Rotten Tomatoes

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.

Rotten Tomatoes

Type of site	Film and television review aggregator and user community
Country of origin	United States
Owner	Fandango Media:[1] WarnerMedia (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; 26 years ago (1998-08-12)
OCLC number	48768329
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As of 2021, the website's editor-in-chief is Joel Meares.^[5]

History

Rotten 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

• Metacritic