1/28/2009

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FindAnyFilm project is finally goes live. But is it the first of it's kind?

Tom Cleeland

The Guardian reports that the Film Council has launched the UK's "Google for film" search website. UK film fanatics will now be able to access a bespoke online search tool that will provide them with cinema and TV listings, DVD, Bly-ray and download options for over 34,000 films.  
  
The £1m FindAnyFilm project has been developed by the UK Film Council over the last seven months and goes live today reports The Guardian. The service claims to be the first of it's kind to combine listings for multiple formats and links to retail websites and legal download services.  
  
Sky News reports that Peter Buckingham, the head of distribution and exhibition at the council said, "This new site is going to transform how consumers find the films they want to watch - we will soon wonder how we ever coped without it. We have turned what was often an incredibly time-consuming, frustrating process into one that makes it much easier for film fans to see films in the UK."  
  
Sky News also reports that one of their entertainment correspondents, Matt Smith, said that the site is actually not the first of it's kind. "It's a great idea because people do use the web to research what they will see in the cinema or on DVD," he said. "But they are a bit late to the party because there is already a similar site that everyone in the industry and film buffs use, called IMDB.com."