NEW YORK — The New York Times Company is in exclusive talks to buy Letterboxd, the social network where tens of millions of film lovers log, rate and argue about movies, for about $330 million, according to a report in the Times itself on Thursday, 5 November 2026. The report, citing two people familiar with the discussions, stressed that no agreement has been reached and the negotiations could still fall apart — until a deal is signed, this is a story about a possible sale, not a completed one. If the talks produce a deal, it would be one of the most striking media acquisitions of the year: a 175-year-old newspaper buying a community built by movie obsessives, at roughly 22 times the platform's projected 2026 earnings — and the latest step in the Times Company's transformation from newspaper publisher into digital products company, after The Athletic, Wirecutter and Wordle. For Letterboxd's members, the question is simpler: what happens to the diary, the lists and the c...