Charles koones, group vice president and publisher, variety


PosterItati.com

I use the Internet a lot, both for fun and work. I started using it about five years ago, so I have a lot of favorite sites. I love movie posters and this site has the best collection of original movie posters available, from the silent era to present day. It’s also a great resource for movie references, covering over 80 years of films

Other Destinations

us.imdb.com I also love IMDB, which stands for Internet Movie Database. This site is great for work because it has movie and TV news, current top box-office movies, new videos released and movies coming soon. This site also has a searchable database covering 200,000 titles and 750,000 people, with numerous facts, trivia, reviews and multimedia links from the oldest films to the newest releases.

variety.com This may sound totally self-promotional, but another one of my favorite sites is variety.com. We have a site up right now that was launched in 1998, but we will be launching a new site next week. It’s been in development since September. What will be different about the new site is that it won’t just be a gateway to Variety news, but will be a point-of-entry to all kinds of entertainment information and news. Certainly Variety stories will be there, but the site will have a database that will allow access to all kinds of resources, like business and entertainment stocks. The site will have both a free-tier and paid-tier. The paid-tier will allow full access to our archives. Over time, the site will evolve as we integrate the database.

nypost.com I’ll confess that one of my guilty pleasures is nypost.com, which is the online site of the New York Post newspaper. I used to live in New York and love reading all of it the headlines, the stories, even page 6, which has all the gossipy stuff.

NPR.org I also like the National Public Radio site because my ride to work is too short so I log on at work.

foxkids.com I use foxkids.com because my kids make me.