Magazines Round-up: Mygazines Closes; Hello Revamps Websites; Total Film Relaunches

– Controversial Mygazines.com closes: It was the target of legal threats from the UK’s biggest magazine publishers in UK including Hearst, Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) and IPC Media but now Mygazines.com has shut down citing the “state of the global” economy, not lawyers’ letters, as the reason, according to PressGazette.co.uk. The site allowed users to upload and share entire scanned pages of magazines but has called it a day after admitting on the website today: “We simply ran out of funds”.

– Hello magazine revamps website: Weeks after recruiting a team of bloggers, glossy celebrity magazine Hello has spruced up its website for Autumn adding a Flash-powered image gallery, a new navigation bar and a more prominent lifestyle section, says Journalism.co.uk.

– TotalFilm.com shakes up team and content: Future-owned Total Film is to relaunch its website with more exclusive content including video interviews with film directors and a database of trailers, according to Brandrepublic.com. George Walter comes on board to edit the site from sister site GamesRadar.com and he will work with Total Film editor-in-chief Aubrey Day.