The present invention provides a movie resource expansion method, and a movie demand information transmitting method and apparatus. The method comprises: receiving acquisition request information of a target movie transmitted by a first terminal; searching the local database according to the acquisition request information of the movie; if there is no target movie in the local database, forwarding the acquisition request information of the target movie to a cloud movie server; receiving information of the target movie returned by the cloud movie server; and transmitting the information of the target movie to the first terminal. According to the embodiments of the present invention, information of the target movie can be requested to the cloud movie server according to the acquisition request information of the target movie triggered by the user on the first terminal to complete the movie resource expansion of the local database, so that the shortcoming of the waste of the storage resource caused by the blind expansion of the movie resources in the local database is avoided, and the viewing demand of the user can be better satisfied.