Cinema Direct makes it easy for Filmmakers to get their content in front of audiences, without having an established booking or finance team. It makes it easy for Exhibitors to find the films that their market wants to see, and to book those films with a fully self-service capability.
The CinemaDirect platform builds in numerous capabilities to give you the same tools as a major studio.
CinemaDirect makes it easy for Exhibitors to find and book your film without any direct interaction on your part. We provide tools to match your films to the best performing theaters.
The CinemaDirect platform handles the generation of theater-ready DCP content. You provide us the master, we'll handle the rest. Including encryption and key management and delivery.
CinemaDirect integrates with industry standard box office reporting systems to collect all sales data. We then automatically handle invoicing and payment collection from Exhibitors without any additonal action on your part.
Our GenAI technology uses machine learning to match your film to the best performing theaters. We then proactively put your movie in front of the right exhibitors.
We make recommendations on how to schedule your film based on the performance of similar films in the past, and comparing against results from other theaters in similar markets across the country. We want you to achieve success with your theater, and we provide the tools to help you do just that.
We love indepentent producers, and want to make it easy to distribute your film through our platform. As such we charge nothing upfront whatsoever. We take a simple flat percentage of your cut of the net proceeds from all of the bookings exhibitor make on our platform. If you're successful, we're successful.
Get marketing copy, view trailers and screeners, and book films in just a few clicks.
CinemaDirect makes it easy for you to find curated content that your market wants to see. We make it simple to book, showing all terms in plain english. If you want to show a movie in your theater, you can do it in just a few clicks
During registration we collect information about your projection setup. This allows us to generate download links and decryption keys that specifically match your needs. Never again will you comb through tens of keys for capabilities your setup does not have.
At the conclusion of each play week we will gather data from industry standard sources about how many tickets were sold. We then automatically handle generating payments to the producers of the films you booked and showed. No manual payments will need to be made for any film booked through our platform.
Our GenAI technology provides recommendations based on how the films in our marketplace compare to previous results. This gives you added confidence that the film you select is the right one for your market.
We show you how well your film performs on a day by day and showing by showing basis, giving you easy access to all the information you need to make informed decisions about your programming.
We originally started in this business as small-town exhibitors ourselves. We understand the difficulties in the industry intimately, and so will charge no fee whatsoever to Exhibitors. Whether you book one movie with us or one thousand, you will never receive a bill from us.
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