A recent piece about Rotten Tomatoes on Vulture is making the rounds and it really says something about the current state of the industry. Rotten Tomatoes is just one part of the equation. The other thing here is studio gatekeeping. The Tomatometer score is so important that one almost always have to be writing for an RT-approved publication in order to get into a press screening. If one isn’t on RT, one must have a…
"Rotten Tomatoes, Indie Films, and Studio Gatekeeping"Tag: Rotten Tomatoes
Another day, another Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes on their poor summer box office showings article shows up. I can think of some great films I saw this summer but they didn’t make much money being that they were independent movies and not the product of the Hollywood studio system. So it’s sad when I see Hollywood attacking us film critics yet again for their dismal summer when there were some great films released and they…
"Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes for Poor Summer Box Office"