Amazon adds some Box Office Mojo to IMDb
As someone who studied film in college and worked in Hollywood for a few years, I don’t get to incorporate that old life into my new one as a tech writer as much as I’d like. So it brings me joy when I get to report that two of my favorite movie web sites are combining forces: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and Box Office Mojo.
Technically, Amazon, which owns IMDb, acquired Box Office Mojo sometime… Continue Reading
The Internet Movie Database adds the “movie” part to the “database” part
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has long been a favorite site of mine. It’s a film buff’s dream: Find out who is in what movie, quotes, who directed what, what else they’ve directed, etc. Simply following links within it can be a time consuming experience. That said, it’s also been an experience that has been somewhat trapped in the 1990s. Sure, they added dynamic user ratings last year using AJAX (making it so you don’t… Continue Reading
Is The Dark Knight the best movie ever? Yes, according to some web jokers
The new Batman film, The Dark Knight, is obliterating box office records left and right. It recently passed the $300 million domestic box office mark faster than any film ever (by 6 days!) and should do the same for $400 million. Some are even saying it could threaten Titanic for the top grossing domestic movie of all time. But for all that success, its reception on the web has been arguably even greater. After all, it… Continue Reading