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Hey Filmtracks guys! I stumbled upon this news out of L.A.:

"9/25/00 - One of the 'original big three' film music sites on the web in 1996, MovieTunes.com has been officially dissolved this week.

The site's previous content has been scaled back and moved to a subdirectory of its parent company, Hollywood Online (hollywood.com). While the new sub-site still features an extensive library of audio clips and a listing of trailer music, the company has removed its chat, message board, industry links, reviews for many of its albums, and consolidated its coverage to a focus on 'songtracks' rather than 'scoretracks.'

With MovieTunes joining Filmmusic.com (acquired by Soundtrack.Net) as a finished entry in the history of the web, the only remaining original soundtrack site still active is Filmtracks.com, which recently obtained the rank of "top film music site" by Yahoo!, Inc.

Filmtracks currently shares the majority of online soundtrack collectors with the online presence of the print magazine Film Score Monthly (filmscoremonthly.com)..."

To Mr Clemmensen, congratulations! Your site has been a rollercoaster of fun over the years. I remember when this place was titled with your signature and all your reviews were published on one page. Thanks for your commitment to us!

Jonathan Parker

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I figured this might prove especially interesting for those of us (including myself, Peter, Kyp, Kevin, Kosko, James, Alex, etc.) who started out at MovieTunes.

The real news is this: Hollywood.com bosses in Boca Raton, FL, fired most employees in Santa Monica last week. They basically designed a new site behind Santa Monica's back, switched it on, and fired everyone in the West. Some management company, huh? There's no need to wonder why I left the company 18 months ago! I could see this one coming from a loooong way off.

It looks like Hollywood.com kept some of MovieTunes intact, except the reviews have been removed and you can't access the site directly through the URL. But, sooner or later, and as I suggested in April 1999, MovieTunes will disappear completely. It's only a matter of time before it gets folded up into "MusicSite," or it goes down with the rest of Hollywood.com (the company's not doing very well at all). There is no one left to update the darned thing.

See ya, MovieTunes, my dear child. To all those who crossed the passage on the Nino, Pinto and Santo Mario, thanks. (Patrick Serediuk? Who?)

PeterK

But I can say this. After following PeterK (and the others) here, I never participated on Movietunes. In fact, I don't think I've went over there more than 3 or 4 times.

Viva La Moviemusic.com!

Back then I was Crono, then Kyp and now Crono/Kyp. Thanks for the great memories MovieTunes, because if you never existed, I never wound have met any of you.

--Kyp
Writer/AVID Editor

Isn't it time you went Hollywood!

HOW THE HELL DO YOU SAY THAT?
It's grammatically impossible!
Any English teacher would keel over at first sight of that phrase!
You start out with the expectation that it ends with a question mark because it is in the the form of a question! WHAT'S WITH THE DAMN EXCLAMATION MARK?

What "If it weren't for my horse, then I wouldn't have spent that year in college." is to Louis Black, than this tag line is to me. It grates on my mind as it reapoats over and over in my mind, starting out as a question, then cutting to the exclamation! It's like a train wreck when I move from "Isn't time you..." to "went Hollywood!"

Hollywood.com: Not the REAL Hollywood.

Hollywood.com: We hope you like advertisements as much as we like money.

Hollywood.com: If you aren't here, you're somewhere better.

Hollywood.com: We have theatrical advertisements. Kiss our ass, film.com!

Hollywood.com: Hi, um, this is the management and we pissed off our advertising department and they quit so um... yeah.