Tag: Rotten

14 SEP

New Study Says Rotten Tomatoes Scores Have No Impact on Box Office Numbers

Hollywood has been churning out memorable cinematic villains since the earliest days of moviemaking, but there’s one villain that the studios fear more than any other right now: Rotten Tomatoes. It’s become conventional wisdom in studio executive boardrooms to blame the site for poor box office performances. Why take responsibility for making a bad movie […]

09 SEP

Recommended Reading: Hollywood is really mad at Rotten Tomatoes

Attacked by Rotten Tomatoes Brooks Barnes, The New York Times The film scores tallied by Rotten Tomatoes are what many moviegoers use to decide how to spend their money. As you might expect, this doesn’t make some folks in Hollywood too happy. In fact, they’re pretty darn upset. Some claim low scores on Rotten Tomatoes […]

08 SEP

Rotten Tomatoes Didn’t Kill Hollywood Blockbusters

Hollywood is heading into the season of horror after a summer from hell. The past few months were the worst box-office summer in more than a decade. This Labor Day weekend’s haul was the lowest in nearly 20 years. To explain the bad news, movie executives are trying out fresh excuses (blame … Rotten Tomatoes?), […]

09 MAY

King Arthur FIRST reviews: 'Ham-fisted vulgarity' gets shocking Rotten Tomatoes rating

Guy Ritchie’s reinvention of the classic Arthurian legends has not wowed the critics ahead of its American opening. The uneven tone, over-used special effects and David Beckaham’s cameo have been singled out in an onslaught of negative reviews. The “well-cast but squandered” Hunnam and “scenery-chewing” Law generally receieved favourable comments but not even the Lady […]

05 MAY

Sens lose both Karlsson, Game 4 on rotten night in Big Apple

Ottawa Senators forward Derick Brassard stood in front of a semi-circle throng of reporters in the pin drop silent visitors’ dressing room inside Madison Square Garden and spoke. His voice matched the volume in the room. “Pretty much our all-around game, we need to be better,” Brassard said after the Senators’ 4-1 loss to the New […]

23 MAR

5 reasons Brett Ratner’s Rotten Tomatoes complaints are garbage

In 2017, Hollywood is struggling with declining ticket sales, increased competition from other media, botched international co-productions, and the threat of cultural irrelevance. But Brett Ratner has found the real target: review aggregators! At last weekend’s Sun Valley Film Festival, the director of the Rush Hour trilogy went on the offensive against Rotten Tomatoes for […]