Corona | Coming Attractions

Created by Patrick Sauriol, the original Coming Attractions launched in April 1995 with a database of just 12 movies. The idea was to compile all of the information that had been published about a movie, from the hard facts to the juiciest rumors, and have it organized into one place. Because the content was published online it meant that there was no limit on how large or detailed the tracking could be for a movie. But sometime shortly after the launch of the site something interesting happened: people working on the actual movies began sending in their insider views of working on the movie. Soon Coming Attractions (or CA for short) began to publish not just the information that other TV shows, magazines or newspapers ran but its own exclusive scoops. The 12 original movies grew into a lot more as readers began requesting titles and submitting the information they had heard. And that's how the internet's first movie news website got it start.

CA grew and remained online, transforming itself from a fun hobby to something that became a full-time job for its creator. Then in early 2004 Patrick accepted a job with Cinescape, a monthly movie magazine, as the publication's news editor. He took CA and ran it from underneath the Cinescape brand for nearly two years until the partnership ended. In 2007 early work began on what Patrick imagined would be the next evolution of CA: an interactive database that held all of the old CA film pages plus all of the future releases, with new applications for readers to track and follow a movie's production process. As well the site's coverage would now publish news stories that could go deeper into breaking developments from the world of entertainment. Programming began in 2008 and CA 2.0 launched in December of that year.

As for the future, Corona's Coming Attractions will continue to evolve, releasing new features, content and expansions to come. We hope that whether you're a film professional or a fan you will make CA a destination for your movie news.

(And just for the record Patrick still doesn't get enough sleep.)