Corona Coming Attractions was one of the first websites to report on Hollywood films in development. Originally the website got its start being a repository for collecting news tidbits about an initial 12 movie projects, gathering news breaks from magazines, television reports and newspapers. However, within a few short months after its launch the website began to receive emails from people working on the movies, from the crew, special effects technicians, agents that represented the above the line talent, studio personnel involved with the creative development of the project and ordinary people that had taken photographs or heard first-hand reports from movie projects that were shooting in their region of the country.
The site is credited with inspiring a wave of other movie news websites including Ain't It Cool News, Dark Horizons, JoBlo, Latino Review, Coming Soon and others.
Exclusive Scoops Broken by Coming Attractions
Throughout its many years online Coming Attractions has published many exclusive stories including on-set photographs of Stanley Kubrick's final film ''
Eyes Wide Shut
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'', the first image of
Tobey Maguire
Tobias Vincent Maguire (born 27 June 1975) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for starring as Peter Parker (2002 film series character), Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in film#Sam Raimi's trilogy, ''Spider-Man'' tr ...
in 2002's ''Spider-Man'' movie, casting news and set reports from ''
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', reports on the design of Roland Emmerich's 1998
Godzilla
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creature, a review of the pilot screenplay for
The Walking Dead TV series and casting details on Marvel Studios' ''
Thor
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''.
Awards and nominations
Nominated for a 1999
Webby Award
The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts a ...
for Best Film Website
Webby Nominees
References
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External links
Coming Attractions
American film websites
Internet properties established in 1995