Flixster Buys Rotten Tomatoes

Flixster has bought popular movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the two sites will continue as individual media properties.  Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes reach an estimated 30 million monthly visitors worldwide.

The combined database of Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes contains over 250,000 movies, 2.3 billion user reviews, half a million critic reviews and more than 20,000 trailers and videos.