Is moviefone.com legit or a scam?
Moviefone is a highly reputable movie information portal with a 31-year history and no security flags across our antivirus network.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The page displays a professional and fully-rendered media website for Moviefone with no visual indicators of scamming or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout with consistent Moviefone branding and high-quality graphics
Functional search bar and navigation menu consistent with a media portal
Legitimate movie promotional material including 'Toy Story 5' and celebrity interviews
Standard newsletter sign-up call-to-action without aggressive urgency tactics
No suspicious trust badges, fake countdowns, or intrusive pop-ups visible
MT Intelligence
This domain has been registered since 1995, making it one of the oldest active entertainment sites on the web. Our analysis shows it is currently owned by a verified US-based media company and maintains a professional, high-traffic presence. All 92 antivirus engines in our network confirm the site is clean, and its infrastructure is hosted on secure, reputable servers. The page content is actively updated with current movie trailers and reviews, consistent with a legitimate business operation. While some automated spam reports exist for the domain, these appear to be isolated incidents that do not impact the site's overall safety.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for moviefone.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- moviefone.com is the official website of the long-running movie listing and review service founded in 1989; domain registered in 1995 (over 31 years old).
- Acquired in March 2020 by Born in Cleveland LLC, owned by TV producer Cleveland O'Neal III, out of the Helios and Matheson Analytics (MoviePass parent) bankruptcy for approximately $1.075 million.
- Site provides movie reviews, trailers, streaming guides, showtimes, and interviews; actively updated with recent articles (e.g., 2026 movie reviews).
- Scamadviser rates it as 'Very Likely Safe' with average to good trust score, citing high traffic, long domain ownership, valid SSL, and positive reviews.
- Historical Reddit discussions focus on nostalgia for the old phone service (777-FILM) and past bankruptcy; no recent user scam complaints found on major review sites.
- Isolated 2026 spam/phishing email reports associated with the domain on spam.org (auto-resolved); one reference to potential credential exposure risks on hudsonrock.com.
- No Trustpilot, BBB (old F rating for prior entity), or widespread consumer complaints identified; maintains active presence on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
- Spam.orgopen
"moviefone.com, Spam, Registrar, Phishing Email, 2026-05-26, Auto-Resolved. moviefone.com, Spam, Registry, Phishing Email, 2026-05-26, Auto-Resolved."
Owned by Born in Cleveland LLC (Cleveland O'Neal III's holding company) since March 2020 acquisition out of bankruptcy for ~$1.075M. Previously owned by Helios and Matheson Analytics (bankrupt 2020) and AOL.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://moviefone.com/
- 2302https://moviefone.com/
- 3200https://www.moviefone.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on moviefone.com and not a lookalike like m-oviefone.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on moviefone.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- moviefone.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. moviefone.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- moviefone.com is 31.5 years old, registered on 1/12/1995 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report moviefone.com as clean.
- No. moviefone.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- moviefone.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. moviefone.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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