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that offers

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and trailers from such Hollywood film companies as

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(including content from subsidiaries

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and

Castle Rock Entertainment Castle Rock Entertainment is an American independent film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick (September 8, 1947 – February 27, 2025) and Alan Horn. Histo ...

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(including content from subsidiaries

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, and Triumph Pictures), along with other studios such as

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and

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History

Movieclips was founded in 2009 as a division of the online video company Zefr, beginning as a website which allowed the user to search through a library of over 12,000 movie clips. In partnership with

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, Movieclips uploaded over 20,000 clips to

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in 2011. In 2014, Movieclips was acquired by

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and was renamed to "Fandango Movieclips." On October 16, 2018 (after the acquisition of

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and

DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA, also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio, owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal as part of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios, Inc, Universal Stud ...

on August 22, 2016), Fandango Movieclips published the first two DreamWorks Animation films on the channel, ''

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'' and ''

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''. Fandango Movieclips later rebranded to "

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Movieclips" in 2022.

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Internet properties established in 2009 Video on demand services