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.