terry78
My name is Stefan, sweet thang
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So USA only then, yeah?
For now I think. They may expand if they get enough good buzz.
So USA only then, yeah?
Not if you frequent the theater regularly. If you always have something to watch every week, you only need to take two trips on the "first" ticket. The day-of your "first" screening, purchase another ticket for another day. Preferably within the next 2 weeks, which is most theater's range. When you go to the second screening, purchase your ticket for the third. So on and so forth.This would require multiple trips 2 the theater before seeing the movie as can only use Movie Pass once per day
No, I'm saying if you plan to see a movie on Friday, you go on a Wednesday to get that ticket.So if I see Movie (A) that Im there for I can activate the card again & get tickets for Movie (B) on the same day ? I do consider myself a frequent movie goer. But would they not detect this that the card was used twice on the same day ?
Did anyone fill out the survey? It looks like they're thinking about expanding MoviePass to include IMAX and 3D.
MoviePass must have some serious Netflix envy.
The subscription service isnt just content offering customers bargain-basement tickets to movies. Like the streaming service it is most often compared to, MoviePass is diving into the content business.
Using the Sundance Film Festival as a platform, MoviePass announced that it was creating a subsidiary, dubbed MoviePass Ventures, and will co-acquire films with film distributors. Details are a bit vague, but MoviePass said it plans to release films across other platforms, including streaming, DVD, and on-demand. The service is at Sundance hosting an all-day pitch to indie players that will include panels with the likes of Elijah Wood, producers Daniel Noah and Lisa Whalen, and MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe.
Lowe took over at MoviePass in 2016 after stints at Netflix and Redbox. The company had struggled for years to popularize its monthly subscriptions, but after being purchased by data analytics firm Helios and Matheson, it picked up steam with a new, low-cost offering. MoviePass slashed prices from roughly $50 a month to $9.95. Since that time, more than 1.5 million people have signed up for the service. In 2016, before it announced the new pricing plan, it had 20,000 subscribers.
Despite its success in attracting customers, MoviePass faces a lot of skepticism about its business model. Major theater chains such as AMC have been scalding in their criticism of their service, publicly predicting its demise. And, it must be said, MoviePass is currently a money-losing proposition. The service heavily subsidizes the tickets of its customers. It pays full price to theaters (tickets in markets like New York and Los Angeles routinely top $15), and hopes that either the data it collects on its customers or the market share it commands will give it leverage with studios and exhibitors. In essence, the company hopes that it will become such a valuable part of the movie-going ecosystem that other stake holders will either offer it cheaper tickets or will buy the information it collects.
Earlier this week, MoviePass announced it was hiring Natasha Mulla as chief marketing officer and was specifically tasking her with enlisting customers in markets such as Dallas and Nashville, where tickets are cheaper as a way to offset its customers in higher-cost markets.
In a statement announcing MoviePass move into distribution, Lowe said MoviePass has helped bolster the box office for films and wants to get in on the profits.
Its only natural for us to double down and want to play alongside [distributors] and share in the upside, he said.
MoviePass No Longer Covering Certain AMC Theatre Locations
http://deadline.com/2018/01/moviepass-lack-of-amc-theatres-coverage-1202269412/
This is what soured me on getting MoviePass.MoviePass No Longer Covering Certain AMC Theatre Locations
http://deadline.com/2018/01/moviepass-lack-of-amc-theatres-coverage-1202269412/
Well the minute I almost did it, they dropped two theaters I go to a lot.I'm curious about this because I do see a lot of movies, but I'm paranoid that the minute I get it, they'll drop my theater chains.