Film Scheduling
Positioned right. Settled correctly.
Your cinema has no influence over whether a film goes down well with your guests. But you can make sure it is shown at the right time in the right place.
With our film scheduling you position films correctly, assign prices and settle with the distributor correctly straight away.
Not every film belongs in every auditorium.
Every week your team decides anew which film runs when and in which auditorium – with the right price category, date confirmations, special screenings and last-minute changes.
If the programme, the terms and the settlement run separately, manual work piles up at the end of the week. Our film scheduling connects these steps so your team has more time again for personal contact with your guests.
Planning and settlement separate
- Films are maintained repeatedly
- Terms are looked up later
- Changes travel by email, phone or spreadsheet
- In the end it has to be calculated per film
Everything in one workflow
- Film data is ready for the screening week
- Performances come out of the planning
- Prices and terms apply in the right place
- The feature film settlement uses the tickets sold
Individual films become your weekly programme
The film has to get into the system
Import film data or create it manually
Before planning starts, the film goes into the system. You import the film data or create it manually. After that the film is ready for your screening week.
- Maintain the title, ticket title, running time, age rating, release variant, language, sound, picture format and poster
- Store the distributor and, if needed, a different settlement distributor
- Record contractual terms, e.g. distributor percentages per week and advertising subsidy
- Assign the film to a screening week and a site
The film has to get into the system
Individual films become a weekly programme
A weekly grid from time slots and time templates
You define which film runs in which auditorium and at what time. In the programme preview you see early on whether anything clashes.
- Define the film, auditorium and time for the screening week
- Generate performances from time slots and time templates; the programme builds the weekly grid in one go
- Programme preview from time codes, with collisions marked visibly
- Special programmes such as a sneak preview, film night or multimovie, plus trailer planning
The plan has to reach the till.
The weekly planning turns into sellable performances
Every performance gets a day, time, auditorium, film, seating plan and status – ready for sale.
- Seating plan with allocated seating or free seating per auditorium
- Steer the status from planned through created to ready to sell
- Set quotas per performance and ticket type, hold seats back for the box office
- When an auditorium is swapped, tickets and reservations move with it automatically
The price has to match the performance.
Prices on the performance, terms on the weekly film
Price tables, price categories and surcharges apply at the performance. Distributor terms sit on the weekly film and are ready for the settlement later.
- Price tables and price categories per performance
- Take surcharges such as 3D or IMAX into account
- Store distributor terms and percentages on the weekly film
- Take guarantees, advertising subsidies or payment per admission into account
In the end what counts is what was actually sold.
Feature film settlement from terms and tickets sold
At the end of the week the circle closes: the feature film settlement is produced from the stored terms and the tickets actually sold. That way the settlement matches your distribution contract – and your team is spared the per-film arithmetic.
- Settle a single weekly film or all films of a week in one batch
- Send settlements electronically to the distributor as XML or PDF
- Country-specific feature film settlement for many European countries
- Export postings to financial accounting
Plan several sites easily
Our scheduling tool bundles film planning across your chain: schedule films centrally, plan site weeks across all auditoriums and still adjust individual venues.
One film across several sites.
Schedule one film for all sites at once
You schedule a film centrally for all venues. The week, auditorium and start can be adjusted per site.
- Schedule one film for all sites at once
- Adjust the start, auditorium and week individually per venue
One week for all sites
Plan a whole week for all sites at a glance
You plan a complete week for all sites across all auditoriums – scheduled centrally and adjusted per venue.
- Plan a whole week across all auditoriums and sites
- Still adjust individual venues individually
Blocks across weeks & venues
Film import
Date exchange
Site comparison
Rental fee development
Scheduling overview
Would you like to see film scheduling with your own screening week?
Let’s talk – every cinema is different. Together we will find the right solution.
What changes when planning and settlement come together
You are not planning into the void.
You are not settling by feel.
You change things without rebuilding everything.
Decide centrally, adjust locally.
Until the first screening week is in place
First conversation
Learning by doing in the test system
Configuration
Go-live & support
Questions about film scheduling from COMPESO
With our film scheduling you plan films, screening weeks, auditoriums, performances, prices and distribution terms in one workflow. Film data becomes sellable performances; at the end, the feature film settlement uses the tickets actually sold.
You define the film, auditorium, time and screening week in a structured way. Time templates and time slots help build the weekly programme, the programme preview makes collisions visible, and special programmes such as a sneak preview or film night remain plannable.
Yes. Price tables, price categories and surcharges such as 3D or IMAX apply at the performance. Distributor percentages, guarantees, advertising subsidies or payments per admission sit on the weekly film and are ready for the settlement later.
Yes. For cinema chains, a film can be scheduled centrally for several sites. The start, auditorium and screening week can be adjusted per site, so central planning and local specifics fit together.
You can settle individual weekly films or all films of a screening week in one batch. The settlement can go to the distributor electronically as XML or PDF, and postings can be exported for financial accounting.
Let's look together at what your cinema needs today
Every cinema is different.
That is why we do not start with a quote
but with a conversation.
