Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group announced this morning that they had bought Flixster, the social media movie ranking website who intriguingly themselves bought the leading critics review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes in January of last year. Rt of course now also changes hands to WB as part of the deal.

So a little incidentally, a major movie studio now owns Rotten Tomatoes! Though we are told there won’t be a conflict of interest as WB won’t change the way Rotten Tomatoes operates or Flixster for that matter as they will continue to be run independently – though we imagine over time subtle and maybe not so subtle changes will be brought in. Whether they will include WB sending £300 to the Owf approved Rt critics Mike Edwards or Shaun Munro to turn in positive reviews of the studio’s output is impossible to predict!

We imagine it will be Flixster which receives the most obvious upgrades.