Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding
Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and The New York Times Are Bidding September 24, 2026 Jordan Ruimy Letterboxd, the app where film Twitter went to live, could soon have a new owner. According to a new report, The New York Times, A24, and Sony Pictures are among the suitors who've expressed interest in buying the site.The asking price? That's roughly 20 times the approximately $15M Letterboxd is projected to earn this year.
- ▪Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and The New York Times Are Bidding September 24, 2026 Jordan Ruimy Letterboxd, the app where film Twitter went to live, could soon have a new owner.
- ▪According to a new report, The New York Times, A24, and Sony Pictures are among the suitors who've expressed interest in buying the site.The asking price?
- ▪That's roughly 20 times the approximately $15M Letterboxd is projected to earn this year.
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 27 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ A24, Sony, or The New York Times May Soon Swallow Letterboxd — Gizmodo
- ▪ Sony, A24 and the New York Times Company Circle Letterboxd — NYT — Business
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Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and The New York Times Are Bidding September 24, 2026 Jordan Ruimy Letterboxd, the app where film Twitter went to live, could soon have a new owner. According to a new report, The New York Times, A24, and Sony Pictures are among the suitors who've expressed interest in buying the site.The asking price? More than $300M, per the Times' sources. That's roughly 20 times the approximately $15M Letterboxd is projected to earn this year. Not bad for a site started in 2011 by two New Zealand designers, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, who were annoyed that movie lovers had nowhere decent to gather online.The growth is honestly staggering. The site now has 30 million users, up from 1.8 million in 2020.
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