Find the independent cinemas to call, and what to say.
Oxpium builds the list of independent movie theaters in your area, finds the owner or general manager, tells you when one has a reason to buy, and runs the campaign.
- 4,200movie theaters and drive-ins with a payroll in the US
- 117,000people work in them
- 32%have their owner in classic professional databases
- < 9 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
Every independent cinema in your area, in one sentence.
Describe the target the way you'd tell a colleague: a state, a number of screens, art houses or first-run, single screens or small multiplexes. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, sets the national chains aside if you ask, removes the duplicates, and hands you a list.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · 236 theaters in Ohio
- Reading websites · number of screens
- Chains set aside · de-duplicating
88 independent theaters with 1 to 6 screens, sorted by number of reviews.
An area
A state, a metro area, a ZIP code or a radius around an address. The agent covers the whole area and hands you one list, with no duplicates.
A number of screens
The agent reads each theater's website and counts its screens: a single screen downtown and a six-plex don't buy the same things.
Independents only
The agent groups theaters by company and reads their websites to set the national chains aside, keeping owners who run one or two locations.
What they show
First-run, art house, repertory or classics nights: the agent reads the showtimes on each website and keeps the theaters that match your offer.
Everything you need to reach each theater.
At an independent cinema, the owner or the general manager books the films, works the floor on Friday night and signs the quotes. At a nonprofit theater, the executive director prepares the project and the board votes. The agent fills in the columns your campaign needs and verifies every email before adding it.
- Reading the request
- Reading websites · 88 theaters
- Verifying emails
79 contact emails found and verified.
The website email
The agent reads each theater's website, finds the contact or booking email published there and verifies it before adding it to the list.
The owner or GM
The owner, the general manager or the executive director, with their email and cell when there is one. They're the one who signs the quote.
Screens and seats
The number of screens and seats, read on the website, so you know whether you're talking to a 150-seat single screen or a six-plex.
What the website shows
Online tickets or not, reserved seating, a bar or a kitchen, private rentals: each in its own column, read on the theater's website.
Automations that run for you, and tell you who to call.
Once the list is built, Oxpium keeps going without you. Each automation reruns its search on schedule and adds what just changed to the top of the list: a new job posting, a rating going down, moviegoers complaining about the seats, a renovation announced. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Job postings · 11 new at Ohio theaters
- Matching postings to theaters
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Mon, Oct 12+2
- Mon, Oct 5+1
- Mon, Sep 280
- Mon, Sep 21+2
2 theaters posted a job since last Monday.
Hiring
Every Monday, an automation flags the theaters on the list that just posted for a projectionist, a manager or a bar lead, with a Hiring badge.
Ratings going down
Every month, the agent reads each theater's rating and moves the ones down by 0.2 or more to the top of the list, marked with a badge.
Comfort complaints
Every month, the agent reads the new reviews and flags the theaters where moviegoers complain about the seats, the sound or the heating.
Your own watch
A remodel, a new screen or a closure announced on the website every Tuesday, or any watch in one sentence: the agent tells you what changed.
A campaign that keeps the cinema's week.
New films open on Friday and the weekend is when the owner is on the floor, so the sending window sits Monday to Thursday, late morning, before the first shows. Remodels happen in the slow weeks and get decided months ahead, often with a board vote at nonprofit theaters. The sequence stops on the first reply.
Subject The auditoriums at theater
Each variable is a column of your list, filled in by the agent.
Before the first shows
Emails and calls only go out late morning, Monday to Thursday, when the owner is in the office, never on opening day or during evening shows.
Months before the works
An agent step reads the theater's website and reviews, then writes the follow-up: the closure it announced, the seats moviegoers complain about.
Calls from the browser
You call the theater from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right in the list, on the theater's row.
Stops on the first reply
As soon as a theater replies, the sequence stops for them. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never reaches their inbox.
Frequently asked questions
Write “independent movie theaters in Ohio with 1 to 6 screens”. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, reads each website to count the screens and set the national chains aside, removes duplicates and hands you the list with each theater's city, rating, phone and website. It takes a few minutes.
Ask the agent: it looks for the owner, the general manager or the executive director of each theater, verifies their email and adds their cell when it finds one. When nobody turns up, the booking or events email on the website is usually read by the person who decides.
Tell the agent once: “every Tuesday, look on each theater's website for a remodel, a new screen or a temporary closure”. It rereads the websites every week, and the theaters that announced works land at the top of your list with a badge. Reviews that complain about the seats or the sound are a good signal too.
A first email on a Tuesday morning, a call two days later before the first shows, then a last message. Emails go out from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, never on opening day, and the sequence stops as soon as a theater replies.
For 300 theaters with their website read, 240 emails and 70 cell phones, count around €45 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,000 to €1,500 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
Yes. The agent reads each theater's website, where nonprofits usually ask for donations and memberships and list their board, and notes it in a column. It matters for the campaign: at a nonprofit, the executive director prepares the project and the board decides.
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