IME publishes a few things. For 160.00 per 6 months you get a 4 page glossy bi weekly with screening reviews, often after the movie has opened already, film notes, trivia, some good quotes, promotional ideas, etc. Also enclosed will be a future release chart with history going backwards showing screen counts, grosses, etc. Also mini ad mats but not for all movies for some reason. Then: 2 times a year you get the Film Marketing Preview Guide... Summer and Holiday which are helpful in planning booking. But wait! There's more!!! You also get the Exhibition Yellow Pages which is helpful as another toolbut is really not much different than similar guides published by Box Office and Film Journal as part of their regular subscriptions. I have also called them up and asked specific questions from time to time about upcoming films and they have always been helpful. Yellow Pages alone are 25.00 retail from them if you are not a subscriber.
Is it worth it? We are a three screen and we subscribe to Variety, Premier, Film Journal, Box Office, IME, Ent. Weekly, and a number of e-mail newsletters and all at the low, low cost of less than 500.00 per year. I don't subscribe because of needing to be informed for bigscreenbiz.com though it helps. I do my own booking and would subscribe to all of these no matter. I look at it as a simple part of business and being as informed as I can to make smart decisions. That's also why I attend Show East and West but that's another story.
IME 638 Ferguson Road Suite 3, Bozman, Montana, 59718-6492 406-587-1251/fax 586-1571
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The 2001 issue just was delivered and it is now 9.95 and is a nice resource.
They also are now on line at
www.imeonline.com
Mike Hurley
www.bigscreenbiz.com
[This message has been edited by Mike (edited July 26, 2001).]
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