Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips

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Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips
Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips logo.jpg
FormerlyMovieclips (2009–2014)
Fandango Movieclips (2014–2022)
Type of site
Video on demand
Available inEnglish
Founded2009;16 years ago (2009)
Headquarters,
Owner Fandango
Founder(s) Zach James
Rich Raddon
Parent Fandango
URL www.movieclips.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (redirects to the YouTube channel)
LaunchedDecember 3, 2009;15 years ago (2009-12-03)
Current statusActive

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, Amazon MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. (including content from subsidiaries New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment), Disney, Sony Pictures (including content from subsidiaries Destination Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Triumph Pictures), along with other studios such as Lionsgate Studios and DreamWorks. [1] [2]

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History

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

Movieclips was founded in 2009 as a division of the online video company Zefr, beginning as a website which allowed the user to search through a library of over 12,000 movie clips. [3] [4] In partnership with Google, Movieclips uploaded over 20,000 clips to YouTube in 2011. [5] In 2014, Movieclips was acquired by Fandango and was renamed to "Fandango Movieclips." [3]

On October 16, 2018 (after the acquisition of NBCUniversal and DreamWorks Animation on August 22, 2016), Fandango Movieclips published the first two DreamWorks Animation films on the channel, How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2 . [6]

Fandango Movieclips later rebranded to "Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips" in 2022. [7]

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