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

January 24, 2004 7:09 PM

Anybody know of a site that lists movie times and can be customized to list only certain theaters in your zip code?
posted by Hildago to Computers & Internet (13 answers total)

Yahoo Movies.
posted by waxpancake at 7:12 PM on January 24, 2004

Moviefone! For instance, here are the results for my viewing area: ZIP Code 59404
posted by davidmsc at 7:12 PM on January 24, 2004

Digital City under movie guide.
posted by Pockets at 7:54 PM on January 24, 2004

Zap2it. For your zip code.
posted by TimeFactor at 8:05 PM on January 24, 2004

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...
posted by nicwolff at 8:27 PM on January 24, 2004

Vindigo

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

And it kicks everyone else's ass.
posted by bshort at 9:17 PM on January 24, 2004

Response by poster: 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.
posted by Hildago at 9:29 PM on January 24, 2004

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.
posted by mmascolino at 10:21 PM on January 24, 2004

Here is what you want Hildago...at Fandango you can even get your tickets online (for participating theaters.)
posted by jaronson at 9:59 AM on January 25, 2004

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.
posted by majick at 10:54 AM on January 25, 2004

Response by poster: Jaronson -- perfect. Exactly what I need.
posted by Hildago at 11:41 AM on January 25, 2004

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)
posted by jack_mo at 6:17 AM on January 26, 2004

If these aren't enough, Amazon offersr the service as well.
posted by anildash at 8:22 PM on January 26, 2004