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Rotten Tomatoes is a website launched in 1998 devoted to film reviews and news; it is widely known as a film review aggregator. Coverage now includes TV content as well. The name derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a poor stage performance. The company was created by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, which itself was acquired in 2011 by Warner Bros. Since 2007, the website's editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity.〔("Matt Atchity" ), ''The Young Turks Show'', January 22, 2009〕 Localized versions are available in the United Kingdom, India and Australia. From early 2009 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly ''The Rotten Tomatoes Show'', featuring hosts and material from the website. A shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, ''InfoMania'', but it ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced "TV Zone", a section for reviewing scripted TV shows. ==History== Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. 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 U.S." As a fan of Jackie Chan, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chan's movies as they were being published in the United States. The first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was ''Your Friends & Neighbors''. The website was an immediate success, receiving mentions by Yahoo!, Netscape, and ''USA Today'' within the first week of its launch; it attracted "600–1000 daily unique visitors" as a result. Duong teamed up with University of California, Berkeley classmates Patrick Y. Lee and Stephen Wang, his former partners at the Berkeley, California–based web design firm (Design Reactor ), to pursue Rotten Tomatoes on a full-time basis. They officially launched it on April 1, 2000. In June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes.com for an undisclosed sum.〔 〕 In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corp's Fox Interactive Media.〔 〕 In January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies.〔(News Corp. Unloads Rotten Tomatoes Onto Flixster | TechCrunch )〕 In May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros.〔 By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create and join groups to discuss different aspects of film. One group, "The Golden Oyster Awards", accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing: "The Groups area has been discontinued to pave the way for new community features coming soon. In the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics." As of February 2011, new community features have been added and others removed. For example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa. On September 17, 2013, a section devoted to scripted television series, called "TV Zone", was created as a subsection of the website. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rotten Tomatoes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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