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Amazon's IMDB Acquires Box Office Mojo

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 18, 2008 - 9:41am.

Seattle - IMDB, the movie credits and informational database owned by Amazon.com, has acquired Box Office Mojo, a website that tracks how much money movies make at the box office.

Amazon's IMDb.com Begins Streaming Free Movies, TV Shows

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 16, 2008 - 8:26am.

Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) announced on Tuesday that its Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com) subsidiary has launched free streaming of full-length movies and TV shows. The new feature launches with some 6,000 titles provided by CBS, Hulu, Sony Pictures Television and over 500 independent filmmakers, including movies like "Fever Pitch," "Hoop Dreams" and "Raising Arizona," and TV shows such as "24," "CSI," "The Simpsons" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Amazon Launches SoundUnwound Music Database Wiki

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 3, 2008 - 9:20am.
Seattle - Online retail giant Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) has launched a new wiki-styled online music database, SoundUnwound, which allows any user to post and update informational, multimedia profiles on musical artists.

Amazon Teams with Fox to Produce Feature Film

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 22, 2008 - 9:44am.

Los Angeles - Online retail giant Amazon.com is (NASD: AMZN) set to produce its first full-length motion picture, partnering with 20th Century Fox to adapt "The Stolen Child," a fantasy novel written by Keith Donahue, Variety reported.

Amazon's IMDB Acquires Indie Film Fest Site Without A Box

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 17, 2008 - 8:23am.

Seattle - Amazon.com's (NASD: AMZN) Internet Movie Database (IMDB) unit announced on Thursday that it has acquired Without A Box, a provider of online festival submission and promotional services for independent filmmakers. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Movie-based Fantasy Games Firm Atomic Moguls Raises $1 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 16, 2007 - 8:31am.

Seattle - Atomic Moguls, the developer of a fantasy game site that uses entertainment and movie news instead of sports, has raised about $1 million in a first round of funding, led by Second Avenue Partners and Amazon.com, the Seattle P-I reported.