The Northern Lights
2 Apr
Cinema portal
Bookings, keys and results,
Bookings, keys and results,
shared with your cinemas.
Invite cinemas to a free portal where they confirm bookings, download keys and materials and send results straight into DISTmio.
Bookings
Order a film
KDM keys
Cinema example
London, United Kingdom
The Northern Lights
2–9 Apr
How it works
From invitation to results
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01
Invite the cinema
Send an invitation from the cinema card, and the cinema gets its own login.
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02
Confirm the bookings
The cinema sees its bookings from every distributor that invited it, and confirms them one by one or several at once.
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03
Prepare the screening
The cinema downloads KDM keys and film materials, uploads server certificates and keeps its list of screens and servers current.
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04
Send the results
The cinema enters admissions and box office day by day, or uploads its own report. Statements go into your settlement queue.
Holdovers
Holdovers agreed without a phone call
Offer another week straight from your holdover board, and the cinema answers in the portal.
- Accept or decline, with a note for you
- Every answer saved on the booking
- Cinemas see where they played fewer shows than agreed
Extension proposal
The Northern Lights
- Cinema
- Cinema example
- Proposed week
- 10–16 Apr
- Shows
- 8
Film catalogue
Cinemas order your films directly
Choose which films cinemas can order, with poster, versions, trailer and your standard terms. You accept an order, propose other dates or let orders that meet your rules confirm themselves.
- Standard terms shown as the cinema will read them
- Counter-offers with an expiry date and history
- Wish lists and requests for other titles
The Northern Lights
2 Apr
The Silent Path
2 Apr
Beyond the Breakwater
2 Apr
Orbit of Dust
2 Apr
The Last Summer
2 Apr
Night Passage
2 Apr
Keys, certificates and results
Keys go out, certificates and results come in
Cinemas download KDM keys and upload server certificates in one place, once for every distributor they work with. Results arrive day by day or as the cinema's own report.
- Keys from your lab or from DISTmio, side by side
- Server details read from the certificate
- Reports matched to the film and the cinema
Uploads
Server certificate
Drop a file here
Cinema results
Drop a file here
No login needed
Answers by e-mail, without a password
Your e-mails carry a personal link to confirm bookings, accept an extension, send missing results or confirm the server list.
- Each link covers one cinema and its own records
- Decision links work once and then expire
- Answers given by phone can be recorded by your team
E-mail preview
To:
Cinema example
The Northern Lights · Screening proposal
8 shows · 2–9 Apr
Questions
Common questions about the portal
Does the cinema pay for its portal account?
No. The portal account is free for the cinema. You invite people from the cinema card and can withdraw their access at any time.
Can one cinema work with several distributors?
Yes. A cinema sees its bookings from every distributor that invited it in one place. Server certificates and screen details are entered once and serve all of them.
What can a cinema see?
Only its own bookings, offers and documents. In a complaint about a settlement or invoice it sees your replies and files, never your internal notes.
What if a cinema is not in the portal yet?
It can ask for access on the portal's login page, or you invite it from the cinema card. Until then, it answers through the personal links in your e-mails.
Cinema portal
Give your cinemas one place to answer you
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