IMDb.com Adds Movie, TV Streaming

SEATTLE, September 16: The
Amazon.com-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com) has made more than 6,000
full-length feature films and TV episodes available for free streaming, inking
deals with CBS and Sony Pictures Television, among others.

The rotating video content
is provided by CBS, Hulu, Sony Pictures Television and more than 500
independent filmmakers. All content will be featured alongside IMDb’s
encyclopedia of movie, TV and celebrity information.

“IMDb’s mission has always
been to be the world’s most comprehensive, user-friendly destination for all
movie, TV and celebrity-related information, products and services,” said Col
Needham, the founder and managing director of IMDb.com. “We’re excited to offer
our users a simple online experience to watch full-length movies and TV
episodes for free. Our goal is to show our users every movie and TV show on the
Internet for free on IMDb.com.”

The site, visited by more
than 57 million people every month, is also making its platform available to
filmmakers and rights owners worldwide.

TV titles currently on
offer include 24, Big
Brother, CSI, Family Guy, Heroes, House, The Office and The Simpsons; and
classics like Beverly Hills, 90210,
Bewitched, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer and Star Trek. On the movie front, there’s Fever Pitch, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World and Some Like It Hot, among others.

In conjunction with the
start of the new fall TV season, users will also be able to watch, for free,
the first episodes of several new and returning NBC shows before their linear
TV launch, among them Knight Rider,
Lipstick Jungle, Chuck, Life and
30 Rock.

—By Mansha Daswani