America Online and Variety Team Up to Offer the Weekly 'AOL Moviefone Top 5 Movies' List.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers DULLES Dul·les , Allen Welsh 1893-1969. American public official. Director of the CIA (1953-1961), he resigned after the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs. Noun 1. , Va. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2001 New Weekly Ranking Will Give Industry Execs Valuable, Up-To-Date Preview Information About the Weekend Box Office America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and Variety, the premiere source of entertainment news, today announced that they have teamed up to offer Variety readers the "AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Moviefone Top 5 Movies" list, a new weekly feature that leverages AOL Moviefone's online audience of moviegoers to predict each weekend's top five grossing movies. Through this new feature, Variety, America Online and AOL Moviefone can give Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. industry executives an accurate read on what movies are attracting the most consumer interest and attention from actual moviegoers and, more important, what the weekend's box office results will likely be. Starting on November November: see month. 2, just in time for the holiday movie season, the "AOL Moviefone Top 5 Movies" list will run in Variety and on Variety.com each Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant and will feature a list of the five most requested movies on AOL Moviefone. The list will also be promoted throughout several of America Online's interactive brands, including the AOL service, AOL Moviefone, CompuServe, Netscape and AOL Digital City. The ranking will be based on the total number of requests through AOL Moviefone for movie information and showtimes as of Thursday evening. Over the past several months, AOL Moviefone has found that this ranking has been predictive of the top 5 movies for the weekend more than 80% of the time. "Movie industry executives are always interested in the buzz surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. their movies, and on opening weekend in particular, they need to know whether movie fans are going to head out to the theaters to see them," said Robert Friedman, America Online's President of Interactive Marketing. "Our enormous user base of concentrated moviegoers provides us with indicative data as to what movies people intend to see, and we know that can be a valuable tool for Variety's audience." "AOL Moviefone's Top 5 is a terrific piece of complementary data that can help Variety readers in Hollywood, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and around the world gauge fan's levels of interest," said Charlie Koones, Variety's Group Vice President and Publisher. "The film industry is enormously competitive and Variety's in the business of providing a competitive edge for executives with timely and relevant information. The AOL Moviefone Top 5 certainly fits this objective." AOL Moviefone provides a complete, free directory of movie information, showtimes and theater locations in over 200 major markets nationwide covering approximately 30,000 movie screens. Moviefone.com is the leading site for movie information with approximately 4 million users each month, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Media Metrix. Variety, founded in 1905 is a publication of Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed-Elsevier, Inc. Variety publications are the most read, most respected and most quoted entertainment news sources worldwide. |
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