During my time at National CineMedia, I was always puzzled about something. Why wasn’t there a single source of truth for all the movie releases in any given week? To manage this data for internal tracking, I needed to pull information together from across 4+ sources – and that was just for movies in theaters. It gets even more fragmented when you add streaming and digital-on-demand to the mix. This product aims to solve that problem. The Film Release Radar is a full theatrical and streaming release calendar that I designed and maintain. The concept, layout, data model, and product decisions are all mine; the front-end code was built using Claude (Anthropic’s AI).

The Film Release Radar is a weekly matrix that maps all movie releases across 10+ platforms, including theaters, video-on-demand, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, and more. You can filter by platform, genre, and rating, view charts showing the top ten movies at the box office or at home (data for the latter is compiled by me), and see rich detail pop-ups that pull posters, directors, runtimes, and trailers live from The Movie Database API. Layouts switch between a desktop matrix and a mobile, platform-grouped list.

Underneath is a spreadsheet-to-JSON publishing workflow that turns an Excel source of truth into the data the site reads on load. The same data-ops discipline I bring to a CMS, applied to my own product.

This concept grew directly out of my work at NCM, where I led project management for the Marketing & Advertising Insights teams’ internal movie release calendar and CMS tool.