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Warner Bros. buys Rotten Tomatoes parent Flixster

Warner Bros. buys Rotten Tomatoes parent Flixster

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group said it had struck an agreement to buy Flixster, the parent company of Rotten Tomatoes, a website that analyzes movie reviews, awarding films a given number of tomatoes.

 

Interview for IndyBizShow.com, BoxOfficeMojo Co-founder's New Venture

Interview for IndyBizShow.com, BoxOfficeMojo Co-founder's New Venture

I did an Interview for IndyBizShow.com, a new business site focused on independent entrepreneurs. It’s created by Sean Saulsbury, the co-founder of BoxOfficeMojo.com. I talked about - what else - Rotten Tomatoes and briefly about Wopular.com.

 

Facebook Movie Gets Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews, But Will People Go See It?

Facebook Movie Gets Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews, But Will People Go See It?

Premiering at New York Film Festival yesterday and coming to theatres October 1st, the world’s first Hollywood movie about the founding of a social network can now also claim the bragging rights of a solid 100 score on movie review aggregator Metacritic as well as a 9.9 score on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

The Only People Willing to Pay for Twitter Are Users with over 100K Followers

The Only People Willing to Pay for Twitter Are Users with over 100K Followers

So far, I’ve only heard of two people who are willing to pay for Twitter - Guy kawasaki and Roger Ebert. If you search on Google, you’ll probably find more, but those are the only two I’ve read about. They have one thing in common - they each have over 100,000 followers.

 

The Tomatometer is on Google's Search Results

The Tomatometer is on Google's Search Results

Sorta. Kinda. It's been converted to a star system. If you search for a movie and the Rotten Tomatoes page for it comes up, then you'll see a star rating (converted from the Tomatometer), the Tomatometer percent, and the number of reviews they're based on.

 

My Take on the Flixster Acquisition of Rotten Tomatoes

My Take on the Flixster Acquisition of Rotten Tomatoes

Like most, I originally thought News Corp was acquiring Flixster. Instead, it was Flixster acquiring Rotten Tomatoes. I think it's a great fit. Rotten Tomatoes's aggregated critics ratings combined with Flixster's user ratings, Rotten Tomatoes's premium content combined with Flixster's user-generated content. The combined audience of 30M worldwide uniques definitely puts them up there with Yahoo! Movies and Moviefone, the second and third largest movie sites on the web respectively. IMDB is number one, by far. And it's gonna be tough for Flixster/RT to surpass them. When you search for a movie or celebrity, IMDB is usually the first result on Google (and other search engines); and that's the main reason for its dramatic growth in the last couple years. If Flixster/RT can become a more authoritative source than IMDB and surpass its rankings in search engines, then it can become numero uno. If not, being number 2 ain't bad.

 

Flixster Acquires Rotten Tomatoes

Flixster Acquires Rotten Tomatoes

Flixster just announced that it has acquired Rotten Tomatoes, the popular movie review site, from IGN Entertainment. IGN is a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

 

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