Movie College Rejects is on the market.
After greater than 17 years of being owned and operated independently by a single proprietor — an individual who didn’t come from any generational wealth and has basically run the positioning off of his bank cards for twenty years — this publication has reached a degree of unsustainability that has compelled its proprietor right into a state of serious monetary duress. Now, the one path ahead is to discover a new proprietor who can revive it and take it into a brand new period.
In a time of unprecedented company consolidation, AI content material scraping, and search engines like google and yahoo devaluing human-generated content material, it has grow to be more and more troublesome to stay impartial, produce high-quality content material, and keep afloat within the movie criticism and leisure journalism areas.
Through the years, FSR has been a incredible launch pad for among the trade’s most proficient voices. A lot of our writers have gone on to grace the pages of prestigious publications and make a major influence on the world of movie and tv criticism. It has additionally delighted and engaged readers with its dedication to being an impartial oasis in a sea of company content material farms. We hope to discover a new proprietor who will maintain true to those beliefs and carry FSR’s mission ahead whereas permitting its present proprietor to get out from below the burden of his debt.
No matter comes subsequent, we’re eternally grateful to the entire editors, writers, and readers who’ve handed via these digital halls over the almost twenty years that FSR has existed. With out you and your shared love of the numerous matters we’ve lined over time, we’d not have made it this far. We’ve got all the time strived to stay fiercely impartial with our editorial voice, maintain our content material free and never paywalled, and supply a house for under-represented voices within the mainstream leisure dialog.
Whereas that is an extremely unhappy day in FSR’s historical past, it isn’t with out hope {that a} hero will emerge and see that its greatest days are forward.
Anybody with severe curiosity ought to contact neil@filmschoolrejects.com for extra info.
