A few days ago it was revealed that a group of anti-Disney DC “fans” had launched a Facebook event urging its followers to flood Rotten Tomatoes with negative reviews for Marvel’s Black Panther in an effort to give the superhero blockbuster a “rotten” audience score. Facebook has since removed the page, while Rotten Tomatoes also […]
Thor: Ragnarok impresses on Rotten Tomatoes with highest score of any Marvel Studios movie
Thor: Ragnarok is off to a thundering start with early reviews indicating that the newest addition to the Thor trilogy may just be the best yet [read our review here]. Some of that may be down to directer Taika Waititi, whose unique sense of humour and emphasis on Jack Kirby-influenced visuals plays on the successes of Guardians of […]
Martin Scorsese on why he dislikes likes sites like Rotten Tomatoes
Writing a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, legendary director Martin Scorsese opened up about his feelings regarding review aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and Cinemascore. Perhaps not surprisingly, he isn’t a fan: “They rate a picture the way you’d rate a horse at the racetrack, a restaurant in a Zagat’s guide, or a household […]
Rotten Tomatoes does not have an impact on the box office according to a study
Rotten Tomatoes does not impact the success of movies at the box office according to a new study. The poor summer for Hollywood at the box office has been met with a host of excuses by those in the industry, with many fingers pointing the way of movie review scoring system Rotten Tomatoes. It is […]