Apple trailers page adds showtimes and theater maps

Since people still seem to want to leave their houses and go to the movies (despite Apple's best efforts to keep them firmly on their couches), the iTunes Movie Trailers site now features a sophisticated Showtimes view. This HTML5-savvy offering uses location awareness in your browser to show the movies playing nearest you, along with the upcoming screening schedule and links to the theater sites for ticket purchases.

The site works great in Safari, Firefox 3 or Chrome on your Mac; it also works perfectly on the iPad, although on the iPhone it's a little bit compact.

Check it out for yourself, or see our gallery of screenshots below.

Apple's Showtimes site

[via Ars Technica]

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Source: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/showtimes/

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ElevatorHappyFun

I wish it had "list view" similar to what yahoo has...

example:
"Theater Name"
Movie Title - 11:15a - 2:30p - 5:15p - 7:00p - 9:30p
Movie #2 - 12:00p - 2:00p - 4:00p - 6:00p
etc...

brackets for bargain times would be a bonus!

September 04 2010 at 5:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MRBlue

Amazing.

Okay, so when does Apple's website become a Yahoo-like portal for everything including weather, traffic updates and news (that isn't specific to Apple I mean)? They already have social networking and now local showtimes, seems like it's only a matter of time before the Apple homepage changes into more than just a portal to purchase Apple products.

September 03 2010 at 9:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mendelini

The Bay Ridge Alpine is the worst theater in the history of movies!

September 03 2010 at 8:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AppleZilla

How about the broken video playback?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2565184&tstart=50

September 03 2010 at 7:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

evan

Hot. Anybody know how it finds one's location?

September 03 2010 at 3:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Mike

Snow Leopard introduced Location Services much like iPhone's, using IP lookup (though only when connected via WiFi, oddly). However, Apple's site seems to only do lookups for US users, showed a weird address in New York when I tried (I'm in Ontario).

September 03 2010 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply