Rotten Tomatoes is a website dedicated to reviews, information, and news of movies and television series. 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 and television review aggregator and user community |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Owner |
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| Founder(s) | Senh Duong |
| Key people | Senh Duong Patrick Y. Lee Stephen Wang |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 12, 1998 |
| OCLC number | 48768329 |
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As of 2021, the website's editor-in-chief is Joel Meares.[5]
History
changeRotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare time project by Senh Duong.[6] 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".[7]
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ Spangler, Todd (2019-05-23). "Rotten Tomatoes Revamps Movie Audience Scores to Focus on Verified Ticket Buyers". Variety (magazine). Retrieved 2020-05-02.
NBCUniversal's Fandango acquired the reviews-aggregation site in 2016 from Warner Bros., which retains a 25% stake in Rotten Tomatoes.
- ↑ "Fandango snaps up Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster". Engadget(AOL). Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (17 February 2016). "Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Rottentomatoes.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ "Matt Atchity on The Young Turks Show". Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
Other websites
change- Official website, including a list of approved Rotten Tomatoes Critics Archived 2012-12-16 at Archive.today and the Rotten Tomatoes forums Archived 2014-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
