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Digital Booking System (DBS) enables theatrical distributors and exhibitors to improve their inter-organization communications and increase operational efficiencies.

It accelerates the process of booking playdates, scheduling showtimes and tracking critical information, without altering industry standard practices.

By leveraging the Internet, DBS fully integrates innovative and pioneering business solutions while keeping existing power structures intact. It offers more features, easier integration, a straightforward end-user experience and, best off all, can be deployed 24/7 anywhere your organization has offices.
 
Exhibition
 
Manage Your Bookings
• Buyers can request playdates or respond to distributor solicitations in seconds.
• Film buying has never been so simple or so fast, especially when it comes to holdovers. Negotiations proceed electronically until both an exhibitor and a distributor come to mutually acceptable terms for a specific film and theater.
 
Simplify Showtime Scheduling
• DBS provides a tool that streamlines the scheduling process from the theater level all the way through to a circuit's head of operations.
• Hours of pencil pushing can be reduced to minutes of razor-sharp theater manager time thanks to DBS's showtimes calculator, with trailers, turnaround times, splits and interlocks all taken into consideration.
• DBS can distribute finalized schedules to local newspapers and any other targeted third parties.
 
Expedite Gross Reporting
• DBS easily transmits daily box office receipts of any specific film in a given theater to a circuit's headquarters or third party reporting agencies.
• Grosses collected electronically can be easily fed into DBS and made available whenever future bookings are being planned.
 
Manage Important Information
• Executives can easily generate real-time reports such as booking grids and trade screening schedules.
• Managers can be confident they are getting the real-time data they need to make critical, time-sensitive business decisions.
 
Oversee Your Team
• Administrative tools allow managers to customize responsibilities of each staff member by through a series of customizable permissions.
 
Market Your Venues
• A directory of theaters enables circuits to provide pertinent details for all of your theaters, including contact information, number of screens and photos, thereby simplifying the critical task of notifying distributors about improvements and renovations to your establishments.
 
Expand Your Rolodex
• Access to a continuously updated database of distributors, exhibitors, theatrical suppliers and vendors provides contact information to help build the business relationships that govern the day-to-day routine of film buyers, managers and executives.
 
Overcome Geographic Obstacles
• Unite geographically scattered organizations and allowing them to function as a single cohesive business unit.
• Access information from home or on the road, through any standard wireless or Internet connection globally.
 
Synchronize Critical Data
• Integrate key information to be shared between DBS and any internal or third party enterprise systems or business processes.
• Reduce duplication of information in multiple systems.
• Integrate critical business applications.
• Enables better control of your operations and enhances the value of your technology investments.
Distribution
 
Manage Your Playdates
• Sales reps use DBS to solicit theater bookings or respond to an exhibitor's incoming playdate requests in a matter of seconds.
• Negotiations proceed electronically until both the distributor and exhibitor agree to a specific set of terms.
 
Manage Important Information
• Executives can easily generate real-time reports such as tabulating overall bookings and finals.
 
Oversee Your Team
• Administrative tools allow managers to customize the responsibilities of each staff member.
• Assign staff through a series of customizable permissions, ensuring that the team is guided and supervised in a productive manner.
 
Market Your Product
• Easily get the word out about a new release by electronically soliciting exhibitors with forthcoming playdates and notification of upcoming trade screenings.
• The Release Schedule enables you to educate exhibitors on future and imminent releases with a wealth of information such as production notes, cast lists, trailers, television clips, posters, photographs and more.
 
Expand Your Rolodex
• Continuously update the database of distributors, exhibitors, theatrical suppliers and vendors.
 
Overcome Geographic Obstacles
• Unite geographically scattered organizations and function as a single cohesive business unit.
• Available through any standard wireless or Internet connection globally.
 
Synchronize Critical Data
• Integrate key information to be shared between DBS and any internal or third party enterprise systems or business processes
• Reduce duplication of information in multiple systems.
• Integrate critical business applications enabling better control of your operations while enhancing the value of your technology investment.


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