Movie review-and-view site Flixster has agreed to purchase popular review site Rotten Tomatoes from IGN, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Much like the recent sale of Photobucket, the move is ...

News Corp. has concluded that the best strategy to succeed in providing online movie news and information is to get out of it. The media conglomerate led by Rupert Murdoch on Monday sold Rotten ...

Warner Bros. is in advanced negotiations to acquire the popular movie ratings website Flixster, signaling the studio’s big push into social networking. The Time Warner Inc.-owned studio is now the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flixster Inc., producer of the world’s largest online movie community at www.Flixster.com, today announced that it has acquired Rotten Tomatoes from IGN Entertainment.

Social movie rating and sharing website Flixster is to purchase film review aggregating service Rotten Tomatoes in the near future. News Corp, parent to Rotten Tomatoes will own a minority stake in ...

I recently wrote about interest by News Corp. and its MySpace unit in Flixster, the popular social-networking site for movies. Titled "MySpace and News Corp. Eye Flixster (But for What?)," I wrote: ...

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group today announced an agreement to acquire Flixster, a highly popular movie discovery application company with over 25 million ...

Online movie information firm Flixster Inc. on Monday said that it has acquired pioneering film review aggregation site RottenTomatoes.com in an all-stock swap with a subsidiary of media giant News ...

Flixster, a social networking website for movie fans, has acquired film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from News Corp.-owned IGN Entertainment. Full financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, ...

The combo of the two movie sites, which fall behind top-ranked IMDb, Yahoo Movies and AOL Moviefone, turns Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes into a much bigger colossus with a global movie audience of an ...

Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups--Imeem and iLike--for a song, to bolster the social-networking site's efforts to ...

Call it the Flixster Effect. As the viral buzz pushing Paranormal Activity demonstrates, a fundamental shift is transforming how people discover movies. The studios aren’t just force-feeding marketing ...