Moviepass: pay $10/mo, see one movie a day in theaters
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Kiroy
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I'd pay $50 to watch a new release movie in home no problem. I'd never go to the theatre again (only go once every few months at most anyways).
Vaclav
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Depends entirely on how big your family/viewing audience is, really - if you do like "Superball Party" shit sized groups, even $50 is a no-brainer. And man, those Mormon families with like 10 kids will be saving money hand over fist.
spronk
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Hollywood Studios Could Launch $30 Movie Rental Service Early Next Year
still waiting for my MoviePass card, was so excited to see 3 envelopes yesterday in the mailbox and they were all junk mail
still waiting for my MoviePass card, was so excited to see 3 envelopes yesterday in the mailbox and they were all junk mail
Vaclav
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Hollywood Studios Could Launch $30 Movie Rental Service Early Next Year
still waiting for my MoviePass card, was so excited to see 3 envelopes yesterday in the mailbox and they were all junk mail
Same, mine were all EOBs. No clue why they sent two copies for the woman.
Amzin
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Just as a follow up to this, it DOES work for Alamo Drafthouse according to Moviepass. It even works for the weird indie theatre that's in the bar district that only shows movies I've never heard of and weird livestreamed plays.
I'll probably go ahead and sign up because $120 / year seems about what I pay for tickets now looking at my budget, except this would potentially let me see a lot more. Like weird random indie movies I've never heard of down by all my favorite restaurants
On the topic of showing old films, it's really studios that are to blame for that, like almost every problem with modern consumer use. Studios are so stuck in the old days of having all the power. Theaters are doomed if things like Moviepass don't work, ironically, and things like Moviepass would work way better (for theaters, not for Moviepass) if theaters start to show more previous releases.
Edit: On the other topic of Blockbusters and those types, yea again an example of studios screwing themselves in the end. I know someone who worked at a Blockbuster and towards the later days they would just go across the street to Best Buy to buy new releases to rent out, because the studios wanted them to pay like $30-$50 per DVD to preorder them. To rent them out on same day as the retail release. Pure idiocy.
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spronk
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MoviePass Says It Passed 150,000 Sub Target After Price Drop Publicity
In the two day period after the movie ticket subscription service announced a drop in price to $9.95 a month, it raised its sub level to more than 150,000, passing the target set for late 2018, according to data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics which agreed to buy MoviePass. It had about 20,000 subscribers in December, when the cheapest package cost $14.95.
Two unnamed theater chains that have partnership agreements with MoviePass “reported outstanding attendance by MoviePass subscribers.” Over six days ending August 20, one saw MoviePass attendance grow to 4,137 from 206 the previous week. The other chain was up to 1,795 from 203.
I can do almost everything in the app now - see theaters and movie listings near me, see the last four digits of my MoviePass card in my profile - except actually buy a ticket. Hopefully my card arrives today, then I'll go see Bodyguard and Lucky Logan today and tomorrow before they roll off the "good screens".
In the two day period after the movie ticket subscription service announced a drop in price to $9.95 a month, it raised its sub level to more than 150,000, passing the target set for late 2018, according to data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics which agreed to buy MoviePass. It had about 20,000 subscribers in December, when the cheapest package cost $14.95.
Two unnamed theater chains that have partnership agreements with MoviePass “reported outstanding attendance by MoviePass subscribers.” Over six days ending August 20, one saw MoviePass attendance grow to 4,137 from 206 the previous week. The other chain was up to 1,795 from 203.
I can do almost everything in the app now - see theaters and movie listings near me, see the last four digits of my MoviePass card in my profile - except actually buy a ticket. Hopefully my card arrives today, then I'll go see Bodyguard and Lucky Logan today and tomorrow before they roll off the "good screens".
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Vaclav
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For those that didn't sign up the first 2 days. Did you not get on it early like most of us?
Vaclav
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Then you should be good to get it before then. That's the ETA for people that didn't get in Tues or Wed. It's unclear how much before then, but the week of Sept 6th ETA thing was for people that didn't get in the first 2 days.
Chukzombi
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are you sure you guys didnt get played with this? you get your pass after all the summer blockbusters are released and you pay 10 dollars a month for the next 8 months of horrible b movies. can the rates go up by next memorial day?
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Intrinsic
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Nice mine too, now. Even as of last night they weren't. August 15th was my sign up date. No card yet.
Vaclav
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Shrug, there's enough movies that aren't good enough to pay full price for to me, but I'd see discounted to easily justify it up until Thor 3 to me. And winter will have at least one movie a month to have it break even. Ad nauseum.
Chukzombi
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but are these movies you would go see anyway? i would go just to watch something to rationalize the ten bucks a month, but i dont see myself doing it otherwise. i also dont buy concessions because i would either smuggle in my own food or ya know, just not eat for 2-4 hours.
Louis
but if they doubled in price and restricted times to only matinee hours and some theaters start blocking you completely?
spronk
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the way it works theaters can't really block you, they give you a mastercard debit card which they load with the ticket amount - its a two step buy process, you "buy" a fake ticket on the MP app which loads the debit card, then you have to buy a real ticket in the theater using the MP debit card. Theaters would have to block ALL mastercard's and they aren't gonna do that.
Moviepass will eventually run out of money and probably bill you $10 for the last month and you can't use it, thats pretty much the extent of the rip off scenario. Also after a month or two I could see them telling people they can't see more than 5 or 6 movies a month, which is still worth it to me.
also with Dec being the "oscar movies getting shoved out" month, it'll be a great month to see shit i'd never pay for, assuming MP is still around then
Moviepass will eventually run out of money and probably bill you $10 for the last month and you can't use it, thats pretty much the extent of the rip off scenario. Also after a month or two I could see them telling people they can't see more than 5 or 6 movies a month, which is still worth it to me.
also with Dec being the "oscar movies getting shoved out" month, it'll be a great month to see shit i'd never pay for, assuming MP is still around then
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