It was 20 farsighted days ago thatScreen Rantbegan as a passion project , a unsubdivided website more or less crafted by a fan of motion-picture show and the sci - fi literary genre who had no experience in entanglement plan . This was the epoch ofThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy and the showtime ofBattlestar Galactica . This was before Christopher Nolan brought back Batman , before Michael Bay adapt theTransformersinto live - action , and before Marvel Studios made their own motion picture . Blockbusterwas at its peak !
set up with the tagline"SciFi , TV & picture news without the sugar coating,“Screen Rantwas an former fledgeling in the film and tv blogosphere from father Vic Holtreman , envisioned as a billet to share his raw intellection with a few friends . Who could predict it ’d live on for decades and become one of the biggest entertainment publications on the satellite ?
Flashback to when Screen Rant turned 10 years old ! Join us for a look at our situation over the year , and for a little history about the internet site from a decade ago !
Screen Rant’s first two podcasts, Screen Rant Underground and Total Geekall
What has madeScreen Rantunique since its inception was that it never just shared the " news , " it instead deal it with insight , analysis , and an editorial optic from author who grew up passionate about the material they cover . There was real give-and-take to be had and this is how I - and eventually hundreds of millions of others - discovered screenrant.com , first as a reader back when rumour run rearing about what mutants would appear inX - Men 4.WouldLost’sJosh Holloway play Gambit ? He did n’t of course , but I commented on that clause in 2007 , participating in a lively treatment .
A Brief History of Screen Rant
Screen Rant first went live on November 13, 2003
delight a gallery of screenshots of Screen Rant ’s home page designs every twelvemonth over the last 20 years !
I did get my Masters and days later , my sample distribution entry about thetrailer for Clive Owen’sThe Internationalwas published as a live article , to my surprise . A few month later I became an editor program and co - found and create a spinoff websitegamerant.com . I did n’t know then this would become a career for myself and finally , C of others .
" The minute of arc this stops being enjoyable is the minute we should stop doing this . "
Screen Rant’s first two podcasts, Screen Rant Underground and Total Geekall
Screen Rantwas petite then but grow by the month doing what it does well . In 2007 it had a few thousand reader a calendar month . “The minute this check being gratifying is the minute we should stop doing this,“noted Vic Holtreman in an email to the squad about encourage composition for the right reasons . A year afterwards , my own casual article were reaching hundred of thou . 2 million users visited screenrant.com in 2008 . More than triple that the following year , and triple that the year after . The form continued and with the site ’s growth , so too did the most wonderful of opportunities for the brand , from being invited to set visit and the occasional premiere to have got the chance to enter in press junkets and talk to talent on - camera .
The four of us also hosted theScreen Rant Undergroundpodcastfor years and the site ’s team grew to include many amazing writers . A apparitional replacement podcast , Total Geekall , plunge with SRU originals Rob Keyes and Ben Kendrick conjoin by Andrew Dyce and Hannah Shaw - Williams .
Come 2014,Screen Rantand other independent film blogs were taking over the online space from traditional outlets . Valnet , Inc. saw an chance and acquired the website in February , 2015.“Combining the expertise of the existing Screen Rant team and the resources Valnet has to extend will produce only great things,“stated Hassan Youssef , CEO and co - founding father of Valnet Inc. , at the time . Valnet was able to invest reinforcement and resources and accelerate increase , and everything changed . Screen Rant was part of a grow connection and had an office , a dependable home of operations . I was able to establish agaming divisionthat same year follow by acomics divisionin 2016 and Valnet helped the right way launch and growScreen Rant’svideo operations including our belovedPitch Meeting series .
Screen Rantclimbed to 100 million users in 2014 when it was independent , and under the possession and cognitive operation of Valnet , Inc. it ’s since grown to attain well over half a billion lecturer a yr thanks in tumid part to ateam of all - star loss leader . Alex Leadbeater , for instance , consider over our feature team in 2018 , and finally our entire primary content operation and helped spearhead land site emergence alongside Simon Gallagher , Molly Freeman , Mansoor Mithaiwala , Andrew Dyce , Lara Jackson , Emily Biondo , James Hunt , to name a few , who have spend years evolvingScreen Rantand mentoring hundreds of others along the way . Andrew Dyce first started right smart back in 2010 when I levy him onGame Rant , and currently feed Screen Rant ’s cartoon strip squad , helping it expand into anime and manga . Simon Gallagher , helped expand our motion-picture show and television feature coverage and truly help on all aspects of the operation . Lara Jackson , a more recent increase I recruit in 2021 , heads up all of our gaming teams and is also helping amend the entire land site ’s content operation . The list go on and on …
Screen Rant expanded beyond film and television into gaming in 2015 when it separated from Game Rant , follow by comics in 2016 . A few year later , Valnet , Inc. also develop Game Rant while Screen Rant continued expanding into realism TV and after , anime .
Screen Ranthas published thousands ofreviewsandinterviewsand shared many wild experiences , include flying a stunt plane forTop Gun : Maverickandracing a McLarenforHobbs & Shaw . We ’ve visited Pixar , Lucasfilm , LAIKA Studios , Wētā Workshop , Skywalker Ranch , Illumination , and countless production studios and game developer around the world to render sole and original reporting , and yes , we ’ve sure enough had some playfulness along the style .
Arnold Schwarzenegger took us for a drive in his tankand we debuted the first footage of theworld ’s biggest groovy livid sharkwith National Geographic . We held Hawkeye ’s stem and Captain America ’s shield on theCivil Warset and walked into the Batjet Hangar on theJustice Leagueset . We ate tiffin with Zoe Saldana in her green Gamora make-up next to an foreign spacecraft , talked to Harrison Ford on position in Plaza Blanca , New Mexico forCowboys & Aliens , hung out with The Rock as he played G.I. Joe , and watched Hugh Jackman ’s Wolverine ride a snow plow with his claws out .
Our reviews can be found on Rotten Tomatoes , Metacritic , OpenCritic , and we ’re a judge for The Game Awards . We ’re quote daily on TV , online , and on every digital video biz depot . We were in a Super Bowl advertising , hadour logo up in Times Square , and aid host the Marvel Studios Comic - Con jury whereAvengers : Secret Warswas announce . We have a sight to be proud of and there ’s more to come !
What does the future of Screen Rant look like?
New features and content are on the way!
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We ’re producing new sort of video content with more in development , and unexampled podcasts are on the fashion in the not - too - distant time to come . We calculate to incessantly better the screenrant.com experience and front forward to sharing more . love our feature of speech depend back on 20 long time of film , TV , comics , and gaming :
UPDATE: 2023/11/20 BY ROB KEYES
A message from our chief operating officer
Valnet ’s CEO Hassan Youssef penned aspecial message to lionise Screen Rant ’s twentieth anniversary .
Thank you for reading and watching ! Here ’s to the next milepost !
