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Movie Tome

URL	http://movietome.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Entertainment
Registration	Optional
Owner	CBS Interactive
Created by	John Nestoriak III
Launched	August 2003
Current status	Defunct

Movie Tome was the sister site for TV Tome, now the CNET website TV.com. Whereas TV Tome had TV shows and people pages, Movie Tome had movie guides. The website was created no later than August 2003 (the earliest archive) by John Nestoriak III, and was owned by Collaborative Content, LLC which was acquired by CNET in January 2005. Nestoriak continued to manage the site until early 2007, however. Movie Tome had six general forums in addition to a forum for each movie. The forums were About Movie Tome, In Theaters, On Video, In The Art House, Classic Movies and The Movie Industry.

Each movie information page at Movie Tome included cast, crew, synopsis, notes, quotes, goofs, links, and a forum for discussion of the movie. There was also the ability to rate a movie from 1 to 10, the average vote being displayed on the left side of the guide, as well a link to reviews for the movie. Titles were added by users, and an individual user could request data manager status for titles he/she was interested in preserving from error or vandalism. The majority of titles on the site were of recent vintage, however, with a wide smattering of pre-2000 titles, largely American.

All members of TV Tome were also members of Movie Tome. They retained their membership at Movie Tome when TV Tome was converted into TV.com. Generally, the editing/submission format was exactly the same as the original TV Tome. However, the site eventually showed interest only in new releases; submitted new titles for older films, even with an offer to serve as editor, were ignored by Mr. Nestoriak..

MovieTome

URL	http://www.movietome.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Entertainment
Registration	Optional
Owner	CBS Interactive
Created by	CNET Networks, Inc.
Launched	December, 2006
Current status	Inactive Beta

[edit] The New MovieTome

On December 7, 2006, CNET launched a new version of the site, changing the name to FilmSpot.com (similar to the conversion of TV Tome to TV.com and probably in the same trend as GameSpot.com). The Movie Tome domain was permanently redirected to the new site on January 10, 2007. FilmSpot is a sister site to TV.com, GameSpot, and MP3.com. On November 14, 2007, the website name was reverted to MovieTome, after it was discovered that "MovieSpot" was already a registered domain name of MGM.

Since the 2006 operational takeover by CNET, the site has been in "beta stage". No information is provided as to how long this stage will last, but all user activities have therewith been frozen. Users may access information already on the site as of the end of 2006, but can add nothing. Even the "Community Forums" are locked, and, unlike other user-driven sections, cannot be accessed beyond an index of the forums in operation at the time of the CNET operational takeover. Registered users from the original Movie Tome are still carried, but cannot even add to their own profiles. A message at the bottom of each user-specific page claims that the user is "in a pending, suspended or banned status". This is not further explained. There are no instructions on how to use the site, e.g. that to search for a movie, you must enter the title in all lower-case letters, each word in the title connected by a _ .

No "Contact Information" is provided for the site and there is no page identifying any of the site staff.

A few snippets of new movie information is added daily. Otherwise, the site has not changed since the end of 2006 and there is no indication when, or if, it will become operational again.

[edit] Rating system

As it is still in the beta stage, MovieTome has yet to offer its own reviews; however, they currently use Metacritic's average score. The score is based on a 5-star system, similar to other movie review sites.

MovieTome staff has made small reviews of movies on their "In Focus" section, but they are not given a score and are not listed on the movie's page, so the reviews are not considered official.

[edit] External links

• Archived versions of Movie Tome at the Internet Archive
• MovieTome, the successor to Movie Tome