MovieTickets.com combines the proven market expertise of its shareholders--AMC Theatres, Famous Players, Hollywood Media Corp., Marcus Theatres, National Amusements, Viacom and America Online, Inc.--to offer moviegoers a convenient way to buy movie tickets online, access local showtime information, view trailers, read reviews and more. Since Spring 2000, MovieTickets.com has given consumers the ease of a virtual box office in their homes and offices. MovieTickets.com allows consumers to buy tickets online for movie screens across the United States and Canada. MovieTickets.com partner theaters consistently represent more than half of the top 50 grossing North American theaters on any given weekend.
Purchasing tickets at MovieTickets.com is simple. Users enter MovieTickets.com on their Web browser, select a movie and showtime, and buy their tickets with a credit card. MovieTickets.com customers can e-mail tickets to friends and family members.
Members of My MovieTickets -- MovieTickets.com's rewarding club -- are offered additional ways to customize their ticket buying experience. For example, members are able to choose their favorite local theaters, which are displayed on many MovieTickets.com pages, allowing them to easily purchase their tickets with just a few clicks of the mouse every time they visit the site.
Quick Checkout is another timesaving feature available to My MovieTickets members. Once customers are registered and their credit card information is stored on MovieTickets.com's secure servers, Quick Checkout allows them to purchase movie tickets without re-entering their credit card information, by entering a password that they select. Additionally, My MovieTickets members can receive an exclusive weekly MovieTickets.com e-mail newsletter and more.
MovieTickets.com offers At Home Ticket Printing for many theaters. With At Home Ticket Printing, MovieTickets.com offers consumers the ability to proceed directly to theater ticket ushers and skip the box office altogether, making a night out at the movies even more convenient. At Home Ticket Printing has been widely embraced by consumers
Features include:
- The Purchase of Movie Tickets Online - Users can purchase movie tickets in advance online, then pick them up at the movie theater's will call office or ticketing kiosk.
- Movie Showtimes - A comprehensive nationwide listing of more than 36,000 screens.
- Theaters - A detailed listing of theaters for which online movie ticketing is available.
- Current & Future Releases - A one-stop resource for interactive multimedia information relating to current and upcoming motion picture releases.
- Reviews - A complete database of Leonard Maltin's movie reviews, as well as Hollywood.com reviews for all new movies.
- Previews - Streaming previews of movies, including text, video, audio, movie tunes and images. Users can download movie clips and trailers in various formats.
- Movie News - The latest breaking information on the entertainment industry.
- Weekend Box Office - A complete weekend box office report and analysis released every Sunday, daily box office reports during the week and a box office predictions report for the upcoming weekend released every Thursday, compiled by Hollywood insider, Martin Grove.
- Film Festivals - Coverage of many different film festivals, including Sundance and Cannes, as well as smaller, regional festivals.