Hollywood.com is an

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website covering

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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 (now

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History

Hollywood.com was launched in the 1990s and was bought and operated by

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in 1996. Times Mirror used the site as the entertainment section of its

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website and newspaper. An affiliate of Rubenstein and Silvers purchased the website in May 1999. In partnership with the

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and most movie theater chains, Hollywood.com became the first website to display online listings for movie showtimes nationally. Today, Hollywood.com features content including movie trailers, interviews, red carpet photo galleries and entertainment news stories. Rubenstein and Silvers also founded Movietickets.com which was sold to Fandango Media, LLC in 2017. In 2000, 35 of the 50 employees at the site's

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office were laid off in an effort to strategically consolidate and focus operations on the company's headquarters in

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. Laurie S. Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, the majority shareholders of parent company Project Hollywood, purchased Baseline StudioSystems, an online database and research service on the film and television industries, from

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in 2011. In 2014, they sold Baseline to

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, a subsidiary of

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* * 1995 establishments in the United States American entertainment news websites Television websites American film websites Internet properties established in 1995 Companies based in Boca Raton, Florida {{news-website-stub