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Ain't It Cool News
Ain't It Cool News (AICN) is a website founded
and run by Harry Knowles, dedicated to rumors and reviews of upcoming and
currently playing films and television projects, with an emphasis on science
fiction, fantasy, horror, comic-book and action genres. It combines gossip from
anonymous and unverified sources as well as news and reviews.
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AlloCiné
AlloCiné is a service organization providing
information on the programs of french cinema, especially centering on novelties'
promotion with DVD information. The enterprise is founded as telephonic
communicator, then diversified as internet portal site, which offers sufficient
information by fast access and covers all movies that have been distributed in
France. In 2005, AlloCiné spread its database to the TV series. It launched in
1993, before purchasing by Canal+ in 2000 and Vivendi Universal in 2002. The
current owner is an American investment fund since June 2007. The corporate
headquarter is located in Paris (Champs-Élysées).
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AniBOOM
AniBOOM is a animation website offering a
collection of short animations and cartoon, animation tools (like ShapeShifter),
and competitions. Registered users can submit animated movies, which are then
categorized according to type. Users are able to evaluate videos by giving them
a number of “bombs” and by posting comments. Videos can be emailed to a friend,
posted to a blog or social network profile page, or added to favorites. Users
are given "BoomZones", or profile pages, in which to showcase their videos.
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Atom.com
Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) is an
award-winning broadband entertainment network offering original short subject
films, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded
in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi
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The Auteurs
The Auteurs is an online film website that
integrates elements of social networking with video streaming. It has been
described as an "online cinematheque." The site allows users to watch feature
films, usually for a fee, and connect with others with similar tastes in movies.
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Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting is a website that covers
horror movies with reviews, interviews and news. It is widely considered to be
the "world's most popular horror website".
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Bollywood Hungama
Bollywood Hungama (previously known as indiaFM
or indiafm.com) is a leading Bollywood entertainment website, owned by
hungama.com. The website provides news related to Indian film industry,
particularly Bollywood, film reviews and box office reports.
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Bollywood Samachar
Bollywood Samachar (samachar means news in
Hindi) is a leading Bollywood entertainment news website, owned by Redmond
Webservices.
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Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box
office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. Brandon Gray started the site
in August 1998 and claims to now receive over one million monthly visitors.
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Box Office Prophets
Box Office Prophets (BOP) is a web site that
contains movie-related features and information. Debuting on July 25, 2001, the
site is a de facto sequel to the now-defunct the-prophets.com, a movie web site
started in 1998. Box Office Prophets was originally launched as the first site
to offer a comprehensive, searchable database for weekend box office free of
charge to visitors.
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British Comedy Guide
The British Comedy Guide or BCG is a
non-for-profit British website covering all forms of British comedy across all
media, including television, radio and film.
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Cinema Blend
Cinema Blend is a website founded and run by
Josh Tyler dedicated to news, rumors and reviews of upcoming and currently
playing films movie projects.
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Coolroom
Coolroom is a UK digital download store
offering films and music to own and rent. It is accessible online and as a
bespoke IPTV channel on Microsoft's Windows Media Center available on laptops,
desktops and home entertainment PCs. Users can preview cinema releases and
download full feature films and music.
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Dark Horizons
Dark Horizons is a movie centric website owned
and written by Garth Franklin of Sydney, Australia. Dark Horizons is dedicated
to news, interviews, rumors, and reviews of upcoming and currently playing films
and television projects. The focus initially was almost exclusively related to
science fiction but expanded to include most genres. Major focus remains on
major studio blockbusters rather than independent or arthouse films.
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DearCinema.com
DearCinema.com is an Indian web site on world
cinema that focuses on film festivals, art-house cinema, independent and short
films.
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The Digital Bits
The Digital Bits is a DVD-related website,
established in 1997 by editor Bill Hunt. It includes frequent news updates about
upcoming DVD releases, images of upcoming DVD cover art, and DVD reviews.
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Eccentric Cinema
Eccentric Cinema is a website that covers
horror, sci-fi, exploitation and cult movies with reviews and news.
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Fandango (ticket service)
Fandango is a corporation in the United States
that sells movie tickets over the telephone and Internet, enabling customers to
ensure ticket availability and avoid lines at the movie theater.
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FilmCrave
FilmCrave is an online movie social network
that allows users to write movie reviews, share movie lists, watch trailers and
interact with other members. Their unique way of allowing users to create and
share movie lists and reviews has allowed FilmCrave to carve out a niche amongst
other movie websites.
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FilmFocus
FilmFocus is a British film website which has
been running since January 2004. According to Alexa Internet data[1] it is the
second most popular film website in the United Kingdom behind Empire
(magazine)'s website.
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Filmarchives online
filmarchives online is a web gateway providing
easy access to moving image collections from various European film archives. It
allows the search throughout a growing number of individual archival databases.
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Filmweb
Filmweb is a Polish language online database of
information related to movies, actors and television series. Filmweb was
launched on March 18, 1998 and is second largest film databases in the world
(just after IMDb).
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FindAnyFilm.com
FindAnyFilm is an online film search service,
which interrogates a database of information related to the availability of
movies based on search terms including titles, actors, genres, or cinema names.
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FlixFlux
FlixFlux is a specialist torrent search site
for films. The site was originally launched in mid 2006 with a basic search
facility, and a list of new film releases. The site was relaunched in December
2006 with a complete redesign, and many new features.
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Flixster
Flixster is a social movie site allowing users
to share movie ratings, discover new movies and meet others with similar movie
taste.
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Horrornewsnet
Horrornewsnet is a free online horror news
magazine that features daily news, interviews, podcasts, reviews, articles and
associated horror content.
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Internet Movie Cars Database
The Internet Movie Cars Database (IMCDb) is
similar to IMDb but instead of showing the list of actors and crew, it shows
various cars in films, television series and more recently music videos, with
screenshots of various cars and trucks, e.g. Duel, Bullitt, Smokey and the
Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and
many more.
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Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online
database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production
crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in
visual entertainment media.
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Internet Movie Script Database
The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) is
an online database with hundreds of film scripts. They are all in HTML or PDF
format. It is named after the popular Internet Movie Database ("IMDb")
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Jinni
Jinni is a search engine and recommendation
engine for movies, TV shows and short films. The service is powered by the Movie
Genome, an approach to indexing titles based on attributes like mood, tone,
plot, and structure.
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Little Golden Guy
Little Golden Guy is a website which presents
statistical data related to the Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars).
Launched by website developer Brian Barney in 1999, the search engine provides a
method of tabulating the films and individuals holding records for the most
nominations and awards within a particular category or within a specified
timeframe. The website maintains data from the 1st Academy Awards ceremony,
honoring films from 1927 and 1928, to the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, honoring
films from 2008. The site's search results also provide internal links to annual
summaries, as well as statistical breakdowns of individual awards categories.
The site currently goes into error past the homepage.
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MI6.co.uk
MI6.co.uk is a media-website dedicated to the
people, places and world of James Bond, providing daily updates on the subject.
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Machinima.com
Machinima.com is a website, operated by
Machinima, Inc., that aims to be a hub for machinima, the art of creating
animated videos in real-time virtual 3-D environments. The site features
machinima-related articles, news, and Internet forums. Machinima productions can
be submitted for possible redistribution after staff review. Founded in January
2000 by Hugh Hancock of Strange Company, the site helped to bring attention to
machinima and to encourage productions based on game engines other than those of
id Software's first-person shooter computer game series Quake.
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MovieTickets.com
MovieTickets.com is an online movie ticketing
website originally founded by AMC Theaters and Hollywood.com. It provides
movietimes for all theaters, and online ticket purchasing for many AMC Theaters,
all National Amusements theaters and all Clearview Cinemas, among other smaller
chains (such as the famous Mann Theatres in Los Angeles).
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Moviefone
Moviefone is an American-based movie listing
and information service. Moviegoers can obtain local showtimes, theater
information, film reviews, or advance tickets. The service is available
nationwide in many but not all area codes, and is owned by AOL.
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Moviemistakes.com
Moviemistakes.com is an Internet website
created by Jon Sandys in 1996 and is principally dedicated to the recording of
mistakes found in movies and television; it also includes trivia, quotes, hidden
DVD Easter Eggs and movie trailers. As of October 2009 it currently lists more
than 84,400 mistakes, of which over 7,100 have pictures. It also has over 680
paid members and 11,100 free members.
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Movies.com
Movies.com is a website in the Fandango family,
operated by Comcast. It was acquired from Disney in June, 2008. It is the
second-most visited movie-related website, second only to IMDb. The website has
information about movies, upcoming movies, and theater information. It has also
been the home of the official web site for the television show At the Movies,
though the site now has a different domain.
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Mr. Skin
Mr. Skin is a website that specializes in
locating, rating, and posting instances of female nudity in television and film.
Founded in August 1999, Mr. Skin is also the nickname of the company's Chief
Executive Officer, whose real name is Jim McBride. As of 2007, MrSkin.com
attracted more than seven million visitors per month.
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Netribution
Netribution - a Portmanteau of net and
distribution - was launched at the end of 1999 as a free resource and magazine
for European filmmakers and went on to become one of the largest and most
popular free film industry services up until its closure in 2002. It relaunched
in early 2006 with an open access content system, and publishes How to Fund Your
Film: the Film Finance Handbook.
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The Numbers
The Numbers is a website that tracks box office
revenue. Bruce Nash of San Francisco started the site in October 1997. It also
covers international territories, DVD sales and market analysis. Lists include
the "All Time 100 Top Stars at the Box Office". It is the largest freely
available database covering movie industry data, storing about a half million
pieces of information of 11,000 movies. Its data therefore is used by many
websites and associations, including the American Statistical Association and
Screen Australia, the former Australian Film Commission.
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ShowBIZ Data
ShowBIZ Data is a website that tracks domestic
and international box office and other performance related information.
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Superhero Hype!
Superhero Hype!, often abbreviated to SHH!, is
a film website which focuses on adaptations of comic books and graphic novels,
as well as original superhero films. The main site houses a wide variety of
content for upcoming films, including interviews, trailers, screenshots, and
constant status updates for dozens of projects. The site also includes an
Internet forum which has over 20,000 registered users. The site is a branch of
ComingSoon.net. Both SuperheroHype.com and ComingSoon.net, as well as newcomer
ShockTillYouDrop.com are all part of the Crave Network.
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UKHotMovies.com
UKHotMovies.com is a website launched in 2001.
It is the third-most visited independent movie website in the UK, currently with
over 500,000 page impressions a month. The portal has reviews of new cinema, DVD
and download releases from a British perspective and the latest UK and USA box
office charts. It includes trailers, picture galleries, feature articles,
interactive polls, surveys, competitions and recommended movie links.
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Upperstall.com
Upperstall.com is a web site on Indian cinema
that focuses on classic and independent Indian cinema and its luminaries.
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Withoutabox
Withoutabox is a website based film submission
service which is a division of the IMDb. The Withoutabox website offers
filmmakers a platform to submit their film to over 3,000 film festivals on five
continents, according to their advertising. Festivals can request submissions
via the web and even manage incoming submissions electronically, instead of the
traditional route of sending in screener DVDs via mail. This allows festivals to
market their event to over 200,000 active filmmakers already on the Withoutabox
platform, accept submission fees from them electronically, and automatically
notify filmmakers for acceptance into their event. Other services includes:
streaming on the Internet via IMDb Theaters, and selling DVDs and Video On
Demand downloads on Amazon.com (who owns IMDb) and other channels, via
CreateSpace.
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Yahoo! Movies
Yahoo! Movies, provided by the Yahoo! network,
is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases,
trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater
information. Yahoo! Movies also includes red carpet photos, actor galleries, and
production stills. Users can read critic's reviews, write and read other user
reviews, get personalized movie recommendations, purchase movie tickets online,
and create and view other user's lists of their favorite movies.