Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips (formerly Movieclips and later Fandango Movieclips) is a company located in Venice, Los Angeles that offers streaming video of movie clips and trailers from such Hollywood film companies as Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. (including content from subsidiaries New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment), Sony Pictures (including content from subsidiaries Destination Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Triumph Pictures), along with other studios such as Lionsgate Films and DreamWorks.[1][2]

History

Second logo; used when the channel was under the title of "Fandango Movieclips."

Movieclips was founded in 2009 as a division of online video company Zefr, as a web database which let you search through a library of over 12,000 movie clips.[3][4] The company's goal was to promote the discovery of movies. In partnership with Google and funding lead by MK Capital, Movieclips uploaded over 20,000 clips in 2011 to YouTube from movies chosen by a team of content curators.[5] In 2014, Movieclips was acquired by Fandango and was renamed "Fandango Movieclips."[3] Fandango Movieclips was then rebranded to "Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips" in summer of 2022 to further establish the channel's reliable use for movie clips and trailers using the recognition associated with the Rotten Tomatoes website.[6]

Most-viewed clips

The following table lists the top 3 most-viewed videos on YouTube, with each total rounded to the nearest 10 million views, uploader and upload date.

Top 3 most-viewed Movieclips scenes
No. Movie (#/#) Clip name Distributor Views Upload date
1 Goosebumps (2015) 6/10 Werewolf on Aisle 2[7] Columbia (Sony Pictures) 520M December 2, 2016
2 Sing (2016) 6/10 Shake It Off[8][a] Universal Pictures 484M March 24, 2017
3 The Boy Next Door (2015) 1/10 Let Me Love You[9] 453M July 15, 2016
As of June 25, 2023

Notes

  1. ^ A cover of "Shake It Off", originally performed by Taylor Swift.

References

  1. ^ Schuker, Lauren A.E. (December 3, 2009). "Site Brings Movies to Social Media". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
  2. ^ "Movieclips.com Launches With Studio Deals". ABC News. Associated Press. December 2, 2009. Archived from the original on December 15, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Ha, Anthony (April 24, 2014). "Fandango Confirms That It Has Acquired Movieclips From Zefr". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  4. ^ Miles, Stephanie (December 14, 2009). "MovieClips – Search for Scenes Online". AppVita. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
  5. ^ "MovieClips Makes Deal With YouTube". Deadline. August 9, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  6. ^ "Rotten Tomatoes Teams with Movieclips on Expanded YouTube Entertainment Network". July 13, 2022.
  7. ^ Goosebumps (6/10) Movie CLIP - Werewolf On Aisle 2 (2015) HD. Movieclips. December 2, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2021 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ Sing (2016) - Shake It Off Scene (6/10). Movieclips. March 25, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2021 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ The Boy Next Door (1/10) Movie CLIP - Let Me Love You (2015) HD. Movieclips. July 15, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2022 – via YouTube.

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