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Warner Bros Civil War? Its Rotten Tomatoes Suspends Comments On Its ‘Dark Knight Rises’ After Movie Reviewers Threatened

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 10:12pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Dark Knight Rises, Rotten Tomatoes, Warner Bros

Warner Bros owns Rotten Tomatoes (through the social movie site Flixster.com). Warner Bros also owns The Dark Knight Rises (with co-financier Legendary Pictures). Now the studio finds itself with the weird and rare dilemma of protecting movie reviewers who hated the movie from furious Rotten Tomatoes readers. AP reports tonight that RottenTomatoes.com for the first time ever suspended user comments today on movie reviews of the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s  Batman trilogy hitting theaters Friday. Why? Because the comments savaged and threatened those critics who wrote negative reviews, including Marshall Fine of Hollywood & Fine, Christy Lemire of The Associated Press, and Nick Pinkerton of the Village Voice. However the movie overall has an 84% positive rating on RottenTomatoes.com. Matt Atchity, the site’s editor-in-chief, told the AP: ”It just got to be too much hate.” There’s no doubt that RottenTomatoes.com is a controversial site – and even more so now. Atchity also told The AP he is worried about a similar backlash when director Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is released later this year. “We may do away with comments completely or get to a place where comments are only activated after a movie opens.”

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Flixster And Rotten Tomatoes Bought By Warner Bros Home Entertainment Today

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 6:06am PDTTags: Acquisition, Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes, Warner Bros, Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group





BURBANK, Calif., May 4, 2011 – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group today announced an agreement to acquire Flixster, the movie discovery application company with over 25

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OSCAR: Critics Keep Friending ‘The Social Network’ While Picture Rivals Keep Fretting

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday December 21, 2010 @ 6:46pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, David Fincher, Oscar Ballots, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscars, Rotten Tomatoes, The Social Network
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In an era where review aggregation sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have erased individuality and replaced it with a percentage statistic that can be quoted  more easily than the words of Roger Ebert or other name reviewers, we are seeing … Read More »

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