Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee After Parent Company's Bankruptcy
Is there a future for Moviefone? The relic of the high-flying dot-com days is in limbo, essentially running on life support after the movie listing and news site’s parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last month. Helios and Matheson went belly-up after accruing unsustainable losses from MoviePass, the now-defunct theater [...]After a two and a half years, HQ Trivia — the live game-show app that gave away cash prizes to winners — is shutting down.
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adapt to new business models or goblockbuster
“Why don’t you tell me which movie you want to see?”
it’s Kramer
I KNEW that homeless guy sounded like Mr. Moviefone!
I gave up on Moviefone in the 90s when it wouldn’t tell me where PI was playing because it only had 2 letters. So I spelled it P-I-E and it said in that cheesy voice “That’s not how you spell ‘Pi’, idiot.”