I received the “death notice” even though I had cancelled my membership last December. Here is the pertinent sentence.
At this point, we are unable to predict if or when the MoviePass™ service will continue.
I guess they didn’t make it up by volume.
With their business model volume is a bad thing.
Back at post number 25 of this thread, I suggested that AMC was angry because they were planning to launch their own unlimited program. AMC actually launched a 3 movie a week program, but Regal truly did.
That doesn’t make sense. The existence of Movie pass didn’t hinder or interfere with their own pass program. And they would have known it. It angered them because they risked losing control of an important segment of their customers. The importance of that was made manifest eh n Moviepass tried to muscle its way into their concession revenues.
And we all thought it had been dead since September!
MoviePass is shutting down permanently and liquidating in bankruptcy
I’m sure I remember MoviePass dying in prison in the 1980s.
I’m beginning to think that my 300 shares of HMNY are not ever going to pay a dividend. Good thing I only paid 12¢ per share.
I subscribe to SharePass system that allows me to buy as many shares as I want for $9.95 a month.
Not much of a surprise.
I still think there was something shady going on with this. The business model made no sense.
It did make sense. It just was unlikely to work. They were trying to capture the theaters’ most lucrative customer base and then use that leverage to try to wrangle a share of the theaters’ non-ticket income.
It was a classic predatory pricing and quasi-tying scheme.
Some, perhaps many, of the business models during the dotcom era (1999-2001) didn’t make any sense either. (For example, “You’re going to ship people fifty-pound bags of dog food with free shipping and for the same price as the local supermarket or big-box store? How can you possibly make any money?”)
I’m awaiting their new ad campaign telling people now is the ideal time to sign up.
Any chance we can all launch a class-action suit?
Exactly which stone are you planning to get blood from?
If at first you don’t succeed?
Really putting the “ass” in Moviepass…
The app will use your selfie camera to make sure that you watch their ads.
Just got an email:
Thinkin’ I’m gonna pass.
Here’s an article from The Boston Globe about it.
Like a zombie in a horror film, MoviePass has staggered back to life.
The ballyhooed ticket service that went bust in 2019 by offering subscribers the chance to see a movie a day for a fee as low as $9.95 a month is being relaunched on Labor Day.
Pricing details are still TBD, but a company representative confirmed a Business Insider report this week that there will be three tiers — in the range of $10, $20, or $30 a month — with each option giving users a number of credits to use each month to see movies. Not surprisingly, the days of unlimited movies are over
Well, I signed up to be on the waitlist. I figure that will keep my options open until I can see the details of the plan and decide if I want to join.