Type of site | Infotainment | |||||||||
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Available in | English | |||||||||
Headquarters | Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada | |||||||||
Owner | Valnet | |||||||||
URL | screenrant | |||||||||
Commercial | Yes | |||||||||
Launched | 13 November 2003 | |||||||||
Current status | Active | |||||||||
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Years active | 2008–present | |||||||||
Genre | Review | |||||||||
Subscribers | 8.48 million [1] [2] | |||||||||
Total views | 4.48 billion [3] [2] | |||||||||
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Last updated: October 22, 2024 |
Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and comic books. It is owned by Valnet, parent of publications including Comic Book Resources, Collider, MovieWeb and XDA Developers.
Screen Rant was launched by Vic Holtreman in 2003, [4] and originally had its primary office in Ogden, Utah. [5] [6] Screen Rant has expanded its coverage with red-carpet events in Los Angeles, New York film festivals and San Diego Comic-Con panels. [7] [8] The associated YouTube channel was created on August 19, 2008, and has 8.62M subscribers and 5.4K videos as of June 21, 2023. [1]
In February 2015, Screen Rant was acquired by Valnet Inc., an online media company based in Montreal, Quebec. [9] [10] It was reunited with its sister site, Game Rant, in 2019, when Valnet acquired the other publication. [11]
Screen Rant features a video series called Pitch Meeting by YouTube comedian Ryan George. By September 2020, the series included over 200 videos, garnering a combined 250 million views. In the series, George plays both a screenwriter and a film producer in a pitch for a film or television series, describing its plot in a way that highlights various inconsistencies. [12]
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CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website primarily covering comic book news, comic book reviews, and comic book–related topics involving movies, television, anime, and video games. It is owned by Valnet, parent of publications including Screenrant, Collider, MovieWeb and XDA Developers.
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Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman is an American faux current affairs digital series serving as the center of several viral marketing campaigns created by Amazon Prime Video for their streaming television series The Boys. Directed by Matt Motschenbacher, and based on the fictional Vought News Network (VNN)—a parody of the Cable News Network (CNN) as well as Fox News—the YouTube videos initially began as marketing for The Boys—developed by Eric Kripke—and resulting cinematic universe media franchise—an adaptation of the DC-WildStorm/Dynamite Entertainment comic series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson—and deal with major events between the events of the second and third seasons of the series, and later the spin-off Gen V.
Valnet, Inc. is a Canadian media company established in Montreal, Quebec, in 2012. It operates primarily in the entertainment media industry. It is the parent company of several internet media publications including TheGamer, Collider, Comic Book Resources, MovieWeb, Screen Rant, Game Rant, and XDA Developers.