Yahoo! Movies

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Yahoo! Movies
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Yahoo! Movies Homepage
Top: Yahoo! Movies Homepage.
URL http://movies.yahoo.com/
Type of site Movies
Owner Yahoo!
Created by Yahoo!
Launched May, 1998
Current status Public

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.

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Yahoo! Movies devotes special coverage to the Academy Awards with a special Oscars site. The Oscars site includes articles, show coverage, a list of the night's big winners, photos, videos, polls, and a blog, written by J. Keith van Straaten.

Yahoo! Movies also releases special guides, such as the Summer Movie Guide, which contains information on the major releases of the summer with exclusive trailers and clips, photos, box office information, polls, and unique editorial content.

Additionally, Yahoo! Movies is teaming up with MTV to host a special site for the MTV Movie Awards, which will feature show information and a section where users can submit original movie shorts parodying last year's movies for the chance to win the new award, Best Movie Spoof.

  • May 12, 1998 - Yahoo! announces the launch of Yahoo! Movies. [1]
  • May 25, 2005 - Yahoo! Movies releases personalized movie recommendations. [2]

  1. ^ Yahoo! Premieres Yahoo! Movies, PR Newswire, Accessed April 11, 2007.
  2. ^ Yahoo! Movies Getting Personal, The Hollywood Reporter, Accessed April 11, 2007.

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