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Type of site | Entertainment |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | September 30, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-09-30) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Owner | Hollywood.com,LLC |
| URL | hollywood |
Hollywood.com is anentertainment news website coveringpopular culture topics including movies, television, music and celebrities. Hollywood.com is principally owned by Mitchell Rubenstein and Laurie S. Silvers, who previously founded Sci-Fi Channel (nowSyFy).
Hollywood.com was launched in the 1990s and was bought and operated byTimes Mirror Company in 1996.[1] Times Mirror used the site as the entertainment section of itsLos Angeles Times website and newspaper.[2]
An affiliate of Rubenstein and Silvers purchased the website in May 1999. In partnership with theNational Association of Theatre Owners and most movie theater chains, Hollywood.com became the first website to display online listings for movie showtimes nationally.[3]
In August 28, 2009, Hollywood Media Corp. soldHollywood.com andHollywood.com Television to R&S Investments, LLC, owned by Mitchell Rubenstein and Laurie S. Silvers.[4][5]
Today, Hollywood.com features content including movie trailers, interviews, red carpet photo galleries and entertainment news stories.
Rubenstein and Silvers also foundedMovietickets.com which was sold toFandango Media, LLC in 2017.
In 2000, 35 of the 50 employees at the site'sSanta Monica office were laid off in an effort to strategically consolidate and focus operations on the company's headquarters inBoca Raton, Florida.[6] Laurie S. Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, the majority shareholders of parent company Project Hollywood, purchasedBaseline StudioSystems, an online database and research service on the film and television industries, fromThe New York Times Company in 2011.[7] In 2014, they sold Baseline toGracenote, a subsidiary ofTribune Media.[8]
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