Warner Bros. is buying Flixster, and it plans to turn the site into a VOD service tied to the UltraViolet cloud DRM scheme. Part of the deal is also the movie reviews site Rotten Tomatoes. The studio promises that Rotten Tomatoes will continue to be independent. Read more »
The iTunes movie store just got a lot more usable thanks to a small but significant update that went live today. As of now, the iTunes movie store features Top Critics’ reviews and the Tomatometer rating score from Rotten Tomatoes prominently displayed above customer reviews. Read more »
In an unconventional deal, startup Flixster is acquiring the online movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from News Corp. The acquisition gives News Corp., via its subsidiary IGN Entertainment, a minority stake in Flixster, which operates movie trivia and review applications on social networks and mobile devices. Read more »
