RSS feeds for Movie Theater Showtimes

Posted Mon, 06/05/2006 - 18:43 by Isaac

I saw 3 new movies this past weekend; The Break Up, MI:III, X-Men
III. While I did enjoy the shows this is not a review post. Its a post
on why I can't find RSS feeds for any of my local theaters.
I realized that the normal process I go through for finding my
showtimes is cumbersome. I login into My Yahoo (which I only use
because of the movie listing) and then browse my pre-selected favorite
theaters (edit: Now I use Google Search "movie zipcode" for the desktop
and fandango for my Blackberry). Then I thought, why can't I get these
in a RSS feed and then just click on Thunderbird to read my movie
theater showtime news? I could have it plugged into Google just in case
I am at some else's computer and I could even pipe it to my cellphone.
But after looking around I discovered that no one offers a rss feed for movie showtimes. This is a shame. Nielsen NetRatings
did a survey in June 2005 and found that 66% either did not understand
RSS technology or had never heard of it. In October of 2005 Yahoo and
Ipsos Insight reported that while 27% of users had read RSS content,
only 4% of those readers knew they were using RSS feeds.
Obviously education would be a major consideration for increasing
viewers of this type of movie showtime RSS feed. But since each theater
is already pushing their showtime content out to sites like Fandango
and Yahoo Movies it would not be a difficult task to funnel the content
into RSS feeds for early adoptors like myself.
Here are a few things I have stumbled across:

Have you found anything of interest?

I still read the posts to this article and if you find something that does this please let me know.