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AUGUST 27, 2012

Mobile consumers drove what Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango says is its best summer in its history today, as mobile purchases drove a 26 percent year-to-year increase in ticket sales on the service. The company reports that it saw more than 26 million downloads of its various mobile apps.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The firm--which the Tech Coast Angels revealed last week that it had funded in 2010--also has the backing of well known angel investor Paige Craig, who also sits on the firms advisory board. No details on the angel funding for LaughStub have been announced. The firm is headed by Scot Richardson.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango is debuting a new tool to predict interest in upcoming weekend movies, which it calls "Fanticipation". Fandango said it will release its list of movies weekly on its site. Fandango is launching the new movie buzz product at SXSW this weekend.

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JULY 3, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango said this morning that it has seen its best quarter in its company's history, with a 28 percent, year-over-year growth in its second quarter ticket sales. Fandango has been reporting growing ticket sales in the last few months, and most recently said its May sales broke its sales records.

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APRIL 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Fandango has acquired the assets of MOVIECLIPS from Venice, California-based ZEFR , the two said this morning, along with the team supporting the MOVIECLIPS service. According to Fandango, it will use the acquisition of MOVIECLIPS to expand its product offerings in the area of video, content, and movie discovery.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based Fandango , which offers up online and mobile movie information and ticketing, said it has sold more than $127M in cumulative sales for Avengers: Endgame. According to Fandango, those sales numbers represent the biggest cumulative box office haul through opening weekend in the company's history.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information service Fandango reported on Tuesday that it sold more than 30 percent of the tickets for "Black Panther" over the film's four-day opening weekend. According to Fandango, the sales represent one of the company's largest share of opening weekend for any movie in the company's history.

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MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango reports that it hit another ticketing record this weekend, after the debut of The Avengers. Fandango said it set a new record for the most tickets sold for any opening weekend in the company's 12-year history, surpassing its recent record breaking opening of The Hunger Games. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Comcast Interactive Media announced Monday that it has appointed Scott Schiller as the new Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for the firm's Fandango, Fancast, Movies.com and Plaxo units. Fandango, Movies.com, and Fancast are all based in Los Angeles.

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JULY 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based ZEFR has sold its rights management and content-flagging assets--RightsID and ChannelID--to Vobile Group , a provider of video content protection, measurement, and monetization, in a deal worth $90M, the two companies annoucned late Thursday. It sold that business, Movieclips.com, in 2014, to Fandango. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Toyota, Pizza Hut, NBA, Fandango, and More Share Their Success Stories with Mobile and Social Apps. Please join us at digiday:APPS on December 10th, in Los Angeles. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS. digiday:APPS * December 10th * The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Prior to that, I had an app in the App Store, when iOS first came out, which was basically like a Fandango for live music. I told him how we were looking to track people who were looking at Hiphop events in a city, and do direct sales to them and present them to brands to highlight that matched their interests. It just made sense.

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MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to sit in at The General Assembly, Los Angeles for a fully stacked panel on a Day in the Life of a Product Manager (PM). Steve Belin , Product Manager , Fandango. ” So what did Steve Belin of Fandango mean when he answered “Move the needle: data”? For example?

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JUNE 27, 2011

The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles. He was the startup-to-profitability CFO at Fandango, and really is one of the most incredible, operational executives in all of So-Cal. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com? That's part of the premise.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango said today that this weekend's release of The Hunger Games, the movie based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, broke its sales records, with 22 percent of domestic opening weekend ticket sales being made through its system.

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