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Research a film, compare its release window and prepare a distributor offer. Follow the illustrated guides through the tools available today.
Choose your task
Movie DB
Find a film, compare the available source information and collect useful material for programming discussions. Keep release dates, classifications and audience scores separate: each answers a different question.
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Release Timeline
Survey upcoming releases for a region, narrow the slate and inspect individual films. Turn selected films into facility booking entries when you are ready to work on an offer.
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Booking App
Work from film bookings to a distributor offer. Compare each cinema's commitments, prepare the film and facility terms, then review the exact offer content and recipients before sending.
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Release Analysis
Release Analysis currently displays a development notice, not an operational analytics workspace. Use the existing research and planning tools while this section is being developed.
Read the current statusFrom release research to an offer
- Research the film
Check its identity, regional dates, classifications, scores and available artwork.
Movie DB guide - Choose the opening window
Select a release region and period, narrow the slate and create facility booking entries.
Release Timeline guide - Prepare the offer
Review each cinema's dates and terms, preview the email and follow the negotiation history.
Booking App guide
Important distinctions
- Release region
- The territory whose release dates you are viewing. It does not convert the AU distributor or AU classification into that region's metadata.
- Classification and score
- A classification describes content suitability in a region. A source score measures a provider's audience or critic response; it is not a classification.
- TN and NZFC
- Short source labels for The Numbers and the New Zealand release source. Compare source and release type as well as the date.
- MG, policy and terms
- Minimum guarantee, the recorded commitment policy and the proposed commercial terms for each facility. Enter the actual proposal, not the guide's sample values.
- Offer and acceptance
- A sent offer records a proposal being sent. It does not itself prove agreement, film delivery or readiness for playback.
- Slate booking and KDM booking
- Slate Tools manages film programming and offers. KdmGen separately manages key-generation requests and the bookings that follow device changes.
