The protocol is hardly the issue with setting up your own movie-search db - it's data. I guess Freebase might be a way to go, once you've resolved the initial

The protocol is hardly the issue with setting up your own movie-search db - it's data. I guess Freebase might be a way to go, once you've resolved the initial dataset with wikipedia, update incrimentally with just the changes. Or, you know, you have to license the material from somewhere.