Rotten Tomatoes
American review aggregation website for film and television
Rotten Tomatoes is a website dedicated to reviews, information, and news of movies. The name derives from the vaudeville-era cliché of throwing tomatoes and other products at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. The company has been owned by Flixster, a Warner Bros. company, since May 2011.
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Type of site | Film review aggregator and forum |
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| Owner |
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| Created by | Senh Duong |
| Website | rottentomatoes.com |
| Alexa rank |  748 (February 2013[update])[2] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1998 |
As of 2007, the website's editor-in-chief is Matt Atchity.[3]
HistoryEdit
Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare time project by Senh Duong.[4] His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the US".[5]
SourcesEdit
- ↑ "Warner Bros. – press release". Cision Wire. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
- ↑ "Rottentomatoes.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ Matt Atchity on The Young Turks Show
- ↑ Lazarus, David (April 26, 2001). "Fresh Look For Rotten Tomatoes / Help from college buddies elevates movie-rating Web site beyond hobby status". San Francisco Chronicle. Sfgate.com. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ↑ "Senh Duong interview, 2000". Asianconnections.com. August 19, 1999. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
Other websitesEdit
- Official website, including a list of approved Rotten Tomatoes Critics and the Rotten Tomatoes forums
