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 on 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’s a bit 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, use a film search panel to search up any film, and view 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.