The Grand Cinema Joins Force with Hong Kong Movie to Set the Trend of iPhone Movie Ticketing

Sept. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- (Hong Kong, 09 /09 / 2010) Hong Kong Movie, an award-winning iPhone application, announced an addition of one more cinema to its iPhone ticketing service. Users can now purchase tickets from The Grand Cinema (The Grand) directly inside Hong Kong Movie iPhone app (HK Movie). To celebrate the service launch, from September 11 to 24, a free small popcorn will be offered to users who bought movie tickets from The Grand using HK Movie. For more promotion details, please go to thegrandcinema.com.hk.

iPhone ticketing via HK Movie is simple and convenient. Users can complete the purchase in less than five minutes starting from choosing a movie, viewing the real-time seating plan and checking out with credit cards. Upon completion, users will obtain a text message carrying the booking confirmation. Tickets can be redeemed at The Grand by presenting the confirmation number to the box office or using the credit card at the ticket kiosk.

“We’ve been aware of HK Movie’s popularity among iPhone users for a long time,” Ms Helena Young, General Manager of The Grand. “We believe that the cooperation will allow The Grand to better serve Hong Kong Movie’s vast and quality-savvy movie fans base. We pride ourselves on our first-class cinema facilities and making our ticketing service available on the renowned iPhone app is a strategic step to further strengthen our trendsetting brand image.”

“Over 10,000 tickets have been bought through HK Movie in only 6-month time,” said Danny Kok, R&D Team Leader of Farm. “As super movie fans ourselves, we’ve been shaping and improving the app from a movie goer’s perspective. Making direct movie ticketing from more cinemas has been our fans’ no.1 request and we’re striving to fulfill this demand.”

Earlier this year, HK Movie has won Hong Kong ICT Awards’ Best Mobile Infotainment Application Silver Award and in August, the app just passed its 500,000 downloads mark. Having gained tremendous support from movie goers and being named as ‘a must-have app’, HK Movie has been sitting on the top 5 spot in Apple’s Hong Kong App Store since its launch in 2009.

“To prepare for ticketing from The Grand, we developed a new technology that allows users to enjoy The Grand’s free seating option,” added Danny. “What we’ve found from our 350 fans comments during the 500,000 downloads celebration is that besides the friendly user interface and breakthrough features, we were appreciated for our seriousness and devotion to make the app greater, like our prompt compatibility upgrade when iPhone OS4 was rolled out.”

HK Movie now plays an unparalleled role in the industry. More new features will be introduced to grow the Hong Kong Movie community and an iPad version is under development which be launched very soon.


"Hong Kong Movie iPhone App"
Hong Kong Movie is an iPhone application developed by Farm, a division of the leading mobile solutions consultancy Green Tomato Limited. Hong Kong Movie allows movie goers to buy movie tickets and browse comprehensive movie information including over 40 cinemas details, movie synopsis, comment sharing, show time schedules and the one of its kind real-time seating plan update. For more information, please go to farm.gtomato.com. The iPhone app can be downloaded at Apple’s App Store for free. Search keyword: Hong Kong Movie.

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Established in 2003, GreenTomato is a leading mobile solutions consultancy and the creator of the award-winning iPhone app, Hong Kong Movie. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the innovative and energetic team focuses on the emerging Mobile Internet Market. GreenTomato helps corporate clients expand their presence and user community on the mobile space through mobile platform solutions, mobile contents generation and mobile application development projects (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, J2ME, Symbian, and Windows Mobile). GreenTomato has launched over 150 WAP services serving more than 3 million subscribers and over 50 iPhone apps for its clients since 2009. Along with numerous international and local awards, GreenTomato is a Red Herring Global 100 company, as well as the Best Rising Star recognized by Nokia Award 2005.