Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes
Type of site	Film and television review aggregator and user community
Country of origin	United States
Owner	Fandango Media: Warner Bros. Discovery (25%); NBCUniversal (75%); ;
Founder(s)	Senh Duong
Key people	Senh Duong; Patrick Y. Lee; Stephen Wang
URL	www.rottentomatoes.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	August 12, 1998; 28 years ago
OCLC number	48768329

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.

As of 2021, the website's editor-in-chief is Joel Meares.

History

Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare time project by Senh Duong. 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".

Related pages

Metacritic

References

↑ 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

Official website, including a list of approved Rotten Tomatoes Critics Archived 2013-03-13 at the Wayback Machine and the Rotten Tomatoes forums Archived 2014-07-17 at the Wayback Machine

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[revamp-1] 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.

[2] "Fandango snaps up Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster". Engadget(AOL). Retrieved February 19, 2016.

[anthonyd'alessandro-3] D'Alessandro, Anthony (17 February 2016). "Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 19, 2016.

[alexa-4] "Rottentomatoes.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2019.

[5] "Matt Atchity on The Young Turks Show". Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2013-02-26.

[6] 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.

[7] "Senh Duong interview, 2000". Asianconnections.com. August 19, 1999. Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-12-04.