Film School 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 primarily run the location off of his bank cards for twenty years — this publication has reached some extent of unsustainability that has compelled its proprietor right into a state of great 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 engines like google devaluing human-generated content material, it has turn into more and more tough to stay unbiased, produce high-quality content material, and keep afloat within the movie criticism and leisure journalism areas.
Over time, FSR has been a improbable launch pad for a number of the trade’s most gifted voices. Lots of our writers have gone on to grace the pages of prestigious publications and make a big influence on the world of movie and tv criticism. It has additionally delighted and engaged readers with its dedication to being an unbiased 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 underneath the load of his debt.
No matter comes subsequent, we’re eternally grateful to all the editors, writers, and readers who’ve handed by means of these digital halls over the practically twenty years that FSR has existed. With out you and your shared love of the various subjects we’ve lined over time, we might not have made it this far. We’ve got at all times strived to stay fiercely unbiased with our editorial voice, hold our content material free and never paywalled, and supply a house for under-represented voices within the mainstream leisure dialog.
Whereas this is an extremely unhappy day in FSR’s historical past, it is not with out hope {that a} hero will emerge and see that its greatest days are forward.
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