showtimes for my theatre but I don't go through any third-party services to handle it; I just wrote my own little program to handle the mailing list. The advantage of that is that it does exactly what I want it to do, as it's purpose-built and the whole thing lives on my computer and sends email out through my mailserver.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2011 03:14 PM                        I like MailChimp because it's easy, it's free, it has a lot of built-in templates and other doo-dads, and it gives me all the stats I need. You can make your emails as plain or fancy as you want. I put a sign-up link on our home page and I also put on on each "movie information" page. Our mailing list has doubled since I started using it in Feb. 2010.  |  IP: Logged

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