Summer Films Drive Movie-Site Surge

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NEW YORK With Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, Shrek 2 and The Day After Tomorrow hitting theaters over the past couple of weeks, movie sites are experiencing a surge in traffic.

About 600,000 unique visitors logged on to MovieTickets.com from home during the week ending May 30, up 66 percent from the previous week’s 361,000. And week-over-week traffic to Fandango.com rose 22 percent from 578,000 to 706,000.

Meanwhile, Movies.com drew 508,000 unique visitors from home, and the Internet Movie Database attracted 2.1



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