Nicole Kidman once said we come to movie theaters for magic: to laugh, cry, and care. What she might have forgotten to mention is that we want a cost-effective experience as much as a magical one. At one not-so-distant point, you could watch movies anytime and at almost any theater for as low as $10 … Read more
I joined MoviePass in 2018 and let me tell you, I watched so many fabulous films from A Quiet Place to Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again on its dollar. Every time I was given a movie ticket in exchange for flashing my MoviePass, I was thrilled. “Woo, it worked,” I’d say to myself as … Read more
MoviePass originally shut down a couple years after it drastically lowered its prices in a seemingly “too-good-to-be-true” business model, as The Verge described it. What happened exactly? Well, it seemed that the creators were banking on customers not actually using the service regularly — “like gyms, which use no-show subscribers to financially offset their heavy … Read more
Getty Image A lot of horrible things have happened in the last few years, but MoviePass shutting down its operations in 2019 was surely a dark day for movie lovers everywhere. Sure, there were some good memes about the end, but at what cost? Then, the pandemic happened and it seemed like MoviePass, and going … Read more
amc AMC has AMC Stubs A-List. Regal offers Regal Unlimited. Alamo Drafthouse is (hopefully) bringing back the Alamo Season Pass. But those movie ticket subscription services would not have existed MoviePass, which launched in 2011 and exploded in popularity in 2017 when it allowed users to see a movie a day for only $10/month. If … Read more