Tag: MoviePass
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MoviePass Will Give You a Free Trial to Its Subscription Service if You Sign Up This Month
MoviePass — yes, that MoviePass — is offering a free trial to its subscription service if you sign up through December 31, 2023. With the two-week free trial, customers can try out the movie-ticketing service’s system, which assigns credit values to movies depending on showtimes. A weekday afternoon is 15 credits while a weekend night…
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Mark Wahlberg is Making a Docuseries About MoviePass
A docuseries about MoviePass is being developed by Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas in partnership with Assemble Media and Insider. The series will tell the story of the rise and fall of the movie ticket subscription service. Deadline reports that the series will be based on coverage from Insider reporter Jason Guerrasio who had been covering…
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MoviePass is Officially Dead as Parent Company Files for Bankruptcy
On Tuesday, MoviePass’s parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy through the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the filing, the company reported that it owes as much as $1.2 million to customers. “As a result of filing the Petition, a Chapter 7 trustee will be appointed by the Bankruptcy Court to…
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MoviePass is Reportedly Still Charging Customer After Shutting Down (Check Your Bank Accounts)
If you were a MoviePass subscriber, you might want to check your recent transaction history. Even though the movie theater subscription service officially shut down a month ago, some users have reported seeing mystery charges from MoviePass showing up on their credit card history according to a report from the New York Post. One user…
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Former MoviePass Chairman Interested in Buying the Company
A former funder of MoviePass, Ted Farnsworth, is interested in bringing back the recently shut down subscription service. A report from Variety says that Farnsworth has submitted an offer to buy MoviePass, along with MoviePass Films – a production company started in 2018 – and Moviefone which was also acquired by the company in 2018.…
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MoviePass is Shutting Down Tomorrow
Today MoviePass’s parent company announced that it will be shutting down MoviePass tomorrow according to CNBC. With MoviePass you could pay a flat monthly fee to watch movies at many local theaters for just $9.99 a month. This made the service very popular with anyone who enjoyed going to the movies multiple times a year.…
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MoviePass May Have Exposed Your Credit Card Information Following a “Security Issue”
Today MoviePass has confirmed that the security lapse was recently discovered and its system was immediately secured. This was first reported by Tech Crunch, which says that tens of thousands of customer card numbers have been exposed because a critical server was not protected with a password. This comes after on July 4, MoviePass announced…
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MoviePass New Uncapped Plan is $9.95/Month for a Limited Time
This week, MoviePass announced a new plan, MoviePass Uncapped, to allow subscribers to see more movies in theaters across the country. The plan has fewer restrictions and more flexibility, so subscribers can watch both the blockbuster movies and independent films they want to see. Here are the highlights of the plan: No cap on the…
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MoviePass Kills Their Unlimited Plan
Bad news for MoviePass fans starting today your unlimited subscription model is now limited to just 3 movies a month. (You can also get up to $5 off each ticket on movies after that.) In a statement sent to MoviePass subscribers the service said: As of today, aligned with Section 2.4 of our Terms of Use,…
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MoviePass’s Parent Company is Spinning Off The Service
This week it was announced Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY) will spin off MoviePass and all movie-related activities into a separate public company. HMNY is an analytics company that hoped to use movie pass to gather data about the movie industry that they could use to leverage targeted adverting. “For many years, HMNY has been focused…