Today, the story is over. In 2020, the domain’s owner (now part of Fandango Media) officially pulled the plug on the redirect game. Movies.com now leads directly to Fandango.
Here’s the secret that confounded users for years: For most of its life, Movies.com was never a fully independent site. It was a "doorway domain" owned by The Walt Disney Company, which used it to point traffic to its own movie pages. Later, it was sold and simply redirected users to the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes (which was also owned by the same parent company, Flixster). movies com
So, what was Movies.com, and where did it go? Today, the story is over
It’s a ghost in the machine—a perfect URL waiting for a purpose that never quite arrived. the story is over. In 2020