Fandango buys Movies.com

June 22, 2008 Disney has sold its entertainment news Web site Movies.com for an undisclosed price to Fandango, the online ticketing service owned by Comcast. Movies.com, under its previous name MrShowbiz.com, was one of the Internet's earliest Web sites dedicated to dispensing news and information about the film industry. After it morphed into Movies.com, Disney partnered with Fox to turn it into an Internet movies-on-demand service akin to Movielink or CinemaNow, though that effort never got past the planning stages.

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