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Warner Bros. Acquires Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 4th, 2011 at 7:31 am

Warner Bros., more than any of the other major studios, is making serious plays at dominance in the realm of digital distribution.  In February, they were the first studio to offer “App Editions” of their movies on iPad, iPhones, and iPod Touch.  The following month they offered their movies for rental via Facebook.  Now the company has sent out a press release announcing that they’ve bought social networking site Flixster, which in turn means they’ve bought critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes since RT was bought by Flixster last January.

So why did Warner Bros. buy Flixster?  Because it’s yet another platform Warner Bros. can use to distribute their movies digitally.  Hit the jump for more details.

2010 Golden Tomato Awards Announced; TOY STORY 3 Best-Reviewed Wide Release

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 11th, 2011 at 10:31 am

Rotten Tomatoes has announced their 2010 Golden Tomato Awards.  To the surprise of no one, Toy Story 3 was the best-reviewed wide-release film of 2010.  This marks the fourth year in a row that a Pixar film has won the award.  The film scored a 99% on the Tomatometer with only 3 critics out of 248 giving the film a “rotten” review.  Rounding out the Top 5 best-reviewed wide-releases were How to Train Your Dragon (98%), The Social Network (97%), True Grit (95%), and The King’s Speech.  The best-reviewed limited-release film was Last Train Home (100%), the Top UK film was Exit Through the Gift Shop (98%), and the best User-Reviewed film was The King’s Speech (96%).  Taking home the Moldy Tomato for Worst-Reviewed film was Vampires Suck (4%).

Hit the jump for a list of Rotten Tomatoes’ Best and Worst-Reviewed films of 2010.

Rotten Tomatoes Presents Top Golden Tomato Awards to UP and THE HURT LOCKER

by Eli Mak    Posted: January 11th, 2010 at 11:03 pm

Pixar continues its domination as a critical favourite at the 11th Annual Golden Tomato Awards as Up has won the Golden Tomato Award for a film in wide release. Rotten Tomatoes, the online aggregator of film reviews has more than 200 top film critics whose opinions and judgements are included in the final score that resulted in Pixar picked up its 16th Golden Tomato Award. It was critically acclaimed for making the story of far greater importance than the visuals, remarking “another masterful work of art from Pixar, Up is an exciting, hilarious, and heartfelt adventure impeccably crafted and told with wit and depth”. The Hurt Locker was the best limited release film for 2009 while Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li was considered ‘moldy’, as the worst reviewed film of 2009 with an embarrassing 4% rotten tomato rating. Winners in action/adventure, comedy, documentary, drama, sci-fi, thriller, foreign, horror, kids, romance, musical and the user-voted Golden Tomato, after the jump.

Flixster Purchases Rotten Tomatoes

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 4th, 2010 at 12:39 pm

In the ongoing struggle between critics and social networking, Flixster has purchased Rotten Tomatoes, which may result in peace or the utter destruction of professional critics.  While most people know that RT is an aggregator of critical reviews, some of our readers may not be aware of Flixster.  Flixter is social networking where users can share their ratings and reviews of movies and it really exploded when it became a Facebook application.  Then it became one of the first apps for the iPhone and thus it is now fairly ubiquitous amongst the youngsters with their damn music and hula hoops.

Now, Mashable is reporting that Flixster has acquired Rotten Tomatoes from IGN (which is owned by Newscorp).  Newscorp will keep a minority stake in RT, and according to the press release (which you can read after the jump), the two entities will remain separate.  Of course, I doubt that will last long since you basically have professional critics on one side and the unwashed masses on the other side and presumably Flixster will see a way to combine the two to provide recommendations you never knew you wanted.

Hit the jump to read the press release along with my curmudgeonly thoughts.

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