Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app, as well as a provider of television and streaming media information through its subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes.
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Fandango Media made its first international acquisition in September 2015 when it bought the Brazilian ticketing company Ingresso, which provides ticketing to a variety of Brazilian entertainment events, including the biannual Rock in Rio festival.
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In February 2016, Fandango Media announced its acquisition of Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes from Time Warner's Warner Bros.
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In December 2016, Fandango Media purchased Cinepapaya, a Peru-based website for purchasing movie tickets, for an undisclosed amount.
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Later that same month, Fandango moved to Fox Interactive Media's former headquarters in Beverly Hills.
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Fandango Media's website offers exclusive film clips, trailers, celebrity interviews, reviews by users, movie descriptions, and some web-based games to Fandango Media members.
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Loews had previously attempted to break the contract in 2002 under pressure of bankruptcy and from AOL Moviefone and its partner, Loews' Cineplex subsidiary; Fandango Media successfully sued both Loews and Moviefone and retained Loews' business.
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In May 2012, Fandango Media announced a partnership with Moviefone, MovieTickets.
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Fandango Media reportedly gave the third party access to Fandango Media customers' credit cards.
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In December 2013, Fandango Media launched a trademark dispute when WWE tried to trademark the name for use by the professional wrestler Fandango Media .
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However, the FTC claims against Fandango Media focused on failures relating to both the implementation and testing of the Secure Sockets Layer certificates for 4 years following the mobile app's launch in March 2009.
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The FTC alleged that Fandango Media did not implement effective channels for security complaints and instead relied on its general customer service system to handle security vulnerability reporting.
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Fandango Media, in response, noted that this was a glitch it was working to repair.
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Nevertheless, Gizmodo cited the study after Fandango Media announced the purchase of Rotten Tomatoes amid fears that the purchase would "ruin" the site.
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In December 2017, Fandango Media received hundreds of complaints regarding its delivery of Star Wars: The Last Jedi tickets.
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Fandango Media chose to retain the "Vudu" name as it was the larger service with a loyal customer base.
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