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Filings Watch: Disney Sold Movies.com To Comcast For $17 Million

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imageEarlier this year in June,  Fandango, the online movie tickets service that is part of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), bought out movies-info site Movies.com from Disney (NYSE: DIS), for a then-undisclosed sum. Now the amount has come out, in Disney’s latest annual 10-K filing with the SEC: The movies.com business was sold for $17 million on June 18, 2008, resulting in a pre-tax gain of $14 million.

SEE ALSO: Comcast-Owned Fandango Buys Movies.com From Disney

Movies.com, under its previous name MrShowbiz.com, was one of first online movie news and info sites. Then, after it morphed into Movies.com, Disney partnered with Fox to turn it into an online movies-on-demand site, but it didn’t go past the planning stages. Since Comcast bought it, not much else has been done with the site, which now serves as a feeder info site to Fandango.

Some other details in the filing:
—Disney had a $91 million loan receivable from Lehman Brothers, the bank that went under. The company says it is pursuing collection of this amount, but has fully reserved the amount. Unlikely it will recover it.

Nov 25, 2008 7:04 AM ET

Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Comcast, Disney, fandango, movies.com

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