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laemmle theaters platform

Laemmle Theatres is a group of family-run arthouse movie theaters in the Los Angeles area.

It was established in 1938 and is owned and operated by Robert Laemmle and his son Greg Laemmle.

Robert Laemmle's father Max and uncle Kurt, cousins of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, bought their first movie theater in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1938.

There are eight locations: Claremont 5 in Claremont, Glendale 5 in Glendale, Monica 4-plex in Santa Monica, Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles, Town Center 5 in Encino, NoHo 7 in North Hollywood, and Laemmle Theatres 7 in Santa Clarita.

The Laemmle Grande 4-Plex on South Figueroa Street closed October 25, 2009 as L.A. Live's Regal Cinema complex was set to open.

Construction of the Santa Clarita theater was completed in 2020, but its opening was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It opened on April 9, 2021.

Location

Los Angeles, California, USA

Websites

https://www.laemmle.com/

SCENARIO

Laemmle contacted us in 2017, they were looking for a company able to make a complete new site. They had a website that became unmaintainable, there were not able to implement new features, get updates, and the performance was really bad.

They were looking for a complete new implementation, converting all the existing features, keeping the current data and using a standard CMS solution.

Also they were looking to improve the mobile experience, since at that time, the site wasn’t responsive.

Additionally, this site has several integration with other back office applications such as RTS used for the ticketing system and File Maker, an internal tool to manage the title and the boards on each cinema. Among other standard integrations such as iContact, Sendgrid, Google Services and more.

OUR SOLUTION

We offered to Laemmle do an implementation using Drupal 8, they provided the designs of the site and we did the complete implementation and integration of the different platforms.

Related with the integrations, RTS was a smooth integration since this tool provided a REST API to interact with their features. However, in Filemaker lacks of such kind of possibility, that is why we created a Unix Service in order to synchronize content between FileMaker and Drupal, this service runs the 24 hs and looks of changes on Drupal and in Filemaker doing a replication and transformation of the data, keeping in sync both platforms.

We worked on the devops side recreating a complete infrastructure for all environments using AWS and Chef.

The new site was launched later that year, and it was a total success.

Since that time we continue working with them in the DevOps side doing maintenance and monitoring of the production services and implementing new features on the development side.

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