Archive for January 4th, 2010

Former RottenTomatoes.com parent IGN Entertainment has sold majority ownership of the review aggregator site to Flixter, whose services center on movie listings and trailers. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.

IGN Entertainment will still have a minor stake in RottonTomatoes.com, and IGN Ent. president Roy Bahat is even joining the Flixter board.

“Joining RottenTomatoes with Flixster creates a company that can dominate the online movie category,” Bahat said – HollywoodReporter

IGN Ent. has stated that it wants to focus more on its own operations, which primarily include covering videogames and men’s lifestyle. The news corp. also covers movies and movie-related topics, which you can access at movies.ign.com.

Source: HollywoodReporter