For moviegoers, here’s a brand new showtimes website

MerlMovie · Post by **MerlMovie** » Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:50 am

Greetings CEO community,

Just in time for the holidays season – and the release of Avatar 2 – we are launching MerlMovie (https://cambodiamovietimes.com/), a streamlined movies showtimes website. The site offers a lean interface that quickly gets you to the information you are looking for.

Here are some of the site’s main features:

aggregated list of movies and showtimes across all three main operators (as of today Major Cineplex, Legend Cinema, and Prime Cineplex);
capital/city landing pages to avoid displaying showtimes that are 300 kilometers away from you (as of today Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Sihanoukville);
sorting of showtimes and theater locations by distance and time;
navigation to specific theater locations by clicking on ‘view on map’ hyperlinks;
focus on listing what is being shown today and tomorrow, nothing more, nothing less; and
page load is fast, like, real fast.

Let us know what you think of the website. Comments and suggestions for improvements are most welcome.

MerlMovie

P.S. For old timers of mainland Southeast Asia, this site is inspired by the once great Movieseer.

cautious colin · Post by **cautious colin** » Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:59 am

Good idea. Assuming it wouldn’t be that much more effort to get the base price on there too I think that could add a lot

But it works well

Edit: looks as though you have to sign in to get prices, so I guess it is a few extra steps

MerlMovie · Post by **MerlMovie** » Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:16 am

cautious colin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:59 am Good idea. Assuming it wouldn’t be that much more effort to get the base price on there too I think that could add a lot

But it works well

Edit: looks as though you have to sign in to get prices, so I guess it is a few extra steps

Good idea, added in the wishlist. As you pointed out, there's no automated way to fetch the information so it'll require a bit of thinking as to how we'd want to do that.

cautious colin · Post by **cautious colin** » Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:18 pm

MerlMovie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:16 am
cautious colin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:59 am Good idea. Assuming it wouldn’t be that much more effort to get the base price on there too I think that could add a lot

But it works well

Edit: looks as though you have to sign in to get prices, so I guess it is a few extra steps
Good idea, added in the wishlist. As you pointed out, there's no automated way to fetch the information so it'll require a bit of thinking as to how we'd want to do that.

Yeah, and the process to get the prices back is going to be very different for each one

for Cineplex, If you are already getting the movice, cinema & sessionids its fairly simple

https://majorcineplex.com.kh/api/seat?c ... HO00000931 would do it

MerlMovie · Post by **MerlMovie** » Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:54 am

While prices aren't in, a couple of suggestions that got to us via email were implemented:

[-] When a given movie has run out of showtimes for the day, its poster will be grayed out and named struckthrough (see image below)
[-] Expired showtimes for a given movie or location are now hidden, offering a cleaner view of what's available

That should help those people suddenly feeling the urge to see a movie at 8PM

@cautious colin , we're keeping the price tag on our list until we figure out a way to automate that across all companies.