IMDB.com, which is quite well-known as the biggest internet movie site and a haven for movie buffs all around the world, is considering streaming all movies for free to its website.

Things are not being done halves by the company as it offering around 6,000 movies this autumn in which some classics like ‘Some like It Hot’, Raising Arizona, Cult and Fever Pitch have been included.

Heroes, 24, and Family Guy like whole host of TV shows have also been included on the site for free.

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Fox and NBC have set up their plans in launching the online video site which supports advertisement as a whole. They are also in the intention to host programming from different viewers including Google Inc.’s You tube.

The company officials have planned to launch the test version by Monday and they are putting success steps to launch the original in a few months time. The hosting would probably take place from two networks along with films and TV shows from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc and Sony Corp.

The focus is sure to be laid on shows and films rather than networks as they are going to make things easier. The debut buds out in the middle of entertainment companies and other video sites which are online. They include You Tube which is popular in screening illegal clips often.

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In a new, surprising “give and take policy” type of a campaign, fans of the popular horror movie series “Saw” are participating in a blood drive across the USA, where they’re being invited to give blood, in order to get returns from the next sequel in the Saw series.

Less than a week before the Halloween night, Saw IV, the latest sequel of one of the most successful horror movies in Hollywood, opens to public across cinema theatres nationwide this Friday. However, if you thought people were giving blood for no reason, think again. Lionsgate Film Studio, the makers of the movie series, is running a blood drive, and for a good cause, that of blood donations across the country. This also gives them enough opportunity for the promotion of the movie.

This year’s target for blood donation is 60,000 pints, more than twice what was collected last year in the “Give ‘Til it Hurts” drive. The amount of blood collected then was 23,500 pints. Targets are set so high now, as Yahoo! and the American Red Cross have joined hands with Lionsgate to take the drive and the cause to the entire nation.

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