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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.
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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 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.
