Project Overview

Using the Kinomatics Showtime database we are seeking to understand how cinemagoing - as a relationship between films, venue locations and audiences, was affected by the global spread of COVID-19. We have collected data that describes all movie showtimes and cinema locations for all films released in the majority of global jurisdictions between November 2019 and June 2021 inclusively. This period is particularly interesting because it covers the onset and diffusion of COVID-19 around the world. Our data includes approximately 4890 time-stamped XML files, with an average of 3860 datapoints in each file (around 19 million datapoints in total). Earlier baseline data collected between 2012 and 2015 will be used to measure the extent of longitudinal and seasonal change. This earlier data comprises almost 18 million datapoints.