Comments on: Is there a site that lists movie times and can be customized to list only certain theaters in your zip code?

Question: Is there a site that lists movie times and can be customized to list only certain theaters in your zip code?

Hildago — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:09:41 -0800

Anybody know of a site that lists movie times and can be customized to list only certain theaters in your zip code?

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:12:11 -0800

Yahoo Movies.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:12:41 -0800

Moviefone! For instance, here are the results for my viewing area: ZIP Code 59404

By: Pockets

Pockets — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:54:25 -0800

Digital City under movie guide.

By: TimeFactor

TimeFactor — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:05:50 -0800

Zap2it. For your zip code.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:27:20 -0800

Hidalgo's after a site that lets you specify the theaters you want listed, not just see all those in your ZIP code. Under that DigitalCity link above, there's one for "My Theaters" - it doesn't work with my AIM ID, but maybe it'll work for you...

By: bshort

bshort — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:17:29 -0800

Vindigo

Although it's not really a site, but rather, an application for Palm OS.

And it kicks everyone else's ass.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:29:39 -0800

nicwolff has the idea. I can find just sites that list movie and theaters by zip code, that's no problem. In fact, I've been using Yahoo! Movies for about 2 years now. The issue is that for some reason it's started listing a lot of places that really aren't theaters, and never have movies playing.

What I'd like to be able to do is say "here are the theaters I want listings displayed from, and here are the theaters I don't want to see listings from."

I don't have a PDA of any kind, at least not yet, but thanks bshort (actually that might end up as an AskMefi question soon). And, I don't trust AOL with my e-mail address, so thanks anyway pockets. Thanks all for the efforts.

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:21:12 -0800

The Movie Showtimes portlet of My Yahoo will certainly let you do what you want. You can search by zip code to see available theaters and then add only the ones you want to show up on your portal page.

By: jaronson

jaronson — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:59:23 -0800

Here is what you want Hildago...at Fandango you can even get your tickets online (for participating theaters.)

By: majick

majick — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:54:28 -0800

I've got a Perl CGI script based on some ancient scraper script for Salon that scrapes theater data from one or more ZIP codes (as there are tons of them in the Bay Area) and presents only the theaters I'm interested in, carving out all the extraneous screaming portal crap as a side effect. Drop me a note if you want to see the script or a demo of it in action.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:41:15 -0800

Jaronson -- perfect. Exactly what I need.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:17:40 -0800

In case anyone in the UK has similar needs: UgcRss generates individual RSS listings feeds for all the UGC cinemas in the UK.

(Off topic, but useful: the same chap has just whipped up ActoRss - information feeds on any actor listed in the IMDB)

By: anildash

anildash — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:22:26 -0800

If these aren't enough, Amazon offersr the service as well.