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Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding

77 points · 38 comments · crossroadsguy

  1. rdmuser · · focus · HN ↗
    Having such a high profile film rating site be potentially owned by a film studio has serious conflict of interest issues. Same goes for amazon buying imdb and they've already used that to adjust scores for at least one film they released because of bad reviews. I'm happy to see this get some attention here after my submission didn't because the potential implications of this purchase are big.

    Edit: I believe I made an error re the claim imdb changed the score of at least one amazon owned film. See replies for more info. Apologies!

    1. aucisson_masque · · focus · HN ↗
      > Same goes for amazon buying imdb and they've already used that to adjust scores for at least one film they released

      Any source on that ? I found nothing serious, just reddit and Facebook post. No one serious is reporting on it.

      1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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      2. madeofpalk · · focus · HN ↗
        The problem with Amazon owning IMDB, or A24 potentially owning Letterboxd, is not that they would screw with it, but that every move they make will be put through that lease. Even with NYT being the owners I’m sure there would be the regular ‘drama’ of whatever woke/anti-woke influence they may have over it.
      3. rdmuser · · focus · HN ↗
        Ah actually unfortunately I think I made a mistake there so I apologize for that. Should have double checked instead of speaking from memory. I believe I was thinking of The Little Mermaid change but it seems like that wasn't their film. Sorry!

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.avclub.com&#x2F;the-little-mermaid-imdb-changes-ratings-review-bomb-1850492554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.avclub.com&#x2F;the-little-mermaid-imdb-changes-ratin...

        1. UqWBcuFx6NV4r · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; Should have double checked instead of speaking from memory.

          Claude :)

          1. rdmuser · · focus · HN ↗
            Oh is that a claude thing? Definitively a false positive in this case and I don&#x27;t care much for ai in general. Pretty damn awkward that I might need to memorize ai text styles even though I don&#x27;t use them so I don&#x27;t accidentally write the same way as one of them.
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