Movies.com was a website; the URL now redirects to that of its owner, Fandango Media.
The Walt Disney Company was using Movies.com in newspaper advertisements for Disney subsidiary films as early as 1996.Saunders, Michael (17 May 1996). Movies get showing on the Web, Tampa Bay Times(14 April 1996). Advertisement for Celtic Pride, Los Angeles Times, p. 328 (advertisement for Celtic Pride, includes note to "Visit 'Celtic Pride' at http://www.movies.com") Disney formally launched the site as a movie based resource in 2000.(23 June 2008). Fandango buys Movies.com from Disney, NBC News In 2001, a group of five film studios announced they were forming "Movielink" to provide video on-demand services. Shortly thereafter, The Walt Disney Company and Fox News Corp. announced that Movies.com would be a joint venture to access films and other content on the internet, allowing the fledgling audience of broadband internet to download movies on demand, then estimated to be about 10 million homes in the United States.(5 September 2001). News Corp., Disney in pact, CNN BusinessRegan, Keith (6 September 2001). News Corp., Disney Join Movies-via-the-Web Fray, E-Commerce Times Both ventures began to be investigated by the U.S. Antitrust Division.(3 June 2004). JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLOSES ANTITRUST INVESTIGATION INTO THE MOVIELINK MOVIES-ON-DEMAND JOINT VENTURE, U.S. Department of JusticeCunningham, Stuart and Jon Silver. Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World, p. 21 (2013), Springer Science+Business Media Fox pulled out of the joint venture in April 2002, citing the potential regulatory and logistical concerns with the concept.(26 April 2002). Fox Entertainment Group To Withdraw From Proposed Movies.Com Video-On-Demand Joint Venture, The Walt Disney Company
Fandango acquired the site from Disney in June 2008, at which time Movies.com had 1.9 million monthly unique visitors, compared to 6.3 million for Fandango.
The site was home to the award-winning webshow Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony (2005–06), a bi-weekly movie preview webcast starring the Muppets. Another webshow featured Brandon Schantz and a movie spoof called The DiCaprio Code, parodying The Da Vinci Code.
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