Hollywood.com was launched in the 1990s and was bought and operated by
Times Mirror Company in 1996. Times Mirror used the site as the entertainment section of its
Los Angeles Times website and newspaper. An affiliate of Rubenstein and Silvers purchased the website in May 1999. In partnership with the
National Association of Theatre Owners and most movie theater chains, Hollywood.com became the first website to display online listings for movie showtimes nationally. On August 28, 2009, Hollywood Media Corp. sold
Hollywood.com and
Hollywood.com Television to R&S Investments, LLC, owned by Mitchell Rubenstein and Laurie S. Silvers. Today, Hollywood.com features content including movie trailers, interviews, red carpet photo galleries and entertainment news stories. Rubenstein and Silvers also founded
Movietickets.com which was sold to
Fandango Media, LLC in 2017. In 2000, 35 of the 50 employees at the site's
Santa Monica office were laid off in an effort to strategically consolidate and focus operations on the company's headquarters in
Boca Raton, Florida. Laurie S. Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, the majority shareholders of parent company Project Hollywood, purchased
Baseline StudioSystems, an online database and research service on the film and television industries, from
The New York Times Company in 2011. In 2014, they sold Baseline to
Gracenote, a subsidiary of
Tribune Media. ==References==