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American entertainment news websites

  • Comic Book ResourcesComic Book Resources began its life not as a news site, but as a message board dedicated to a single DC Comics story. In 1995, Jonah Weiland created the…
  • Dread CentralDread Central launched on the 4th of July 2006, a date that carries its own kind of symbolic weight: independence day, in more ways than one.
  • ComicBook.comComicBook.com traces its origins to 1996, when American Entertainment used a holding page to post sales links and press releases about comic books.
  • ComicsAllianceComicsAlliance launched in 2007 as part of AOL's sprawling network of online properties, and for nearly a decade it served as one of the web's most…
  • Screen RantScreen Rant shares a parent company with Comic Book Resources, Collider, MovieWeb, and XDA Developers. Many readers browse all five without noticing they are…
  • HitFixHitFix launched in December 2008 with a premise that sounds simple in hindsight: what if there were a serious entertainment site aimed at people who wanted…
  • NewsaramaNewsarama started not as a website, not as a publication, but as a series of forum posts on the Prodigy message boards in mid-1995.
  • MetacriticMetacritic is an American website that can determine whether a game developer receives a bonus check or gets laid off. That is not a metaphor.
  • Hollywood.comHollywood.com began its life in the 1990s as a digital outpost for entertainment news, long before streaming services or social media rewrote the rules of…
  • Deadline HollywoodDeadline Hollywood began not as a website but as a column. In June 2002, Nikki Finke started writing a series called Deadline Hollywood for LA Weekly…