The Journalist's Toolbox: Entertainment: Movies, TV and Music

Recent Additions to This Section
(This section features sites added to the page in the last few weeks.
Each link is cross-referenced on the page in its proper category.)

OnlineCasinos.org presents online gamblers with up-to-date information pertaining to online casinos and gambling sites providing real money gambling entertainment, including slots, video poker and blackjack.

WhoRepresents.com: Agent Database
A great shortcut for sourcing, enter celebrity names into the database and get the managers or agents who represents them.

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Cars that explode on impact, visible laserbeams, and the staples of the silver screen that defy the laws of science. This is a fan?s site, so take it for what it?s worth.

MOVIE INDUSTRY

Internet Movie Database
Great for fact-checking names and film titles.

Film.com
RealNetworks site offers text and audio.

Screen Actors Guild
Union site with lots of news.

WhoRepresents.com: Agent Database
A great shortcut for sourcing, enter celebrity names into the database and get the managers or agents who represents them.

Producers Guild
Union site with lots of news.

Writers Guild
Another union site with lots of news.

American Film Institute
Research on film; organizes lists of "Top 100" greatest films.

Oscars.org
News from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

FilmRatings.com
Database of ratings for every film since 1968.

BoxOffice Magazine

ShowBizData.com
A super site. Requires a log-in/subscription. Includes daily box office stats, box office top 10 and all-time top 100 box office.

Variety.com
The bible of Hollywood trade papers.

Hollywood Reporter.com
Covers Hollywood business.

Premiere.com
News from Premiere magazine.

Hollywood.com
Hollywood news and box office figures.

Hollywood and Vine
News on all the entertainment industries.

Yahoo! Entertainment
Hollywood news and box office figures.

HSX.com
Hollywood Stock Exchange site covers industry news.

Independent Film Channel

Indie wire.com
News on independent films, listing of festivals.

Film and Movie Resource Links
A super directory of hundreds of links to useful, interesting movie and studio sites.

BoxOfficeProphets.com
Databases and records for all-time box office receipts, video and DVD rentals, reviews and more.

PBS Frontline: The Monster That Ate Hollywood
The business of movies and special effects.

Hollywood Network
Dozens of links, resources and tools for industry types.

FilmSite.org

Cinema FreeNet
Search for a database of movies, actors, directors, and producers.

CineFiles: Pacific Film Archive
Reviews, press kits, festivals, newspaper articles, etc.

Movie Review Query Engine
More than 20,000 movie reviews by Web and newspaper writers.

International Film and Video Festivals
Lists international film, television and video festivals.

ShowBizScoop.com

MoviePoopShoot.com

GossipCentral.com
Get caught up on all the Hollywood gossip.

Ain't It Cool News
Another Hollywood gossip site.

DarkHorizons.com
Claims to have the "latest news, images, clips and reviews of all the current and upcoming blockbuster films."

IResearcher.com Movie Resources

Searchbeat's Movie Reviews

ScreenTalk.com
Movie scripts.

Movie-Page.com
All sorts of information on movies, including scripts.

Hollywood Agents Listings
Writer's Guild site lists agents and writer/clients.

Unknown Movies List

All Movie Guide Plot Finder

Movie Cliches
A fan site, but it's fun.

MovieJuice.com
All the Hollywood gossip.

Internet Archive: Movie Collection

Yahoo!'s Sundance Film Festival Links

Cannes Film Festival
Official site of the festival.

Cannes guide.com
A travel site that focuses on the Cannes Film Festival.

Film Festivals.com
Video and coverage from all the parties.

National Film Preservation Foundation

Critics.com

MetaCritic.com

The Flick Filosopher

RottenTomatoes.com
More movie reviews.

Independent Film Makers

Turner Classic Movies: Movies Database
Great for quick-reference, this site allows you to search a database of thousands of movie titles.

Yahoo! Movies

ChecktheGrid.com
Offers movie reviews.

About.com: Classic Films

20th Century Fox Movies

Universal Pictures

Dreamworks Movies

Castle Rock Studio

MCA Universal Studios

MGM Studios

New Line Cinema

Trimark Pictures

ScreenIt.com
Parents rate movies for their appropriateness for children. A fan site, but fun.

Big Movie Zone.com
Site is devoted to large-format films.

EditorsNet.com
The art, business and technology of film and video editing. Lots of helpful links.

FilmWise.com

Soundtrack.net
Download movie soundtracks and information about them.

QuoteGeek.com: Movies
Search this database for movie quotes. Good for fact-checking.

MovieQuotes.com

AllMovie.com Plot Database
A cool tool for figuring out just what "Magnolia" was about.

Online Classics

Brew&View

555-List
An online database of fake phone numbers from movies and TV shows. Hilarious. It's a fan site, however.

Movie Mistakes

FilmFlubs.com
A listing of gaffes in movies. Similar to MovieMistakes.com.

Sidekick Magazine

AdmitOne.org Film School
An intro to movie-making from the Artists Rights Foundation.

Bad Movie Report
Fun site with hilarious reviews of awful films.

Bad Movies
See above.

Terrible Movies Site
More hilarious reviews of awful films.

iFilm.com

Critics.com
A collection of movie critics' links.

Chicago Sun-Times Movie Critic Roger Ebert

GoldDerby.com
Predictions site for Oscars, Grammys.

National Association of Theater Owners

ForMovies.com

Playbill Online

OpenSeats.com

History of Cinematography
Cool site on the making of films.

Drive-Ins.com
It's a fan site, but Entertainment Weekly calls it the most thorough and consistently updated database of open and closed drive-ins. The site allows you to search by zip code and includes weather reports, photos, driving directions and links.

Brian's Drive-In Theater
An online shrine to B-movies. A fan site, so be careful with what material you use.

American Drive In
Drive-In movie memories. Promotes a documentary on them as well as a history of drive-ins.

Drive-In Theater
List of theaters, video of classic concession ads.

Drive-In Movie
Database of drive-ins, nostalgia, history on drive-ins in Europe and Australia.

Spud Drive-In
A cool site about a drive-in in Driggs, Idaho.

Adventures of Dan: Movie Extra Confessions
This is a blog by a guy who works on movie sets. Great industry gossip and stories, but keep in mind that this is a fan site.

UpcomingMovies.com

Space Media Inc.'s Movies in Orbit

New Line Cinema Auction

ACADEMY AWARDS LINKS

Oscars.org
News from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

74th Academy Awards Press Kit
The site includes 22 fact sheets on various topics: History of Oscar Statuette, Persons Receiving Two or More Acting Awards, History and Structure of the Academy, Films Winning Five or More Awards. (.PDF files).

74th Academy Awards Timeline

Eligible Releases for Distinguished Achievements, 2001
They're available in html and .pdf.

Academy Awards Official Rules

OscarWatch.com
News, predictions, reviews and forums.

OscarWorld.net
A fan site, so be careful what you use. Full of offbeat facts and trivia.

Internet Movie Database
Great for fact-checking names and film titles.

Movie Review Query Engine
A searchable database of reviews so you can look up what various critics said about the Oscar-nominated pictures.

ShowBizData.com
A super site. Requires a log-in/subscription. Includes daily box office stats, box office top 10 and all-time top 100 box office.

Variety.com
Read what the trades are saying about the Oscar nominations.

Hollywood Reporter.com
Read what the trades are saying about the Oscar nominations.

Hollywood and Vine
News on all the entertainment industries.

Yahoo! Entertainment
Hollywood news and box office figures.

HSX.com
Hollywood Stock Exchange site covers industry news.

Hollywood.com
Hollywood news and box office figures.

Critics.com

Internet Archive: Movie Collection

Screen Source
A fan page with hundreds of TV and movie links, past Oscar winners.

GoldDerby.com
Predictions site for Oscars, Grammys.

Chicago Sun-Times Oscar Survey

TV INDUSTRY

Nielsen Ratings
Weekly and seasonal TV ratings.

TV Guide Listings

Federal Communications Commission
Places federal regulations on TV entertainment. The site offers handbooks, resources, press releases, bureau/office listings, contact information and more.

Screen Actors Guild
Union site with lots of news.

Producers Guild
Union site with lots of news.

Writers Guild
Another union site with lots of news.

TV Critics Association

Emmys.tv
TV news year-round.

TVGuide.com
Covers every aspect of the industry.

Variety.com
The bible of Hollywood trade papers.

Hollywood Reporter.com
Covers Hollywood business.

NATPE: National Association of Television Producers and Editors

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Intertainer.tv

Ultimate Reality TV
Has the lowdown on all the show gossip.

NBCI.com
NBC's entertainment division.

NBC.com

The U.S. Feed of the British Network

Association of Local TV Stations

National Cable TV Association

International Radio and TV Society

RickOnTV.com
Part of AllYourTV.com, this site focuses on the business side of the TV industry .

TVLink
Dozens of links to TV- and movie-related sites.

John Gynn's Flicktalk Television

TV Party.com

Television.com

TVShow.com

TV Barn
Kansas City Star television columnist Aaron Barnhart writes a weblog about television.

TVEyes.com

Newsaic
Legal issues behind TV shows.

Gist TV Listings
Enter a zip code to get local listings.

Television Without Pity
A comical look at TV and pop culture through commentaries and reviews.

WhoRepresents.com: Agent Database
A great shortcut for sourcing, enter celebrity names into the database and get the managers or agents who represents them.

Footnote.TV
From Stephen Lee, a former Chicago Tribune reporter, offers a site that provides context and background to current events mentioned on such shows as "Saturday Night Live" on NBC, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central, "The West Wing" on NBC, and "JAG" on CBS.

TeleSearch.org

Sitcoms Online
All kinds of resources about shows past and present. Some trivia.

555-List
An online database of fake phone numbers from movies and TV shows. Hilarious. It's a fan site, however.

TV Mistakes

TV Tattle
Listings of links to TV news and criticism from newspapers and Web sites.

TVNow.com Stars Database
A handy tool for tracking what stars are appearing on which shows. Just type the name into the searchable database.

The Complete Friends Script Index
Yes, a database of scripts from the TV series. It's a fan site.

The Tonight Show Archives
JohnnyCarson.com has a library of 5,000 past episodes.

Washington Post Television Page
Updates on the TV industry from the Post's crew of media writers.

Chicago Sun-Times TV Columnist Phil Rosenthal

The Ad Critic
A mecca for popular TV commercials.

MUSIC/RADIO INDUSTRY

Recording Industry Association of America
Dozens of helpful links and resources for anyone covering the industry.

WhoRepresents.com: Agent Database
A great shortcut for sourcing, enter celebrity names into the database and get the managers or agents who represents them.

Billboard.com
Music news and track sales.

RollingStone.com
Site does a great job of updating daily music news.

SPIN Magazine
Movies, TV and music news.

MTVnews.com
Regularly updated music news.

VH1.com
See MTV description.

Sonicnet.com's Music Newswire
Stories from many music news resource.

NewsNow Pop Music News
Stories from many music news resource.

NewsNow Rock News
Site updates every five minutes.

Archive of Misheard Lyrics
You think you know what Michael Stipe is singing, but you don't. Lyrics are contributed by visitors, so take it for what it's worth.

The Beatles
Video, sound clips and more.

Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame

Association for Music Writers and Photographers
Links to dozens of helpful sites, directories of Web and print publications, membership directory and more.

Music Newswire

Music Industry News Network
Hundreds of links and news items.

Lycos Music page

ArtistDirect: Ultimate Band List
A good quick-reference site.

Musicblitz.com

Backstage.com

ASCAP
Performance rights organization for songwriters and publishers.

Grammys Press Page
News releases on the music industry.

Secure Digital Music Initiative
Recording, consumer and electronics companies opposing the stealing of digital music.

Digital Music Protection Technologies Paper
This controversial paper by Princeton Computer Science Professor Edward Felten explores how he and a team of hackers broke the code for technology designed to prevent people from stealing digital music.

WeekendEvents.com
Look up festivals and concerts using this database.

ConcertFinders.com
Look up dates and times of concerts in this database.

PollStar.com
Track bands on tour, concert info., etc.

Toolband.com
Track bands on tour.

Downbeat.com
Archive of articles, message boards, etc. on jazz music.

OperaBase.com
Find and research operas. Or get a life.

AllMusic Guide
Background on musicians, albums and songs.

MusicMatch.com

CableMusic.com

About.com?s Teen Music Page

GoldDerby.com
Predictions site for Oscars, Grammys.

Dead Musician Directory

Dead Rock Stars Club

The Rocklopedia Fakebandica
Look up "bios" on all the fake bands from TV and movies.

MusicRadio 77 WABC
Archive of stories, images and recordings from the former Top 40 station.

Planet Bluegrass
Everything you would want to know about the Telluride, Colo., music jamboree.

Reggae Festival Guide Online
A month-to-month map of reggae events.

Rock on TV

Read Radio Shows

OperaBase.com
Find operas on tour and search a database of performers, roles and performances.

Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song
His letters from the Library of Congress.

John Williams Page
Site from the famous film music composer.

Soundtrack.net
Download movie soundtracks and information about them .

AmIRight.com

Score! Music Magazine

America's Jazz
A 10-year initiative, America's Jazz Heritage aims to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz through everything from exhibitions and performances to recordings and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation. Includes sound clips.

WNUR's JazzWeb
Background and reasearch on jazz from Northwestern's student radio station.

Jazz House

Virtual Festivals.com

MusicSessions: From Demo to Deal
Seminar/CD-ROM that gives you an insider's tour to the music business. A 10-session course.

Hitsquad.com

Canadian Music Periodical
A searchable bibliography.

Erock.net

MusicDish.com
Good industry gossip, news.

Grand Ole Opry
Good background information on the history of the place.

AllMusic.com

Library of Congress American Sheet Music Site

GlobalVillageIdiot.com
Good offbeat music site.

OpenUpandSay.com
A great online music magazine covering anything rock, metal or instrumental.

Ice Magazine

Radio Stations on the Internet
A super search engine from MIT.

College Music Journal

RadioStation.com
A great database of AM-FM stations, locations, some TV stations as well. Find station information quickly.

Motown Records
Has performer bios and other corporation background information.

Sony.com
Artists' bios are good for checking facts.

ArtistDirect.com
Good for searching performer bios.

Christian Pirate Radio

AntiMTV.com

Push posters
Vintage posters, T-shirts and other music items.

THEATER AND DANCE

Playbill Online
Broadway news and notes.

American Theater Web
Eleven U.S. regions of news and reviews from local papers.

NYPL: Dance Resources

Dancer.com

N.Y. City Ballet

Dance Magazine

The Village Voice: Dance

The Dance Insider

American Ballet Theatre

CultureFinder.com
Listings of national tours and when/where they're appearing.

MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENT

Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC)
A project of the Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg School of Journalism. that launched in April 2002. Among the articles, books and research: "Fiction or Fact: Hollywood Looks at the News," a 26-page essay written by Annenberg Associate Dean Joe Saltzman and Loren Ghiglione, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Entertainment Weekly Searchable Database
A searchable archive of 10 years of E-Weekly stories.

TVNow.com Stars Database
A handy tool for tracking what stars are appearing on which shows. Just type the name into the searchable database.

Yahoo! Picks Best Entertainment Sites
Links to many celebrity sites. Be careful with which ones you use; some are fan sites.

Who's Dead and Who's Alive Database
A celebrity you may have thought was dead isn't. See Abe Vigoda.

Celebrity Address Search Engine

CelebritySource.com
An agency that puts you in touch with celebrity agents. Used mainly for advertising, it could have some value to reporters.

Multimedia and Entertainment Law Online News (MELON)

Enewswire.com's Entertainment News
Updates every 15 minutes.

The National Endowment for the Arts
The organization's background and that of similar organizations nationwide.

Entertainment Humor Site

LA Times Calendar Section
Covers the big picture in Hollywood.

CNN.com's Entertainment Page
Good coverage of the business side of entertainment.

SelectSurf Entertainment Links
Links to several great entertainment sites.

Mr. Showbiz
Great site! Reliable celebrity and music bios for fact-checking.

Entertainment News Daily

News365.com: Entertainment News

Yesterdayland.com
Great TV, fashion, music and pop culture site.

Entertainment Weekly
Updated news on all the industries.

Eonline.com
Hollywood news from E! network.

People.aol.com
News from People magazine.

FOX News Entertainment

Seeing Stars
Billed as "The Ultimate guide to Celebrities and Hollywood". Offbeat factoids about entertainment stars and shows. Info. on getting on game shows, award show seats, etc.

Creative Planet
Great site! News on all the entertainment industries.

More Entertainment links
From Creative Planet.

World Wide Arts Resources
Featured artists and other interesting materials.

CEOTrak.com Arts & Entertainment News
Great news portal for art, ballet, culinary, movie studios, opera, orchestra, etc.

Real.com
One of the most popular entertainment sites online.

Salon.com
Great offbeat news and entertainment site.

Inside.com
A great entertainment news site, but it charges for some content.

Seeing Stars: Ultimate Guide to Celebrities

Speedyclick.com

About.com

ImMedia
Online information on the entertainment and sports industries in Australia and the Asian/Pacific rim.

Rocket-fuel.com
Underground pop-culture reviews and commentary.

MyEntertainmentWorld.com
Links to dozens of industry contacts and production types.

OmniSeek's Entertainment Directory
Links to thousands of helpful sites.

Famous Name Changes
Track celebrities, politicians.

CountingDown.com
Billed as the "Ultimate Fan Site" for movies, music, etc.

SixtiesPop.com
Everything retro on this site. Good for researching trend pieces.

WindowsMedia.com
Entertainment, business, news and more.

Lemmecheck.com

Screen Source
A fan page with hundreds of TV and movie links, past Oscar winners.

SatireWire: Comedy Site

Ultimate Resource Site

Directory of Celebrity Sites

ArtandCulture.com

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