Moviemistakes.com
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Moviemistakes.com is a website that notes mistakes and continuity errors found in film and television projects, with some books and games, and supplementary material covering trivia, quotes, DVD Easter eggs and movie trailers. It was created by Jon Sandys in September 1996. The site categorises mistakes into nine different areas: continuity, factual errors, mistakes that reveal the film-making process, visible crew or equipment, plot holes, audio problems, deliberate "mistakes", character mistakes, and "other".
As of 29 January 2021 the site listed over 160,000 mistakes and 20,000 items of trivia from more than 13,000 titles.
History
Sandys initially became interested in movie errors after noting mistakes in Jurassic Park and True Lies while attending the Royal Grammar School. He began the Movie Mistakes website in 1996 as a single page with a few listings and an email address. Following his move to Southampton University, he operated the site from the university's server. In 1998, a Times article on movie mistakes mentioned the site, leading to an increase in traffic. In 1999 the site outgrew the university servers and moved to a dedicated server, along with promotion and advertising to finance operations.
On April 9, 2001, the site again grew in popularity following a Daily Mirror article on mistakes in the film Gladiator.
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