Everything after the first sentence in this Variety article could and will probably be vehemently argued somewhere, so let’s just look at the sentence in question: “Rotten Tomatoes is dramatically changing its Audience Score methodology for movies: The site’s standard user rating will now reflect only moviegoers who can prove they’ve bought a ticket to see it in a theater.” For right now it’s specifically people who bought a ticket via Fandango (which mostly owns Rotten Tomatoes), but they’re already talking about bringing in theater-specific ticket services like Regal’s*. Which they will absolutely have to do if they want this to work.
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Shazam! holding Early Access viewings on March 23rd.
Via Fandango. I wasn’t going to bring it up, until it occurred to me that it actually wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to get good seats for the Shazam! showings that day. I think that this two weeks early thing that they’re trying with DC superhero flicks might, ha, take off. I certainly enjoyed being able to see Aquaman early; and the buzz is that Shazam! Does Not Suck. I am down with finding out whether that’s true a couple of weeks early…