Thursday cinema week
Booking grids, play weeks and holdovers run Thursday to Wednesday.
Malaysia
Film distribution in Malaysia, in ringgit
DISTmio runs Malaysian bookings on a Thursday cinema week, settles net of the entertainment duty you set for each cinema and writes your rent invoices in ringgit.
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Local rules
What a Malaysian distributor needs
Entertainment duty per state
Duty differs between states, so you set it on each cinema's card or take it from the cinema's report.
Tax set per cinema
Each rent invoice carries the tax treatment you set for the cinema that pays it.
Ringgit settlements
Cinema statements and rent invoices run in ringgit, with conversion for foreign-currency deals.
Malaysian settlement
From box office to rent invoice
DISTmio removes the entertainment duty, applies your share, guarantee or flat fee for each cinema week and turns approved settlements into rent invoices.
- Weekly shares, guarantees and flat fees
- Duty set per cinema or read from its report
- Rent invoices in ringgit
- Gross box office
- Less entertainment duty
- Net box office
- Rental share
- Guarantee or flat fee
- Rent invoice in ringgit
Invoicing and accounting
Xero, QuickBooks or Odoo
Send approved rent invoices to the accounting program you already use and keep statements, invoices and payments in one place.
- Xero and QuickBooks connections
- Odoo for invoicing too
- Payment link on every invoice
MYR
Invoice DM/2025/042
- Payer
- Cinema example
- Film
- The Northern Lights
- Rent
- RM 27,300
- Due date
- 16 Apr
- Status
- Sent
Online payment link
Xero
QuickBooks
Odoo
Cinema week
Play weeks from Thursday to Wednesday
The booking grid, play weeks and the Monday holdover board follow the Thursday week, and a holdover decision extends the booking and orders new KDMs together.
- Booking grid by Thursday weeks
- Monday holdover board with the national average
- One-click extension with new KDMs
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
Questions
Malaysia: common questions
How is entertainment duty handled?
You set the duty on each cinema's card, or DISTmio takes it from the cinema's report, and settlements are calculated net of it.
Which accounting programs work in Malaysia?
Xero, QuickBooks and Odoo connect directly.
Malaysia
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