Mitch Rotter
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| Launched | January 12, 2011 |
| Owned by | Defy Media |
| Picture format | YouTube Channel |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Website | www |
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| Screen Junkies | YouTube |
| Screen Junkies News | YouTube |
Screen Junkies is an online movie magazine and YouTube channel, owned and operated by Defy Media, that focuses on movies and television. The Screen Junkies produce three main shows: The Screen Junkies Show (hosted by Hal Rudnick, consisting mostly of interviews and film discussions); Honest Trailers (a series of trailers, narrated previously by Ptolemy Slocum and Gannon Nickell, and currently by Jon Bailey, that satirizes and parodies various films and television programs); and Movie Fights (a competition series, hosted by Andy Signore, where guests debate various issues related to film).
As of April 2017, Screen Junkies has over 6 million subscribers and over 1.6 billion video views.
Honest Trailers is an Emmy-nominated series of parody trailers of films, and occasionally TV shows, that are made to satirize the film. The videos are narrated by Jon Bailey.
Created by Andy Signore and Brett Weiner and shepherded by Break Media's Head of Programming Mitch Rotter, Honest Trailers debuted in February 2012 and by June 2014 had become the source of over 300 million views on the Screen Junkies YouTube channel. The series started when the creators saw that Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was being re-released in 3D and decided to make a parody trailer for it, continuing the series as a result of the positive reception the videos received. The series received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series at the 68th and 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The series' videos take approximately one week to assemble, and are typically created by around four people. The creators watch the movie a number of times before writing the script as a group. Subjects are chosen by a combination of current popular movies and suggestions from viewers, with an aim of making the videos go viral. Though Signore has said that they would like to cover more television shows, they haven't done many due to the increased time commitment as the team have to watch every episode of the series versus a film.
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