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 positioning off of his bank cards for twenty years — this publication has reached some extent of unsustainability that has pressured 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 devaluing human-generated content material, it has grow to be more and more tough to stay impartial, produce high-quality content material, and keep afloat within the movie criticism and leisure journalism areas.
Over the years, FSR has been a improbable launch pad for among the trade’s most gifted voices. Many 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 beneath the load of his debt.
Whatever comes subsequent, we’re eternally grateful to the entire editors, writers, and readers who’ve handed by these digital halls over the practically twenty years that FSR has existed. Without you and your shared love of the various subjects we’ve lined through the years, we’d not have made it this far. We have at all times strived to stay fiercely impartial 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.
While that is an extremely unhappy day in FSR’s historical past, it’s not with out hope {that a} hero will emerge and see that its finest days are forward.
Anyone with critical curiosity ought to contact neil@filmschoolrejects.com for extra info.
